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art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
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It has been quite a week! We all need a timeline cleanse.
Have a great weekend, everyone!
An Egyptian relief plaque with a face of an #owl 🦉.
The owl hieroglyph represents the sound m.
Late Period–Ptolemaic Period. From Egypt, 400–30 BC.
📷 Metropolitan Museum
Have a great weekend, everyone!
An Egyptian relief plaque with a face of an #owl 🦉.
The owl hieroglyph represents the sound m.
Late Period–Ptolemaic Period. From Egypt, 400–30 BC.
📷 Metropolitan Museum
January 24, 2026 at 9:05 AM
It has been quite a week! We all need a timeline cleanse.
Have a great weekend, everyone!
An Egyptian relief plaque with a face of an #owl 🦉.
The owl hieroglyph represents the sound m.
Late Period–Ptolemaic Period. From Egypt, 400–30 BC.
📷 Metropolitan Museum
Have a great weekend, everyone!
An Egyptian relief plaque with a face of an #owl 🦉.
The owl hieroglyph represents the sound m.
Late Period–Ptolemaic Period. From Egypt, 400–30 BC.
📷 Metropolitan Museum
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Tynesiders, 1950, photo by Bert Hardy (1913-95).
January 24, 2026 at 8:56 AM
Tynesiders, 1950, photo by Bert Hardy (1913-95).
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Everyone loves a standing stone! Sheep communing with the ancestors at the Stones of Stenness on Orkney a couple of years back. #StandingStoneSunday
January 18, 2026 at 8:25 AM
Everyone loves a standing stone! Sheep communing with the ancestors at the Stones of Stenness on Orkney a couple of years back. #StandingStoneSunday
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Villa Farnesina Cubiculum B fresco depicting the Nymphs of Mount Nysa caring for the infant Dionysus.
The baby is shown being nursed or tended to by female figures in a lush setting. It is painted in a "Neo-Attic" or "lekythos" style, which mimics the look of 5th-c. BCE Greek pottery.
#FrescoFriday
The baby is shown being nursed or tended to by female figures in a lush setting. It is painted in a "Neo-Attic" or "lekythos" style, which mimics the look of 5th-c. BCE Greek pottery.
#FrescoFriday
January 23, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Villa Farnesina Cubiculum B fresco depicting the Nymphs of Mount Nysa caring for the infant Dionysus.
The baby is shown being nursed or tended to by female figures in a lush setting. It is painted in a "Neo-Attic" or "lekythos" style, which mimics the look of 5th-c. BCE Greek pottery.
#FrescoFriday
The baby is shown being nursed or tended to by female figures in a lush setting. It is painted in a "Neo-Attic" or "lekythos" style, which mimics the look of 5th-c. BCE Greek pottery.
#FrescoFriday
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Morning all.
Photographer Martin Parr ‘Spending Time.’
Salford, Greater Manchester 1986.
Photographer Martin Parr ‘Spending Time.’
Salford, Greater Manchester 1986.
January 24, 2026 at 9:18 AM
Morning all.
Photographer Martin Parr ‘Spending Time.’
Salford, Greater Manchester 1986.
Photographer Martin Parr ‘Spending Time.’
Salford, Greater Manchester 1986.
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Archaeologists have uncovered one of the first instances of interaction between #Neolithic farmers and #Mesolithic hunter-gatherers in central Europe, indicating a level of technology transfer not observed before.
🏺A communicative #AntiquityThread 1/10 🧵
🏺A communicative #AntiquityThread 1/10 🧵
January 21, 2026 at 9:04 AM
Archaeologists have uncovered one of the first instances of interaction between #Neolithic farmers and #Mesolithic hunter-gatherers in central Europe, indicating a level of technology transfer not observed before.
🏺A communicative #AntiquityThread 1/10 🧵
🏺A communicative #AntiquityThread 1/10 🧵
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This special roof tile, also on display at the Grosvenor museum in Chester, bears the marks of the 20th Legion and their symbol, a wild boar.
January 23, 2026 at 4:24 PM
This special roof tile, also on display at the Grosvenor museum in Chester, bears the marks of the 20th Legion and their symbol, a wild boar.
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Jadeitite Axehead • Donegal
This beautiful axe tells a story of trade, travel, and value in Neolithic Ireland.
Analysis revealed that it came from the Italian Alps, over 1500km away from where it was found in Donegal.
On display in @nmireland.bsky.social
#Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Archaeology 🏺
This beautiful axe tells a story of trade, travel, and value in Neolithic Ireland.
Analysis revealed that it came from the Italian Alps, over 1500km away from where it was found in Donegal.
On display in @nmireland.bsky.social
#Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Archaeology 🏺
January 23, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Jadeitite Axehead • Donegal
This beautiful axe tells a story of trade, travel, and value in Neolithic Ireland.
Analysis revealed that it came from the Italian Alps, over 1500km away from where it was found in Donegal.
