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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
January 23, 2026 at 10:00 AM
flaroh.bsky.social
For #RomanSiteSaturday I’m at the Roman villa at Milreu, Portugal 🏛️🇵🇹🌿
View of the temple with fish mosaic GPOY with cubiculum/bedroom mosaic floors
April 11, 2026 at 9:18 PM
archaeohawke.bsky.social
#FrescoFriday
A finely decorated room fresco, from the cubiculum in the House of the Black Salon #Herculaneum.

📸 My own.

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July 11, 2025 at 8:36 AM
ewacat.bsky.social
what about an Ecce Romani chamber. a cubiculum
November 18, 2024 at 12:54 PM
followinghadrian.bsky.social
#MosaicMonday - Cupid and Psyche, the central panel of a mosaic in a cubiculum in the Villa Romana del Casale in Sicily. Dated 4th century AD.
May 19, 2025 at 6:52 PM
mumblerjamie.bsky.social
#MosaicMonday with this one of the four chariot teams at Palazzo Massimo! We see a member of each of the Green, Red, White and Blue teams with their horses.

First half of the 3rd Century AD, from Rome, cubiculum of the Villa of the Severi, Baccano locality, 16m along Via Cassia.

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December 15, 2025 at 11:30 AM
caroloverrill.bsky.social
Get a cubiculum!
April 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
romaaeterna.bsky.social
Détails de la fresque représentant l’enlèvement d’Europe. Trouvée dans la domus de Jason (paroi ouest du cubiculum) en 1878 à Pompéi, elle est exposée au musée archéologique de Naples.
March 31, 2025 at 7:12 AM
roamintheempire.bsky.social
For #MosaicMonday, from a cubiculum in the Villa Romana del Casale, a detail from a larger mosaic depicting children making flower crowns and hunting farm animals and small game. Here, one child spears a goat while another flees a peacock.

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May 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM
alcappuccinoit.bsky.social
Bronze statue of an aristocratic boy; Roman; Augustan period; 27 B.C.-A.D. 14. In the background, wall paintings from a cubiculum nocturnum (bedroom); Roman; Late Republican; ca 50-40 A.D. At the Met tonight.
July 27, 2025 at 1:57 AM
roamintheempire.bsky.social
#FrescoFriday! From a cubiculum at the Villa of Agrippa Postumus at Boscotrecase, a wall painting showing scenes from the myth of Andromeda and Perseus. Late 1st century BCE. Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

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March 28, 2025 at 4:34 AM
crimsonbreeze.bsky.social
when you and your girlfriend are so angel of darknesspilled and cubiculum nephilimaxxing
January 27, 2026 at 11:28 PM
druidtombraider.bsky.social
Central panel of a cubiculum mosaic 4th century Cupid and Psyche from the Villa Romana del Casale, Sicily courtesy of Carole Raddato. #RomanArchaeology #Archaeology #RomanArt #Art #MosaicMonday
August 25, 2025 at 11:40 AM
bpdflores.bsky.social
St Ambrose, On Psalm 118, sermo I,16 (the inner room of the Church is the body of Christ)

