I just finished the recording for my new video 💖
In my recent lectures I started to reconstruct individual rituals from the Greek magical papyri and present them in a way that they are easy to be re-performed.
There's a lot new insight by doing this!
Video topic: A magic ring 💍

fabula murina (mouse story) CXXVII
Minimus et Silvius primulas veris inveniunt (Minimus and Silvius find cowslips). num Britanni flores ex labris vaccarum nominant? (Surely the Britons don't name them after cows' lips?) Silvius summissim cacchinat (Silvius giggles).

Great examples of wasters. The vessels were damaged during the process of firing.
From the #Roman site at Worb, Switzerland.

Ob display at Historisches Museum Bern.

Wiedereröffnung: Archäologische Staatssammlung #München br.de/nachrichten/ku… #Archäologie #Bayern #Museum

Ha!!! Love this. But you’ll need the point of reference:)

La « Joconde du Cambodge », un grand Vishnou en bronze, bientôt étudiée à Paris.
lemonde.fr/sciences/artic…

An exception to the general rule of dolphins looking terrifying in #Roman mosaic art, courtesy of a cute example from Ostia Antica (Italy) 🐬 #Archaeology #Roman Archaeology #MosaicMonday

Le mystère des pièces d'argent inexplicablement nombreuses au Moyen Âge enfin résolu.
geo.fr/histoire/le-my…

#MosaicMonday , from the Museo Cívico Arqueológico de Bolonia, a panel depicting a triton surrounded by sea life and playing a tibia. Dated to the 2nd century CE. Found near the San Mamalo Gate in #Bologna .

#Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #Italy

Welche Geschichte verbirgt sich hinter 575 Silbermünzen💰 , einem Fingerknochen und einem Eisenring, die im Kampwald (Bad Mitterndorf) entdeckt wurden? Im Beitrag des @derstandardat Archäologieblog rekonstruiert Archäologe Stefan Groh das Verbrechen.
buff.ly/4cYOYVC

Bowie (left) and Piper were just wondering....WHERE ARE THE TREATS?!😂🦴 Silly pups, there are plenty of treats to go around!

Great examples of wasters. The vessels were damaged during the process of firing.
From the #Roman site at Worb, Switzerland.

Ob display at Historisches Museum Bern.

#MonumentMonday
Splendidly decorative monument to Richard Mompesson Salisbury Cathedral is rather more colourful than he was it seems.
MP for Devizes, knighted 1603 by James I for minor services, he apparently made little further impact. Richard's effigy lies w 3rd wife Katherine.

This grotesque fella is a bronze balsamarium (oil jar) in the shape of a boxer’s head. Note the broken, swollen nose, fat lips, and broken teeth. Those teeth - and his eyes - were inlaid with silver, and a handle was attached to those holes on his cap. 1/

#GettyVilla (2007.14)

Detail from a 3rd century AD Roman floor mosaic. Originally from Jerash in Jordan, the mosaic is part of the collections at the Altes Museum in Berlin. #MosaicMonday 📸 My own.

The remains of the medieval hospital of St Leonard’s on the outskirts of Alnwick in Northumberland. Founded as an independent house between 1193 and 1216, it was annexed to Alnwick Abbey in 1376. It probably fell into disuse at the Reformation. #MedievalMonday 📸 My own.

What did Roman wine taste like? Much better than previously thought, according to new research. phys.org/news/2024-04-r…

In 2 Temple Place, London. The green glass is part of the exhibition
#WindowsonWednesday

Bill Gates on the incredible reduction in childhood mortality achieved in the past 3 decades - down from 12 million to 5 million deaths per year - and the goal to halve it AGAIN by 2040:
gatesnotes.com/How-to-cut-chi…

RT’d for #ShieldSunday 👇Thread on the only surviving #Roman legionary long shield C3rd AD
Found #DuraEuropos in #Syria
#Archaeology