Giacomo Savaniさんのイラストまとめ

For #ReliefWednesday, another beautiful marble oscillum, depicting a head of Pan. Originally in the collection of the antiquarian Charles Townley, it was purchased in 1805 by the @britishmuseum #romanarchaeology

#MosaicMonday Another fascinating, if slightly odd, mosaic inscription from Roman Britain (the villa at Frampton, Dorset): ‘The head of Neptune allotted the kingdom tossed by winds, whose face/beard is dark blue and girt by twin dolphins’ #ClassicsTwitter #romanarchaeology

#FrescoFriday A lararium, the shrine to the guardian spirits of the Roman household, from a villa at Terzigno, #Pompeii. We can see 2 Lares flanking a genius or ancestor-figure, and 2 serpents underneath, representing the nature's principle of generative power. #romanarchaeology

..The sulcus primigenius, literally the original furrow, refers to the furrow plowed by priests leading two oxen in an archaic ceremony, probably adopted from the Etruscans, that established a sacred area in the foundation of a new city. 2/2 #classicstwitter #RomanArchaeology

For #romanroadsfriday the Via Postumia, unearthed a few years ago underneath Corso Cavour in Verona. This important road linked Genoa on the west coast with Aquileia on the east coast. Verona was at the intersection of several roads, including the Via Gallica. #ClassicsTwitter

First attempt at abstract painting. It's very soothing not to have a set of rules to follow sometimes

My wife in full pandemic mode #COVID19

The Dea Barberini remained for some time one of the few examples of Roman paintings known to western scholars. It dates to the 4th c. CE and was discovered in 1655 near S. Giovanni in Laterano. The figure of Venus was restored by antiquaries as the goddess Rome (see b/w pic)