#ReliefWednesday

This Greek marble stele commemorates a young girl. Although there is some damage to her face and what she holds (pomegranates?), the poignant grief of saying goodbye to a child too soon is clear.

🕰️ c. 440–425 BCE
📍Boeotia
🏛 The Met, 11.141

#ReliefWednesday brings us an undoubted masterpiece, the #GrandCaméedeFrance . Made during the reign of Tiberius, it went from #Rome to #Constantinople to #Paris , where it decorated a #reliquary in the #SainteChapelle . It was broken in a fire there in 1630 but remains a triumph.

#ReliefWednesday - Terracotta lamp decorated with portraits of Sol and Luna, ca. AD 175-225. An inscription on the base suggests an association with the Saecular Games of Septimius Severus in AD 204. #Rome #Art

Image: Ashmolean Museum (AshLI 419). Link - latininscriptions.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/xml/AN_Fortnum…

#ReliefWednesday
Kleobis and Biton, detail of a funerary relief, Rome, second half of the 2nd century AD, Giovanni Grimani collection, on display in room 13.
#museum #Venice #Archaeology #Collection #Collectibles

#ReliefWednesday

This Greek marble stele commemorates a young girl. Although there is some damage to her face and what she holds (pomegranates?), the poignant grief of saying goodbye to a child too soon is clear.

🕰️ c. 440–425 BCE
📍Boeotia
🏛 The Met, 11.141

To ease us into what is, for many of us, the first day of 'normal' life after the Christmas/New Year interlude, and to raise a smile, here's my favourite #Hedgehog of 2023: an aryballos, probably made in Egypt, now in the wonderful Bodrum Castle in Turkey.

Portrait of Antonia Minor, first half of the 1st century AD, Giovanni Grimani collection, on display in room 10
#museum #Archaeology #Venice #collection #Collectibles

Ancient textiles that have survived until today tend to be very rare, making this beauty all the more jaw-dropping.

This fragment depicts a scene from the myth of Leda and the swan and showcases the use of purple dye no less!

🕰️ C2nd CE
📍Karanis, Egypt; KM 10662
#AncientRome

Ancient textiles that have survived until today tend to be very rare, making this beauty all the more jaw-dropping.

This fragment depicts a scene from the myth of Leda and the swan and showcases the use of purple dye no less!

🕰️ C2nd CE
📍Karanis, Egypt; KM 10662
#AncientRome

This first #MosaicMonday of 2024 brings us to the truly amazing #mosaic work of the ambulatory of S. Costanza, the converted #mausoleum of Constantine's daughters, conflated into a nonexistent saint Constance. This is imperial mosaic work in #Rome at its best.

#MosaicMonday #HNY2024

May the music that led into your New Year continue to rock your world in the one to come!

The Romans knew how to knock out a tune as these folks on the water organ and pipes can attest 🥳

📍Musicians from Zliten, C2nd CE

Come dream with me as we go Deep into 2nd Century BCE and experience Celtic Europe in The Late Republic's Barbarian Wars. Witness the curse of Apollo unleashed on Rome at the catastrophic Battle of Arausio. ⚔️🔥⚔️ open.spotify.com/episode/2avmi8…

#MosaicMonday - Kicking off the New Year with a burst of colour, courtesy of this showy little star! Central emblem of the eponymous mosaic of 'Villa du Paon', Vaison-la-Romaine: ca. Mid-2nd Century AD. #Archaeology #Art

Image: Musée Theo Desplan. Link - bienvenueenprovence.fr/en/visit/vaiso…

First #MosaicMonday of 2024, and I think we have to just be brutal about this one. The animals on these mosaic roundels from a Late Roman villa in Halicarnassus (modern Turkey) are charming, but the faces of Dionysus and a woman are … truly terrible. 😂

#BritishMuseum
📸 mine

This #SarcophagusSaturday we're watching men take away women's agency yet again, this time with a somewhat puzzling series of scenes related to #Castor and #Pollux , and how they got their wives the old-fashioned way, by kidnapping. #Rome #VaticanMuseums

#MosaicMonday - And a Happy New Year to you all! Here's the Januarius emblema from the calendrical mosaic from the House of the Months at Thysdrus (El Djem): ca. Early 3rd Century AD. The decoration's details perhaps relate to the Compitalia festival. #Roman #HappyNewYear

Raise a cup to herald in the coming year!

A gorgeous cobalt-blue glass drinking cup: ca. Mid-1st Century AD. An inscription, framed in a 'tabula ansata', gives the maker's name: Ennion. #HappyNewYear2024

Image: Corning Museum of Glass (66.1.36). Link - glasscollection.cmog.org/objects/6137/

Happy New Year 🥳

May you open new doors onto wondrous things in MMXXIV. Our dream is for a sustainable world and support for those who need it.

🎨John Waterhouse ‘Psyche Opening the Door into Cupid’s Garden’

S6E9 The Black New Year

New Years , is widely recognized as the first day of a new calendar year, However, for African Americans, the New Year observance is deeply linked with a lesser-known events such as Watch Night and Heartbreak Day.

onemichistory.com/the-black-new-…

Greek golden wreath ~ c. 350–300 BCE

This golden wreath is thought to represent oak indicated by gold acorns. Interwoven with the foliage is a bee and two cicadas. Breathtakingly beautiful!

🏛 British Museum, 1908,0414.1