James Heath
@mumblerjamie.bsky.social
BA Classical Civilisations, MA City of Rome. Views my own. Flickr - https://www.flickr.com/photos/mumblerjamie/
"Every road does not lead to Rome, but every road in Rome leads to eternity"
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#MosaicMonday brings us a detail from a breathtaking #mosaic from #Roman #Carthage, c. 375 CE, which has a complex design showing the months and the seasons in dazzling #acanthus and ribbon #frames. #LateAntiquity in North Africa was prosperous, as this floor from a #domus shows. #AncientBluesky 🏺
December 15, 2025 at 12:07 PM
#MosaicMonday brings us a detail from a breathtaking #mosaic from #Roman #Carthage, c. 375 CE, which has a complex design showing the months and the seasons in dazzling #acanthus and ribbon #frames. #LateAntiquity in North Africa was prosperous, as this floor from a #domus shows. #AncientBluesky 🏺
#MosaicMonday with this one of the four chariot teams at Palazzo Massimo! We see a member of each of the Green, Red, White and Blue teams with their horses.
First half of the 3rd Century AD, from Rome, cubiculum of the Villa of the Severi, Baccano locality, 16m along Via Cassia.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
First half of the 3rd Century AD, from Rome, cubiculum of the Villa of the Severi, Baccano locality, 16m along Via Cassia.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
December 15, 2025 at 11:30 AM
#MosaicMonday with this one of the four chariot teams at Palazzo Massimo! We see a member of each of the Green, Red, White and Blue teams with their horses.
First half of the 3rd Century AD, from Rome, cubiculum of the Villa of the Severi, Baccano locality, 16m along Via Cassia.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
First half of the 3rd Century AD, from Rome, cubiculum of the Villa of the Severi, Baccano locality, 16m along Via Cassia.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
#FrescoFriday with this one in the MANN! Here we have a cockerel and fruit.
From the House of the Chaste Lovers in Pompeii
#AncientBlueSky🏺
From the House of the Chaste Lovers in Pompeii
#AncientBlueSky🏺
December 12, 2025 at 11:29 AM
#FrescoFriday with this one in the MANN! Here we have a cockerel and fruit.
From the House of the Chaste Lovers in Pompeii
#AncientBlueSky🏺
From the House of the Chaste Lovers in Pompeii
#AncientBlueSky🏺
#ReliefWednesday with the Tomb of the Haterii relief!
The relief of the tomb of the Haterii, depicts architecture including the entrance arch to the Temple of Isis, the Colosseum, an arch with quadriga on the attic storey, the arch of Titus,, as well as a hexastyle temple.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
The relief of the tomb of the Haterii, depicts architecture including the entrance arch to the Temple of Isis, the Colosseum, an arch with quadriga on the attic storey, the arch of Titus,, as well as a hexastyle temple.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
December 10, 2025 at 9:51 AM
#ReliefWednesday with the Tomb of the Haterii relief!
The relief of the tomb of the Haterii, depicts architecture including the entrance arch to the Temple of Isis, the Colosseum, an arch with quadriga on the attic storey, the arch of Titus,, as well as a hexastyle temple.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
The relief of the tomb of the Haterii, depicts architecture including the entrance arch to the Temple of Isis, the Colosseum, an arch with quadriga on the attic storey, the arch of Titus,, as well as a hexastyle temple.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
Reposted by James Heath
📰 Ancient Egyptian royal "pleasure boat", matching a description by the Greek historian Strabo, found off the coast of Alexandria
🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Ancient Egyptian pleasure boat found by archaeologists off Alexandria coast
First-century luxury vessel matches description by the Greek historian Strabo, who visited city around 29-25BC
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:22 AM
📰 Ancient Egyptian royal "pleasure boat", matching a description by the Greek historian Strabo, found off the coast of Alexandria
🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
#EpihgraphyTuesday with a funerary slab of P. Vinicius Laces. He was a comedy actor (comoedus) and lived until he was 31.
On display in Museo delle Terme.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
On display in Museo delle Terme.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
December 9, 2025 at 9:27 AM
#EpihgraphyTuesday with a funerary slab of P. Vinicius Laces. He was a comedy actor (comoedus) and lived until he was 31.
On display in Museo delle Terme.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
On display in Museo delle Terme.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
#MosaicMonday from Winchester City Museum!
This section of a mosaic with a dophlin was discovered in the city in the 19th Century.
