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RoaminTheEmpire @roamintheempire.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

New post this week! The first of two on ancient Faesulae (modern Fiesole). Originally an Etruscan city, it was later destroyed and colonized by Sulla in the 1st century BCE: www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20... #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky🏺

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RoaminTheEmpire @roamintheempire.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Missed posting last week, but a new page on Aduatuca Tungrorum (modern Tongeren) is up! Founded in the late 1st century BCE, the remnants of the ancient city include a long circuit of walls: www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20... #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky🏺

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RoaminTheEmpire @roamintheempire.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

New post this week! The second and final part on ancient Kisamos finishes up with necropoli an an ancient road, and a great museum with a couple of top tier mosaics, among other objects: www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20... #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky🏺

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RoaminTheEmpire @roamintheempire.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

New post this week! The first of two parts on the ancient of Kisamos, located on the western end of Crete and founded by the Romans in the mid to late 1st century BCE: www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20... #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky🏺

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RoaminTheEmpire @roamintheempire.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

New post this week, the third and final part on ancient Vindonissa! We finish up with part of an officer's house, the aqueduct, and the museum with finds from the camp and city: www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20... #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky🏺

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RoaminTheEmpire @roamintheempire.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

New post this week, the second of three on ancient Vindonissa! Included in this part, two of the fortification gates, a bathing complex, sewer line, and the reconstructions of the camp: www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20... #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky🏺

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RoaminTheEmpire @roamintheempire.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

New post this week! The first of two parts on Vindonissa (modern Windisch, Switzerland) starting with the history of the site as well as the amphitheater and a series of pottery kilns: www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20... #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky🏺

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RoaminTheEmpire @roamintheempire.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

New post this week, part II of Lucus Augusti (modern Lugo)! This week finishes up with a mithraeum, well-preserved baths, and nearby sanctuary of Cybele that was later repurposed to a church. www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20... #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky🏺

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RoaminTheEmpire @roamintheempire.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

New post this week, the first of a two parts on ancient Lucus Augusti, famous for its circuit of walls originating during the Roman period, but home to other remnants of antiquity as well: www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20... #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

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RoaminTheEmpire @roamintheempire.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

New post this week! The final part on ancient Spalatum! This week's post features the Split archaeological museum and the (heavily reconstructed) aqueduct that supplied Diocletian's Palace: www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20... #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

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RoaminTheEmpire @roamintheempire.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

New post this week! The penultimate post on ancient Spalatum featuring the remaining gates, walls, and roads of Diocletian's Palace: www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20... #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

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RoaminTheEmpire @roamintheempire.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

New post this week; Spalatum part III! The new post delves into the religious architecture of Diocletian's palace as well as the mausoleum and elements of the emperor's apartment. www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20... #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

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RoaminTheEmpire @roamintheempire.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

New post this week, part two of five on ancient Spalatum! This installment finishes up with the basement area of Diocletian's Palace and includes the famous peristyle of the palace. www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20... #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

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RoaminTheEmpire @roamintheempire.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

New post this week! The first in a series on ancient Spalatum; originally a Greek colony but later a Roman town and then the location of Diocletian's Palace in the late 3rd century CE. www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20... #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

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RoaminTheEmpire @roamintheempire.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

New post this week, the conclusion on the ancient Cretan city of Aptera! The final post on Aptera continues through the vaulted cistern, theater, and defensive walls of the settlement. www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20... #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

The two-room temple, the oldest structure visible at Aptera, and associated stoa.

The stepped, so-called rectilinear theater of Aptera.

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RoaminTheEmpire @roamintheempire.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

New post! The first of two on ancient Aptera, the supposed location of the singing contest between the Sirens and Muses. The archaeological area is renowned for its cisterns and theater. www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20... #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

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RoaminTheEmpire @roamintheempire.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

New post this week, the conclusion for ancient Carsulae! Part II finishes up the forum area and moves on to the theater/amphitheater complex and the northern necropolis. www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20... #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

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RoaminTheEmpire @roamintheempire.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

New post this week on Carsulae, the first of two on the Roman settlement founded along the Via Flaminia in the 3rd century BCE and later largely abandoned in the 5th century CE. www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20... #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

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RoaminTheEmpire @roamintheempire.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

New post, the second and final part on ancient Sirmium! This week's post explores the remnants of the imperial palace, the museums featuring ancient material, and other vestiges of the city: www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20... #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

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RoaminTheEmpire @roamintheempire.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

New post this week on Sirmium! The ancient city became a focal point of activity starting in the 3rd century CE as an imperial capital and birthplace of a number of emperors. www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20... #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

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RoaminTheEmpire @roamintheempire.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

This week, the fourth and final part on ancient Salona! Things wrap up with some sites outside of the archaeological park, including a necropolis, city gate, and early Christian basilica. www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20... #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

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RoaminTheEmpire @roamintheempire.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

New post this week! The third of four parts on ancient Salona, which includes the forum area with the city's theater as well as the amphitheater in the western extent of the city: www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20... #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

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RoaminTheEmpire @roamintheempire.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

