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#FemaleArchaeologist Archaeology, History and Art. All photographs are mine, unless specified. Photographs and texts CANNOT be used to train AI. Please seek permission for use of photographs.

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Archaeologista @archaeologista.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
When Odysseus & his soldiers blinded the one eyed Polyphemus, the son of Poseidon guarded the cave in agony awaiting revenge. Wiley Odysseus tied himself & his crew underneath the herd of the Cyclops Shepherd, & they escaped the cave. This 500BC vase depicts this scene. Keramiekos. Own photograph.
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Archaeologista @archaeologista.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This extremely emotive and stunning painting was done on a vase dating to 510BC. The mourners put the body of their loved one into rest. Kerameikos Museum of Athens. Own photograph.
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Archaeologista @archaeologista.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Happy birthday to Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. He was born today near Milan in 1571, or 1573/4 as he told others in Rome.
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Archaeologista @archaeologista.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Gorgeous depiction of Theseus subduing the Bull of Marathon. Note the stunning capture of motion: the hero pushes down the bull to the ground in the midst of its speedy charge. Attic kylix-skyphos 500-480 BC. Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece. Own photograph.
An Ancient Greek vase showing in black figure against red background a man pushing a bull headlong to the ground during its speedy charge.
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Archaeologista @archaeologista.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Galen of Pergamon was the most influential ancient Greek physician after Hippocrates and is considered the father of pharmacology. greekreporter.com/2026/09/23/g...
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Galen: The Ancient Greek Physician Who Became the Father of Pharmacology - GreekReporter.com
Galen of Pergamon was the most influential ancient Greek physician after Hippocrates and is considered the father of pharmacology
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Archaeologista @archaeologista.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The God Pan is the son of Hermes (Mercury) & a Dryad. When he was born Zeus held the babe & smiled and said: he’s the joy of us all (Pan). Southern Italy. 4-3 century BC. Museum of Archaeological Institute, Catania. Own photo. #ancientsky #ancientrome #archaeology #ancienthistory #italy #sicily
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Archaeologista @archaeologista.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The bust of the young Marcus Aurelius before he became an emperor! 2nd century AD. Museum of Roman Theatre of Catania. Own photograph.
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popesiliad.bsky.social @popesiliad.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Achilles’ wrath, to Greece the direful spring/Of woes unnumber’d, heavenly goddess, sing!
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Archaeologista @archaeologista.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
When the dark age sets in, ethno-centrism kicks in. Communities are replaced by Tribes. Culture, the only binding force of expansion is pushed back and a war is waged against it. Let me welcome you to the dark age, part III.
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Following Hadrian @followinghadrian.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Happy birthday to Trajan, Hadrian's adoptive father! Trajan was born in AD 53 in Italica, Hispania Baetica. During his 19-year reign, Trajan sought to extend the empire's boundaries to the east, implemented significant socio-economic reforms, and undertook a vast building program.
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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.” – Montaigne #stoic #philosophy #wisdom
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Archaeologista @archaeologista.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Odysseus and his soldiers use a stick or rod to blind the one eyed Polyphemus. Fragment of an archaic vase, archaeological museum of Argos.
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Archaeologista @archaeologista.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It is Sunday in Catania, & a CATanese mother has brought her children to the Ancient Roman Theatre to provide them with culture and education. Built in 1st c. AD, in place of an older Greek one, this cultural institution fell into disuse & was sacked during the long night of the medieval dark age.
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Archaeologista @archaeologista.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Keep the helmet and show it in the museum by all means… but send the skull to Attica to be cremated and buried please. It’s not right. All historical evidence will tell that he did not consent to this, and specifically would have hated this.
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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.” – Marcus Aurelius #stoic #philosophy #wisdom
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Archaeologista @archaeologista.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Heartbreaking funerary lekythos showing a father grieving the death of his son. The old man is asking for the gods’ favour, or Kalos. The Greek word parakaleo is not dissimilar to Italian per favore or Spanish por favor. Etymologically they all ask for a boon. 5th c. BC. Thebes. Own photograph.