On display in @nmireland.bsky.social
#Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Archaeology 🏺
This beautiful axe tells a story of trade, travel, and value in Neolithic Ireland.
Analysis revealed that it came from the Italian Alps, over 1500km away from where it was found in Donegal.
On display in @nmireland.bsky.social
#Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Archaeology 🏺
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🌳The Crowhurst Yew, thought to be 4,000 years old, predates Christianity itself. A living portal through time. 🕰️It’s one of the locations in my Ultimate Guide to Time Travel: 👉 www.digest.andymarsh...
January 23, 2026 at 7:00 AM
🌳The Crowhurst Yew, thought to be 4,000 years old, predates Christianity itself. A living portal through time. 🕰️It’s one of the locations in my Ultimate Guide to Time Travel: 👉 www.digest.andymarsh...
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The heavily ploughed interior of Hod Hill #Roman fort, early September 1949
Built in the NW corner of Lydsbury Rings Iron Age hillfort #Dorset
Roman roads and buildings showing up clearly as crop marks
© Historic England see:
britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EAW...
#RomanFortThursday
Built in the NW corner of Lydsbury Rings Iron Age hillfort #Dorset
Roman roads and buildings showing up clearly as crop marks
© Historic England see:
britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EAW...
#RomanFortThursday
January 22, 2026 at 7:32 AM
The heavily ploughed interior of Hod Hill #Roman fort, early September 1949
Built in the NW corner of Lydsbury Rings Iron Age hillfort #Dorset
Roman roads and buildings showing up clearly as crop marks
© Historic England see:
britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EAW...
#RomanFortThursday
Built in the NW corner of Lydsbury Rings Iron Age hillfort #Dorset
Roman roads and buildings showing up clearly as crop marks
© Historic England see:
britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EAW...
#RomanFortThursday
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A fragment of Roman terracotta tile with the imprints of a dog's paw that was discovered at Rochester in Kent. #FindsFriday
January 23, 2026 at 9:53 AM
A fragment of Roman terracotta tile with the imprints of a dog's paw that was discovered at Rochester in Kent. #FindsFriday
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A beautiful early medieval cobalt blue glass beaker. dating late 7th century AD. Found in a burial in Lauchheim.
This type of vessel has no foot and will not stand upright, it had to be emptied before it could be put down.
📷 @almbawue.bsky.social
This type of vessel has no foot and will not stand upright, it had to be emptied before it could be put down.
📷 @almbawue.bsky.social
January 19, 2026 at 3:18 PM
A beautiful early medieval cobalt blue glass beaker. dating late 7th century AD. Found in a burial in Lauchheim.
This type of vessel has no foot and will not stand upright, it had to be emptied before it could be put down.
📷 @almbawue.bsky.social
This type of vessel has no foot and will not stand upright, it had to be emptied before it could be put down.
📷 @almbawue.bsky.social
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#FindsFriday 🏺
#Roman dogs along Hadrian's wall: copper alloy figure of pup lifting a friendly paw, + 2 enamelled copper alloy brooches of hunting dogs.
In galleries @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social considering life along farthest frontier of empire.
British dogs were highly rated, and very good boys.
#Roman dogs along Hadrian's wall: copper alloy figure of pup lifting a friendly paw, + 2 enamelled copper alloy brooches of hunting dogs.
In galleries @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social considering life along farthest frontier of empire.
British dogs were highly rated, and very good boys.
January 23, 2026 at 12:57 PM
#FindsFriday 🏺
#Roman dogs along Hadrian's wall: copper alloy figure of pup lifting a friendly paw, + 2 enamelled copper alloy brooches of hunting dogs.
In galleries @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social considering life along farthest frontier of empire.
British dogs were highly rated, and very good boys.
#Roman dogs along Hadrian's wall: copper alloy figure of pup lifting a friendly paw, + 2 enamelled copper alloy brooches of hunting dogs.
In galleries @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social considering life along farthest frontier of empire.
British dogs were highly rated, and very good boys.
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Walking into a field with erected stones – whether menhir, circle or portal tomb – is to cross into a territory of wonder. Archaeologist, ley-hunter, stone botherer or pagan pilgrim, we all feel a sense of marvel rippling across our psychic skin. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday
December 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Walking into a field with erected stones – whether menhir, circle or portal tomb – is to cross into a territory of wonder. Archaeologist, ley-hunter, stone botherer or pagan pilgrim, we all feel a sense of marvel rippling across our psychic skin. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday
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Painted tile - 1564-8
Made by Jasper Andries & Jacob Jansen, in #Antwerp or #Norwich
The wild boar with a crescent was used by Sir Francis Bacon to show he was his father’s second son.
Made for Old Gorhambury House, near St Albans, #Hertfordshire
Now V & A Museum #London
#TilesOnTuesday
Made by Jasper Andries & Jacob Jansen, in #Antwerp or #Norwich
The wild boar with a crescent was used by Sir Francis Bacon to show he was his father’s second son.
