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🌷Olivia•24•Latin B.A.•ancient history and other stuff🌷

[flowerytale]

John William Godward (1861–1922), The Fragrant Rose (detail)

[fusdoq]

Arabic Quran written out in Hebrew script

Hebrew Bible written out in Arabic script

source: Cairo Genizah (Egypt) manuscripts, degitalised by Princeton Genizah Lab

[hildegardavon]

Bertel Thorvaldsen, 1770-1844

Psyche and Cerberus, ca.1838/42, relief

Denmark, Copenhagen, Thorvaldsens Museum, Inv. A445

[alltheprettyancientthings]

The well-known grave monument of a woman named Ampharete, which was found in the Kerameikos cemetery in Athens, also shows a seated woman holding a baby. That stele has a rare inscription that sheds light on the meaning of the scene:

My daughter's beloved child is the one I hold here, the one that I held on my lap while we looked at the light of the sun when we were alive and that I still hold, now that we are both dead.

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[uncleclaudius]

A portrait of a boy, the late Julio-Claudian period. Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

[inthetags]

reblog and put in the tags what you went as for Halloween this year (if you dressed up)

[neapolis-neapolis]

Casa dei Vettii (I sec. a.C. - I sec.), Parco Archeologico di Pompei, Napoli.

[barbariankingdom]

Oval brooch, northeastern Black Sea Maeotian-Sarmatian, late 2nd to early 1st century BC.

[patrician-gf]

Every year on this day I'm reminded of how fucking stupid people on this app are

[fuckindiva]

Apollo Citharoedus or Apollo Musagetes (“Leader of the Muses”), 2nd century AD colossal marble statue by an unknown Roman artist, in the Vatican

[m1male2]

This painting comes from a sumptuous dining room of a building located in Moregine, on the outskirts of Pompeii, and is believed to be a portrait of the emperor Neon with the attributes of the god Apollo.

Nero and Poppea visited the city after the great earthquake of AD 64. The cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were severely damaged.

[patrician-gf]

long time, no see. anyways. i learned a lot this summer. worked as a hostess. they warn you about the hot line cook, but they never warn you about the hot waiter who listens to Taylor Swift (Dear John (TV) couldn't have come at a better time lol).

[aucelo]

Roman Youth on Horseback, 1st century CE. marble, height · 2.05 metres. British Museum, London

[bloody-mary-2000]

Windflowers by John William Waterhouse, 1903

[thearchaicsmile]

Bust of Julius Caesar, 2nd century AD. Archaeological Museum of Naples

[mioritic]

Detail of a mosaic depicting a bird perched atop a lotus pod, 2nd century

Nile River animals mosaic, Casa del Fauno, Pompeii 

Now held at the Naples National Archaeological Museum

[ltwilliammowett]

Roman oil lamp with a ship in the middle, 2nd century AD