Dr Crom
@doccrom.bsky.social
Classicist, archaeologist, sci-fi and horror nerd and, most importantly, ginger. Oh, and... "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn". #EdgyPedlar #AncientStuff
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Dr Crom
@doccrom.bsky.social
· Oct 17
AncientBluesky 🏺- A favourite! The eponymous piece from the Tomb of the Blue Vase, Pompeii (HGE08). A stunning cameo glass amphora, with grape-harvesting Cupids: ca. 1st Century AD. #Pompeii #Archaeology
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (13521). Link - mann-napoli.it/gli-oggetti-...
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (13521). Link - mann-napoli.it/gli-oggetti-...
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#ReliefWednesday - I'm feeling the love today, so here she is in person, with this beautiful polychrome representation of Aphrodite from Dura-Europos, Syria: ca. AD 200-256. #Love #Archaeology 🏺
Image: Yale University Art Gallery (1935.43). Link - artgallery.yale.edu/collections/...
Image: Yale University Art Gallery (1935.43). Link - artgallery.yale.edu/collections/...
November 19, 2025 at 10:32 AM
#ReliefWednesday - I'm feeling the love today, so here she is in person, with this beautiful polychrome representation of Aphrodite from Dura-Europos, Syria: ca. AD 200-256. #Love #Archaeology 🏺
Image: Yale University Art Gallery (1935.43). Link - artgallery.yale.edu/collections/...
Image: Yale University Art Gallery (1935.43). Link - artgallery.yale.edu/collections/...
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#ReliefWednesday - A fantastic panel showing soldiers of the Praetorian Guard in parade armour, from the triumphal Arch of Claudius in Rome: ca. AD 51-52. Much restored and embellished, but still rather fabulous! #Roman #AncientBluesky 🏺
Image: Louvre Collections (Ma 1079). 📸 My Own
Image: Louvre Collections (Ma 1079). 📸 My Own
November 19, 2025 at 10:27 AM
#ReliefWednesday - A fantastic panel showing soldiers of the Praetorian Guard in parade armour, from the triumphal Arch of Claudius in Rome: ca. AD 51-52. Much restored and embellished, but still rather fabulous! #Roman #AncientBluesky 🏺
Image: Louvre Collections (Ma 1079). 📸 My Own
Image: Louvre Collections (Ma 1079). 📸 My Own
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#OnThisDay - 19 November - in AD 461 Libius Severus was appointed Western Roman Emperor. His elevation was very much influenced by Ricimer, who used him as a public face of his own power. #History 🏺
Image: RIC X Libius Severus 2702; British Museum (B.11208). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
Image: RIC X Libius Severus 2702; British Museum (B.11208). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
November 19, 2025 at 10:23 AM
#OnThisDay - 19 November - in AD 461 Libius Severus was appointed Western Roman Emperor. His elevation was very much influenced by Ricimer, who used him as a public face of his own power. #History 🏺
Image: RIC X Libius Severus 2702; British Museum (B.11208). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
Image: RIC X Libius Severus 2702; British Museum (B.11208). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
#ReliefWednesday - I'm feeling the love today, so here she is in person, with this beautiful polychrome representation of Aphrodite from Dura-Europos, Syria: ca. AD 200-256. #Love #Archaeology 🏺
Image: Yale University Art Gallery (1935.43). Link - artgallery.yale.edu/collections/...
Image: Yale University Art Gallery (1935.43). Link - artgallery.yale.edu/collections/...
November 19, 2025 at 10:32 AM
#ReliefWednesday - I'm feeling the love today, so here she is in person, with this beautiful polychrome representation of Aphrodite from Dura-Europos, Syria: ca. AD 200-256. #Love #Archaeology 🏺
Image: Yale University Art Gallery (1935.43). Link - artgallery.yale.edu/collections/...
Image: Yale University Art Gallery (1935.43). Link - artgallery.yale.edu/collections/...