Winchester was known as Venta Belgarum in the Roman period.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
This section of a mosaic with a dophlin was discovered in the city in the 19th Century.
Winchester was known as Venta Belgarum in the Roman period.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
December 8, 2025 at 9:31 AM
#MosaicMonday from Winchester City Museum!
This section of a mosaic with a dophlin was discovered in the city in the 19th Century.
Winchester was known as Venta Belgarum in the Roman period.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
This section of a mosaic with a dophlin was discovered in the city in the 19th Century.
Winchester was known as Venta Belgarum in the Roman period.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
#FrescoFriday and we're at the Verulamium Museum in St. Albans.
Here is a large section of surviving fresco wall, painted in a way to replicate marble.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
Here is a large section of surviving fresco wall, painted in a way to replicate marble.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
December 5, 2025 at 9:40 AM
#FrescoFriday and we're at the Verulamium Museum in St. Albans.
Here is a large section of surviving fresco wall, painted in a way to replicate marble.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
Here is a large section of surviving fresco wall, painted in a way to replicate marble.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
#ReliefWednesday from Capri Archaological Museum!
Here we have "The Horse Ride" of a Man and Woman. A couple (perhaps Tiberius and a Nymph) are on horseback in a rural sanctuary.
From the Villa Jovis, 1st Century AD.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
Here we have "The Horse Ride" of a Man and Woman. A couple (perhaps Tiberius and a Nymph) are on horseback in a rural sanctuary.
From the Villa Jovis, 1st Century AD.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
December 3, 2025 at 10:40 AM
#ReliefWednesday from Capri Archaological Museum!
Here we have "The Horse Ride" of a Man and Woman. A couple (perhaps Tiberius and a Nymph) are on horseback in a rural sanctuary.
From the Villa Jovis, 1st Century AD.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
Here we have "The Horse Ride" of a Man and Woman. A couple (perhaps Tiberius and a Nymph) are on horseback in a rural sanctuary.
From the Villa Jovis, 1st Century AD.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
#EpigraphyTuesday with the Gravestone for Sophron, a Young Slave in Hadrian's Household. Museo di Villa Adele, Anzio.
D M / SOPHRONI VERN / IMP CAES HADRIANI AVGVSTI / PHILVMENUS PATER / DISP EIVSDEM AVG / FILIO OPTIMO QVI / VIXIT ANN X DIEB XVII
#AncientBlueSky🏺
D M / SOPHRONI VERN / IMP CAES HADRIANI AVGVSTI / PHILVMENUS PATER / DISP EIVSDEM AVG / FILIO OPTIMO QVI / VIXIT ANN X DIEB XVII
#AncientBlueSky🏺
December 2, 2025 at 9:34 AM
#EpigraphyTuesday with the Gravestone for Sophron, a Young Slave in Hadrian's Household. Museo di Villa Adele, Anzio.
D M / SOPHRONI VERN / IMP CAES HADRIANI AVGVSTI / PHILVMENUS PATER / DISP EIVSDEM AVG / FILIO OPTIMO QVI / VIXIT ANN X DIEB XVII
#AncientBlueSky🏺
D M / SOPHRONI VERN / IMP CAES HADRIANI AVGVSTI / PHILVMENUS PATER / DISP EIVSDEM AVG / FILIO OPTIMO QVI / VIXIT ANN X DIEB XVII
#AncientBlueSky🏺
Out of all my daily Classics hashtag posts, why is this one the one that has blown up?
#MosaicMonday with the Catalogue of Fish from the House of the Faun at Pompeii.
Now on display in the MANN.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
Now on display in the MANN.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
December 2, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Out of all my daily Classics hashtag posts, why is this one the one that has blown up?
#MosaicMonday with the Catalogue of Fish from the House of the Faun at Pompeii.
Now on display in the MANN.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
Now on display in the MANN.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
December 1, 2025 at 10:24 AM
#MosaicMonday with the Catalogue of Fish from the House of the Faun at Pompeii.
Now on display in the MANN.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
Now on display in the MANN.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
#FrescoFriday and we have this section of the fresco from the House of the Golden Bracelet Oecus.
As seen at Pompeii e Santorini: L'Eternita e un Giorno mostra in 2019.
A partridge strolls through the vegetation at the bottom of the panel.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
As seen at Pompeii e Santorini: L'Eternita e un Giorno mostra in 2019.
A partridge strolls through the vegetation at the bottom of the panel.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
November 28, 2025 at 9:28 AM
#FrescoFriday and we have this section of the fresco from the House of the Golden Bracelet Oecus.
