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Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art @flaroh.bsky.social · 5h

Only a few hours left to snag a September reward!🧡 Patreon.com/flaroh I'm so pleased with how the ghost lady has printed I think I'll get a larger print for my room☺️

My postcard A6 size print and the September sticker next to mini pumpkins

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Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art @flaroh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Happy Autumn omnes!🏛️🍂🌋 This morning it was the Autumn equinox, the official start of autumn here in the northern hemisphere 🍂 to mark the occasion I’m sharing my ‘Autumn in Pompeii’ piece complete with some of the reference images (see replies)

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Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art @flaroh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The best part of having a part time office job is I can clock in no matter what Emotional Struggles™ are happening and get my work done, which I just find impossible for my self employed work 🙃

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pat | COMMISSIONS OPEN @patsux.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🍂✨ Today marks the #Autumn #Equinox, when day & night are approximately equal in length. For the #Romans, autumn meant harvest, including the #vindemia — the grape harvest. The season could be personified as Autumnus, while Ceres, Pomona & Bacchus were all linked with agriculture, fruit & wine.

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Matt Emmons @secondatbest.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The Knight’s Repose, this month’s entry in the riso print club. I’ve been wanted to draw some medieval marginalia for a while now, especially snail-related

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

As we enter spring in Australia, here’s four beautiful birds from a Pompeian fresco. 📍 House of the Golden Bracelet 🕰️C 1st AD 📷 mine

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Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art @flaroh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Night at the Museum 🏛️🌌🏺👻

Art by flaroh illustration. Septembers illustration is a nighttime scene in the House of the Faun room at the National Archaeology Museum in Naples. The eponymous faun/satyr figurine is in the foreground, and is observed by a ghostly Roman lady with an impressive Flavian hairpiece. She looks mournful as she passes through the room of her former possessions, her gaze lingering on the bronze statuette. Behind her, the mosaics displayed on the wall are visible through her translucent body.

The palette is a vibrant mix of blues contrasted with bright orange line art

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

🏺 Looking at this and (thanks to @emmasouthon.bsky.social ) wondering how many enslaved people's hands opened the pouch and got out this expensive imported comb and de-loused the hair of powerful owners who controlled every aspect of their lives, again and again and again

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Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art @flaroh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Work is back up! Epic the Musical never even bothered to respond to my counter notice, so it was reinstated after 2 weeks. None of my tags were dodgy so all I can assume is my work was taken down over Epic trying to copyright… checks notes… Aphrodite Areia 🙃 what a fucking joke

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Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art @flaroh.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The Minoan Bull Leaper postcard prints and Bull Rhyton sticker have arrived! Available until Aug 31 ☺️ Patreon.com/flaroh

Photo of me holding the print and sticker

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Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art @flaroh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

“This is the tomb of the dog, Stephanos, who perished. Whom Rhodope shed tears for and buried like a human” 💔 Bringing back my 2023 Rhodope & Stephanos portrait for #internationaldogday 🐶🏺🌿

Art by flaroh illustration. A seated ancient greek woman holding her white lap dog.

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Erin Hanson @erinhansonartist.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A white vase of sunflowers is captured with impasto oils on canvas. The vivacious brushwork adds movement and color to the painting. Sunflowers in White Vase by Erin Hanson, 2025 Oil on canvas 36 x 28 in www.erinhanson.com/portfolio/su... #oilpainting #painter #art #artist #sunflowers @bsky.art

A white vase of sunflowers is captured by modern impressionist Erin Hanson with impasto oils on canvas. The vivacious brush work adds movement and color to the painting.

Sunflowers in White Vase
by Erin Hanson, 2025
Oil on canvas
36 x 28 in

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Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art @flaroh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

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Dr Icy Sedgwick @icysedgwick.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I grew up listening to Dolly Parton. This will always be my favourite song of hers. What a clever, funny, kind legend. Be more Dolly. youtu.be/w_-YbWHs6DE?...

youtu.be

Dolly Parton - Coat Of Many Colors

YouTube video by gussie5555

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Nearly 2,000 years ago, a dog walked across a wet clay tile as it lay drying at Chedworth #Roman villa in Gloucestershire 🐾🐕 "Every dog knows, deep in his heart, that he is a Bad Dog" (Terry Pratchett) Canis malus. Nulla tibi cena 📷 August 2026 #TilesOnTuesday #Archaeology

An orange / red Roman tile in a museum case with a dirty great big dog paw print near the middle. Bad boy. No cena for you

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Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art @flaroh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Prints and merch are now available! 🐐 www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1823...

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Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art @flaroh.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Epic the musical filing a complaint against one of my Ancient Greek myth artworks was not on my 2026 bingo card 🙃 I’m actually really pissed off

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Simkaye 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

the slop of it all has me celebrating analogue in a lot of different ways lately, including art ✍️

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Given the state of things re books, predatory corporations, etc... it is more imperative than ever to buy your books from indie bookstores and their online sites. Exclusively.

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Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art @flaroh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The Bull Leapers 🤸‍♂️🌀🐂 🌿

Art by Flaroh illustration. A scene based on the Minoan Bull Leapers fresco from Knossos showing three acrobats dancing and leaping around a bucking brown and white bull. Minoan swallows flit around the scene in a circular path. The palette is iconic Minoan blues, ochres, reds, and white.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

A 3,400 year-old Egyptian glass kohl tube and applicator! ✨ It belonged to a woman named Merit, and was part of her beauty case. Glass was a luxury material at that time, making this a precious possession. From Merit’s tomb (TT8), Deir el-Medina. 📷 Museo Egizio, Turin #Archaeology

The Museo Egizio photo shows a small deep cobalt-blue glass kohl tube standing on a grey display surface. It contains a dark wooden applicator stick, of which only half can be seen. The main body of the blue glass tube is decorated with white and yellow festoons (a repeated curved motif like a garland). The festoons were created by wrapping white and yellow glass rods around the surface of the tube while it was still hot, and dragging them with a pointed tool across the surface to produce the festoon pattern. The top of the glass tube widens to look like an open petalled flower with blue petals edged with yellow arranged around the neck of the tube. The bottom of the container also widens slightly to form a base to stand on. This glass container held kohl, a dark cosmetic made from soot, fat, and antimony, which was applied to the eyelids and eyelashes with the applicator stick.

This kohl tube belonged to Merit. It was found in her makeup box, inside her tomb (TT8) at Deir el-Medina, dated 1425–1353 BC, 18th Dynasty. It was excavated by Italian archaeologist Ernesto Schiaparelli in 1906.

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Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art @flaroh.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Those with baby experience, what would be a good baby gift for new parents (like a month in?) in addition to a non-baby related main present?

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Tiffany Baxter @tiffbaxter.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

They basically did an emergency alert to tell us this:

The Portlandia ‘Toni, it’s so hot. It’s the heat.’ Meme

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Dude Points (what do I do now) @dudepoints.fun · 14/08/2026

As a committed member of the UK Napping Community, a sincere and gigantic Fuck You to whomsoever okayed an emergency broadcast message about BARBECUES to be sent out at 7 pm on a Friday night.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A little Roman bronze dog affectionately known as the ‘Chesters Scottie dog’ 🐾 This lovely figurine was found at Chesters Roman fort on Hadrian’s Wall. You can meet this good boy at the site museum! 📷 English Heritage www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places... #RomanFortThursday #Archaeology

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Olivia Sullivan @zebko.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Ancestral.strolls

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Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art @flaroh.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Not a single millisecond of heroic nudity in a 2.5hr “Ancient Greek” epic it’s actually pmo

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Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art @flaroh.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

What is an archaeology site if not a prime sunning spot for little furry creatures 🐈🏺🏛️ Happy #InternationalCatDay!

Art by flaroh illustration. An orange cat in a green landscape of broken columns

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Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art @flaroh.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Just saw the Odyssey - I went in expecting to maybe not like it as a Greek story but maybe still enjoy it as a movie in itself and….. it just felt aggressively American idk what else to say 😭

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Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art @flaroh.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

What is an archaeology site if not a prime sunning spot for little furry creatures 🐈🏺🏛️ Happy #InternationalCatDay!

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Dr Carolyn La Rocco 🏺🍃 @carrielarocco.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Making another panis quadratus, the Roman bread shape that there are carbonized loaves of from Pompeii and Herculaneum. 🍞 Left is my bread; right is a carbonized loaf from the Villa Regina di Boscoreale (image from Farrell Monaco / Tavola Mediterranea).

Photo of loaf of bread on baking paper. The bread is in a circular shape, cut so that it contains eight triangular sections; it is also tied around the middle (horizontally)

Photo of carbonized loaf on small plate. Image from Tavola Mediterranea (https://tavolamediterranea.com/2017/09/05/baking-bread-romans-part-ii-panis-quadratus/)

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Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art @flaroh.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Hopping on a Southbound train from Newcastle (the thing that killed Ned stark), kinda nervous

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Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art @flaroh.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Oceanus process! 🪸🌊🏺 I think this was over 20-ish hours

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Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art @flaroh.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I’m listening to the asoiaf series from the beginning to get back to where I left off and I’m once again struck by disbelief that people are avoiding the series purely because there might not be a last book. My loves, life is all about the journey!!

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Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art @flaroh.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Oceanus process! 🪸🌊🏺 I think this was over 20-ish hours

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Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art @flaroh.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Downing the caffeine drinks this morning - Today is the official start of a project where I need to draw at least 11 new scenes in 2 weeks… on top of another project that’s just hit the roughs phase… all while working a completely separate job 3 days a week.

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Kris Jenner: Let's Do This!

Alt: Kris Jenner: Let's Do This!

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Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art @flaroh.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Another lil merch post for the back to school crowd! 🏺🌿 www.redbubble.com/people/flaro...

Myself standing with six of my artworks surrounding me

A selection of notebooks stickers and phone cases from my shop

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Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art @flaroh.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Another lil merch post for the back to school crowd! 🏺🌿 www.redbubble.com/people/flaro...

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Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art @flaroh.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Oceanus 🪸🌊🏺

alt: art by flaroh illustration. An underwater scene of a colourful and rocky reef, dotted with ceramic and marble spoils from a Roman shipwreck. Behind a beam of light shining through the centre of the image, the titan Oceanus peers from behind the last ridge.

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Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art @flaroh.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The latest HotD episode is SOOO Roman 3rd century coded, I mean not paying your army of guards and the opposing army minting coins of their chosen leaders face hellooooo it’s not looking good!!!

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Daemon Targaryen Reads Letter in House Of The Dragon

Alt: Daemon Targaryen Reads Letter in House Of The Dragon

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Get my book from a library! I was broke for decades. For more than half of my life, nearly all of my access to literature was thanks to having a library card. Feel no more shame in using yours than you would heap upon me. Libraries kick ass.

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Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art @flaroh.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Io Neptunalia! Around July 23rd, the Romans celebrated the ocean god Neptune with games and feasting 🌊🏺

Art by flaroh illustration. Neptune with a trident and seaweed crown next to a horse shaped wave. Blue and gold palette

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