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Archaeoethnologica: Ficheiro Epigráfico Nº 283 - 2025

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#Archaeology #ClassicalArchaeology #epigraphy #Iberia #Rome #Antiquity #journals #OpenAccess #AncientBlueSky

December 1, 2025 at 9:25 PM

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Archaeoethnologica: Ficheiro Epigráfico Nº 283 - 2025

+INFO in: archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/11/fich...

#Archaeology #ClassicalArchaeology #epigraphy #Iberia #Rome #Antiquity #journals #OpenAccess #AncientBlueSky

December 1, 2025 at 9:25 PM

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Archaeoethnologica: Ficheiro Epigráfico Nº 283 - 2025

+INFO in: archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/11/fich...

#Archaeology #ClassicalArchaeology #epigraphy #Iberia #Rome #Antiquity #journals #OpenAccess #AncientBlueSky

December 1, 2025 at 9:24 PM

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Siren of Canosa, between 320 and 300 BC
Polychrome terracotta
National Archaeological Museum (Madrid)
#art #greekmythology
Via: it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirena_...

November 29, 2025 at 6:36 PM

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David Perry

@perrytrails.bsky.social

Double-headed deities were a thing in the ancient Middle East. No idea why. It was before writing.
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#louvreabudhabi #inabudhabi #archeology #middleeast #travel #gaytravel #gaytraveler #gaytraveling #lgbttravel #lgbtqtravel #worldtravel #solotravel #museum #museummonday

November 29, 2025 at 8:21 PM

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Anthony Majanlahti

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#SarcophagusSaturday at the #BritishMuseum offers us this splendid stone #sarcophagus in #nenfro, a volcanic #tufo, with a lid like a pitched roof with a #sphinx at each end. The box itself has two figures on each side, male and female. It was once stuccoed and painted all over. #AncientBluesky 🏺

STONE SARCOPHAGUS WITH ROOF LID. ETRUSCAN, C. 325-250 BCE. BRITISH MUSEUM

This sarcophagus is striking for its lid, each end decorated with a sphinx. Knotted snakes lie across its centre. Female heads decorate the angles of the pediment with antefixes below. Along both sides are antefixes with female heads. All sides of the chest are decorated with floral and animal designs in low relief. Inturning figures appear at both ends of each long side: here we see a winged female, perhaps one of the Lasas (attendant divinities), holding a hammer and probably a nail, which when struck into a wall symbolises finality and time fulfilled. The male figure is a winged soldier. At centre is an inscription with the name of the deceased, which unfortunately is Vel Urinates.

November 29, 2025 at 9:26 PM

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Kevin Wilbraham

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Early Bronze Age bell-shaped beaker which was found at Stanground in Peterborough - an area rich in Bronze Age activity. Now part of the collections at Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery. 📸 My own. #Prehistory #Archaeology #Peterborough

November 20, 2025 at 6:46 AM

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Matthias Hoernes

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The Aphaia Temple pediment sculptures are getting a fresh clean – round two of our plaster-cast restoration is underway. #Archaeology 🏺 #Museum

November 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM

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Malcolm Stoneman

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Fish plate - Southern Italy
c. 2,350 years old

Used to serve fish, with a depression to hold a dish for perhaps a sauce.

Now in @rammuseum.bsky.social

#FindsFriday

Museum description- “The decoration shows three bream, and shellfish represented by white spots.”

November 21, 2025 at 7:51 AM

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Jon Hawke

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We find images of Venus all over the town, sometimes precious, like the numerous pictures of #Venus fishing, sometimes quite solemn, like the famous painting which depicts her pacifying #Mars with #love. #Pompeii

#Roman #FrescoFriday

November 21, 2025 at 10:20 AM

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Dr Crom

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#FrescoFriday - Discovered November 1765: Isis welcomes Io at Canopus, complete with snakes and sistra-shaking. From the Ekklesiasterion in the Temple of Isis, Pompeii (VIII.7.28). #Pompeii #Archaeology 🏺

Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9558). Link - mann-napoli.it/en/tempio-di...

November 21, 2025 at 10:24 AM

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes

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🏺🗃️ Thinking back to my Italy trip a year ago, here are some of the most beautiful works I saw in the Naples museum: rare paintings on marble from Herculaneum & Pompeii, their colours faded, yet with a delicacy that recalls Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

Photo showing close-up of painting on marble, depicting two women facing in the same direction, one with arms resting on the other's shoulders, their large-eyed features depicted very delicately, and their hair managing to look fully and fluffy.

Photo of whole composition with the two women, who are part of a group playing knucklebones.

Photo showing a painting on marble depicting a caped naked male interacting with a centaur, on whose other side is a woman.

Close up of the centaur's stomach and chest, showing beautiful shading and depiction of muscle and hair.

November 21, 2025 at 4:11 PM

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Nina Willburger

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An intentionally destroyed #BronzeAge #sword found in a burial at Blaubeuren-Asch. Bronze Age weapons deposited in burials were often bent or hacked into pieces before placed into the grave, in this way they 'died' with the owner. Dating 9th century BC.

📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg

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Fragmented remains of a bronze sword laid out on a dark surface, its blade hacked into multiple pieces. The broken segments show long, parallel ridges characteristic of the original blade, along with sections of the hilt and guard.

