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Late Spring AD 125 – Hadrian visits Sicily to climb Mount Etna and returns to Rome (#Hadrian1900) FOLLOWING HADRIAN
In the late spring of AD 125, after visiting Delphi and possibly spending some time in Dyrrachium (see here), Hadrian set sail to return to Rome, having completed a four-year journey across the wes…
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I recently visited the archaeological site of Perge! I took tons of photos, especially of everything connected to Plancia Magna, who never ceases to fascinate me. I’m now diving into writing an article about her for my FH blog. Aurelia Paulina will also get a well-deserved mention! Stay tuned!
December 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I recently visited the archaeological site of Perge! I took tons of photos, especially of everything connected to Plancia Magna, who never ceases to fascinate me. I’m now diving into writing an article about her for my FH blog. Aurelia Paulina will also get a well-deserved mention! Stay tuned!
#EpigraphyTuesday - Legionary insignia of Legio X Fretensis and tabula ansata with inscription dedicated to Hadrian. From the High Level Aqueduct of Caesarea at Beit Hananya (Israel). The Tenth legion took part in the building of the new aqueduct commissioned by Hadrian in AD 130.
![Legionary insignia
Imperatori) Tr(aia)n(o)
Hadr(iano)
vex(illatio) leg(ionis)
X [F]rete(nsis
Detachment of the legio X Fretensis to Imperator Traianus Hadrianus.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:a35zqekikgeljvwfjfettv2a/bafkreig7os54kwp6kgty6cajpj3q3hgiwkibwsoj75jfvwsmbtzdcbepue@jpeg)
December 2, 2025 at 5:51 PM
#EpigraphyTuesday - Legionary insignia of Legio X Fretensis and tabula ansata with inscription dedicated to Hadrian. From the High Level Aqueduct of Caesarea at Beit Hananya (Israel). The Tenth legion took part in the building of the new aqueduct commissioned by Hadrian in AD 130.
Happy December!
December was originally the 10th month in the Roman calendar (from the Latin decem, meaning ten). When the calendar was reformed to add January and February, December became the 12th month but retained its name.
Now looking forward to the Saturnalia celebrations! 🌟🌟🌟
December was originally the 10th month in the Roman calendar (from the Latin decem, meaning ten). When the calendar was reformed to add January and February, December became the 12th month but retained its name.
Now looking forward to the Saturnalia celebrations! 🌟🌟🌟
December 1, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Happy December!
December was originally the 10th month in the Roman calendar (from the Latin decem, meaning ten). When the calendar was reformed to add January and February, December became the 12th month but retained its name.
Now looking forward to the Saturnalia celebrations! 🌟🌟🌟
December was originally the 10th month in the Roman calendar (from the Latin decem, meaning ten). When the calendar was reformed to add January and February, December became the 12th month but retained its name.
Now looking forward to the Saturnalia celebrations! 🌟🌟🌟
As is tradition, I am celebrating Antinous' birthday 🎂 with a bottle of Mantinia Moschofilero, a dry white wine from Arcadia in the Peloponnese in Greece. 🍷
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🍇 Moschofilero
🍷 Mantinia (Mantineia) PDO
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🍇 Moschofilero
🍷 Mantinia (Mantineia) PDO
November 27, 2025 at 10:19 PM
As is tradition, I am celebrating Antinous' birthday 🎂 with a bottle of Mantinia Moschofilero, a dry white wine from Arcadia in the Peloponnese in Greece. 🍷
semeliestate.gr/wine/mantinia/
🍇 Moschofilero
🍷 Mantinia (Mantineia) PDO
semeliestate.gr/wine/mantinia/
🍇 Moschofilero
🍷 Mantinia (Mantineia) PDO
Exhibition: ‘A Portrait of Antinous, in Two Parts’ in Rome.
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Exhibition: ‘A Portrait of Antinous, in Two Parts’ in Rome FOLLOWING HADRIAN
An international team, including members of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Palazzo Altemps Museum in Rome and the University of Chicago, used new technologies to make an incredible discovery abo…
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November 27, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Exhibition: ‘A Portrait of Antinous, in Two Parts’ in Rome.
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Exhibition: ‘Hadrian and Antinous: an encounter, 19 centuries later’ at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
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Exhibition: ‘Hadrian and Antinous: an encounter, 19 centuries later’ at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens (#Hadrian1900) FOLLOWING HADRIAN
In the context of “The Unseen Museum” rotating-object programme and the temporary exhibition “Hadrian and Athens Conversing with an Ideal World”, currently on display in Gal…
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November 27, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Exhibition: ‘Hadrian and Antinous: an encounter, 19 centuries later’ at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
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Exhibition: ‘Antinous: Boy made God’ at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford (UK).
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Exhibition: ‘Antinous: Boy made God’ at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford (UK) FOLLOWING HADRIAN
Antinous has attracted renewed fascination since the High Renaissance. In the early 1500s, several portraits of the ‘boy-favourite’ were known in Rome, and numerous works of art were mo…
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November 27, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Exhibition: ‘Antinous: Boy made God’ at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford (UK).
