Tetradrachm (Coin) Portraying King Mithradates VI of Pontus and Bithynia https://www.artic.edu/artworks/5773/
This is an Anglo-Saxon drinking horn.
Although the horn is modern, the rest is original silver-gilt & niello mounts consisting of a bird head terminal, and a rim band with human & rosette motifs. Twelve triangular mounts run around the lower edge of the rim.
🕰️late C6thAD
🏛️📷BM
Standing before the original platform from which Galileo Galilei taught at the University of Padua.
According to Pliny and Suetonius, the master gem cutter Dioskourides engraved Augustus' famed signet ring (a portrait of the emperor himself). That ring doesn't survive, but the gem below does, a deeply cut portrait in amethyst of the orator Demosthenes, signed by Dioskourides. 😍 🏺 1/
📸 me
The C18 dome is by the priest-architect Filippo Juvarra, most of whose work was in Turin & environs. Not as jarring a conjunction as it could have been.
This small glass bowl is Anglo-Saxon and dates to the early C7th AD. That deep, rich blue colour is entrancing.
🏛️📷 BM
Walking through the centuries of history at the University of Padua, one of Europe’s oldest and most prestigious universities. Places like these remind us that knowledge, innovation, and human progress have always been deeply connected to cities.
This silver coin is from Knossos and depicts the labyrinth of Greek myth. If you trace your finger from the entrance, like the puzzle books you used to do as a kid, you’ll find a path to the centre where you’ll meet…..a mini-Minotaur!
🕰️c270BC
🏛️📷 Ashmolean Museum
Saw a Roman aqueduct today..was quite impressed 😮😉
The astonishing C1st AD Pont du Gard in Provence, built to provide Roman Nimes with water as part of a 30 mile network. No mortar used - and still standing 1900 years later
Incredible engineering
📷 My own, today
4th June is the feast of Corpus Christi. Here is depicted a procession for the Feast of Corpus Christil
BL Harley 7026; the 'Lovell Lectionary'; between c.1400 CE and c.1410 CE; England, S. (probably Glastonbury); f.13r @blmedieval.bsky.social