November 22, 2025 at 8:23 AM

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Gladius 🗡️ Hispaniensis

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#ReliefWednesday
Relieve de Ostia (siglo I), que representa un taller de teselas: dos hombres cortan piedras para preparar teselas para mosaicos. Otros dos hombres traen losas de piedra para cortar, mientras un quinto indica dónde colocarlas.
#History #Roma
#RomanArchaeology
#AncientBluesky

Relieve de Ostia (siglo I), que representa un taller de teselas: dos hombres cortan piedras para preparar teselas para mosaicos. Otros dos hombres traen losas de piedra para cortar, mientras un quinto indica dónde colocarlas.
Las teselas no solo estaban hechas de piedra, sino también de otros materiales como vidrio o cerámica.
📷 Vía Flickr

November 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM

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Ulla Rajala

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Gravegoods from the famous princely tombs from Praeneste (modern Palestrina). Now in Villa Poniatowski in Villa Giulia in Rome. #FindsFriday

November 28, 2025 at 6:16 AM

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Kevin Wilbraham

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One of the Binham Bracteates - a decorated gold disk worn as a pendant which was discovered as part of hoard in 2004 at Binham in Norfolk. Dating to 475–525, the pendant is part of the collections at Norwich Castle. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #NorwichCastle

November 28, 2025 at 7:08 AM

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Richard Osgood

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An ox-head Iron Age bowl handle from Llantrisant Fawr in Wales. Some 2000 years old and gloriously ’Celtic’ with incised tongue. Known (I believe) as ‘bovril’ the vessel was worked on by @archaedelle.bsky.social . Having seen it this week I thought it perfect for #findsfriday #archaeology #celts

A bronze bulls head with curved horns and protruding tongue that forms a ring - the handle of an Iron Age bronze vessel.

November 28, 2025 at 9:17 AM

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Antiquity Journal

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#FindsFriday Pots, tools and weapons from the Aketala sites in the western Tarim Basin. Similarities with examples from Central Asia's Andronovo culture indicate they had reached the region by 1800 BC, bringing agropastoralism and bronze manufacturing.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

Two pottery jars, a grinding stone, a stone sickle, a stone knife, a stone pestle, bronze arrowheads and a bone arrowhead.

November 28, 2025 at 10:22 AM

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Jon Hawke

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#FindsFriday

Bronze head of Hadrian, from a larger statue. Hollow cast in the round. The pupils of the eyes, probably of glass, are now lost. The head has been roughly hacked from its body. 117-138 AD. Found in the River Thames at London Bridge.

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#History #Art #Archaeology

There is a break in the hair on the left side; a narrow crack runs from the left cheek, under the chin, and back halfway up the right cheek; a repair patch is missing on the front of the neck. This is a superb casting of the head of Hadrian, one of a mere handful
of major bronze portraits of that emperor to have survived from antiquity. Hadrian, apparently aged arouund 30, is clearly
recognisable from his incipient beard, moustache and distinctive physiognomy. However, the portrait is in an extremely
provincial style, exemplified by the tightly bunched curvilinear hair, the large ears and the wide spacing of the eyes. The beard is lightly incised and, though curly looks wispy, while the stylised curls around the front of the head give way to simple incised locks further back' (CSIR I, 10, p. 115).

Hadrian (reigned AD 117-138) is famous as the emperor who built the eighty-mile-long wall across Britain, from the Solway Firth to the River Tyne at Wallsend:

Height: Height: 430
millimetres
Weight: Weight: 26.50 kilograms (with block) (with block)Weight: Weight: 16
kilograms (without block) (without block)Width: Width: 360
milimetres
Depth: Depth: 340 millimetres

The statue may have been put
up to commemorate Hadrian's visit to Britain in AD 122; Hadrian travelled very extensively throughout the Empire, and
imperial visits generally gave rise to programmes of rebuilding and beautification of cities. There are many known marble statues of him, but this example made in bronze is a rare survival

November 28, 2025 at 10:59 AM

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Antiquity Journal

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Detached head of a figurine from #Viking Age Aska, Sweden. Microwear traces indicate the head was decapitated intentionally. A similar practice has been observed on human remains from this period, indicating connections between human and metal bodies.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

Silver miniature head with a loop on top, likely to string it onto a pendant. Microscopic images show traces of wear at the base, suggesting the head was intentionally separated from the body (figure by C. Tsoraki; Aska photograph by O. Myrin, Swedish Historical Museums, CC BY 4.0).

November 28, 2025 at 1:45 PM

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James Green

@archeaids.bsky.social

Firing the last of the shell-tempered stuff this afternoon. I'll be taking it up to 590° C to stay under the lowest calcine temperature of shell. #ceramics #archaeology

Small 2 handle fingernail punctated bowl & 5 beads.

November 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM

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Anthropology.net

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Ancient DNA from Shimao reveals a patrilineal megasettlement built on local ancestry, distant contacts, and gendered ritual sacrifice. A rare glimpse into hierarchy before China’s earliest states. #Archaeology #AncientDNA #Anthropology #HumanEvolution www.anthropology.net/p/the-city-o...

The City of Skulls and Fathers: Ancient DNA Reshapes the Story of Shimao’s Neolithic World

How a mega-settlement on the Loess Plateau stitched together ancestry, hierarchy, and ritual violence in the centuries before China’s earliest states

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November 29, 2025 at 3:50 AM

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Dr Jo Ball

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A #Roman necklace plaited gold set with sapphires & garnets, with a lovely butterfly pendant, also set with precious stones. Hard to believe this piece of jewellery is about 1800-2000 years old! 🏺 #AncientBlueSky