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#FrescoFriday - a fabulous fragment of Campanian tomb painting, ca. Late 4th Century BC. The larger female figure holds a dove and rosebud, with a pomegranate and cluster of grapes above. #Art

Image: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (H4 116/248). Link - https://t.co/mRww8sLRLW

#FrescoFriday - a fabulous panel from the House of the Golden Bracelet, Pompeii (VI.17.42), showing Dionysus discovered the abandoned Ariadne on Naxos and being so bewitched by her that even Silenos seems surprised! #Roman #Art

Image: Parco Archeologico di Pompei (41658)

#LatinForTheday - 15 September

"regina, attonito quamquam pavor ore silentem
exanimet, mirata tamen paulumque reductis
passibus in solo stupuit duce. nec minus inter
ille tot ignoti socias gregis haeret in una
defixus sentitque ducem dominamque catervae....

Amethyst intaglio signed by Dioskourides, ca. 25 BC. The gem is typically claimed to depict the Greek orator Demosthenes. The piece was formerly owned by Sir Arthur Evans (sold in 1941). #Roman #Gem

Image: J. Paul Getty Museum (2019.13.15). Link - https://t.co/9omJPsi9Kp

#GreekForTheWeek

"...αὐτὰρ ἔπειτα
Οὐρανῷ εὐνηθεῖσα τέκ’ Ὠκεανὸν βαθυδίνην
Κοῖόν τε Κρεῖόν θ’ Ὑπερίονά τ’ Ἰαπετόν τε
Θείαν τε Ῥείαν τε Θέμιν τε Μνημοσύνην τε
Φοίβην τε χρυσοστέφανον Τηθύν τ’ ἐρατεινήν....

A rather exquisite miniature portrait bust of a woman in rhodolite garnet: ca. 3rd Century BC, perhaps representing Queen Berenice II, wife of Ptolemy III Euergetes, but this is not certain. #Egypt #Gem

Image: J. Paul Getty Museum (81. AN.76.59). Link - https://t.co/K4B94GZx4Z

The Obverse of this series shows a bearded and ivy-wreathed Dionysus. Dionysus was said to have been born in Thebes, and then famously returned to that City where its king, Pentheus, refused to acknowledge Dionysus' god-head.

Ancient Coin of the Day: The last few days have been a bit coin-light, so let’s get back to it with a look at some electrum issues of Thebes, starting with this hemidrachm ca. 360-340 BC. #ACOTD #Numismatics #Thebes

Image: ANS 1959.73.1. Link - https://t.co/nQKjqraMga

#FrescoFriday - beginning with this Late 1st Century AD fresco fragment from the amphitheatre at Mérida. The excellent preservation is due to the fresco being re-used in a tomb. #Roman #Art

Image: National Museum of Roman Art, Mérida (CE26719). Link - https://t.co/PudUnpwQ5Z

#LatinForTheDay - 23 August

"Non te nullius exercent numinis irae;
magna luis commissa: tibi has miserabilis Orpheus
haudquaquam ad meritum poenas, ni fata resistant,
suscitat, et rapta graviter pro coniuge saevit.
illa quidem, dum te fugeret per flumina praeceps,...