New post this week, Part II on ancient Salona! This post gets into the late core of the site; originally extramural, it was enclosed in a new circuit of walls in the late 2nd century CE. www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20... #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

A dog’s paw print on a Roman clay tile 🐾 🐕 😍 About 2,000 years-ago, a dog made its mark for ‘pawsterity’ when it wandered across the wet tile laid out to dry before firing. From Richborough Roman fort 📷 by me #TilesonTuesday #Archaeology

My photo shows a hand-sized, jagged, fragment of Roman red clay tile. There is an impression of a dog’s paw pressed into the clay. The imprint shows four toe pads arranged in an arc above a central pad. Above each toe imprint there is a small indent made by the dog’s claws. The imprint was made when the paw pressed into soft clay when the clay tile was laid out in the yard before firing. The tile fragment is set against a blue display case background. Excavated at Richborough Roman fort. My photo was taken in 2020.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

This stunning head is part of a life-sized, free-standing sculpture and exemplifies an idealized portrayal of a ruler. This head has been attributed to Pharaoh Amasis (570-526 BC), who ascended to the throne through a military revolt. His rule then brought a new era of peace to the country. 📷 me 🏺

A head of a dark grey stone Egyptian sculpture showing the striped nemes headdress and a prominent cobra (uraeus) at the center. The sculpture has rough, broken edges and sits on a light-colored pedestal in front of a beige wall.

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

The remains of the north gateway of Milecastle 37, just west of Housesteads Roman Fort on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #HadriansWall

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RoaminTheEmpire @roamintheempire.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

New post this week starting a new series on (Colonia Martia Julia Valeria) Salona! The colony was established by Caesar in 47 BCE, and would later be the birthplace of Diocletian: www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20... #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

I just leave this for #PhallusThursday: A Roman oil lamp featuring an inscription and a phallus. The inscription reads "ne atigas non sum tua marci sum" (don't touch me! I'm not yours; I belong to Marcus'). From the Esquiline necropolis in Rome, 2nd century BC 📷 me (Musei Capitolini) 🏺

A black slipped pottery oil lamp with a rounded body and a small spout, displayed on a circular transparent stand. It features an inscription along its sides and an engraved phallus the top.

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Looking west onto Milecastle 39 - a fortlet on Hadrian’s Wall, located to the northeast of Once Brewed in Northumberland. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #RomanArchaeology #HadriansWall

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Fascinating world of ancient #glass ! A small-scale but colourful mosaic glass inlay depicting an Ibis. This inlay, originating from a workshop in Roman-era Egypt, was discovered in Tawern, near Trier, Germany. The ibis was considered a sacred animal of Thoth, the Egyptian deity...🧵1/2 📷 me 🏺

A small square mosaic glass inlay displayed against a dark background, showing an ibis, a long-legged bird with a curved beak walking on a thin red ground line. The inlay is light green with a slightly porous, pitted surface and slightly chipped edges.

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RoaminTheEmpire @roamintheempire.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

New post, the fifth and final part on ancient Kos! This post focuses on the famed Asclepieion, located a few kilometers outside the ancient city and active through the Roman period. www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20... #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

This bronze head of a goddess with her spooky, hypnotic inlaid silver eyes, will be roaming the shadows tonight on All Hallows Eve! Still looking for her body, 2,000 years later … 😱 🏺 1/ Hellenistic, 150-100 BCE, Mersin, Turkey. #BritishMuseum 📸 me

Bronze head of a woman or goddess, torn from a full-sized statue. She wears a lunette diadem with inlaid silver patterns, with a star in the middle. Her wavy hair is center parted and pulled back into a bun. She looks directly into the camera with inlaid silver eyes, set beneath shadowed brows. With her mottled brown and green patina, the effect is frightening!

British Museum (1928,0416.1)

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Roman glass cups with colourful enamel decoration of animals from the Roman arena. AD 200s. Found in richly-furnished graves in Denmark. National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen. 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

My photo collage shows four images of Roman-era clear-glass cups painted with colourful enamel decoration depicting animals from the Roman Arena. Known as ‘circus cups’, fourteen of which have been found in richly-furnished ‘princely’ graves in Denmark. Dated AD 200s.

The top two images show two sides of the same cup. Top left: a brown lion with shaggy mane, its front and rear legs outstretched as if running at full speed. Top right: a green spotted leopard. Out of shot, a blue goat is being hunted down by the lion and the leopard.

Bottom left: fragmentary glass cup decorated with a light brown lion with shaggy mane. Nose and lips outlined in black.

Bottom right: image of a gladiator with green leggings and blue shield, and in front of him a large brown bear.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Happy #Halloween This intaglio depicts a skeleton resting on an amphora and holding a jug. Such representations were intended to remind to enjoy life to the fullest since pleasure ends irrevocably with death. Photo: Museum August Kestner/Christian Tepper #RomanArchaeology

Oval intaglio engraved with a skeletal human figure resting on an amphora and holding a jug, carved in translucent amber-colored stone.