#ReliefWednesday - A fantastic panel showing soldiers of the Praetorian Guard in parade armour, from the triumphal Arch of Claudius in Rome: ca. AD 51-52. Much restored and embellished, but still rather fabulous! #Roman #AncientBluesky 🏺
Image: Louvre Collections (Ma 1079). 📸 My Own
Image: Louvre Collections (Ma 1079). 📸 My Own
November 19, 2025 at 10:27 AM
#ReliefWednesday - A fantastic panel showing soldiers of the Praetorian Guard in parade armour, from the triumphal Arch of Claudius in Rome: ca. AD 51-52. Much restored and embellished, but still rather fabulous! #Roman #AncientBluesky 🏺
Image: Louvre Collections (Ma 1079). 📸 My Own
Image: Louvre Collections (Ma 1079). 📸 My Own
#OnThisDay - 19 November - in AD 461 Libius Severus was appointed Western Roman Emperor. His elevation was very much influenced by Ricimer, who used him as a public face of his own power. #History 🏺
Image: RIC X Libius Severus 2702; British Museum (B.11208). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
Image: RIC X Libius Severus 2702; British Museum (B.11208). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
November 19, 2025 at 10:23 AM
#OnThisDay - 19 November - in AD 461 Libius Severus was appointed Western Roman Emperor. His elevation was very much influenced by Ricimer, who used him as a public face of his own power. #History 🏺
Image: RIC X Libius Severus 2702; British Museum (B.11208). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
Image: RIC X Libius Severus 2702; British Museum (B.11208). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
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#OnThisDay - 17 November - Tjaiemhotep was born in Year 9 of Ptolemy XII Auletes' reign, i.e. in 73 BC. A record of her life is left on her funerary stela, including a plea to seize the day while you may. #Archaeology #Egypt 🏺
Image: British Museum (EA147). Link - britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
Image: British Museum (EA147). Link - britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
November 17, 2025 at 8:54 AM
#OnThisDay - 17 November - Tjaiemhotep was born in Year 9 of Ptolemy XII Auletes' reign, i.e. in 73 BC. A record of her life is left on her funerary stela, including a plea to seize the day while you may. #Archaeology #Egypt 🏺
Image: British Museum (EA147). Link - britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
Image: British Museum (EA147). Link - britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
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#OnThisDay - 17 November - in AD 9 Titus Flavius Vespasianus (my fave!) was born. As 'last man standing' at the end of the Long Year that was AD 69, he inaugurated the Flavian Dynasty. #AncientHistory 🏺
Image: Obverse of RIC 2.1 Vespasian 515; ANS 1956.184.26. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
Image: Obverse of RIC 2.1 Vespasian 515; ANS 1956.184.26. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
November 17, 2025 at 8:53 AM
#OnThisDay - 17 November - in AD 9 Titus Flavius Vespasianus (my fave!) was born. As 'last man standing' at the end of the Long Year that was AD 69, he inaugurated the Flavian Dynasty. #AncientHistory 🏺
Image: Obverse of RIC 2.1 Vespasian 515; ANS 1956.184.26. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
Image: Obverse of RIC 2.1 Vespasian 515; ANS 1956.184.26. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
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"I've never sold a single item & I've found thousands of coins."
'he keeps his finds carefully arranged in a display cabinet at his home.'
...that's just one #detectorist.
Multiply that by perhaps 40,000 people - that's an awful lot of artefacts.
#Archaeology 🏺
www.bbc.com/news/article...
'he keeps his finds carefully arranged in a display cabinet at his home.'
...that's just one #detectorist.
Multiply that by perhaps 40,000 people - that's an awful lot of artefacts.
#Archaeology 🏺
www.bbc.com/news/article...
The Surrey Metal Detecting Club sees membership leap in six years
Founded with 60 members in 2019, the Surrey club now has more than 3,000 members across the county.
www.bbc.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
"I've never sold a single item & I've found thousands of coins."
'he keeps his finds carefully arranged in a display cabinet at his home.'
...that's just one #detectorist.
Multiply that by perhaps 40,000 people - that's an awful lot of artefacts.
#Archaeology 🏺
www.bbc.com/news/article...
'he keeps his finds carefully arranged in a display cabinet at his home.'
...that's just one #detectorist.
Multiply that by perhaps 40,000 people - that's an awful lot of artefacts.
