#roman

[escapismsworld]

Dying Gaul, a statue likely made in Roman times, commemorating a Greek Battle Victory over Gauls

[cottoncandiescupcakes]

Emperor Commodus' different armor, the white and black ones are my favorite ever but they're all amazing

And my little pumpkin pies in their gold armor too, I think this is their only (decorative?) armor because Emperor Geta and Emperor Caracalla are not warriors obviously

[granstromjulius]

Roman

[thesilicontribesman]

Milecastle 37, Hadrian's Wall, nr. Housesteads Roman Fort, Northumberland

[5am-the-foxing-hour]

Roman: Finally! The christmas tree is decorated! Patton: Ohh! Yay! Remus: I HELPED! Patton: *instantly looking panicked* Roman: He was allowed to put up 1 thing! Patton: *calms down* Remus: It's a rat! Patton: *panicking again* Roman: A STUFFED TOY RAT! *pushes Patton past Remus to show him the tree* Patton: Oh my gosh it got a little moustache and sash! Logan: Here you are I was wondering... *distracted by the bright tree and all the bulbs* Patton: Oh no... Logan *cat brain ON*: *dives for a blue shiny bulb* Roman *hands in his hair*: LOGAN NO!

[nagapiezz]

DAY 3 OF SATURNALIA WITH THE FIRST TRIUMVIRATE

[jbjonesxdomme]

PM: Sounds good to me. It's cute you want our houses to connect so bad.

PM: Yeah, I think we could all benefit from that. There's no reason to bribe anyone. Unless we could have some of balcony that lopes around and connects us...

[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”

[ancientrome]

Erotic fresco at the House of the Vettii in Pompeii.

[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.

[escapismsworld]

The Mildenhall Great Dish

From the Cultures/period of the Romano-British (40s AD). The characters include the hero Hercules, drunk on wine, supported by two satyrs. This is a mesmerising, glorious relic from pre-Christian Britain.

Photos: Vinnie Sullivan

[thefoilguy]

Laocoon and His Sons - Aluminum Foil Sculpture

[illustratus]

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

[artifacts-and-arthropods]

Child's Sock from Egypt, c.250-350 CE: this colorful sock is nearly 1,700 years old

This sock was discovered during excavations in the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus. It was likely created for a child during the late Roman period, c.250-350 CE.

Similar-looking socks from late antiquity and the early Byzantine period have also been found at several other sites throughout Egypt; these socks often have colorful, striped patterns with divided toes, and they were crafted out of wool using a technique known as nålbinding.

Above: a similar child's sock from Antinoöpolis, c.250-350 CE

The sock depicted above was created during the same period, and it was found in a midden heap (an ancient rubbish pit) in the city of Antinoöpolis. A multispectral imaging analysis of this sock yielded some interesting results back in 2018, as this article explains:

... analysis revealed that the sock contained seven hues of wool yarn woven together in a meticulous, stripy pattern. Just three natural, plant-based dyes—madder roots for red, woad leaves for blue and weld flowers for yellow—were used to create the different color combinations featured on the sock, according to Joanne Dyer, lead author of the study.

In the paper, she and her co-authors explain that the imaging technique also revealed how the colors were mixed to create hues of green, purple and orange: In some cases, fibers of different colors were spun together; in others, individual yarns went through multiple dye baths.

Such intricacy is pretty impressive, considering that the ancient sock is both “tiny” and “fragile."

Given its size and orientation, the researchers believe it may have been worn on a child’s left foot.

Above: another child's sock from Al Fayyum, c.300-500 CE

The ancient Egyptians employed a single-needle looping technique, often referred to as nålbindning, to create their socks. Notably, the approach could be used to separate the big toe and four other toes in the sock—which just may have given life to the ever-controversial socks-and-sandals trend.

Sources & More Info:

Manchester Museum: Child's Sock from Oxyrhynchus

British Museum: Sock from Antinoupolis

Royal Ontario Museum: Sock from Al Fayyum

Smithsonian Magazine: 1,700-Year-Old Sock Spins Yarn About Ancient Egyptian Fashion

The Guardian: Imaging Tool Unravels Secrets of Child's Sock from Ancient Egypt

PLOS ONE Journal: A Multispectral Imaging Approach Integrated into the Study of Late Antique Textiles from Egypt

National Museums Scotland: The Lost Sock