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Some art I’ve done recently

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For #WorldHippoDay, here’s the long side of the Nilotic atrium mosaic from the House of the Faun in #Pompeii. Hippo vs. croc, with lots of ducks, lotus flowers, a mongoose and cobra, plus a couple of swamp hens and ibises. Open it up to see more. Fabulous. 1st century BCE. #MANN (inv. 9990). 📸 me

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DIGITAL LUNCH! 21 Feb, 1pm GMT: Dr Reb Ellis-Haken - Preliminary results of the Leverhulme Funded "Cults of the Head?" Project Reb has analysed <100 depictions of human heads from Dean Hall in Gloucestershire using advanced digital imaging techniques. 🏺 Zoom link here: forms.gle/qr74FJgHuuuC...

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🪷 February 19th is the birthday of #Athena / #Minerva! #Alix, the blond Gallic-Roman undercover agent for Julius Caesar, and his faithful Egyptian orphan sidekick #Enak visit the #Parthenon in the popular French historical comic books of #JacquesMartin. antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/02/happ... 🪷

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Roman #Monopoly piece? A bronze figurine of #dog found at the #Roman roadside station on the Brandsteig, Aichhalden-Rötenberg, where a votive altar dedicated to Diana Abnoba was found. #Dogs were associated with Diana. The figurine may have been an offering to the goddess. 📷 me 🏺

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For those of you desperately in need of distraction from today's headlines, here's a photo of a bunny & a chick who are friends.

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#hyunjin #skz #straykids

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I am so, so tired. And I know you are, too. Here's “Death blowing bubbles,” 18th century. The bubbles symbolize life's fragility. This plaster work appears on the ceiling of Holy Grave Chapel in Michaelsberg Abbey, Bamberg, Germany. After the monastery’s dissolution, it became a hospital.

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#felix #skz #straykids

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This fuckin week 😭

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Ancient Greek sphinx vessel, 5th century BC. This is one of 26 similar pieces discovered in a feminine necropolis ("Demeter's priestess") near Phanagoria, Peninsula of Taman, modern Russia.

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Went back to my natural nails bc I couldn’t play my guqin with falsies

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We're celebrating, as ever, the start of Super Bowl 2025 with this Superb Owl. 🦉

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feeling insane over how good they look, i need to draw them asap

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The dumbest cat I own… sometimes he lays with his legs fully up in the air like in rigamortis and it scares tf out of me

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A gold sword hilt fitting with cloisonné garnet inlay from the Staffordshire Hoard. The hoard was found in 2009 from Hammerwich near Lichfield, originally by metal detectorists. The find consists of almost 4,600 items. They date to c. 7th to 8th centuries AD. #FindsFriday

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Daily bunny no.2858 has an unexpected dinner guest

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Ahhh I need hualian in their emo phase... #tgcf #wulian #xielian #wuming #hualian

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A #Roman pottery lamp depicting a retiarius gladiator named Gaius Maximus Probably late 1st / early 2nd century AD Found in Italy. From the British Museum 1926,0216.85 Part of the excellent Gladiators of Britain exhibition currently @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social 📷 Jan 2025 #FindsFriday

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"88% of the birds [in Panamaian rainforest] lost >1/2 their population, and scientists are beginning to observe almost complete community collapse...There is grief in watching some of the most beautiful, ecologically rich places in the world fall into decline." 🌏 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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This marvellous life-sized #horse head made of gilded bronze belonged to a figural group of a #Roman emperor in a quadriga or a biga (a chariot drawn by four or two horses). Found in Augsburg, dating 1st/2nd century AD Photo: Römisches Museum/Andreas Brücklmair 🏺 AncientBluesky #archaeology

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#FrescoFriday: this spectacular fresco of a winged female figure (either a divinity or allegorical representation) is from Pompeii. I find the depth, form, solidity & colour of this figure reminds me hugely of the Renaissance painter, Masaccio. 🕰️ C1stAD 📍House of Marcus Fabius Rufus 📷me

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#FrescoFriday - Fresco from the Mycenaean citadel of Gla in Boeotia depicting five dolphins diving into the sea. Dated to the second half of the 13th century BC. Archaeological Museum of Thebes, Greece.

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NAILS ✨

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This is a fragment of Roman mosaic found in the remains of an ancient townhouse in Aquae Sulis, modern Bath. Its images of mythical sea creatures implies that it could have once decorated a private bath house. Now on display in the Roman Baths museum. #MosaicMonday

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When LWJ meets single dad WWX, he’s immediately head over heels. WWX, on the other hand, is not. Sure, on paper, LWJ seems great. He’s handsome, he’s rich, he has a stoic kind of magnetism. But that’s the thing about handsome, rich, magnetic guys, isn’t it? They always SEEM great on paper.

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“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice.

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Where it started Where it finished #WeiWuxian #MDZS #wwx

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Sword kept wanting to jump off my head, it isn’t obvious but it was falling

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#fusiondance to Make the angels cry by #ChrisGrey

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wanted to make a rec post of some of the CSP brushes I've liked using so far...!!! part 1...

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In Chinese #mythology, Panhu (盤瓠), a legendary dragon dog, began life as a golden worm from an old woman's ear before transforming into a loyal companion with vibrant five-colored fur. After aiding Emperor Ku in defeating General Wu, Panhu became human, married the emperor's daughter, and 1/2

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Wwx: oh this isn’t a bed Lwj: mn, I’m a bed

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I just spit out my tea.

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💕 #mdzs #魔道祖师 #art

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Man's Doublet made in Britain, with cloth woven in Italy. From 1650-1665, doublets shortened so that there was a gap with the breeches through which the shirt (underwear) could be seen. Such a fashion usually worn by young men, attracted condemnation & lampoon. (V&A London)

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#mdzs #wangxian #忘羨 배추 따먹기

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Mood atm

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In just under a fortnight, I'm doing a talk for the OU Students Association on Gladiators. You need to be an OU student to attend, but I believe a recording will subsequently be made available. www.oustudents.com/welcome-week...

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