#Archaeology 🏺
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#OnThisDay - 17 November - Tjaiemhotep was born in Year 9 of Ptolemy XII Auletes' reign, i.e. in 73 BC. A record of her life is left on her funerary stela, including a plea to seize the day while you may. #Archaeology #Egypt 🏺
Image: British Museum (EA147). Link - britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
Image: British Museum (EA147). Link - britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
November 17, 2025 at 8:54 AM
#OnThisDay - 17 November - Tjaiemhotep was born in Year 9 of Ptolemy XII Auletes' reign, i.e. in 73 BC. A record of her life is left on her funerary stela, including a plea to seize the day while you may. #Archaeology #Egypt 🏺
Image: British Museum (EA147). Link - britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
Image: British Museum (EA147). Link - britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
#OnThisDay - 17 November - in AD 9 Titus Flavius Vespasianus (my fave!) was born. As 'last man standing' at the end of the Long Year that was AD 69, he inaugurated the Flavian Dynasty. #AncientHistory 🏺
Image: Obverse of RIC 2.1 Vespasian 515; ANS 1956.184.26. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
Image: Obverse of RIC 2.1 Vespasian 515; ANS 1956.184.26. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
November 17, 2025 at 8:53 AM
#OnThisDay - 17 November - in AD 9 Titus Flavius Vespasianus (my fave!) was born. As 'last man standing' at the end of the Long Year that was AD 69, he inaugurated the Flavian Dynasty. #AncientHistory 🏺
Image: Obverse of RIC 2.1 Vespasian 515; ANS 1956.184.26. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
Image: Obverse of RIC 2.1 Vespasian 515; ANS 1956.184.26. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
Reposted by Dr Crom
An onslaught on heritage: "Surrey Metal Detecting Club… membership has rocketed… to more than 3,000 in 2025."
"We're not in it for the treasure, we're history finders" says a man who's "found thousands of coins" and has a shelf at home "where it's all Roman - coins, brooches and stuff like that."
"We're not in it for the treasure, we're history finders" says a man who's "found thousands of coins" and has a shelf at home "where it's all Roman - coins, brooches and stuff like that."
The Surrey Metal Detecting Club sees membership leap in six years
Founded with 60 members in 2019, the Surrey club now has more than 3,000 members across the county.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
An onslaught on heritage: "Surrey Metal Detecting Club… membership has rocketed… to more than 3,000 in 2025."
"We're not in it for the treasure, we're history finders" says a man who's "found thousands of coins" and has a shelf at home "where it's all Roman - coins, brooches and stuff like that."
"We're not in it for the treasure, we're history finders" says a man who's "found thousands of coins" and has a shelf at home "where it's all Roman - coins, brooches and stuff like that."
Reposted by Dr Crom
#OnThisDay - 16 November - in 42 BC Tiberius, the second emperor of Rome, was born. Successor to Augustus, his ability to govern the empire ensured the embedding of the system of the Principate. #History 🏺
Image: RIC Tiberius 29; Münzkabinett Wien (RÖ 5087). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
Image: RIC Tiberius 29; Münzkabinett Wien (RÖ 5087). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
November 16, 2025 at 12:18 PM
#OnThisDay - 16 November - in 42 BC Tiberius, the second emperor of Rome, was born. Successor to Augustus, his ability to govern the empire ensured the embedding of the system of the Principate. #History 🏺
Image: RIC Tiberius 29; Münzkabinett Wien (RÖ 5087). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
Image: RIC Tiberius 29; Münzkabinett Wien (RÖ 5087). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
#OnThisDay - 16 November - in 42 BC Tiberius, the second emperor of Rome, was born. Successor to Augustus, his ability to govern the empire ensured the embedding of the system of the Principate. #History 🏺
Image: RIC Tiberius 29; Münzkabinett Wien (RÖ 5087). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
Image: RIC Tiberius 29; Münzkabinett Wien (RÖ 5087). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
November 16, 2025 at 12:18 PM
#OnThisDay - 16 November - in 42 BC Tiberius, the second emperor of Rome, was born. Successor to Augustus, his ability to govern the empire ensured the embedding of the system of the Principate. #History 🏺
Image: RIC Tiberius 29; Münzkabinett Wien (RÖ 5087). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
Image: RIC Tiberius 29; Münzkabinett Wien (RÖ 5087). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
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#FrescoFriday - From a series of fresco depictions of the Muses from the Praedia of Julia Felix, Pompeii (II.4.10/3). Here is Urania, Muse of Astronomy, with a celestial globe and measuring rod. #Pompeii #Art 🏺
Image: Louvre Collections (ED 2759 ; P 12). Link - collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...
Image: Louvre Collections (ED 2759 ; P 12). Link - collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...
