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Following Hadrian @followinghadrian.bsky.social · Sep 22

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Summer AD 122 – Hadrian inspects the northern frontiers: part 5 Britannia (#Hadrian1900) FOLLOWING HADRIAN

After a lengthy inspection tour on the Rhine and Danube frontiers, Hadrian arrived in Britannia in the summer of 122 with his friend Aulus Platorius Nepos, the man chosen to be the new governor of …

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Following Hadrian @followinghadrian.bsky.social · 29d

Portrait head of Hadrian from a larger-than-life-size statue of the emperor. Provenance unknown, probably produced in Asia Minor or Egypt, AD 117-138.

This head is remarkable both in the material used (many Greco-Roman bronzes were melted down and lost forever) and in the style of representation.

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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · Sep 14

On September 14th, 81 CE, Domitian became Emperor of Rome after Titus’s sudden death. Known for his military campaigns, he expanded the Rhine-Danube limes and made advances in Britain. But consolidation in Scotland stalled due to wars on the Danube, costing Rome two legions. By I, Sailko, CC BY 2.5

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Roman Military Equipment @equipmentroman.bsky.social · Jul 20

Shields up! It's #ShieldSunday and here's the Tyne #scutum boss and its less-complete twin from Vindonissa. The first is an excellent example of selective tinning, something discussed in detail at #ROMECXXI.

Curved rectangular copper-alloy shield boss from the River Tyne at South Shields (GBR) with a hemispherical boss, engraved and punctim decoration, and selective tinning. Image: © The Trustees of the British Museum (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

Fragmentary (top right corner with most of the dome) curved, rectangular, copper-alloy shield boss similar to the example from the River Tyne (GBR). Found at Vindonissa (CHE). Image: DerHexer (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · Jul 20

Honestly, I can never get enough of ancient glass. The vibrant colors, clever forms, and even the use of gold. This alabastron (perfume or scented oil flask) has swirls of gold between bands of colored glass. 1/ 🏺

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A gold band alabastron, with irregular bands of colored glass (cobalt blue, green, white, and black) snaking across the surface of this elegant vessel. The opulent gold bands are in fact gold leaf sandwiched between layers of colorless glass. Gold band glass was a luxury ware and this alabastron, or perfume flask, would have been owned by a prosperous Roman woman.

The term alabastron comes from alabaster, the material from which containers of this shape, used for perfume and scented oil, were originally made in Egypt. In the Roman Empire, the use of gold band glass was initially limited to the creation of alabastra, but the medium was gradually adapted for the creation of a variety of other shapes.

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Tony Divey @tonydivey.bsky.social · Jul 19

For #RomanSiteSaturday here’s our test pit last Saturday behind the old Rose and Crown pub in St.Albans. Lots of Roman pottery. My 📷 #StAlbansMuseums

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Following Hadrian @followinghadrian.bsky.social · Jul 16

#ReliefWednesday - Relief from the Arch of Portugal in Rome depicting the apotheosis of the wife of Hadrian, Sabina. When Sabina passed away, Hadrian constructed a monumental altar in her honour, likely located on the northern Campus Martius, to which this large marble relief may have belonged.

Hadrian sits on an upright chair and watches as Sabina is carried away from her funeral pyre on the back of the torch-bearing personification of Aeternitas. At Hadrian’s feet, a reclining semi-nude youth symbolises the Campus Martius.

Now in Palazzo Nuovo, Capitoline Museums, Rome.

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · Jul 5

A section of the Roman Wall at St. Albans which was built between AD 265 to 270 to defend the Roman city of Verulamium. The surviving sections are located in Verulamium Park which is a short walk from the city centre. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #StAlbans

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · Jul 3

Marcus Aurelius (head of life-size statue)
Bronze. 160 to 170 AD
Found Dunaszekesö, #Hungary

The statue perhaps depicted the #Roman Emperor as a general & so would honour his supreme commander role.

In #MarcusAurelius exhibition, #Trier

Loaned by Janus Pannonius Museum, #Pécs

#RomanArchaeology

Bronze bust with head of the emperor with beard & curly hair.

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Dr Crom @doccrom.bsky.social · Jul 1

#OnThisDay - 1 July - in AD 69 the troops of Tiberius Julius Alexander in Egypt were the first to swear allegiance to Vespasian as emperor. He would use this date as his 'dies imperii'. 🏺

Image: RIC 2.1 Vespasian 1381; British Museum (1923,1015.5). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....