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Life-size marble statue of Antinous in the guise of Apollo, discovered in 1894 during excavations in Delphi, dated AD 130-138. Aphrodisian workshop, crafted in Göktepe marble from the province of Asia. Height 180 cm. From the temple of Apollo at Delphi.
Delphi Archaeological Museum.
Delphi Archaeological Museum.
November 27, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Life-size marble statue of Antinous in the guise of Apollo, discovered in 1894 during excavations in Delphi, dated AD 130-138. Aphrodisian workshop, crafted in Göktepe marble from the province of Asia. Height 180 cm. From the temple of Apollo at Delphi.
Delphi Archaeological Museum.
Delphi Archaeological Museum.
Happy birthday, Antinous! 🎉
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Looking for Antinous
CAROLE RADDATO The immortal image of Hadrian's lost love.
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November 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Happy birthday, Antinous! 🎉
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Happy birthday to Antinous, born #OnThisDay ca. AD 110 to a Greek family in a rural locality called Mantineion, just outside the metropolis of Bithynion-Claudiopolis in Bithynia. 🎂
November 27, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Happy birthday to Antinous, born #OnThisDay ca. AD 110 to a Greek family in a rural locality called Mantineion, just outside the metropolis of Bithynion-Claudiopolis in Bithynia. 🎂
#MosaicMonday The Lucky Hunchback mosaic from Antioch. The inscription reads "you also" in Greek. This image of an ithyphallic hunchback has apotropaic symbolism against the evil eye and wishes good fortune to those entering or leaving the house.
Hatay Archaeology Museum, Turkey.
Hatay Archaeology Museum, Turkey.
November 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
#MosaicMonday The Lucky Hunchback mosaic from Antioch. The inscription reads "you also" in Greek. This image of an ithyphallic hunchback has apotropaic symbolism against the evil eye and wishes good fortune to those entering or leaving the house.
Hatay Archaeology Museum, Turkey.
Hatay Archaeology Museum, Turkey.
#RomanSiteSaturday - The Fullonica of Stephanus, one of the laundries in Pompeii, with large masonry tanks to rinse fabrics. The textiles were washed in basins by trampling them after soaking in urine-containing liquid. Rooms featured frescoes with red panels and architectural motifs.
November 22, 2025 at 5:56 PM
#RomanSiteSaturday - The Fullonica of Stephanus, one of the laundries in Pompeii, with large masonry tanks to rinse fabrics. The textiles were washed in basins by trampling them after soaking in urine-containing liquid. Rooms featured frescoes with red panels and architectural motifs.
#FrescoFriday - Wall painting depicting a riot that broke out between Pompeians and inhabitants of Nuceria in Pompeii in AD 59 during a gladiatorial show.
According to Tacitus, many Nucerians were wounded, and the event led to the amphitheatre's closure for 10 years.
According to Tacitus, many Nucerians were wounded, and the event led to the amphitheatre's closure for 10 years.
November 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
#FrescoFriday - Wall painting depicting a riot that broke out between Pompeians and inhabitants of Nuceria in Pompeii in AD 59 during a gladiatorial show.
According to Tacitus, many Nucerians were wounded, and the event led to the amphitheatre's closure for 10 years.
According to Tacitus, many Nucerians were wounded, and the event led to the amphitheatre's closure for 10 years.
The Roman emperor who died from eating too much cheese. www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
The Roman emperor who died from eating too much cheese
Lots of emperors met ignominious ends. And then there was Antoninus Pius.
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November 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The Roman emperor who died from eating too much cheese. www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
Greek-era vineyards found north of Marseille, two kilometers from the ancient walls of Massalia. www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/10/g...
Greek-era vineyards found north of Marseille, two kilometers from the ancient walls of Massalia
A team of archaeologists from the National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (Inrap) has unearthed, in the heart of Marseille’s 15th district, traces of an organized winegrowing operati...
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November 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Greek-era vineyards found north of Marseille, two kilometers from the ancient walls of Massalia. www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/10/g...
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How the Romans did their business: images of Latrines throughout the Roman world.
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How the Romans did their business: images of Latrines throughout the Roman world.
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How the Romans did their business: images of Latrines throughout the Roman world FOLLOWING HADRIAN
In Roman times, toilets were public and convivial places. An epigram from Martial reveals just how public privies were among the most frequented places in the city for socialising: “In omnibu…
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November 19, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Happy #WorldToiletDay! 🚽
How the Romans did their business: images of Latrines throughout the Roman world.
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How the Romans did their business: images of Latrines throughout the Roman world.
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November 19, 2025 at 8:12 PM
#WorldToiletDay 🚽
The latrine of the Great Baths complex at Ancient Dion in Greece, constructed for the convenience of visitors to the city and people staying at the nearby guesthouse.
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The latrine of the Great Baths complex at Ancient Dion in Greece, constructed for the convenience of visitors to the city and people staying at the nearby guesthouse.
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November 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
#WorldToiletDay 🚽
The latrine of the Great Baths complex at Ancient Dion in Greece, constructed for the convenience of visitors to the city and people staying at the nearby guesthouse.
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The latrine of the Great Baths complex at Ancient Dion in Greece, constructed for the convenience of visitors to the city and people staying at the nearby guesthouse.
