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Opus sectile of tigress attacking a bull, 331 CE. Basilica of Junius Annius Bassus on the Esquiline Hill, Rome. For #worldtigerday
July 29, 2025 at 6:50 PM
peterpaulrubens.bsky.social
Opus sectile of tigress attacking a bull, 331 CE. Basilica of Junius Annius Bassus on the Esquiline Hill, Rome. For #worldtigerday
July 29, 2026 at 9:47 PM
nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social
Basilica of Junius Annius Bassus on the Esquiline Hill, Rome
331 CE
Mosaic of a tiger killing a white cow
March 5, 2024 at 5:31 AM
tate.bsky.social
Charles Lock Eastlake, The Colosseum from the Esquiline, 1822
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1123717
Presented by the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1964
January 2, 2025 at 4:04 PM
paulwelsh89.bsky.social
Wenceslaus Hollar & Sebastiaen Vrancx
Ruins and a barred gate on the Esquiline Hill in Rome, from "Roman Ruins"
May 31, 2025 at 2:05 AM
followinghadrian.bsky.social
#InternationalTigerDay 🐯 Opus sectile panel showing a tigress attacking a calf. From the Basilica of Junius Bassus on the Esquiline Hill. Dated to the second quarter of the 4th century AD.

Musei Capitolini, Rome.
July 29, 2025 at 12:29 PM
ciapamia.bsky.social
Opus sectile panel with the Rape of Hylas by the Nymphs. Roman artwork, first half of the 4th century. From the basilica of Junius Bassus on the Esquiline Hill.
June 2, 2026 at 7:33 PM
anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social
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 🏺
ANTEFIX OF SILENUS, C. 530-500 BCE. CAPITOLINE MUSEUMS This terracotta antefix of a Silenus was excavated from a sacred pit or favissa near Sant'Antonio Abate on the Esquiline. Mineral analysis reveals this piece was made from a mold using clay from Veii, proving it was a high-status import from Etruria, while the roof tiles found alongside it were fashioned from local sources, but both were painted locally, a sign of the itinerant groups of artisans moving easily between Etruscan and Latial towns. Patronage likely came from the Tarquin kings, who were happy to import high-quality terracotta art to decorate a local temple in the Esquiline's archaic sacred landscape. Nearby stood the temple of Libitina, a death goddess, conveniently near the vast Esquiline necropolis, home to burials of both rich and poor. Functionally, the antefix capped convex tiles to protect the timber edifice. On the roofline, this wild Dionysian figure alternated with female Mænad heads. The wide-eyed Silenus served an apotropaic function, glaring down to frighten away spirits, whilst the welcoming Mænads offered an inviting presence, broadcasting a unified message: let evil stay away, let joy approach.
August 5, 2026 at 4:43 PM
hornesupremacy.bsky.social
🏛 Roman opus sectile coloured marble mosaic depicting a female tiger and calf. From the Basilica of Junius Bassus, praetorian prefect and consul. Originally from the Esquiline Hill, it's now held in the Capitoline Museum. It dates to the second quarter of the 4th century AD.

My 📷 Musei Capitolini
August 18, 2026 at 3:10 PM
museumbums.bsky.social
When the sculptor's hoping everyone is so impressed with their lower-back dimples, no-one will notice they can't do arms 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

The Esquiline Venus, 1st C AD, discovered 1874, and now at the Capitoline Museum. Thanks @doccrom.bsky.social for sharing 😁
A classical statue of Venus. At some point in the last 2000 years her arms have broken off. But her lower back dimples are gorgeous
February 6, 2025 at 7:13 AM
goatburgler.bsky.social
When asked for clarification, an Esquiline Hill spokesman said, "Emperor Caligula's tweet speaks for itself."
edithcharles.bsky.social edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · Nov 5
I will always maintain that Caligula was posting
partialhistorians.bsky.social The Partial Historians 🏺 @partialhistorians.bsky.social · Nov 5
Caligula famously threatened to make his horse, Incitatus, a consul, but didn't go through with it.

But perhaps it should be more widely known that Caligula *did* appoint Incitatus a priest of his personal cult.

No neigh-sayers please!

#CheekyFacts #AncientRome
#AncientBluesky🏺
November 5, 2024 at 5:21 PM
millvsspqr.bsky.social
If forced to choose a hill, I'm choosing the Esquiline.
September 3, 2026 at 11:54 PM
archaeohawke.bsky.social
#FrescoFriday

The Aldobrandini #Wedding is an exquisite #ancient #Roman fresco dating back to the late 1st C BC. It was found in the 17th C on the Esquiline Hill in #Rome, likely part of the decorations for a private home. The fresco is currently housed in the Vatican Museum
#Art
May 22, 2026 at 11:55 AM
drnwillburger.bsky.social
I just leave this for #PhallusThursday: A Roman oil lamp featuring an inscription and a phallus.
The inscription reads "ne atigas non sum tua marci sum" (don't touch me! I'm not yours; I belong to Marcus').

From the Esquiline necropolis in Rome, 2nd century BC

📷 me (Musei Capitolini)

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A black slipped pottery oil lamp with a rounded body and a small spout, displayed on a circular transparent stand. It features an inscription along its sides and an engraved phallus the top.
November 13, 2025 at 8:58 AM
demiliopics2.bsky.social
1/ The Musei Capitolini display remains of alabaster and marble pavements uncovered on the Esquiline Hill in Rome in the 1870s.
They're from the Horti Lamiani, a villa and gardens that became imperial property and was a residence of Caligula.
#MarbleMonday #AncientBlueSky #museitaliani
December 23, 2024 at 2:32 PM
bauerle.bsky.social
Caelian, Esquiline, Capitoline, Viminal, Palatine, and Aventine.
oldenoughtosay.com 👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · May 15
what are the Six Genders? wrong answers only
May 16, 2026 at 1:49 AM
museumbums.bsky.social
Helen would go to any length to avoid her turn to do the washing up 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

The Esquiline Venus, 1st C AD, discovered in 1874, and now at the Capitoline Museum.

