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We've all had those days where your phallus unexpectedly transforms into a panther...
It's #PhallusThursday so here's a bronze tintinnabulum from Herculaneum showing that very problem.
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (27853). Link - https://t.co/sTC7Eqqepm
"Just good friends..." 🙄
'Achilles Lamenting the Death of Patroclus' by Gavin Hamilton, ca. 1760-1763
#ClassicalReception
Image: National Gallery of Scotland (NG 2339). Link - https://t.co/hG5Hol8s7h
A final #FrescoFriday 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. #Roman #Art
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (8898)
#FrescoFriday - 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. #Roman #Garden
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (40690)
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
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. #Roman #Afghanistan #Glass
Image: National Museum of Afghanistan, Kabul (04.1.43). Link - https://t.co/eFTLMQQBUH