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#FrescoFriday - a bright start to the morning with this fresco of wide-eyed faces from the House of the Golden Bracelet, Pompeii (VI.17.42). They are sometimes interpreted as theatrical masks, but the mouths do not suggest that to me.

Image: Parco Archeologico di Pompei (40693)

@RitaEsposito22 I'm afraid I can't say. It may be intended as some form of aegis, but all I see is...

"Steady now... Steady..."

Fabulous Roman carnelian ring-stone, ca. 1st-3rd Century AD showing an artist, holding a brush and palette, seeming to paint a portrait bust... all rendered on a stone 1.2cm in length. #Roman #Gem

Image: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (81.6.48).

Do any of you have that one colleague who NEVER replies to emails?

Fayum Mummy portrait of a man wearing a beautiful gold wreath of ivy, ca. 2nd Century AD. These portraits really affect me. #Roman #Egypt

Image: Art Institute of Chicago (1922.4798). Link - https://t.co/c1gU43AC5s

#LatinForTheDay - 14 April

"Coacto vero in curiam senatu arduus rerum omnium modus, ne contumax silentium, ne suspecta libertas; et privato Othoni nuper atque eadem dicenti nota adulatio. Igitur versare sententias et huc atque illuc torquere...

#LatinForTheDay - 12 April

"Nam post conditam urbem octingentos et viginti prioris aevi annos multi auctores rettulerunt, dum res populi Romani memorabantur pari eloquentia ac libertate: postquam bellatum apud Actium atque omnem potentiam ad unum conferri pacis interfuit,..."

@underthenettle

I think it's fair to say that he understands the assignment.

#LatinForTheDay - 5 April

"hic erat affixis viridis spelunca lapillis,
pendebantque cavis tympana pumicibus,
orgia Musarum et Sileni patris imago
fictilis et calami, Pan Tegeaee, tui;
et Veneris dominae volucres, mea turba, columbae...