Made for Old Gorhambury House, near St Albans, #Hertfordshire
Now V & A Museum #London
#TilesOnTuesday
December 30, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Painted tile - 1564-8
Made by Jasper Andries & Jacob Jansen, in #Antwerp or #Norwich
The wild boar with a crescent was used by Sir Francis Bacon to show he was his father’s second son.
Made for Old Gorhambury House, near St Albans, #Hertfordshire
Now V & A Museum #London
#TilesOnTuesday
Made by Jasper Andries & Jacob Jansen, in #Antwerp or #Norwich
The wild boar with a crescent was used by Sir Francis Bacon to show he was his father’s second son.
Made for Old Gorhambury House, near St Albans, #Hertfordshire
Now V & A Museum #London
#TilesOnTuesday
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Jean-Étienne Liotard, Girl Singing into a Mirror, oil on canvas (Springfield Museum of Fine Arts). The Swiss pastellist and painter, especially famed for his portraits, also did a number of charming pictures of his family members such as this of his daughter
May 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Jean-Étienne Liotard, Girl Singing into a Mirror, oil on canvas (Springfield Museum of Fine Arts). The Swiss pastellist and painter, especially famed for his portraits, also did a number of charming pictures of his family members such as this of his daughter
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Wayland’s Smithy looking particularly moody in the cold today. There’s a specific kind of magic in these stones when the colors are muted.
December 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Wayland’s Smithy looking particularly moody in the cold today. There’s a specific kind of magic in these stones when the colors are muted.
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Looking out from within the Cairn de Gavrinis last July on the last #TombTuesday of 2025. Time to start planning where 2026 will take me.
December 30, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Looking out from within the Cairn de Gavrinis last July on the last #TombTuesday of 2025. Time to start planning where 2026 will take me.
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Volunteers created blankets for elephants during a cold spell in Myanmar, Winga Baw Elephant camp #WomensArt
November 26, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Volunteers created blankets for elephants during a cold spell in Myanmar, Winga Baw Elephant camp #WomensArt
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Gunta Stölzl (1897-983) German textile artist fundamental to development of the Bauhaus weaving workshop #WomensArt
November 28, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Gunta Stölzl (1897-983) German textile artist fundamental to development of the Bauhaus weaving workshop #WomensArt
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Ice age architecture: How mammoth bones reveal human ingenuity.
phys.org/news/2025-11...
phys.org/news/2025-11...
Ice age architecture: How mammoth bones reveal human ingenuity
What do you build with when trees are scarce and winters are brutal? For hunter-gatherers living in current-day Ukraine some 18,000 years ago, the answer was simple: mammoth bones.
phys.org
November 28, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Ice age architecture: How mammoth bones reveal human ingenuity.
phys.org/news/2025-11...
phys.org/news/2025-11...
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A late medieval pocket sundial from Freiburg. The portable sundial once contained a small compass in the circular recess, helping to align the sundial along the north–south axis so the correct time could be determined.
📷 @aws-almbarak.bsky.social
📷 @aws-almbarak.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 8:37 AM
A late medieval pocket sundial from Freiburg. The portable sundial once contained a small compass in the circular recess, helping to align the sundial along the north–south axis so the correct time could be determined.
📷 @aws-almbarak.bsky.social
📷 @aws-almbarak.bsky.social
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A relief sculpture of a blacksmith at work in his workshop. He’s surrounded by the tools of his trade. It was found in Tomb 29 at the Necropolis of Portus on the Isola Sacra. AD 160-180.
‘What we do in life echoes in eternity.’ 😊
📸 my own, #OstiaAntica.
#ReliefWednesday #AncientRome #Archaeology
‘What we do in life echoes in eternity.’ 😊
📸 my own, #OstiaAntica.
#ReliefWednesday #AncientRome #Archaeology
November 26, 2025 at 8:18 AM
A relief sculpture of a blacksmith at work in his workshop. He’s surrounded by the tools of his trade. It was found in Tomb 29 at the Necropolis of Portus on the Isola Sacra. AD 160-180.
‘What we do in life echoes in eternity.’ 😊
📸 my own, #OstiaAntica.
#ReliefWednesday #AncientRome #Archaeology
‘What we do in life echoes in eternity.’ 😊
📸 my own, #OstiaAntica.
#ReliefWednesday #AncientRome #Archaeology
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Tile fragment from Roman Cirencester with graffiti depicting a house. The fragment is part of the collections at the Corinium Museum in Cirencester. 📸 My own. #TilesOnTuesday #RomanBritain #CoriniumMuseum #Cirecenster
November 18, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Tile fragment from Roman Cirencester with graffiti depicting a house. The fragment is part of the collections at the Corinium Museum in Cirencester. 📸 My own. #TilesOnTuesday #RomanBritain #CoriniumMuseum #Cirecenster