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#KIRJAT | Oppian-kustantamo elvyttää vanhaa satuperinnettä tuoreissa kansissa Kaarlo Merikosken tuotantoon perustuvassa kirjasarjassa.
#KritiikinPaluu #Oppian
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Eläimet, peikot, hölmöläiset ja prinssit – arviossa Kaarlo Merikosken neljä satukirjaa - Kulttuuritoimitus
KIRJAT | Oppian-kustantamo elvyttää vanhaa satuperinnettä tuoreissa kansissa Kaarlo Merikosken tuotantoon perustuvassa kirjasarjassa.
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January 28, 2025 at 9:33 AM
oden-gjallarhornet.bsky.social
#Roman revelation: Biggest ancient monumental wall mosaic unveiled after 2,000 years

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Roman revelation: Biggest ancient monumental wall mosaic unveiled after 2,000 years
Trajan’s Baths in Oppian Hill will host a new museum where visitors to Rome can admire the Great Mosaic and the Painted City, two massive ancient artworks buried near the Colosseum that are estimated ...
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September 12, 2026 at 8:40 AM
anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social
For #FrescoFriday, the astonishing "Città Dipinta" unveiled this week at the #Oppian Hill. Painted on the exterior of a pre-Trajanic basilican hall, it might have been an ideological billboard promoting good government, before being buried as a foundation wall for Trajan's Baths. #AncientBluesky 🏺
FRESCO OF THE CITTÀ DIPINTA, LATE C1 CE. MUSEO DELLE TERME DI TRAIANO This large fresco fragment depicts a rare bird's-eye view of a fortified city. Defensive walls with crenellated towers enclose a dense urban landscape featuring residential buildings, a theatre, and porticoes rendered in sophisticated perspective. The artwork was painted on the exterior wall of a three-aisled hall on the Oppian Hill. This building perhaps functioned as an administrative basilica connected to a nearby schola for a collegium of scribes. While the adjacent mosaic hall follows a strict north-south orientation aligning with the Domus Aurea and the Sette Sale reservoir, this hall sits on a different axis. In an administrative context, the fresco would have served as an ideological billboard projecting Roman urban prosperity to those conducting business. Dating to the Neronian or Flavian period, the building and its masterpiece of urban topography were later deliberately buried to serve as retaining walls for the Baths of Trajan.
September 11, 2026 at 11:10 AM
anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social
#FrescoFriday in the #DomusAurea of #Nero takes us into the immense #cryptoporticus, which is divided by this bridge. It carried water down into the central bay of the great Octagonal Hall, and its #fresco decoration is a delicate series of #frames and nautical motifs. #AncientBluesky 🏺
FRESCO OF THE WATER BRIDGE, 65-68 CE. DOMUS AUREA The cryptoporticus of the Oppian pavilion of Nero's Golden House is 60 metres long and 6 metres tall. It runs along the edge of the bedrock of the Oppian hill. Despite its position at the back of the palace, it's richly frescoed, probably by the palace's famed artist Fabullus. This detail of the huge frescoed space shows the underside of the bridge that carried water across the cryptoporticus to feed a fountain in the Octagonal Hall. The whole room is decorated with delicate frames against a white background and the bridge is no different. At centre within a strangely incomplete frame is a scene with a hippocamp and a sort of nautical centaur with a crown and staff. The sound of flowing water pouring over the bridge would draw attention, the gaze would lift, and the eye would confirm the presence of marine divinities.
February 6, 2026 at 11:47 AM
robertscotthorton.bsky.social
metres high and stretches along 16m of a wall beneath the Oppian Hill, near the Colosseum. “We think it’s the biggest wall mosaic ever found in the Roman world, and we are still digging to find where it stops,” Francesco Pacetti, an archaeologist who worked on the excavation, said.
September 9, 2026 at 12:12 PM
juggle-bubble.itch.io
Helps if I add a link!

