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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

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

#FrescoFriday - oh sure, it looks like a peaceful way to start the day, but we all know Zeus is up to some bullshit! A panel showing Europa and the Bull, from the House of Jason, Pompeii (IX.5.18). #Roman #Art

Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (111475)

#LatinForTheDay - 8 July

"sideraque et radiis circumdata solis imago,
Lunaque, quae numquam quo prius orbe micas,
Noxque tenebrarum specie reverenda tuarum;
quaeque ratum triplici pollice netis opus,
quique per infernas horrendo murmure valles..."

Repoussé silver statuette of a diademed goddess, with gold embellishments on the jewellery: ca. Late 2nd-Early 3rd Century AD, perhaps from Roman Syria. #Roman #Silver

Image: Toledo Museum of Art (1971.131). Link - https://t.co/GncO7cx6R9

#FrescoFriday - Beginning the day with this fabulous panel of the torture of Ixion from the east wall of the exedra of the House of the Vettii, Pompeii (VI.15.1). Ixion on his wheel is marginalised, focussing our attention on the reaction of Juno and Mercury. #Roman #Art

#LatinForTheDay - 11 June

"nequitiam fugio—fugientem forma reducit;
aversor morum crimina—corpus amo.
sic ego nec sine te nec tecum vivere possum,
et videor voti nescius esse mei.
aut formosa fores minus, aut minus inproba, vellem"

Ovid, Amores 3.11b.37-41

#FrescoFriday - still in Pompeii, this time with a panel of Polyphemus and Galatea from the House of the Ancient Hunt (VII.4.48), discovered in 1834. And one perhaps for the attention of @museumbums

Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (27687)

#FrescoFriday - 'The Aldobrandini Wedding', a Roman fresco ca. Early 1st Century AD, discovered on the Esquiline Hill in 1601, reinterpreted by Müller as deriving from Euripides' 'Hippolytos Stephanephoros'. (1/2)

Image: Musei Vaticani (79631). Link - https://t.co/7g5RVCvVUo

The rose had long enjoyed a position as a numismatic marker of Rhodes (see below); while the diadem had long been a symbol of Hellenic kingship, i.e. sole power.

Image: Rhodian didrachm: ANS 1944.100.48620. Link - https://t.co/5Z0E4JRBVq