#Isis won't keep you from the rent-boys, not even for #SpoliaSunday. This sketch of the ancient cult #statue of Isis from the #IsæumCampense has the crest of Lorenzo #Cybo on its base, as by his order it ennobled the piazza S. Marco in #Rome. But his reputation remained sleazy. #AncientBluesky 🏺
I'll meet you in the #Forum of #Sibidius. Where? This #EpigraphyTuesday gives us a statue base found in this otherwise mysterious forum near #palazzoAltemps in #Rome. Today in the #VaticanMuseums, it honors the forum's builder, Acilius Glabrio Sibidius himself. #AncientBluesky 🏺
One of the pinnacles of #Roman #relief work, this #sarcophagus once stood in front of the main doors of the #Aracoeli in #Rome as a warning against #hubris. Now in the #Uffizi in #Florence, it startles us, this #SarcophagusSaturday, with its kinetic energy and later-C2 detail. #AncientBluesky 🏺
"And so I gave myself to God /
There was a pregnant pause before he said OK". This #FrescoFriday takes us back to Cubiculum B of the #domus of the #Farnesina in #Rome, where a woman prepares to make a #libation to a #herm. The bedroom was not dedicated to #Venus alone. #AncientBluesky 🏺
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The lace-like marble of #Domitian’s #Alban theatre projected absolute majesty for a court of absolute terror. A late #ReliefWednesday look at the hyper-detailed "#Flavian #Baroque" gives us the architectural framework for the waking nightmare of proximity to the emperor. #AncientBluesky 🏺
