Doctor of archaeology and cultural anthropologist interested in Roman art and portraiture with special emphasis put on #RomanEast and #Palmyra🏺📖🇵🇱🇪🇺🌍🙋♂
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Łukasz Sokołowski
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Eristov, H., Vibert-Guigue, C., al-As’ad, W., Sarkis, N. (eds.), Le Tombeau des Trois Frères à Palmyre. Mission archéologique franco-syrienne 2004–2009, Institut français du Proche-Orient (IFPO).
Buisson, N., Burlot, D., Eristov, H., Eveno, M., Sarkis, N., The Tomb of the Three Brothers in Palmyra: The Use of Mimetite, a Rare Yellow Pigment, in a Rich Decoration, Archaeometry (2014). lnkd.in/d5UYKHEc
3. Dated to the 2nd–3rd century CE, the decoration reflects Palmyra’s cultural syncretism, where local traditions merged with Greco-Roman visual language.
Beyond technique, the scene symbolizes the soul’s ascent. Ganymede’s apotheosis is a metaphor of immortality.
#ancientbluesky 🏺
2. The painting reveals a sophisticated material palette: Egyptian blue for the background, green earth (likely celadonite) for the hexagonal frame, and iron oxides (goethite, ochre) for the floral details.
Gypsum plaster and carbonate additives show a carefully engineered wall-painting system 🏺
My Mother's portrait sketched by my Grandmother many years ago. Somehow I feel very sentimental about it ☺️
Just a short visit at Warsaw's Faculty of Archaeology ☺️
Novelties!
1. The fresco of Ganymede's abduction in the Tomb of the Three Brothers in #Palmyra. Placed in a central medallion on a barrel-vaulted ceiling, it depicts the myth of Ganymede carried off by Zeus’ eagle, a Greco-Roman motif linked to divine selection and immortality.
#AncientBluesky 🏺
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🔸 One reason I’m fascinated by ancient Rome is its culture of memory. Portraits, genealogy, and rituals connected the living with the dead and gave people a sense of continuity.
Perhaps that is why we write: not to defeat time, but to enter into a conversation with it 🔸
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W Pałacyku Kasyno można oglądać wystawę poświęconą malarce i pedagog, wieloletniej mieszkance Podkowy Leśnej Irenie Dzikiewicz. Wstęp wolny. Wystawa inaugurowała XVI edycję Festiwalu Otwarte Ogrody. I...