Quod si cubiculum quaerimus, ipse nos edoceat, qui ait: Tu autem cum orabis, intra in cubiculum tuum: et clauso ostio ora patrem tuum in abscondito (Matth. VI, 6) . Cubiculum Ecclesiae corpus est Christi…
August 5, 2026 at 9:57 AM
anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social
For #FrescoFriday I present this small #fresco from about 30 BCE, in the corner of the "cubiculum" of the so-called #HouseofAugustus on the #Palatine in #Rome. Two elegantly attenuated female figures stand outdoors in a somewhat illegible space. Perhaps a #Dionysiac scene. #AncientBluesky 🏺
WALL FRESCO FROM THE "CUBICULUM" OF THE HOUSE "OF AUGUSTUS", 30 BCE. PALATINE HILL In this rather unclear scene, we can make out two female figures. One, at centre left, is taller and facing away from us, her hair tied behind her head. She's wearing a white peplos and himation, and the elegant line of her neck draws our attention down to her shoulder and along her arm. Facing her is a shorter girl we see in profile, tilting her head as if listening as she looks at the woman in white. The girl has her brown hair in a bun and her white peplos leaves a shoulder uncovered. Her peplos is, however, red-brown with a flower or leopard-skin pattern on it. She carries a silver plate. I hope these two women are having a conversation that isn't about men, but we'll never know.
March 27, 2026 at 5:20 PM
huwtd.bsky.social
Um, salve, frater. Uh, dic quaeso mihi, err, estne taberna prope? Qualis cubiculum noctis? Shit.
agelston.bsky.social Andrew Gelston @agelston.bsky.social · Apr 30
If you lived in 1066, what would you do
May 1, 2026 at 7:50 AM
anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social
#FrescoFriday shows us a tender maternal scene of the care of the Holy Child. Yes, it's the infant #Dionysus in the care of the nymphs of Mt Nysa, into whose care #Zeus consigned the baby, from Cubiculum B of the #domus of the #Farnesina, 30-20 BCE, in #palazzoMassimo. #AncientBluesky 🏺
WALL FRESCO FROM THE DOMUS OF THE FARNESINA, 30-20 BCE. PALAZZO MASSIMO ALLE TERME The mythology of Dionysus is so full of amazing and contradictory accounts that it would be worth exploring in detail. But suffice it to say that one strain of his infancy legend has Zeus send his son via Hermes to Mount Nysa, where he was raised by the Nysiads, nymphs who raised him with Silenus as his tutor. In this extraordinarily beautiful fresco from Cubiculum B of the domus of the Farnesina, a seated nymph at right is putting a wreath on the head of the baby, who is sitting on her lap. Her shoulders are bare and she may have been nursing Dionysus. Her iridescent drapery is in ochre over a blue dress. To the right are two standing nymphs, both looking off to the right with concern. Both are fully dressed with their heads covered. One looks rather old; the one in the front holds a fan. At far left a statuette of Zeus overlooks the scene. At right a thyrsus is leaning against a wall.
December 26, 2025 at 11:22 AM
romaaeterna.bsky.social
#FrescoFriday Détails de la fresque représentant l’enlèvement d’Europe. Trouvée dans la domus de Jason (paroi ouest du cubiculum) en 1878 à Pompéi, elle est exposée au musée archéologique de Naples.
April 3, 2026 at 3:12 PM
mumblerjamie.bsky.social
#FrescoFriday with Leda and the Swan!

From the cubiculum of Villa Arianna in Stabiae, now in the MANN.