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Oppian Wives by Smoggy AU
A playtest / ashcan of the game of women in Roman politics
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December 21, 2024 at 10:57 PM
lauriewinkless.bsky.social
Wowwww 😍 via @thisiscolossal.com www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/09/larg...
The Largest Roman Mosaic Ever Excavated Opens to the Public
The "Great Mosaic" sits within the recently opened Museum of the Baths of Trajan on the Oppian Hill in central Rome.
www.thisiscolossal.com
September 21, 2026 at 12:37 AM
golariontoday.bsky.social
Quote: Appointed governor of Kantaria by its Glorious Reclamation liberators, Oppian Nevilindor is a devout…
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#OppianNevilindor #Kantaria #GloriousReclamation
August 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social
#FrescoFriday this week dives into one of the most famous #ceilings of #Nero's #DomusAurea: the #GoldenVault, buried under the #Oppian Hill in #Rome. It's an excellent case study in #classicalreception over five centuries. So let's dig in! #AncientBluesky 🏺
HALL OF THE GOLDEN VAULT, 65-68 CE. DOMUS AUREA When Nero's last palace, the massive Domus Aurea, was rediscovered in the late C15, this hall, axially aligned with the centre of one of the two pentagonal recesses of the façade of the pavilion on the Oppian hill, was still decorated with gold leaf on some of the stucco. One huge hole dug in from above came from explorers, the smaller one from a medieval well. This room, despoiled by Trajan of its opus sectile wall panels and floor, was filled with earth. However, much more of its decoration survived in the C16, and the artist Francisco de Hollanda tried to reconstruct it in drawing based on what remained. It is a complex ceiling of stucco frames enclosing rectangular scenes, with roundels that probably had figurative frescoes in them as well. At centre a huge roundel, now entirely lost, contained the ceiling's main image. As we will see, this ceiling became a battleground for competing forms of classical reception.
August 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
lindsaypowell.bsky.social
"The “Painted City” fresco and “Great Mosaic” were discovered in an underground gallery during excavations in the 1990s of the Baths of Trajan on the Oppian Hill near the Colosseum."
#MosaicMonday #FrescoFriday #RomanSiteSaturday
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'Back to the city': Italy unveils biggest frescoe from ancient Rome
Trajan’s Baths in Oppian Hill will host a new museum where visitors to Rome can admire the Great Mosaic and the Painted City, two massive ancient artworks buried near the Colosseum that are estimated ...
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September 9, 2026 at 6:58 PM
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Trajan's Baths are open to visitors on Rome's #OppianHill
#Europe #History #Italy #Rome #Tourism #TrajanBaths
#Travel
Trajan's Baths open to visitors on Rome's Oppian Hill - TopNews - Ansa.it
The ruins of Emperor Trajan's Baths have opened to visitors on Rome's central Oppian Hill after a dig and restoration that Rome Mayor Roberto Gualtieri said "has enabled us to return a wonderful space...
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September 9, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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Kiva ylläri postilaatikossa! @jurinummelin.bsky.social uusi animaation historiaopus (johon oli ilo tehdä kantta) tuli. Animaation ystävänä oli kiva nähdä asiantuntevaa kommenttia mm. Bakshista, Plymptonista ja Borowczykistä! Johdattelee siis varsin pitkälle. Suosittelen! 🔥 #leffataivas #animaatio
Juri Nummelinin Hiiriä ja Hirviöitä (Oppian) hyllyssä sarjakuvien joukossa.
March 12, 2025 at 11:26 AM
anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social
We are starting the week on the Oppian for #MosaicMonday. These late C1 CE wall #mosaics from beneath the #BathsofTrajan show Roman maritime villas. But they look like ghosts, because Trajan's engineers despoiled the glass tesseræ of the water. #AncientBluesky 🏺
MOSAIC OF A MARITIME VILLA, 64-98 CE. MUSEO DELLE TERME DI TRAIANO This is part of the lower register of the Great Mosaic, one of a row depicting maritime villas, seemingly floating on a rough, blank mortar background. The structure features long colonnaded porticoes extending into the sea on two moles, terminating in tower like pavilions known as diaetae. This architectural pincer enclosed a private harbour, creating a protected mooring that displays the extreme luxury of the C1 rich. The villa appears to float in empty white space because the original background was destroyed. The ocean and sky were likely made of expensive glass paste tesseræ. These were picked out for recycling by Trajan's demolition crews, a state-sanctioned salvage operation also evident in the Polyphemus mosaic of the Domus Aurea. Only the less valuable stone and terracotta pieces forming the architecture were left behind before the hall was walled up to serve as foundations for the Baths of Trajan.
September 21, 2026 at 8:47 PM
euronews.com
'Back to the city': Italy unveils biggest frescoe from ancient Rome
'Back to the city': Italy unveils biggest frescoe from ancient Rome
Trajan’s Baths in Oppian Hill will host a new museum where visitors to Rome can admire the Great Mosaic and the Painted City, two massive ancient artworks buried near the Colosseum that are estimated to date from the 1st century.
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September 9, 2026 at 6:23 PM
fds3rd.bsky.social
Trajan's Baths are open to visitors on Rome's #OppianHill
#Europe #History #Italy #Rome #Tourism #TrajanBaths
#Travel
Trajan's Baths open to visitors on Rome's Oppian Hill - TopNews - Ansa.it
The ruins of Emperor Trajan's Baths have opened to visitors on Rome's central Oppian Hill after a dig and restoration that Rome Mayor Roberto Gualtieri said "has enabled us to return a wonderful space...
www.ansa.it
September 9, 2026 at 3:39 PM
jurinummelin.bsky.social
Taas olen unohtanut koko Blueskyn, mutta tässäpä uutta kirjaa: Oppian julkaisi kaksinkertaisesti paisuneen täydennetyn laitoksen kymmenisen vuotta sitten tulleesta Animaatioelokuvan lyhyestä historiasta. Kansi: J.T. Lindroos.
March 12, 2025 at 11:37 AM
juggle-bubble.itch.io
Played a bit last night and in my lunch break today with making mosaics in Affinity Designer.
Not the most 'Roman' thing yet, but a nice little sketch to start.

