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Classicist, Archaeologist, Sci-fi / Horror nerd, (crucially) Ginger. Oh, and... "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn". #EdgyPedlar #AncientStuff

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We've all had those days where your phallus unexpectedly transforms into a panther...

It's so here's a bronze tintinnabulum from Herculaneum showing that very problem.

Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (27853). Link - https://t.co/sTC7Eqqepm

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"Just good friends..." 🙄

'Achilles Lamenting the Death of Patroclus' by Gavin Hamilton, ca. 1760-1763



Image: National Gallery of Scotland (NG 2339). Link - https://t.co/hG5Hol8s7h

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A final from the atrium of the House of Meleager, Pompeii (VI.9.2). Discovered 12 October 1829, a grief-stricken Dido, alongside the personification of Africa in elephant headdress, as Aeneas departs.

Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (8898)

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The Obverse features a laureate portrait of Apollo and by the 1st Century BC, the date of this example, had been complemented by the ethnic marker ΛΥ – ‘Of the Lycians’ – that now flanks the bust.

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Ancient Coin of the Day: Going back to the Hellenic world today, looking at some of the coinage of the Lycian League from the 2nd Century BC onwards, kicking off with this silver hemidrachm.

Image: ANS 1987.77.20. Link – https://t.co/oeX9oGAlXz

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I didn't sleep... So now I'm doing my best to emulate Fry in 'Three Hundred Big Boys'.

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- it's another day for enjoying the garden, so here's a panel of the 'Garden Fresco' from the House of the Golden Bracelet, Pompeii (VI.17.42). The details of the birds are exquisite.

Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (40690)

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It's an afternoon for basking and listening to stuff...

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This innovative tendency was seen early in Ptolemy’s reign and demonstrated by the new elephant-headdress portrait of Alexander that Ptolemy introduced ca. 319 BC.

Image: ANS 1957.172.1269. Link - https://t.co/fOnM2VqbGI

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I ADORE ancient glass and this is just gorgeous: an enamelled goblet, ca.1st-2nd Century AD, from the Begram Hoard, showing figures engaged in date-harvesting.

Image: National Museum of Afghanistan, Kabul (04.1.43). Link - https://t.co/eFTLMQQBUH

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