#roman

[ancientrome]

Arch of Janus in the Velabrum

[postcard-from-the-past]

Roman ruins in Damascus, Syria

French vintage postcard

[5am-the-foxing-hour]

Fey Roman *singing and dancing*: Goooooooood morning nature~ It's spring~ It's time to wake up now~ Fey Remus *banging pots and pans together*: WAKE UP! WAKE UP! IT'S SPRING! TIME TO FUCK! GET FUCKING! Fey Roman: EW REMUS! Fey Remus: What?! I'm not lying! Nature and animals be fucking! Fey Roman: I mean true, but you DON'T have to SAY IT Like THAT!

[janusfranc15]

The Hypocaust (Roman Underfloor Heating System using Bricks and a Furnace and the Warm Air produced from it) was improved and continued to be used in some parts of Medieval Europe!

Something I find incredibly cool is that they’ve found neandertal bone tools made from polished rib bones, and they couldn’t figure out what they were for for the life of them. 

Until, of course, they showed it to a traditional leatherworker and she took one look at it and said “Oh yeah sure that’s a leather burnisher, you use it to close the pores of leather and work oil into the hide to make it waterproof. Mine looks just the same.” 

“Wait you’re still using the exact same fucking thing 50,000 years later???”

“Well, yeah. We’ve tried other things. Metal scratches up and damages the hide. Wood splinters and wears out. Bone lasts forever and gives the best polish. There are new, cheaper plastic ones, but they crack and break after a couple years. A bone polisher is nearly indestructible, and only gets better with age. The more you use a bone polisher the better it works.”

It’s just. 

50,000 years. 50,000. And over that huge arc of time, we’ve been quietly using the exact same thing, unchanged, because we simply haven’t found anything better to do the job. 

[thesixthduke]

Roman dog. 2nd century AD

[gradienty]

Roman Gallery (#e06060 to #f0f0f0)

[oaths-sworn-in-blood]

Ο πνιγμός της Σύριγγας

The drowning of Syring

Fiendish Nymph

[mergatroidster]

Ooh, they are making such a great Octabbius!

I decided on a whim that it’d be a fun idea to try to make a sylvanian families custom of Octavius.

I’ve never tried to make a sylvanian families custom before and I’m also new to sewing anything other than patches over holes in my trousers but the crafters audacity compelled me to try.

I’ve definitely got a lot to learn in regards to making tiny garments but here is how he’s coming along so far. I still need make his cloak, his gladius, his footwear but I'll get there.

I've been calling Octabbius cause, like, he's a little cat chap

[museum-of-artifacts]

Stone cooking supports used to grill skewers of meat by Minoans on Santorini, circa 3600 years old. The line of holes in the base supplied coals with oxygen. Many consider modern "souvlaki" street kebabs a direct descendant of this portable food system. Museum of Prehistoric Thera, Greece. More: https://thetravelbible.com/museum-of-artifacts/

[666candies]

adam and eve apple. quote translates to “I am your half”

[zegalba]

A Roman "hologram" effect ring found in the grave of 1st century AD noblewoman, Aebutia Quarta.

The ring is thought to depict her son, Titus Carvilius Gemello, who passed away at age of 18. Found at the Grottaferrata necropolis close to Rome.

[ancientrome]

Puteal (wellhead) with Narcissus and Echo, and Hylas and the Nymphs. Roman 2nd century. x

This puteal (wellhead) is an outstanding example of Roman figural relief sculpture of the second century A.D. It once covered a well in Ostia, the port town of ancient Rome, probably within a sumptuous Roman villa along the Tiber River. The ancient Roman sculptor has transformed a utilitarian object into a luxurious work of art. Carved from a single block of marble, whose form resembles a Hellenistic altar, the drum is decorated with two cautionary tales from Greek mythology that relate to water. The sculptor seamlessly combined the story of Narcissus and Echo, best known from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, with the tale of the handsome hero Hylas being abducted by nymphs in the land of Mysia (western Turkey) as he was fetching water for the Argonauts on their quest to find the Golden Fleece, best known in Greek literature from the Argonautica of Apollonios of Rhodes.

[obsession-of-aesthetic]

"A Roman Holiday" by Frank Markham Skipworth (1889)

[thefoilguy]

Laocoon and His Sons - Aluminum Foil Sculpture

[illustratus]

The Sacred Grove of the Druids, set design from Vincenzo Bellini's Opera ''Norma''