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This small glass bowl is Anglo-Saxon and dates to the early C7th AD. That deep, rich blue colour is entrancing. 🏛️📷 BM

In #Pride Month, here’s the Emperor Hadrian and his boyfriend, Antinous. The young man died in mysterious circumstances on a cruise on the Nile in 130AD. Hadrian, devastated by his death, deified him and then founded a city at his death site which became a cult centre. 🏛️BM 📷 mine

These two ancient Greek wooden flutes or pipes are known as ‘auloi.’ They were played as shown on the accompanying vase which must have required some real skill. 🕰️C5th BC 🏛️📷 BM

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This is the world famous Lycurgus Cup. It’s made from dichroic glass, meaning it changes colour depending on the direction the light comes from (red from behind, green from front). It shows Lycurgus’ death. He tried to kidnap Ambrosia who was turned into a vine which then strangled him. 🏛️📷BM

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#Marble #Sculpture, ‘Fragmentary Colossal Head of a Youth,’ Greek Hellenistic period (2nd century B.C.). Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, ‘Pergamon & the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World’ #art

The colossal - 2.5 m - marble head of Constantine, known as the Statua Colossale di Costantino I. It formed part of a monumental seated statue, estimated to be 12 m tall, originally situated in an apse of the Basilica of Maxentius in the Forum Romanum. My 📷 Musei Capitolini

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Tetradrachm https://clevelandart.org/art/1941.294

Carausius

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Nicolas Robert

Dr Tom Horne

CMA: Greek and Roman Art

This dolphin in Winchester City Museum is an example of an early 'lifting' process: Steve Cosh's research showed that a tracing was made, the tesserae were shovelled up, and then they were reset in concrete. 1/2 #MosaicMonday #AncientBlueSky 🏺

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Dr Pat Witts