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Archaeologista @archaeologista.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Heartbreaking funerary lekythos showing a father grieving the death of his son. The old man is asking for the gods’ favour, or Kalos. The Greek word parakaleo is not dissimilar to Italian per favore or Spanish por favor. Etymologically they all ask for a boon. 5th c. BC. Thebes. Own photograph.
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Archaeologista @archaeologista.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Thanatos, God of Death, carved fabulously in a huge round marble column drum from the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus. Now in the BM. 340BC. The temple burnt down by the birth of Alexander the Great.
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Archaeologista @archaeologista.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Herakles / Hercules fighting the Nemean Lion. Unknown Florentine sculptor, mid-16th century. Czartoryski Museum, Kraków, Poland.
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Archaeologista @archaeologista.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Tender and heart-rending. Grave stele of Philotera. The dead female holds her baby and gazes into the distance, early 4th c. BC. Ancient Siphai. Archaeological Museum of Thebes. Own photograph.
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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Roman statues from the 2nd century A.D., including those of Emperor Hadrian and his wife Sabina, found in the ancient Greek city of Kibyra www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/08/r...
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Roman statues from the 2nd century A.D., including those of Emperor Hadrian and his wife Sabina, found in the ancient Greek city of Kibyra
Excavations led by the Mehmet Akif Ersoy University of Burdur (MAKÜ) at the archaeological site of the ancient Greek Kibyra, in southwestern Turkey, have brought to light fragments of four marble scul...
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Wanted in Rome @wantedinrome.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Rome's Pyramid of Cestius reopens for visits and free guided tours after three-year revamp.
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Rome's Pyramid of Cestius reopens for visits
Rome's Pyramid of Cestius reopens to the public following three years of restoration work, with a new lighting system and a refurbished archaeological area.
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Thomas Fortenberry @thomasfortenberry.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Jason and the Golden Fleece (Greek, 400 BCE)
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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
🧘 Insight from Montaigne: “There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.”
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Archaeologista @archaeologista.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Tender and heart-rending. Grave stele of Philotera. The dead female holds her baby and gazes into the distance, early 4th c. BC. Ancient Siphai. Archaeological Museum of Thebes. Own photograph.
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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
“Make haste slowly.” – Emperor Augustus #stoic #philosophy #wisdom
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Archaeologista @archaeologista.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Ivory pyxis, cosmetics vase, with relief representation of sphinxes. From the grave good in the princely tomb of Megalo Kastelli hill, Thebes, 13th c. BC. #ancientGreece #ancientsky #Mycenaean #odyssey
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Archaeologista @archaeologista.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
“The Barbarians are coming today. And the Barbarians do not appreciate fine phrases or long speeches.” — Cavafy. trans. by Marguerite Yourcenar and W H Auden Never a poet historicised AND prophesied this accurately.
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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations To read attentively—not to be satisfied with “just getting the gist of it.” And not to fall for every smooth talker.
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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The 1st century ‘Mosaic of the Doves’. Originally from Hadrian’s Villa at Tivoli, the mosaic is now part of the collections at the Capitoline Museums in Rome. 📸 My own. #MosaicMonday #Rome
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Archaeologista @archaeologista.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
An early classical phoenix, as she ponders her or others’ destiny. One of the most technical works I have come across. Full of emotions. Made me so proud of our European culture and heritage. Archaeological museum of Aegina. Own photograph.
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Wanted in Rome @wantedinrome.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
A street corner on Via dell'Orso in Rome hosts a fragment of a Roman sarcophagus showing a lion attacking an antelope. #WorldLionDay
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Archaeologista @archaeologista.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Cadmus consulted the Delphic oracle to find her sister Europa. The Pythia told him: search no more for her. Follow a cow with white sides, and when the side hits the soil, found Thebes, and slay the son of Ares (which is the serpent pictured). According to Ovid he planted the teeth of the dragon & …
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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
⏳ Timeless insight by Marcus Aurelius: “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
🌀 Perspective from Marcus Aurelius: “Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.”