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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · Jul 1

This is the Pilate stone naming Pontius Pilate, a prefect of the Roman province of Judaea in the 1st century AD. It was discovered at Caesarea Maritima in 1961.
[DIS AUGUSTI]S TIBERIÉUM
[...PONTI]US PILATUS
[...PRAEF]ECTUS IUDA[EA]E
[...FECIT D]E[DICAVIT] #EpigraphyTuesday

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · Jul 1

A Roman building stone which was found at Carrawburgh Roman Fort on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland recording that ‘The Thruponian Century (built) 24 feet.’ The stone is now on display in the museum at Chesters Roman Fort. 📸 My own. #EpigraphyTuesday #RomanBritain

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Dr Jo Ball @drjeball.bsky.social · Jun 30

Really thrilled that my second book is now published! It explores the life of Tacfarinas, a C1st AD auxiliary soldier-deserter-bandit-rebel who came to lead a revolt against #Rome in NW Africa during the early reign of Tiberius. He is a truly fascinating figure in #Roman history! 🏺AncientBlueSky

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · Jul 1

If you're at @imc-leeds.bsky.social next week, you should definitely drop by for this session where I'll try my best to humbly stand on the shoulders of the giants in this session.

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Royston Museum @roystonmuseum.bsky.social · Jun 30

You might expect Royston to have been a Roman town. It wasn’t.

Join us on Wednesday 23 July for a fascinating talk by Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews as we explore why a town didn't grow up here and how the area was organised and populated in Roman times.

🗓️ Wednesday 23 July, 7:15pm
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Borders, Boundaries, Barriers Conference @bordersboundaries.bsky.social · Jun 28

CFP for Borders, Boundaries, Barriers: Real and Imagined in the Middle Ages (20-21 April 2026). Deadline 15 September 2025.

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Oscar Lozada @oz-of-the-ancients.bsky.social · Jun 26

#RomanFortThursday The Gateway to Roman Britain - the massive Triumphal Arch of Rutupiae (Richborough in Kent), clad in white Carrara marble from Italy, was a statement of Roman power at the entrance to Britannia

Art by Peter Lorimer

#archaeology #ancienthistory #art #romanempire #romanbritain

An artist's impression of a huge white triumphal roman arch with steps leading up from a port, surrounded by red brick buildings on either side

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Following Hadrian @followinghadrian.bsky.social · Jun 19

What does following Hadrian's first voyage for four years mean? You trace his journey across three continents, drive thousands of kilometres, visit hundreds of ancient sites, take thousands of photos, and spend countless hours researching at home. A thread with all 21 articles published on my blog.

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The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social · Jun 19

This comedic image is a lithograph by George Spratt, used as the frontispiece in Walter Scott’s 1816 novel, 'The Antiquary'.

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The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social · Jun 19

What exactly is an Antiquary? 🤔

The term ‘antiquary’ first appeared in England in the 16th century and referred to anyone who studied or collected the textual or material remains of the past.

Caricature of an Antiquary. His body and clothes are made up of various pieces and objects of material past, for example, one leg is a pillar, his arms are made up of medieval designs and he wears a strange goat helmet with a spear on the top of it.

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Steve Brown - astronomy and astrophotography @sjbastro.bsky.social · Jun 19

The "Beverly Hills of Roman London" - archaeologists have pieced together thousands of fragments of 2,000-year-old wall plaster to reveal remarkable frescoes that decorated a luxurious Roman villa. #History #Archaeology www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Huge archaeological puzzle reveals Roman London frescoes

Thousands of fragments of plaster are pieced together to reveal frescos from a Roman London villa.

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Kent Archaeological Society @kentarchsoc.bsky.social · Jun 11

The Museum of London Archaeology have just launched #Bartmanngoesglobal project!

You can learn more about the project on the Museum of London Archaeology website: www.bartmanngoesglobal.org/about-us/abo... where you can also submit information on your own Bartmann Jugs!

About the project

www.bartmanngoesglobal.org

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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · Jun 19

Ardoch is a Roman fort in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, founded by Agricola in AD 80. It was abandoned already in AD 87. The fort was recommissioned in AD 142 and in AD 205 there were temporary camps for the campaigns of Septimus Severus. #RomanFortThursday

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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · Jun 18

#ReliefWednesday 🏺
Aeneas lands on shores of Latium in ship with Trojan chums after escaping war, his son Ascanius by his side.

Fortunately a sow is on hand to tell him to found his city at Rome.

Marble #Roman relief, c. 140-150 AD, found in Rome.
In British Museum.

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Dr Crom @doccrom.bsky.social · Jun 17

#EpigraphyTuesday – The Anociticus Altar: discovered in 1862 in the context of a Roman temple just outside the south-east corner of Benwell Fort and dedicated to the god Anociticus: ca. AD 177-180. #Latin 🧵🏺

Image: Pete Savin. Great North Museum: Hancock (NEWMA: 1887.25)

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