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January 23, 2026 at 10:08 AM
anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social
#MosaicMonday finds us looking at a masterpiece of #mosaic work from the area of #Rome, one of four #aurigae or charioteers in an #emblema from a cubiculum of the #Severan #imperial #villa at #Baccano just outside the urbs. The shading using the minimum of #tesserae is amazing. #AncientBluesky 🏺
MOSAIC EMBLEMA WITH CHARIOTEER AND HORSE, 193-235 CE. PALAZZO MASSIMO ALLE TERME This magnificent emblema comes from a cubiculum in the gigantic villa of the Severan emperors at Baccano at the fifteenth mile outside Rome along the via Cassia. As it was excavated unscientifically during the exciting period of 1869-1870, we don't know the configuration of this floor, only that it had four emblemata, each representing one factio or team of charioteers in the Circus Maximus. This chap is driving for the factio albata, the Whites, as we can tell from his doublet which is made of closely woven white ribbons. He holds his roan horse by his reins, and faces us directly in his quadrigaria or short tunic. He holds a whip in one hand and wears a grey helmet. The horse is caparisoned with two ribands and looks well up to his task of winning races. These emblemata are made with extraordinary skill, a true high point of Roman mosaic work in the very difficult style of opus vermiculatum.
August 4, 2025 at 11:17 PM
anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social
"And so I gave myself to God /
There was a pregnant pause before he said OK". This #FrescoFriday takes us back to Cubiculum B of the #domus of the #Farnesina in #Rome, where a woman prepares to make a #libation to a #herm. The bedroom was not dedicated to #Venus alone. #AncientBluesky 🏺
FRESCO PANEL, C. 20 BCE. PALAZZO MASSIMO ALLE TERME A fresco panel, a pinax, from Cubiculum B of the domus of the Farnesina (ca. 20 BCE), Palazzo Massimo. Framed by a wide border of cinnabar red, a dark-ground panel depicts a woman seated before a stone herm of rustic Hermes. Wearing a white chiton and pale blue-green mantle, she sits in stillness, cradling an amphora as she composes herself in a moment of ritual purity (euphēmia) before making a libation. The herm holds a thin staff, his phallus occluded by his hand. This sacred-idyllic scene balances the room's other, explicitly erotic pinakes of couples embracing on beds. Together, these simulated panel paintings reflect the dual forces governing the bedroom: the physical passion of Venus and the restorative, pastoral quiet of Dionysian and Hermetic otium. The mix serves as an art gallery displaying the owner's Hellenistic taste, while transforming the private cubiculum into a sanctuary where the world's white noise falls silent.
June 12, 2026 at 1:21 PM
chapps.bsky.social
Once again, I'm convinced that the same workshop/artist did the frescoes in the Villa Poppaea and the villa of P. Fannius Synistor. Just so many similarities, including the triple water spouts filling a marble basin, as seen in the cubiculum fresco below.

Left, me; right, #MetMuseum
June 27, 2026 at 11:40 PM
chapps.bsky.social
The cubiculum paintings from the Villa of Agrippa Postumus are really beautiful, looking like windows onto a sacral-idyllic landscape. I love the details of all the shrines. flic.kr/p/2qkfiqb
Cubiculum painting from the Villa of Agrippa Postumus
A sacral-idyllic landscape painting showing an Alexandrian architectural landscape with statues, fountains and travelers in front of a small temple. The paintings that decorated the residential room...
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March 15, 2025 at 12:05 AM
anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social
For #FrescoFriday we're back in #Herculaneum via #Naples, where a small cult #fresco of the house serpent eating the eggs offered to it also has an image of wee #Harpocrates, the syncretic #Roman and #Egyptian god of #silence. What happens in the #cubiculum stays in the cubiculum!
HARPOCRATES AND AN ALTAR, 46-79 CE. MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO NAZIONALE DI NAPOLI This fresco from the House of the Tuscan Columns in Herculaneum was found in Bourbon tunnelling in 1748 which broke through walls and left devastation in its wake. This may have come from a little shrine area in the kitchen. At centre is a cylindrical altar with a huge snake curving up it, its frightening head devouring the eggs left for it. Beside the serpent, now no longer visible, was written "GENIVS HVIVS LOCI MONTIS", "the spirit of this place of the mountain". In fact the snake was the embodiment of the "genius" and snakes could be kept in Roman houses. Approaching the altar from the left is a little boy with his finger held to his lip. In his other hand he holds a leafy branch. This is Harpocrates, "Horus as a child", son of Isis and Serapis. His finger at his lips derives from the Egyptian hieroglyph for "child", but as Harpocrates took on a different identity to that of Horus, the powerful protector of the pharaoh, this gesture was misinterpreted as a call for silence, and Harpocrates became the god of secrecy. Here perhaps he is telling the kitchen staff not to gossip about the owners.
January 17, 2025 at 5:53 PM
chapps.bsky.social
A cubiculum fresco from the villa of P. Fannius Synistor of Boscoreale, now in the #MetMuseum in New York. flic.kr/p/2pEwNQN
Corner of the cubiculum (bedroom) from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale
Room M of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale, buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79, functioned as a cubiculum nocturnum - a bedroom. This particular panel shows a religious enclos...
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March 14, 2025 at 2:10 PM