Scholars are not in agreement about the identification of the bust claimed to be of Julius Caesar: www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/art...

For the full story, read the acclaimed biography 'Germanicus: The Magnificent Life and Mysterious Death of Rome's Most Popular General' published by @penandswordbooks.bsky.social: www.amazon.com/Germanicus-M...

How did Germanicus die? Lindsay Powell investigates in a blog for @ancientwarfare.bsky.social. www.karwansaraypublishers.com/en-us/blogs/...

Listen to a webinar on the life and times of Germanicus Caesar, written by @Lindsay_Powell and produced by @historynetwork: thehistorynetwork.org/1509-germani...

#OTD 10 October AD 19, Germanicus Caesar died. He was just 34. The nose of this green basanite bust of him in military dress has been mutilated, probably in late antiquity by Christians who cut a cross in the forehead. In The British Museum inv. 1872,0605.1.
Photo is my own.

“Londinium: the Making of a Roman City will open [@LDN_Museum vaults] in spring 2027, shedding light on Roman London and the people that called it home.”
—@TimeOutLondon
#RomanSiteSaturday
www.timeout.com/london/news/...

For #FrescoFriday

About: www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

A seated woman playing a kithara in one of three wall paintings from the villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale, Main Reception Hall (H). Roman, Late Republican, ca. 50-40 BC. In the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, inv. 1903(03.14.5). Photo is my own.
#FrescoFriday

For more on Roman detachments, see the article 'Fighting under a flag - Roman army vexillations in the second century AD' by @lindsaypowell.bsky.social in @ancientwarfare.bsky.social magazine issue 105 from Karwansaray Publishers: www.karwansaraypublishers.com/en-us/produc...

The only Roman army 'vexillum' to survive from antiquity is now in the collections of the Pushkin Museum. www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2024/04/o...

In the Roman army, a detachment ('vexillatio') would march under its own flag ('vexillum'), carried at the head of the column by a 'vexillarius', to show the unit from which it came.
Photo: Andrezej Stasiukiewicz.
#RomanFortThursday

Back home now, I want to thank the passengers of crossing Cunard line M622 from New York to Southampton for being such a great audience. The mid-week Q&A session (photo) was particularly fun. I hope to see you again on another trip as a speaker or as a passenger.
@pastpreservers.bsky.social

More about the houses and their layouts in Silchester: Chapter VI, Houses of the Ordinary or 'Corridor' Type, in 'Romano-British Buildings and Earthworks' by John Ward published by Methuen & Co. Ltd, London (1911).
penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gaz...

More about the mosaics in The Silchester Collection: www.readingmuseum.org.uk/blog/silches...

Detail of the Silchester 'Hexagon' mosaic from House 1 in insula XIV. The mosaic has a geometric design in colour of alternating flowers in hexagons and frets (swastikas), all within braid borders. In the collections of Reading Museum.
Photo is my own. #MosaicMonday

The companion volume, 'The Bar Kokhba War AD 132–136: The last Jewish revolt against Imperial Rome (Campaign Book 310)' from Osprey Books by @lindsaypowell.bsky.social and illustrated by Peter Dennis, is also available. www.amazon.com/Bar-Kokhba-W...