#OnThisDay - 19 January - in AD 103 Reburrus, a Spanish decurion in the 1st Pannonian cavalry regiment, received his military diploma granting him Roman citizenship: from Malpas in Cheshire, UK. #AncientHistory 🏺🧵
Image: British Museum (1813,1211.2). Link - www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
Image: British Museum (1813,1211.2). Link - www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
January 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
#OnThisDay - 19 January - in AD 103 Reburrus, a Spanish decurion in the 1st Pannonian cavalry regiment, received his military diploma granting him Roman citizenship: from Malpas in Cheshire, UK. #AncientHistory 🏺🧵
Image: British Museum (1813,1211.2). Link - www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
Image: British Museum (1813,1211.2). Link - www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
#EpigraphyTuesday - Some ancient 'graffiti' today!
Not about sex or public urination, but rather the poetry of Julia Balbilla who, in November AD 130, had some 54 lines of her work inscribed on the Memnon Colossus in Egyptian Thebes. #Poetry #AncientHistory 🏺🧵
Not about sex or public urination, but rather the poetry of Julia Balbilla who, in November AD 130, had some 54 lines of her work inscribed on the Memnon Colossus in Egyptian Thebes. #Poetry #AncientHistory 🏺🧵
May 27, 2025 at 12:13 PM
#EpigraphyTuesday - Some ancient 'graffiti' today!
Not about sex or public urination, but rather the poetry of Julia Balbilla who, in November AD 130, had some 54 lines of her work inscribed on the Memnon Colossus in Egyptian Thebes. #Poetry #AncientHistory 🏺🧵
Not about sex or public urination, but rather the poetry of Julia Balbilla who, in November AD 130, had some 54 lines of her work inscribed on the Memnon Colossus in Egyptian Thebes. #Poetry #AncientHistory 🏺🧵
Ancient Coin of the Day: As today’s got a rather Neronian vibe, today’s thread is on some coins of Nero, in particular those with a focus on Poppaea Sabina, Nero’s second wife. #ACOTD #Nero #AncientHistory🏺🧵
Image: RIC Nero 44; ANS 1944.100.39418. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
Image: RIC Nero 44; ANS 1944.100.39418. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
January 21, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Ancient Coin of the Day: As today’s got a rather Neronian vibe, today’s thread is on some coins of Nero, in particular those with a focus on Poppaea Sabina, Nero’s second wife. #ACOTD #Nero #AncientHistory🏺🧵
Image: RIC Nero 44; ANS 1944.100.39418. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
Image: RIC Nero 44; ANS 1944.100.39418. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
#EpigraphyTuesday – The dedication to ‘Virgo Caelestis’ from Carvoran Fort, ca. Late 2nd Century AD. Presented as a poem rendered in ten iambic senarii, the piece has been the focus of much discussion. #Latin #AncientHistory 🧵🏺
Image: Great North Museum: Hancock (NEWMA : 1816.8). 📸 Pete Savin
Image: Great North Museum: Hancock (NEWMA : 1816.8). 📸 Pete Savin
October 7, 2025 at 10:59 AM
#EpigraphyTuesday – The dedication to ‘Virgo Caelestis’ from Carvoran Fort, ca. Late 2nd Century AD. Presented as a poem rendered in ten iambic senarii, the piece has been the focus of much discussion. #Latin #AncientHistory 🧵🏺
Image: Great North Museum: Hancock (NEWMA : 1816.8). 📸 Pete Savin
Image: Great North Museum: Hancock (NEWMA : 1816.8). 📸 Pete Savin
#OnThisDay - 13 August - the date on which Julia Felix marked contracts for various rooms and shops for rent within her estate at Pompeii.
See below for a fuller thread on this interesting example of graffiti. #AncientHistory 🧵🏺
See below for a fuller thread on this interesting example of graffiti. #AncientHistory 🧵🏺
#EpigraphyTuesday – A collection of wall graffiti from the Baths complex at Pompeii (II.4.6). Discovered in February 1756, our interest here is the graffito advertising spaces for rent. #Pompeii #Graffiti 🧵🏺
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (4713); CIL IV 1136
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (4713); CIL IV 1136
August 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
#OnThisDay - 13 August - the date on which Julia Felix marked contracts for various rooms and shops for rent within her estate at Pompeii.
See below for a fuller thread on this interesting example of graffiti. #AncientHistory 🧵🏺
See below for a fuller thread on this interesting example of graffiti. #AncientHistory 🧵🏺
Peru’s Cerro Sechín is the creepiest place I’ve been.
The outer walls of this 3000 year old temple are covered in relief carvings of dismembered bodies, likely depicting human sacrifice… 🧵
#archeology #archaeology #history #peru #SouthAmerica #ancientHistory 🏺
The outer walls of this 3000 year old temple are covered in relief carvings of dismembered bodies, likely depicting human sacrifice… 🧵
#archeology #archaeology #history #peru #SouthAmerica #ancientHistory 🏺
January 10, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Peru’s Cerro Sechín is the creepiest place I’ve been.