As seen at Pompeii e Santorini: L'Eternita e un Giorno mostra in 2019.
A partridge strolls through the vegetation at the bottom of the panel.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
As seen at Pompeii e Santorini: L'Eternita e un Giorno mostra in 2019.
A partridge strolls through the vegetation at the bottom of the panel.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
#ReliefWednesday with this fragment depicting Victory, in the museum-space at Largo di Torre Argentina Sacred Area.
2nd Century AD, Luni marble, it was found in front of Temple B.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
2nd Century AD, Luni marble, it was found in front of Temple B.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
November 26, 2025 at 10:06 AM
#ReliefWednesday with this fragment depicting Victory, in the museum-space at Largo di Torre Argentina Sacred Area.
2nd Century AD, Luni marble, it was found in front of Temple B.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
2nd Century AD, Luni marble, it was found in front of Temple B.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
Reposted by James Heath
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
#EpigraphyTuesday An altar put up by Saturninus, Centurion of the II Legio Augusta.
DEAE SV / LI MIN(ERVAE) ET NV / MIN(IBVS) AVG(VSTORVM) G(AIVS) / CVRIATIVS / SATVRNINVS / C(ENTVRIO) LEG(IONIS) II AVG(VSTAE) / PRO SESV / ISQVE / V(OTVM) S(OLVIT) L(IBENS) M(ERITO)
#AncientBlueSky🏺
DEAE SV / LI MIN(ERVAE) ET NV / MIN(IBVS) AVG(VSTORVM) G(AIVS) / CVRIATIVS / SATVRNINVS / C(ENTVRIO) LEG(IONIS) II AVG(VSTAE) / PRO SESV / ISQVE / V(OTVM) S(OLVIT) L(IBENS) M(ERITO)
#AncientBlueSky🏺
November 25, 2025 at 10:36 AM
#EpigraphyTuesday An altar put up by Saturninus, Centurion of the II Legio Augusta.
DEAE SV / LI MIN(ERVAE) ET NV / MIN(IBVS) AVG(VSTORVM) G(AIVS) / CVRIATIVS / SATVRNINVS / C(ENTVRIO) LEG(IONIS) II AVG(VSTAE) / PRO SESV / ISQVE / V(OTVM) S(OLVIT) L(IBENS) M(ERITO)
#AncientBlueSky🏺
DEAE SV / LI MIN(ERVAE) ET NV / MIN(IBVS) AVG(VSTORVM) G(AIVS) / CVRIATIVS / SATVRNINVS / C(ENTVRIO) LEG(IONIS) II AVG(VSTAE) / PRO SESV / ISQVE / V(OTVM) S(OLVIT) L(IBENS) M(ERITO)
#AncientBlueSky🏺
Reposted by James Heath
Notice the staff. Can you tell me what the staff is?! It does not appear on the republican designs which inspired this type. livyarrow.org/2021/01/19/s...
Subsellium
ANS specimen Another ANS Specimen I want to think about how RIC Augustus 407 intersects with Republican types of Caepio Piso and also the Plebeian Aedile issue of the Cinnan regime, not to mention …
livyarrow.org
November 25, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Notice the staff. Can you tell me what the staff is?! It does not appear on the republican designs which inspired this type. livyarrow.org/2021/01/19/s...
#MosaicMonday and we're at the MANN! This scene of comes from, preusmably, a larger Nilotic scene found at the House of the Faun in Pompeii.
It mostly features a group of ducks, though you can also spot a kingfisher and a frog in the scene.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
It mostly features a group of ducks, though you can also spot a kingfisher and a frog in the scene.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
November 24, 2025 at 9:21 AM
#MosaicMonday and we're at the MANN! This scene of comes from, preusmably, a larger Nilotic scene found at the House of the Faun in Pompeii.
It mostly features a group of ducks, though you can also spot a kingfisher and a frog in the scene.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
It mostly features a group of ducks, though you can also spot a kingfisher and a frog in the scene.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
#FrescoFriday from the MANN! We have the Lares and Snakes panel from Pompeii (Regio VII.2/3)
We have two Lares in their typical pose with rhytons, the Genius performing a sacrifice with attendants and an aulos-player. Below a pair of snakes lie near an altar that has eggs on.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
We have two Lares in their typical pose with rhytons, the Genius performing a sacrifice with attendants and an aulos-player. Below a pair of snakes lie near an altar that has eggs on.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
November 21, 2025 at 9:47 AM
#FrescoFriday from the MANN! We have the Lares and Snakes panel from Pompeii (Regio VII.2/3)
We have two Lares in their typical pose with rhytons, the Genius performing a sacrifice with attendants and an aulos-player. Below a pair of snakes lie near an altar that has eggs on.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
We have two Lares in their typical pose with rhytons, the Genius performing a sacrifice with attendants and an aulos-player. Below a pair of snakes lie near an altar that has eggs on.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
#ReliefWednesday at the Lovure with this portrait of Antinous.
