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A marvellous #Egyptian #frog amulet, made of porphyry (height 1.2 cm).
Because of their numerous offspring, #frogs were considered a symbol of fertility.

Dating ca. 1295–1185 BC, New Kingdom.

📷Metropolitan Museum

🏺 AncientEgyptBluesky
A small frog-shaped amulet carved from dark reddish-brown porphyry, patterned with irregular white spots, shown in a crouching position against a plain light background.
October 5, 2025 at 12:12 PM
straycat99.bsky.social
Source: Thunder Bay Today in Pictures ·
📷: Shonath Kajorinne · Porphyry Island Sunset - Aug 27, 2026 #photography #Ontario #Canada
September 3, 2026 at 7:00 AM
timholtwilson.bsky.social
Sometimes Suffolk ploughsoil throws up a lump of magic. From Gislingham, a glacial erratic of porphyry dappled with attractive colours due to weathering of minerals. @pavementgeology.bsky.social @megwildflowers.bsky.social @geolsocnorfolk.bsky.social @bgs.ac.uk @geolsoc.bsky.social #geology 🌍🪨
A lump of volcanic rock known as porphyry. This one has large pink crystals of feldspar in an aphanitic grey-brown groundmass A close-up of volcanic rock known as porphyry. This one has large pink crystals of feldspar in an aphanitic grey-brown groundmass with patches of sulphur yellow and powder blue. Someone's hand holding a lump of the volcanic rock known as porphyry. It has large pink crystals of feldspar in an aphanitic grey-brown groundmass with patches of sulphur yellow and powder blue.
December 6, 2025 at 7:04 PM
callanbentley.bsky.social
Goth rhyolite ⚒️
A.*black* porphyry with pink feldspar phenocrysts.
February 11, 2026 at 4:45 PM
northgirlrocks.bsky.social
One-of-a kind bright yellow porphyry in red matrix! 😍😍😍

Lakes District, BC, Canada

#northgirlrocks #rockhound #BCrock #porphyry #ExploreNature #geologyrocks
November 16, 2025 at 4:11 PM
zitoisneato.com
Figment | Rip | Porphyry | Ratt-O
June 4, 2025 at 2:42 PM
impactframe.bsky.social
Friendly fire #artfight attack on @zitoisneato.com of his character, Porphyry!
July 12, 2025 at 12:41 AM
calthalas.bsky.social
The boys are still here, doing great
The porphyry tetrarchs, originally from Constantinople, now at the corner of St Marks’s basilica in Venice.
May 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
romanpalace.bsky.social
Correction: This frog is not made from porphyry. It is made from purest *Squee*. 😍🤩
drnwillburger.bsky.social Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · Oct 5
A marvellous #Egyptian #frog amulet, made of porphyry (height 1.2 cm).
Because of their numerous offspring, #frogs were considered a symbol of fertility.

Dating ca. 1295–1185 BC, New Kingdom.

📷Metropolitan Museum

🏺 AncientEgyptBluesky
A small frog-shaped amulet carved from dark reddish-brown porphyry, patterned with irregular white spots, shown in a crouching position against a plain light background.
October 5, 2025 at 6:28 PM
justsmudge.bsky.social
🌿☕
❤️ Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white;
Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk;
Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font:
The firefly wakens: waken thou with me ❤️

Tennyson "Summer Night"

Sounds romantic until you find out porphyry is hard igneous rock.. might let him off though 💃🌿
December 29, 2024 at 9:51 PM
bedform.org
What a place.

Devils Tower, Wyoming.
Devils tower - a tall igneous monolith made of columnar phonolite porphyry under a moody sky Man (me) standing in front of Devils tower Devils tower - a tall igneous monolith made of columnar phonolite porphyry under a moody sky. Boulders in the foreground Phonolite porphyry close up. Large feldspar crystals with finer grained groundmass.
July 7, 2024 at 1:21 AM
vierleger.bsky.social
Oh, well if Porphyry said it, then it must be true.

[reading what Porphyry said about Christians]

Oh. Oh no.
June 25, 2025 at 12:27 PM
sardonicus.eu
Goodnight.

Henry Clews, Jr.

Og of Octopi of La Napoule (aka Cthulhu) - green porphyry
a sculpture wet looking and octopi. a face and fangs
February 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
metalclassicist.bsky.social
A year ago I was in Istanbul and had a quiet moment sitting by the porphyry sarcophagus where Julian's remains were possibly interred.
Myself in front of a porphyry sarcophagus.
June 11, 2026 at 7:32 PM
callanbentley.bsky.social
Dark porphyritic xenolith in a felsic porphyry. ⚒️
Hand holding a cobble sized rock sample showing a dark brown rock with gray phenocrysts, but included in a pink porphyry with white phenocrysts.
January 4, 2025 at 12:12 AM
metalclassicist.bsky.social
It’s no longer Constantine’s column. It now belongs to this orange kitty.
A short haired orange cat sitting and yawning on the base of a tall porphyry column.
June 12, 2025 at 12:26 PM
thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social
Porphyry statue of Diocletian at the Graeco-Roman Museum in Alexandria
May 23, 2026 at 5:26 PM
histphilosophy.bsky.social
New open access translation of Porphyry, "Letter to Anebo" and "On Oracles":

cswr.hds.harvard.edu/4t/porphyry-...
Porphyry of Tyre on Theology and Theurgy | Center for the Study of World Religions
cswr.hds.harvard.edu
February 22, 2026 at 9:03 AM
cormacscoast.bsky.social
A pretty wee pebble.
Rhyolitic porphyry, I think, with a variety of different size and colour crystals scattered throughout.
County Clare, Ireland.
April 11, 2025 at 5:54 PM
northgirlrocks.bsky.social
Really cool red-lined porphyry in green rock!

Lakes District, BC, Canada

#northgirlrocks #rockhound #BCrock #porphyry #ExploreNature #geologyrocks
September 13, 2025 at 10:49 PM
michellegoffvo.bsky.social
It’s Porphyry! One of the many Bout characters by @zitoisneato.com I can’t wait to voice her ✨
July 3, 2025 at 12:35 AM
starbage.art
Feldspar (and one Porphyry)
May 5, 2025 at 5:49 PM