November 14, 2025 at 10:37 AM
#FrescoFriday - From a series of fresco depictions of the Muses from the Praedia of Julia Felix, Pompeii (II.4.10/3). Here is Urania, Muse of Astronomy, with a celestial globe and measuring rod. #Pompeii #Art 🏺
Image: Louvre Collections (ED 2759 ; P 12). Link - collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...
Image: Louvre Collections (ED 2759 ; P 12). Link - collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...
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#FrescoFriday - A fresco of Fortuna from the Caupona of Tertius, Pompeii (IX.7.22), with the addition of a notable graffito:
"CACATOR / CAVE MALU(M)" (CIL IV 3832)
'Shitter, Beware of Evil!'
Best mind your step! #Pompeii #Archaeology 🏺
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (112285)
"CACATOR / CAVE MALU(M)" (CIL IV 3832)
'Shitter, Beware of Evil!'
Best mind your step! #Pompeii #Archaeology 🏺
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (112285)
November 14, 2025 at 10:32 AM
#FrescoFriday - A fresco of Fortuna from the Caupona of Tertius, Pompeii (IX.7.22), with the addition of a notable graffito:
"CACATOR / CAVE MALU(M)" (CIL IV 3832)
'Shitter, Beware of Evil!'
Best mind your step! #Pompeii #Archaeology 🏺
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (112285)
"CACATOR / CAVE MALU(M)" (CIL IV 3832)
'Shitter, Beware of Evil!'
Best mind your step! #Pompeii #Archaeology 🏺
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (112285)
Reposted by Dr Crom
#OnThisDay - 14 November - in AD 565 the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I died at the age of 83. His was an energetic reign, perhaps most famous for his legal revisions. #History 🏺
Image: Gold Solidus of Justinian I, Constantinople, AD 538-545. ANS 1948.19.743. Link - numismatics.org/collection/1...
Image: Gold Solidus of Justinian I, Constantinople, AD 538-545. ANS 1948.19.743. Link - numismatics.org/collection/1...
November 14, 2025 at 10:30 AM
#OnThisDay - 14 November - in AD 565 the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I died at the age of 83. His was an energetic reign, perhaps most famous for his legal revisions. #History 🏺
Image: Gold Solidus of Justinian I, Constantinople, AD 538-545. ANS 1948.19.743. Link - numismatics.org/collection/1...
Image: Gold Solidus of Justinian I, Constantinople, AD 538-545. ANS 1948.19.743. Link - numismatics.org/collection/1...
Reposted by Dr Crom
Happy partially muscled skeleton screaming before vanishing day to all those who celebrate.
November 14, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Happy partially muscled skeleton screaming before vanishing day to all those who celebrate.
November 14, 2025 at 10:51 AM
#FrescoFriday - From a series of fresco depictions of the Muses from the Praedia of Julia Felix, Pompeii (II.4.10/3). Here is Urania, Muse of Astronomy, with a celestial globe and measuring rod. #Pompeii #Art 🏺
Image: Louvre Collections (ED 2759 ; P 12). Link - collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...
Image: Louvre Collections (ED 2759 ; P 12). Link - collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...
November 14, 2025 at 10:37 AM
#FrescoFriday - From a series of fresco depictions of the Muses from the Praedia of Julia Felix, Pompeii (II.4.10/3). Here is Urania, Muse of Astronomy, with a celestial globe and measuring rod. #Pompeii #Art 🏺
Image: Louvre Collections (ED 2759 ; P 12). Link - collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...
Image: Louvre Collections (ED 2759 ; P 12). Link - collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...
#FrescoFriday - A fresco of Fortuna from the Caupona of Tertius, Pompeii (IX.7.22), with the addition of a notable graffito:
"CACATOR / CAVE MALU(M)" (CIL IV 3832)
'Shitter, Beware of Evil!'
Best mind your step! #Pompeii #Archaeology 🏺
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (112285)
"CACATOR / CAVE MALU(M)" (CIL IV 3832)
'Shitter, Beware of Evil!'
Best mind your step! #Pompeii #Archaeology 🏺
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (112285)
November 14, 2025 at 10:32 AM
#FrescoFriday - A fresco of Fortuna from the Caupona of Tertius, Pompeii (IX.7.22), with the addition of a notable graffito:
"CACATOR / CAVE MALU(M)" (CIL IV 3832)
'Shitter, Beware of Evil!'