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Some of the extensive remains of Roman Corbridge in Northumberland. A wonderful site with a great museum. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #Corbridge #Northumberland

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

A terracotta bust of a girl wearing a crescent-shaped pendant, known as a lunula, which was typically worn by females. Lunula pendants were believed to possess apotropaic qualities, meaning they were intended to ward off evil. The moon was a symbol associated. ..🧵1/2 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology

Small bust figurine made of light-colored stone or clay, depicting a female figure with large almond-shaped eyes, a rounded face, and patterned lines suggesting hair or a headdress, wearing a crescent-shaped pendant.
Displayed against a dark background.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

This remarkable bronze cobra with eyes inlaid with glass paste likely originated from a workshop in Alexandria. The cobra motif is prevalent in Egyptian iconography, symbolizing royal authority and safeguarding against the Pharaoh's enemies. The Greek author Plutarch indicates that...🧵1/2 📷me 🏺

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RoaminTheEmpire @roamintheempire.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

#RomanSiteSaturday; A new post this week, part IV of the ongoing series on ancient Kos. The current installment finishes up the main town with the northern agora and harbor area. www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20... #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺 #InternationalArchaeologyDay

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

A marvellous #Egyptian #frog amulet, made of porphyry (height 1.2 cm). Because of their numerous offspring, #frogs were considered a symbol of fertility. Dating ca. 1295–1185 BC, New Kingdom. 📷Metropolitan Museum 🏺 AncientEgyptBluesky

A small frog-shaped amulet carved from dark reddish-brown porphyry, patterned with irregular white spots, shown in a crouching position against a plain light background.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Models of everyday life were deposited in #Egyptian tombs. They were supposed to support the deceased in the afterlife. One of the most charming examples is the model of a #cow giving birth. Carved in wood, painted. Probably from Meir, #Egypt, dating c. 2040-1985 BC. 📷 Royal Ontario Museum 🏺

The photo shows a wooden model of a cow giving birth accompanied by two men. One man calms the cow while the other ensures a proper delivery.The calf emerges from his mother, licking the hand of the man.

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RoaminTheEmpire @roamintheempire.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

New post this week, part three on ancient Kos! This week continues through the reconstructed Casa Romana before detailing the adjacent remnants of the southern area of the agora. www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20... #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Cirencester was the Roman Corinium, second only to London in size with 10,000 inhabitants. Its amphitheatre was one of the largest in Britain. It was built in the early 2nd century and it could hold c. 8,000 spectators. It was fortified against Saxon invaders. #RomanSiteSaturday

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

A short section of the late 3rd century AD stone wall encircling the #Roman Town of CORINIVM DOBVNNORVM (Cirencester) with projecting polygonal tower Originally extending for 2 miles (3.2 km), enclosing an area of 240 acres (97 ha), this is the only bit exposed today 📷 Oct 2025 #RomanSiteSaturday

Lower courses of stone built wall with foundations of projecting tower on the right and internal square tower to the left. Surrounded by grass. Trees in the background

Squared facing stones of a Roman wall with rubble core exposed. Grass in foreground, trees and sky behind

Interpretation board set up to explain the Roman walls of Cirencester

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Dr Alan Montgomery @classicalalan.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

The Roman camp of Raedykes near Stonehaven is one of the best preserved in Scotland. It covers around 38 hectares and has an irregular outline. Probably built in the late 1st century, by the 1700s it was being associated with the elusive site of the battle of Mons Graupius. #RomanSiteSaturday

The ditch of the Roman camp of Raedykes in north east Scotland

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Oscar Lozada @oz-of-the-ancients.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

For #RomanSiteSaturday, here's the remains of the Basilica of the Five Martyrs in Salona, Croatia It was built in the 4th century AD above the graves of five priests killed in Diocletian's persecution of the Christians 📸 Mine #archaeology #ancientbluesky #romanempire #photooftheday🏺

Roman ruins in a rectangular open plan with a few stumps of columns remaining on either side and grass covering flagstones on the floor. Behind are a row of trees and in the distance some rugged mountains

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

#RomanSiteSaturday Dura-Europos was a Hellenistic, Parthian, and #Roman border city built on an escarpment 90 metres (300 feet) above the southwestern bank of the #Euphrates river. It is located near the village of Salhiyé, in present-day #Syria. #Archaeology #History

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Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

#RomanSiteSaturday & Serdica: what is now Sofia, Bulgaria 🇧🇬 contains a lot of Roman remains including this early c4 church, built in the ruins of what was formerly a baths See more of Sofia in the episode >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=EptH...

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Rome and Beyond @romebeyond.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

#RomanSiteSaturday The Vicus Caprarius archaeological site, known as the “City of Water,” is an underground complex in #Rome located near the Trevi Fountain. An insula, a domus and medieval dwellings coexist in this space More here: romeandbeyond.altervista.org/vicus-caprar... #archaeology #history

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

The remains of the Roman amphitheater at Cirencester (Corinium). Built during the 2nd century AD, it is estimated that the amphitheater would have held around 8000 people. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #Cirencester

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RoaminTheEmpire @roamintheempire.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

New post this week, part two on ancient Kos! This week's post details the large Western Archaeological Zone with its mosaics and frescos as well as the city's 1st-2nd century CE odeon. www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20... #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

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