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Archaeologista @archaeologista.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Altare di Maria Santissima di Trapani. Palermo. Italia. 7th of August marks the martyrdom of St Catalan, founder of the Theatinis, popular in south Italy. This phenomenal altar is a work of the formidable Palermean artist Antonello Gagnini. 16th century. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia.
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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
It's a real shame Nolan couldn't work this scene into his film. It would've been a banger
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Wanted in Rome @wantedinrome.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
At Rome’s Centrale Montemartini - a former power plant turned museum - Roman sculptures are displayed among industrial boilers and turbines.
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Dr. Elle, Her Celestial Majesty ✨👑🌌 @abstractica.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
ㅤ Paestan red figure fish plate [detail] — attributed to the Binningen Painter, third quarter of 4th century bce ㅤ
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Archaeologista @archaeologista.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Detail of Catiline in Cesare Maccari's fresco (1882–1888) in Palazzo Madama, Roma. Cicero rose to fame by unfolding the so-called Catalina conspiracy to dismantle the republic in 63 BCE. Although, later Cicero got into trouble for prosecuting roman citizens without the right to trial.
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Archaeologista @archaeologista.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
This #FrescoFriday forget about Pompeii. Let’s go to another well preserved town in italy, Ostia Antica. It was preserved by sandy sediments courtesy of Tiber‘s multitude of floods. This first century Fresco shows theatre masks, and therefore the intensity of cultural productions in the city.
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Archaeologista @archaeologista.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
A single column of the temple of Apollo still stands on the island of Aegina. Due to this column, it is now called the port of Kolona or the Column. The temple is from the 6th century BC, earlier than the Parthenon of Athens. Own photographs.
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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
“The man who has anticipated the coming of troubles takes away their power when they arrive.” – Seneca #stoic #philosophy #wisdom
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Quotes from the Forum @stoicquotes.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
“Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.” – Epictetus #stoic #philosophy #wisdom
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Archaeologista @archaeologista.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This tender and earthly votive relief shows a loving family praying and offering a piglet to Zeus (Right). It is made in Thebes and c. 330-320 BC. Almost a century before Alexander III razed this glorious city. Own photograph. Archaeological Museum of Thebes. #AncientGreece #Greece #AncientSky
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Wanted in Rome @wantedinrome.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
A wild boar cools off under a nasone fountain in Saxa Rubra in the northern outskirts of Rome.
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Archaeologista @archaeologista.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Life size fresco on the walls of the Palace of Kadmos (Cadmus) in Thebes (Thiva), painted c. 14-13 century BC!!! Own photograph. Archaeological Museum of Thebes. #Mycenaean. #AncientSky #Greece #AncientGreece
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alabandine2.bsky.social @alabandine2.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Temple of Hephaestus, 5th c. BC Ancient agora of Athens
Temple of Hephaestus, 5th c. BC
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Pair of terracotta boots from an Early Geometric period cremation burial of a woman in the Athenian Agora, c. 900 BC. These lovely model terracotta booties give us a glimpse into Iron Age footwear some 3,000 years ago in Athens. Museum of the Ancient Agora, Athens. 📷 by me
My photo shows a small pair of terracotta boots which are dark brown in colour with rounded toes and thick cream-coloured soles. They have flaring high sides which would cover the ankle and which have an open front. There is cream decoration over the top part of the vamp. The boots were excavated in 1948 from a woman’s richly-furnished cremation burial in a small Early Geometric period family-plot on the ancient Agora, Athens.
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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
An altar to Diana and Apollo which was dedicated by Marcus Cocceius Firmus - a Centurion of the Second Augusta Legion. It was found at Auchendavy Roman Fort in East Dunbartonshire, and is now part of the collections at the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow 📸 My own #EpigraphyTuesday
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