The outer walls of this 3000 year old temple are covered in relief carvings of dismembered bodies, likely depicting human sacrifice… 🧵
#archeology #archaeology #history #peru #SouthAmerica #ancientHistory 🏺
The outer walls of this 3000 year old temple are covered in relief carvings of dismembered bodies, likely depicting human sacrifice… 🧵
#archeology #archaeology #history #peru #SouthAmerica #ancientHistory 🏺
I hope Reberrus enjoyed his new citizen status!
For more, see:
BIRLEY, A. R. “THE COMMISSIONING OF EQUESTRIAN OFFICERS.” Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. Supplement, no. 81 (2003): 1–18.
jstor.org/stable/43768...
#OnThisDay #AncientHistory 🏺🧵
For more, see:
BIRLEY, A. R. “THE COMMISSIONING OF EQUESTRIAN OFFICERS.” Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. Supplement, no. 81 (2003): 1–18.
jstor.org/stable/43768...
#OnThisDay #AncientHistory 🏺🧵
THE COMMISSIONING OF EQUESTRIAN OFFICERS on JSTOR
A. R. BIRLEY, THE COMMISSIONING OF EQUESTRIAN OFFICERS, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. Supplement, No. 81, DOCUMENTING THE ROMAN ARMY: ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF MARGARET ROXAN (2003), pp. 1-18
jstor.org
January 19, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I hope Reberrus enjoyed his new citizen status!
For more, see:
BIRLEY, A. R. “THE COMMISSIONING OF EQUESTRIAN OFFICERS.” Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. Supplement, no. 81 (2003): 1–18.
jstor.org/stable/43768...
#OnThisDay #AncientHistory 🏺🧵
For more, see:
BIRLEY, A. R. “THE COMMISSIONING OF EQUESTRIAN OFFICERS.” Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. Supplement, no. 81 (2003): 1–18.
jstor.org/stable/43768...
#OnThisDay #AncientHistory 🏺🧵
For more on Poppaea, see:
KRAGELUND, PATRICK. “THE TEMPLE AND BIRTHPLACE OF DIVA POPPAEA.” The Classical Quarterly, vol. 60, no. 2, 2010, pp. 559–568.
www.jstor.org/stable/40984831
#ACOTD #Poppaea #AncientHistory 🏺🧵
KRAGELUND, PATRICK. “THE TEMPLE AND BIRTHPLACE OF DIVA POPPAEA.” The Classical Quarterly, vol. 60, no. 2, 2010, pp. 559–568.
www.jstor.org/stable/40984831
#ACOTD #Poppaea #AncientHistory 🏺🧵
THE TEMPLE AND BIRTHPLACE OF DIVA POPPAEA on JSTOR
PATRICK KRAGELUND, THE TEMPLE AND BIRTHPLACE OF DIVA POPPAEA, The Classical Quarterly, New Series, Vol. 60, No. 2 (December 2010), pp. 559-568
www.jstor.org
January 21, 2025 at 9:43 AM
For more on Poppaea, see:
KRAGELUND, PATRICK. “THE TEMPLE AND BIRTHPLACE OF DIVA POPPAEA.” The Classical Quarterly, vol. 60, no. 2, 2010, pp. 559–568.
www.jstor.org/stable/40984831
#ACOTD #Poppaea #AncientHistory 🏺🧵
KRAGELUND, PATRICK. “THE TEMPLE AND BIRTHPLACE OF DIVA POPPAEA.” The Classical Quarterly, vol. 60, no. 2, 2010, pp. 559–568.
www.jstor.org/stable/40984831
#ACOTD #Poppaea #AncientHistory 🏺🧵
For more on this, see:
Griffin, M. T. “The Lyons Tablet and Tacitean Hindsight.” The Classical Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 2, Cambridge University Press, 1982, pp. 404–18.
jstor.org/stable/638580
#EpigraphyTuesday #AncientHistory 🧵🏺
Griffin, M. T. “The Lyons Tablet and Tacitean Hindsight.” The Classical Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 2, Cambridge University Press, 1982, pp. 404–18.
jstor.org/stable/638580
#EpigraphyTuesday #AncientHistory 🧵🏺
The Lyons Tablet and Tacitean Hindsight on JSTOR
M. T. Griffin, The Lyons Tablet and Tacitean Hindsight, The Classical Quarterly, Vol. 32, No. 2 (1982), pp. 404-418
jstor.org
March 4, 2025 at 1:52 PM
For more on this, see:
Griffin, M. T. “The Lyons Tablet and Tacitean Hindsight.” The Classical Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 2, Cambridge University Press, 1982, pp. 404–18.
jstor.org/stable/638580
#EpigraphyTuesday #AncientHistory 🧵🏺
Griffin, M. T. “The Lyons Tablet and Tacitean Hindsight.” The Classical Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 2, Cambridge University Press, 1982, pp. 404–18.
jstor.org/stable/638580
#EpigraphyTuesday #AncientHistory 🧵🏺