Pottery lamp from Roman Cirencester (Corinium) with a lion motif. The lamp is on display at the Corinium Museum in Cirencester. 📸 My own. #ReliefWednesday #RomanBritain
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#ReliefWednesday is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 16 people shared 42 posts with it — around 1 a day. Activity is down 42% versus the previous week, peaking on Jul 29 with 12 posts.
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Found in an #Esquiline pit, this #Silenus antefix of c. 500 BCE was imported from #Veii, while the roof tiles were local, and both were painted locally. This was state patronage under the #Tarquins: importing high-end Etruscan art to augment local work. #ReliefWednesday #AncientBluesky 🏺
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Two little quail chicks carved on a limestone plaque over 2,000 years ago.
Look closely to see a third chick sketched in ink!
From Egypt, Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 400–30 BC.
📷 Met Museum www.metmuseum.org/art/col….
#ReliefWednesday
#Archaeology
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2,000 year-old Roman silver wine cup decorated with olive branches.
From the famous silverware collection found in the cellar of the House of Menander at Pompeii.
Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli 📷 by me
#ReliefWednesday
#Archaeology
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The so-called ‘Viking Raider - Judgement Day' stone, c. 800-825.
Stone monument from Lindisfarne depicting a procession of seven men, six of them wielding axes and swords. It is often linked to the famous Viking raid on the monastery at Lindisfarne in AD793 📷 by me
#ReliefWednesday
#Archaeology
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This is the Ludovisi sarcophagus (mid-3rd AD). It absolutely writhes, hums and bursts with energy and movement. It reminds me of Tacitus’ famous phrase about the Romans: “they create a wasteland & call it peace.”
🏛️National Museum, Rome
📷mine
#ReliefWednesday
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For #ReliefWednesday, the Saturnia Tellus relief from the Ara Pacis, #Rome.
It depicts Mother Earth, or, according to a different interpretation, Venus, divine mother of Aeneas and progenitor of the Gens Iulia, to which Augustus himself belongs.
📸 Chris Nas
#archaeology #history
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Around 4,300 years ago, an Egyptian artisan carved a little frog, a grasshopper, and a dragonfly.
Lovely details from nature depicted on a wall relief in the Tomb of Kagemni at Saqqara, Egypt. Old Kingdom, Dynasty 6, c. 2345-2323 BC. Photo by me
#ReliefWednesday
#Archaeology
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A lovely little hedgehog in a basket carved by an Egyptian artisan some 4,300 years ago! 🦔❤️
Detail from a wall relief in the Tomb of Mereruka at Saqqara.
📷 by me
#ReliefWednesday
#Archaeology
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Lovely naturalistic scene of birds and a butterfly in a papyrus thicket, carved by an ancient Egyptian artisan some 4,500 years ago!
Faint traces of paint survive on this limestone wall relief from the funerary temple of king Userkaf. Egyptian Museum, Cairo 📷 by me
#ReliefWednesday
#Archaeology
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Not strictly fitting the criteria for #reliefwednesday, but so stunning that who cares, right?
#Ptolemaic #Egyptian canopic jars depicting the four sons of #Horus. From l-r, they are Duamutef. Hapy, Imsety and Qebehsenuef.
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#ReliefWednesday! A relief plaque with an #owl. 🦉
The owl hieroglyph represents the sound m.
Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 4th/3rd century BC, Egypt.
On display at Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Copenhagen
📷 me
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When we talk about long inscriptions, the Res Gestae Divi Augusti is up there!
This modern version of Augustus' late-in-life retrospective offers HIS interpretation of his life and rule…
#ReliefWednesday #AncientRome #Augustus
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Found in an #Esquiline pit, this #Silenus antefix of c. 500 BCE was imported from #Veii, while the roof tiles were local, and both were painted locally. This was state patronage under the #Tarquins: importing high-end Etruscan art to augment local work. #ReliefWednesday #AncientBluesky 🏺
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#ReliefWednesday
August has arrived: in Tuscany it's time for harvesting lots of lovely fruit. We hope.
Medieval labours of the month Iike this series on façade of Lucca's Cattedrale di San Martino point to what most occupied people through the year.
With complementary zodiac.
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1/ Suggested hashtags to join on a Wednesday
#HillfortsWednesday
#NormanWednesday
#EgyptologyWednesday
#ReliefWednesday
#GothicWednesday
#AbandonedWednesday
#WednesdayWrecks
#WagonWednesday
#WednesdayWheels
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Pottery lamp from Roman Cirencester (Corinium) with a lion motif. The lamp is on display at the Corinium Museum in Cirencester. 📸 My own. #ReliefWednesday #RomanBritain
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Roman Mural 2 by David Gillespie Associates, one of two bas-reliefs on Brunswick Road, Gloucester.
📷 FED 1
🎞️ Fuji Color 200
#Filmphotography
#BelieveInFilm
#VintageCameras
#ReliefWednesday
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When Lord #Elgin stripped the Treasury of #Atreus at #Mycenae in 1802, he left its monumental entrance a bare, undecorated skeleton. We look at these fragments today and forget they were once part of a dazzling Late Bronze Age façade. #ReliefWednesday #AncientBluesky 🏺
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The so-called ‘Viking Raider - Judgement Day' stone, c. 800-825.
Stone monument from Lindisfarne depicting a procession of seven men, six of them wielding axes and swords. It is often linked to the famous Viking raid on the monastery at Lindisfarne in AD793 📷 by me
#ReliefWednesday
#Archaeology
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#ReliefWednesday
This magnificent stucco relief of a cherub riding a (a something 👀🤯) decorated one of the panels in the vault of the frigidarium, at the Suburban Baths at the Marine Gate in #Pompeii.
(We all would if we could 👀)
#Archaeology #History #Art #Myth
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