Around AD 130
Marble
Modern back, nose, mouth, chin and neck.
Formerly in the Campana Collection
#AncientBlueSky🏺
Around AD 130
Marble
Modern back, nose, mouth, chin and neck.
Formerly in the Campana Collection
#AncientBlueSky🏺
November 19, 2025 at 9:52 AM
#ReliefWednesday at the Lovure with this portrait of Antinous.
Around AD 130
Marble
Modern back, nose, mouth, chin and neck.
Formerly in the Campana Collection
#AncientBlueSky🏺
Around AD 130
Marble
Modern back, nose, mouth, chin and neck.
Formerly in the Campana Collection
#AncientBlueSky🏺
Reposted by James Heath
If you're teaching the Julio-Claudians in schools, you might find this video on how to use coin evidence to teach Agrippina the Younger useful. :-)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=52AF...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=52AF...
Coins and Agrippina the Younger in the Classroom
YouTube video by Australian Centre for Ancient Numismatic Studies
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:37 AM
If you're teaching the Julio-Claudians in schools, you might find this video on how to use coin evidence to teach Agrippina the Younger useful. :-)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=52AF...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=52AF...
Reposted by James Heath
Alf Dubs is a 92 year old man who spent his life fighting for refugees, and in particular for refugee children. He fought the Tories tooth and nail during their last three terms, only to see Labour adopt far-right policies on immigration.
“But to use children as a weapon ... I’m lost for words.”
“But to use children as a weapon ... I’m lost for words.”
Labour Peer Who Fled The Nazis Condemns His Party's Immigration Crackdown
Lord Dubs said he was "lost for words".
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Alf Dubs is a 92 year old man who spent his life fighting for refugees, and in particular for refugee children. He fought the Tories tooth and nail during their last three terms, only to see Labour adopt far-right policies on immigration.
“But to use children as a weapon ... I’m lost for words.”
“But to use children as a weapon ... I’m lost for words.”
#EpigraphyTuesday with this Altar of Claudia Bassilla from the Capitoline's Domitian exhibition.
The altar was dedicated by Daphnus, Domitian's slave, to his daughter Claudia Bassilla, who died at 7 and a half years of age.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
The altar was dedicated by Daphnus, Domitian's slave, to his daughter Claudia Bassilla, who died at 7 and a half years of age.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
November 18, 2025 at 9:30 AM
#EpigraphyTuesday with this Altar of Claudia Bassilla from the Capitoline's Domitian exhibition.
The altar was dedicated by Daphnus, Domitian's slave, to his daughter Claudia Bassilla, who died at 7 and a half years of age.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
The altar was dedicated by Daphnus, Domitian's slave, to his daughter Claudia Bassilla, who died at 7 and a half years of age.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
#MosaicMonday with this mosaic of showing a garum container.
From the House of Aulus Umbricius Scaurus, Pompeii (VII.16.13)
Scaurus made a fortune from fish sauce. bought a mansion in Pompeii and set four of these panels into the floor of its entrance hall.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
From the House of Aulus Umbricius Scaurus, Pompeii (VII.16.13)
Scaurus made a fortune from fish sauce. bought a mansion in Pompeii and set four of these panels into the floor of its entrance hall.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
November 17, 2025 at 10:04 AM
#MosaicMonday with this mosaic of showing a garum container.
From the House of Aulus Umbricius Scaurus, Pompeii (VII.16.13)
Scaurus made a fortune from fish sauce. bought a mansion in Pompeii and set four of these panels into the floor of its entrance hall.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
From the House of Aulus Umbricius Scaurus, Pompeii (VII.16.13)
Scaurus made a fortune from fish sauce. bought a mansion in Pompeii and set four of these panels into the floor of its entrance hall.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
Reposted by James Heath
Just wilful performative cruelty that is entirely out of step with the majority of British people.
How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?
How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?
November 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Just wilful performative cruelty that is entirely out of step with the majority of British people.
How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?
How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?