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Cleopatra VII Thea Phillopator

Chibi ref for Art Fight! Find her (and more) at TheidiotsofMarch on team ✨️🎭COMEDY🎭✨️ this year!

An art gifting game

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mathew

drtanner

A+ weird little dude, but I'm equally fascinated by the choice of music.

trickstertime

*unmutes*

master-jose-porla

Jose Porla screenshot redraw from his intro scene in the Phantom Lord arc

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Cleopatra WIP

These are chibi-references, so texture to hair/wigs, and other things will be added, but also minimal, to save me time. These are refs for Art Fight this year but also to just...FINALLY have refs😭

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bewaretheidiotsofmarch

HAPPY IDES MY DUDES

geminusrufus

rb bc this was flagged as sexually explicit

bewaretheidiotsofmarch

HELP, it's flagged as WHAT? 😭💀 That's a new one. Big thanks to the Tumblr ai I guess?

Republic Chibi-refs are being planned

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Posting because I need this on my art fight lol

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Cleopatra design work🩵

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I changed her nose (while keeping the other features and proportions (different makeup though) from the first sketch because 2 of my women (Calpurnia and Aniyah) have completely down-turned Aquiline noses, and I wanted to showcase a different brand of Aquiline nose that is rare to see as well. Plus, she looks more like we KNOW she looked. I found a perfect model on insta that looks like the spitting image of Cleopatra, so I unashamedly used her as a facial ref. I love when people look like reincarnated historical figures!

Also, artistic nood, as her base before outfit renders. I'm actually making character refs.... slowly

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Cleopatra design work🩵

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Probably won't get any higher than this lol

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Instagram Ask : What is one of Casca's hobbies?

Gardening. Especially raising and curating his collection of poisonous plants, some of which were aquired with quite a bit of trouble and work, from more distant lands.♡ Aconite (wolfsbane/monkshood) is his most favored plant and poison, so I show that here.

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Ancient Roman Tombstone Discovered by Man Foraging for Asparagus

A chance discovery in the countryside near Livorno has brought a fragment of ancient Roman life back into the spotlight, after a remarkably well-preserved funerary inscription surfaced from a muddy canal following heavy rains.

The find was made by Roberto Tessari, a former firefighter and active member of a local archaeological group.

While walking through a remote wooded area in search of wild asparagus, Tessari noticed an unusual rectangular stone partially submerged in water and silt. On closer inspection, he recognised three lines of Latin text carved into its surface—clear evidence of a Roman-era funerary epigraph.

Realising the significance of the discovery, Tessari contacted the regional authorities and shared photographic evidence.

For experts, the images were striking. Lorella Alderighi, an archaeologist with the Superintendency of Archaeology, described the moment as “a real surprise,” noting that such well-preserved inscriptions are rarely found in the Livorno area. Ironically, she added, it was the very mud and water that had protected the stone for centuries before recent rainfall dislodged it.

Recovering the slab proved challenging due to the difficult terrain and lack of access roads. Firefighters were called in to assist, and the stone was eventually transported to laboratories in Pisa for further study.

The epigraph reads:

T(ito) ANCONIUS SEVERUS ANCONIVS PRISCVS ET SABINIA SEVERA V(ivi) F(ecerunt)

The inscription itself offers a clear and personal glimpse into a Roman family. It commemorates Titus Anconius Severus, likely a young man who died prematurely. The monument was likely commissioned by his parents, Anconius Priscus and Sabinia Severa, as indicated by the final Latin phrase V(ivi) F(ecerunt) – a common Roman practice to ensure a proper memorial by the “living”.

The names provide further insight. The family name “Anconius” is relatively rare and is thought to derive from the city of Ancona. Combined with the absence of certain formal identifiers, this suggests the family may have been freedmen—former slaves or their descendants—who were building social standing in Roman society.

Experts say such monuments were more than memorials; they were statements of identity and status. During the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD, freedmen in the region were an increasingly influential social group, often using funerary inscriptions to assert their place in society.

“What makes this find fascinating is not just the material evidence, but the social history it reveals,” said Alderighi. “Having an elegant funerary monument carved for themselves, preparing it while they were still alive, was their primary means of achieving the social consecration and public recognition that their humble origins had initially denied them.”

By Mark Milligan.