Thanks @doccrom.bsky.social for sharing 😁
A photo of a white marble statue with the arms missing
June 28, 2025 at 6:29 AM
anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social
Found in an #Esquiline domus in 1848, this mid-C1 BCE fresco shows #Odysseus' men meeting the #Laestrygonian princess. The lounging figures are not mere mortals; they are Greek-labelled personifications of the living landscape, like the shores (Aktai). #FrescoFriday
FRESCO OF THE LAESTRYGONIANS, C. 60-40 BCE. VATICAN MUSEUMS This segment of the famous Odyssey Landscapes was discovered in 1848 during excavations of an elite domus on the Via Graziosa (modern Via Cavour) on the Esquiline Hill. Dating to the mid-first century BCE, these Second Style frescoes originally adorned the upper portion of a wall, framed by painted red pilasters to create the illusion of looking outward through a grand portico. The scene depicts an episode from Book 10 of the Odyssey: Odysseus' men encounter the daughter of the Laestrygonian king, Antiphates, as she draws water from the spring Artacia. The lounging figures surrounding the action are Hellenistic personifications of the geography, like Aktai (the shores) on the lower left. Interestingly, the artist labelled the three scouts in Greek. While Eurybates correctly matches Odysseus' herald in the epic, the names Antilochos and Anchialos are not in Homer's account of this scene, showing the painter embellished the text with familiar names to give the anonymous crewmen epic gravitas.
August 7, 2026 at 11:52 AM
humephotoshoot.bsky.social
Rome, the arch of Gallenius, on the Esquiline Hill

#photography #italy #pictures #pics
November 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
lindsaypowell.bsky.social
An anchor depicted in the mid C1st BC 'Odyssey Landscapes' wall painting from the Esquiline Hill, now in the Vatican Museums. Photo is my own, taken at 'Roman Landscapes' exhibition at San Antonio Museum of Art in May 2023. #FrescoFriday #AncientBluesky
An anchor depicted in the mid C1st BC 'Odyssey Landscapes' wall painting from the Esquiline Hill, now in the Vatican Museums. Photo is my own, taken at 'Roman Landscapes' exhibition at San Antonio Museum of Art in May 2023. #FrescoFriday
December 20, 2024 at 6:50 AM
mumblerjamie.bsky.social
#FrescoFriday with this scene from the Samnite Wars from a tomb on the Esquiline Hill.

Here we see Q. Fabius and M. Fannius exchanging their insignia. It is likely that the tomb's owner was a member of the Fabii family. This fresco is now at Centrale Montemartini.

#AncientBlueSky🏺
April 24, 2026 at 8:39 AM
mumblerjamie.bsky.social
#EpigraphyTuesday with this funerary slab of P. Vibius Quinctius, who was the ministrator (shop assistant? Steward?) in the Esquiline Forum.

P VIBIVS QVINTC / MINISTRATOR / A FORO ESQVILINO

#AncientBlueSky🏺
January 20, 2026 at 9:15 AM
anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social
This was no provincial anomaly: Rome's #Esquiline Hill yielded a spectacular contemporary hunt #mosaic now in the Centrale #Montemartini. The stylistic DNA is identical to #Sicily, sharing the same early-C4 window, blocky figures, and tunic patterns from a master catalogue.
HUNT MOSAIC, C. 310-330 CE. CENTRALE MONTEMARTINI Fragmented sections of an early C4 Roman floor mosaic from the Esquiline Hill, now displayed in the Centrale Montemartini. On the right, a hunter in a vibrant blue tunic with identical shoulder and thigh ornamentation strides purposefully to the left with his staff raised, appearing to have stepped straight out of the same workshop master catalogue used in Sicily. To his left, two lean, muscular hunting dogs, one a dark grey with a rather smart red collar, leap enthusiastically forward over a geometric border, chasing antelopes through a landscape of wonderfully abstract, prop-like trees.
June 22, 2026 at 6:17 PM
antodunne.bsky.social
Today is the Feast of Our Lady of the Snows, commemorating the miraculous snowfall at the height of the Roman summer on the Esquiline Hill, the site of Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, on this date in 358.
August 5, 2026 at 7:48 AM
anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social
#MosaicMonday takes us under the basilica where #PopeFrancis chose to be buried, #SantaMariaMaggiore, a #palaeochristian basilica built atop at least two #domus in #Rome, on a peak of the #Esquiline. #AncientBluesky 🏺
MOSAIC PAVEMENT, 54-68 CE. DOMUS OF S. MARIA MAGGIORE The C5-C6 basilica of S. Maria Maggiore is built atop a large ancient domus that was built in the C1 CE near the top of the Cispian peak of the Esquiline hill. This house had a long life, surviving probably until Alaric's sack of Rome in 410, and undergoing modifications over the centuries before the huge Marian basilica crushed its ruins like a Monty Python cartoon foot. The fragments of black and white mosaic we see here have a Neronian date, and may have belonged to a tablinum opening onto a peristyle. Here we see vegetal elements with vases and birds. This was a comfortable and wealthy house with an interior garden, and higher up on the hill, partially built atop this domus, was another one whose traces can barely be perceived under the basilica of 434.
April 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM