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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sometimes you see an artefact where myth, magic & reality all seem to converge… Behold, the Iron Age Torrs Pony Cap; pulled from a Scottish bog in the 19thC & dating to the 3rdC BC, the horns were still attached when found. Chariot ponies knew they were cool. National Museum Scotland #FindsFriday

Decorated bronze pony cap with long, slender curving horns

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Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art @flaroh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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

The mountain at the end of this road is NOT Vesuvius as I was very quickly reprimanded on instagram 🤣 but this image served as a good pompeiian street reference in general

Photo by me of a Roman lady reenactor in Rome

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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

Genuinely my productivity once I started working part time 21 hrs a week 📈📈📈📈

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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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Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art @flaroh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is too cool!! Do you ship internationally?

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

As always, patrons can access wallpapers, 18x24-inch sized downloads, illustration processes, and even mailed rewards on my patron! Patreon.com/flaroh

Septembers sticker is the house of the faun statue surrounded by giant laurel leaves

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

It is a nighttime scene in the House of the Faun room at the National Archaeology Museum in Naples. The eponymous faun/satyr is in the foreground, observed by a ghostly Roman lady who looks mournfully at her former possessions. This photo I took of the faun statue was the inspo behind this piece!

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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 · 06/09/2026

Corbridge Roman Town in Northumberland ☺️

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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

Reading these in order was an emotional journey :(

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

In Termessos, a wealthy lady named Rhodope interred her little dog Stephanos in a small tomb like a human. She was later laid to rest nearby. As far as I can research, we don’t know when they lived, or much about their lives, except that Rhodope wanted us to know how much Stephanos meant to her🧡

Photo of the tomb and an example of melitan breed dog from antiquity

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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

Tbf I think my illustration shows it looking a bit too narrow compared to my reference! bsky.app/profile/flar...

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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

Oh my god really? I hate the modern internet

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

Ugh that’s so annoying! Their message does say that they were directly contacted by the IP holders which is weird. Hopefully it was just a tag that flagged it but still “epic” is such a broad term in the ancient studies space that trying to copyright it is insane

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

Yeah I’m wondering if I tagged it “epic” as in the epic cycle, but even then this is ridiculous

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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

Everything is SO specific down to the Agamemnon mask oh my god

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

Thank you! Just ordered a 3-6m zipped onsie 🤠 opted for a dark coloured one as I’ve heard these things can be messy…

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

Over on insta a few people have pointed out that the acrobats in white were most likely women which had completely escaped me as I had assumed they were youths! So maybe I’ll make an alternate version (and I won’t envy those women tumbling without sports bras that sounds awful🤣)

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

Omg carlyyyyy it shall be a tapestry next month don’t worry!!

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Tiffany Baxter - MCM London F-19 @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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