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It's that day of the week again, it's #PhallusThursday - so here's an ithyphallic Satyr from the sanctuary of Zeus at Dodona, ca. 540-530 BC. Sashay away!
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Athens (KAP 22)
Ooh, it's been a busy one so far, but here's a second #MosaicMonday offering, with the Leadenhall Street Mosaic, showing Bacchus riding side-saddle on a tigress: ca. 1st-2nd Century BC, but with 19th Century restoration. #Roman
Image: British Museum (OA.290)
#LatinForTheDay - 29 July
"ipsa quoque interius cum duro lingua palato
congelat, et venae desistunt posse moveri;
nec flecti cervix nec bracchia reddere motus
nec pes ire potest; intra quoque viscera saxum est.
flet tamen..."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.306-310
#MuseumsUnlocked - Wall Art
Taking me back to my Aegean days, with some details from the Miniature Fresco from Room 5 of the West House at Akrotiri on Thera.
Image: Archaeological Museum of Thera, 5824
Ancient Artefact of the Day: The 'Pylos Combat Agate' - a simply stunning and beautiful engraved sealstone from the undisturbed Late Helladic II grave of the Griffin Warrior near the Palace of Nestor at Pylos. #AAOTD #BronzeAge
Image: Stocker and Davis (2017) - see end of thread