Best mind your step! #Pompeii #Archaeology 🏺
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (112285)
"CACATOR / CAVE MALU(M)" (CIL IV 3832)
'Shitter, Beware of Evil!'
Best mind your step! #Pompeii #Archaeology 🏺
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (112285)
#OnThisDay - 14 November - in AD 565 the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I died at the age of 83. His was an energetic reign, perhaps most famous for his legal revisions. #History 🏺
Image: Gold Solidus of Justinian I, Constantinople, AD 538-545. ANS 1948.19.743. Link - numismatics.org/collection/1...
Image: Gold Solidus of Justinian I, Constantinople, AD 538-545. ANS 1948.19.743. Link - numismatics.org/collection/1...
November 14, 2025 at 10:30 AM
#OnThisDay - 14 November - in AD 565 the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I died at the age of 83. His was an energetic reign, perhaps most famous for his legal revisions. #History 🏺
Image: Gold Solidus of Justinian I, Constantinople, AD 538-545. ANS 1948.19.743. Link - numismatics.org/collection/1...
Image: Gold Solidus of Justinian I, Constantinople, AD 538-545. ANS 1948.19.743. Link - numismatics.org/collection/1...
Reposted by Dr Crom
I haven't done a #PhallusThursday post in a while, so here's an Athenian amphora, ca. Late 6th Century BC, showing an ithyphallic Satyr flanked by a pair of Sphinxes. Attributed to the 'Pointed Nose Painter'. 🏺
Image: Louvre Collections (E862). Link - collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...
Image: Louvre Collections (E862). Link - collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...
November 13, 2025 at 9:11 AM
I haven't done a #PhallusThursday post in a while, so here's an Athenian amphora, ca. Late 6th Century BC, showing an ithyphallic Satyr flanked by a pair of Sphinxes. Attributed to the 'Pointed Nose Painter'. 🏺
Image: Louvre Collections (E862). Link - collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...
Image: Louvre Collections (E862). Link - collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...
Reposted by Dr Crom
ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵
#LatinForTheDay – 13 November #Horace
“otium divos rogat in patenti
prensus Aegaeo, simul atra nubes
condidit lunam neque certa fulgent
sidera nautis;
otium bello furiosa Thrace,
otium Medi pharetra decori,
Grosphe, non gemmis neque purpura venale
neque auro....
#LatinForTheDay – 13 November #Horace
“otium divos rogat in patenti
prensus Aegaeo, simul atra nubes
condidit lunam neque certa fulgent
sidera nautis;
otium bello furiosa Thrace,
otium Medi pharetra decori,
Grosphe, non gemmis neque purpura venale
neque auro....
November 13, 2025 at 9:07 AM
ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵
#LatinForTheDay – 13 November #Horace
“otium divos rogat in patenti
prensus Aegaeo, simul atra nubes
condidit lunam neque certa fulgent
sidera nautis;
otium bello furiosa Thrace,
otium Medi pharetra decori,
Grosphe, non gemmis neque purpura venale
neque auro....
#LatinForTheDay – 13 November #Horace
“otium divos rogat in patenti
prensus Aegaeo, simul atra nubes
condidit lunam neque certa fulgent
sidera nautis;
otium bello furiosa Thrace,
otium Medi pharetra decori,
Grosphe, non gemmis neque purpura venale
neque auro....
Reposted by Dr Crom
#OnThisDay - 13 November - in 36 BC Octavian (later Augustus) celebrated a triple ovation, with his later Res Gestae (25.1) describing this victory as 'pacifying the sea from pirates'. #AncientHistory 🏺
Image: Aureus of 42 BC; RRC 497/1; BM (1864,1128.237). Link - numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-...
Image: Aureus of 42 BC; RRC 497/1; BM (1864,1128.237). Link - numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-...
November 13, 2025 at 9:04 AM
#OnThisDay - 13 November - in 36 BC Octavian (later Augustus) celebrated a triple ovation, with his later Res Gestae (25.1) describing this victory as 'pacifying the sea from pirates'. #AncientHistory 🏺
Image: Aureus of 42 BC; RRC 497/1; BM (1864,1128.237). Link - numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-...
Image: Aureus of 42 BC; RRC 497/1; BM (1864,1128.237). Link - numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-...