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#WorldToiletDay 🚽
The public latrine in the Agora of Scythopolis in Judaea featured an open, colonnaded, courtyard, a paved floor, and a mosaic floor. The latrine was part of a larger bathhouse complex.
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The public latrine in the Agora of Scythopolis in Judaea featured an open, colonnaded, courtyard, a paved floor, and a mosaic floor. The latrine was part of a larger bathhouse complex.
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November 19, 2025 at 7:21 PM
#WorldToiletDay 🚽
The public latrine in the Agora of Scythopolis in Judaea featured an open, colonnaded, courtyard, a paved floor, and a mosaic floor. The latrine was part of a larger bathhouse complex.
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The public latrine in the Agora of Scythopolis in Judaea featured an open, colonnaded, courtyard, a paved floor, and a mosaic floor. The latrine was part of a larger bathhouse complex.
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#WorldToiletDay 🚽
A very well-preserved public latrine at Timgad in Algeria with seat armrests carved in the form of dolphins.
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A very well-preserved public latrine at Timgad in Algeria with seat armrests carved in the form of dolphins.
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November 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
#WorldToiletDay 🚽
A very well-preserved public latrine at Timgad in Algeria with seat armrests carved in the form of dolphins.
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A very well-preserved public latrine at Timgad in Algeria with seat armrests carved in the form of dolphins.
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#WorldToiletDay 🚽
Roman toilet seat in rosso antico (red marble from southern Greece). Famously known as the "stercory chair," it is theorised to have been used by an emperor and is now displayed at the Vatican Museums.
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Roman toilet seat in rosso antico (red marble from southern Greece). Famously known as the "stercory chair," it is theorised to have been used by an emperor and is now displayed at the Vatican Museums.
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November 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
#WorldToiletDay 🚽
Roman toilet seat in rosso antico (red marble from southern Greece). Famously known as the "stercory chair," it is theorised to have been used by an emperor and is now displayed at the Vatican Museums.
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Roman toilet seat in rosso antico (red marble from southern Greece). Famously known as the "stercory chair," it is theorised to have been used by an emperor and is now displayed at the Vatican Museums.
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#WorldToiletDay🚽
The beautiful latrines along Frontinus Street in Hierapolis (Turkey). The room was divided by a row of columns that supported a roof composed of travertine blocks.
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The beautiful latrines along Frontinus Street in Hierapolis (Turkey). The room was divided by a row of columns that supported a roof composed of travertine blocks.
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November 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
#WorldToiletDay🚽
The beautiful latrines along Frontinus Street in Hierapolis (Turkey). The room was divided by a row of columns that supported a roof composed of travertine blocks.
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The beautiful latrines along Frontinus Street in Hierapolis (Turkey). The room was divided by a row of columns that supported a roof composed of travertine blocks.
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#WorldToiletDay 🚽
The public latrine at Magnesia ad Maeandrum (Turkey) featured two rooms and was equipped with two fountains and two rows of toilet seats. This latrine could accommodate about 32 people at once, and its walls were covered in opus sectile.
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The public latrine at Magnesia ad Maeandrum (Turkey) featured two rooms and was equipped with two fountains and two rows of toilet seats. This latrine could accommodate about 32 people at once, and its walls were covered in opus sectile.
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November 19, 2025 at 4:47 PM
#WorldToiletDay 🚽
The public latrine at Magnesia ad Maeandrum (Turkey) featured two rooms and was equipped with two fountains and two rows of toilet seats. This latrine could accommodate about 32 people at once, and its walls were covered in opus sectile.
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The public latrine at Magnesia ad Maeandrum (Turkey) featured two rooms and was equipped with two fountains and two rows of toilet seats. This latrine could accommodate about 32 people at once, and its walls were covered in opus sectile.
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#WorldToiletDay 🚽
The public latrines at Ephesus (Turkey). They were part of the Scholastica Baths, constructed in the 1st century AD.
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The public latrines at Ephesus (Turkey). They were part of the Scholastica Baths, constructed in the 1st century AD.
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November 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
#WorldToiletDay 🚽
The public latrines at Ephesus (Turkey). They were part of the Scholastica Baths, constructed in the 1st century AD.
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The public latrines at Ephesus (Turkey). They were part of the Scholastica Baths, constructed in the 1st century AD.
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#WorldToiletDay 🚽
The Latrines at Housesteads Roman Fort (Vercovicium) in Great Britain. They included wooden seats along the sides, set over a deep channel. A smaller channel in the centre of the building was used for washing sponges.
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The Latrines at Housesteads Roman Fort (Vercovicium) in Great Britain. They included wooden seats along the sides, set over a deep channel. A smaller channel in the centre of the building was used for washing sponges.
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November 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
#WorldToiletDay 🚽
The Latrines at Housesteads Roman Fort (Vercovicium) in Great Britain. They included wooden seats along the sides, set over a deep channel. A smaller channel in the centre of the building was used for washing sponges.
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The Latrines at Housesteads Roman Fort (Vercovicium) in Great Britain. They included wooden seats along the sides, set over a deep channel. A smaller channel in the centre of the building was used for washing sponges.
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