Follow my #TTRPG development log: smoggy-au.itch.io/oppian-wives
A digital mosaic depicting a roman woman in a blue dress. The title of the game at the top of the page is 'Oppian Wives' and at the bottom it reads 'Female political rpoleplaying in the late Roman republic'.
December 4, 2024 at 6:12 AM
oivas.com
Tullut ennakkomyyntiin, eli lienee kansikin julkaisuvapaa. Uutta klassikkodekkaria tulossa Oppian kustantamolta ens vuonna. Oli kiva väsätä näihin käsintehtyjä kansia. (Josephine Tey: A Shilling for Candles, 1936). #coverdesign #kirjataivas #BookSky

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Kirjan kannet, jossa punahiuksinen nainen makaa kuolleena veden ääressä.
September 17, 2026 at 12:29 PM
insolentpheasant.bsky.social
A spectacular mosaic hidden beneath Rome for almost 2,000 years will open to visitors following a major archeological excavation. Discovered under Oppian Hill, close to the Colosseum, the artwork covers a subterranean wall
Dating to the first century A.D.
Archeologists Make Mind-Blowing Discovery That Was Buried for 2,000 Years
It could be the biggest find of its kind ever.
www.thedailybeast.com
September 9, 2026 at 12:49 PM
juggle-bubble.itch.io
I'm on the Rising Tide discord and have started logging the entire process of creating my next #ttrpg if that's of interest - from concept, theory, rules, design, layout, art, playtest, to publishing.

Hopefully it helps others do the same.

smoggy-au.itch.io/oppian-wives
December 12, 2024 at 1:35 AM
oivas.com
Hienoa päästä tekemään kansia kiinnostaviin kirjoihin. Tässäkin sisällysluetteloa selatessa iski silmään kunnon osio kokeellisen elokuvan kulta-ajasta, Maya Derenin ja Jonas Mekaksen kautta Daliin ja Bunueliin. Skaalaa riittää, avant-gardesta Charles Bronsoniin. 🔥 #kirjataivas #booksky
Juri Nummelin: Valkoinen Hehku (Oppian, 2026) Santo vs. Dr. Death julisteen edessä, kädessäni.
May 8, 2026 at 10:43 AM
juggle-bubble.itch.io
Sometimes in #TTRPG design we gloss over all the ugly bits.
This is my big ugly mess. I celebrate it.
All designs start out bad. Keep going.

Oppian Wives has gone through its first post-playtest do-over and is now undergoing the second round of kicking and shoving before the next playtest.
Playtest for the game Oppian Wives, showing a couple of 'world cards' which are just printed paper. The text describes strong, lateral, and weak moves for the roman concepts of Family and Military, using principles from the 'Belonging outside belonging' or 'No dice, no masters' games. Playtest for the game Oppian Wives, showing a couple of 'world cards' which are just printed paper. The text describes strong, lateral, and weak moves for the roman concepts of the City, using principles from the 'Belonging outside belonging' or 'No dice, no masters' games. Playtest for the game Oppian Wives, showing a scattering of print outs on my dinner table. Its a big, ugly, overly complicated mess. And that's the point.
July 19, 2025 at 11:57 AM
juggle-bubble.itch.io
My new devlog for Oppian Wives #ttrpg is up. Hopefully this explains some of the design intent.

The game needs to go into playtest soon, so I'll write up and share the 0.1 rules draft in the next week or so! yay!

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Procedural (Action) Scenes
I got really hung up on procedural scenes the first few times through Hillfolk, as they don’t seem connected to the rest of the game at all. It’s like this whole completely different and disconnec...
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January 13, 2025 at 11:53 AM
anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social
To understand what the stolen glass ocean of the Oppian Hill #mosaic originally looked like, we must turn to contemporary #fresco work. This fragmentary landscape from the #HortiLamiani in #Rome supplies the missing coastal atmosphere.
FRESCO FRAGMENT OF A COASTAL LANDSCAPE, C. 37-47 CE. MUSEO NINFEO, ROME A roughly triangular fresco fragment excavated from the Horti Lamiani. It depicts a lively maritime landscape that provides the exact atmospheric context missing from the Trajanic mosaic. The scene features deep blue water populated by impressionistic, swiftly painted human figures who appear to be wading or working near the shore. In the background, loosely painted white coastal architecture blends into a hazy green and blue shoreline. Just as in the Great Mosaic, this maritime landscape originally formed part of the lower register of a panelled wall. This Julio-Claudian painting demonstrates how these aquatic scenes were anchored in vibrant, populated environments, giving us a vivid sense of the brightly coloured sea and sky that once surrounded the floating mosaic villas before their glass tesserae were salvaged.
September 21, 2026 at 8:58 PM
litterat.party
Tenker på Romarriket
Domus Aurea This article is about the Roman palace. For the church in Antioch, see Domus Aurea (Antioch). "Golden House" redirects here. For other uses, see Golden House (disambiguation). The Domus Aurea (Latin, "Golden House") was a vast landscaped complex built by the Emperor Nero largely on the Oppian Hill in the heart of ancient Rome after the great fire in 64 AD had destroyed a large part of the city.[1]
October 22, 2025 at 7:51 PM