When you hear people claim that the pyramids weren't tombs but granaries, you can always point out that these were what 4th dynasty Egyptian grain silos looked like (my photo, Ashmolean Museum) #DailyArchaeology

Today's #DailyArchaeology is about two of my favs: music & animals

Notice the musical instrument that Apollo's holding on this cup from Delphi

It's a tortoise-shell lyre, similar to this ceramic one, imitating a tortoise-shell in The British Museum (bought from the infamous Elgin)

Photograph of the painted kylix from Delphi by Fingalo, on wikimedia: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_black_bird_AM_Delphi_8140.jpg

Photograph of the ceramic tortoise-shell lyre: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1816-0610-501

cc: @archaeodons #archaeology

Boar's tusk helmets, described in Homer's Iliad, have been found in Mycenaean graves, deposited several centuries before the Iliad was written down

But, they were mostly made from tusks of domesticated boar (male pigs), not wild boar, as too many people fancifully imagine

#DailyArchaeology @archaeodons @histodons @antiquidons @mythology

Who's a good boy? #DailyArchaeology

Read more about the dogs at the Roman healing sanctuary of Llys Awel, Conwy in The National Museum of Wales: https://museum.wales/articles/1054/The-Healing-Power-of-Dogs/

Our furry friends like archaeology too #DailyArchaeology

(#DailyArchaeology marble carving of theatrical masks found near the Theater of Dionysos in Athens. Now in Acropolis Museum, my photo)

As the year draws to a close, I'm reflecting on the important role archaeology & history plays in our lives #DailyArchaeology

Cabinet or curiosities from the Chateau de Fenelon in France

#DailyArchaeology. My pics

Cabinet of curiosities from the Chateau de Fenelon in France. What's your favorite object here?

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Winter is here. Time to polish up some horse 🐎 bones and go ice-skating ❄️⛸️

Modified horse metapodials, drilled with holes to attach a shoe above and polish from skating, in the zooarchaeology collection at the University of Groningen

My 📸 #DailyArchaeology #archaeology

#Archaeology is always more fun when you look closer to find the details from everyday life long, long ago. Paw-prints left behind on a brick from Roman Bath
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Today's #DailyArchaeology is an old fav. These bone styluses, with gnawing on only one end, are proof that people chewed on their pencils nearly 2,500 years ago in ancient Athens

My 📸. Archaeological Museum at Acharnai. #archaeology

Today's #DailyArchaeology is this ancient Athenian drinking vessel with its base molded and painted like a ram's head

Super cool. But, not very functional, you couldn't put down your wine

My video, from the National Museum Archaeological Museum in Athens. #archaeology @archaeodons @antiquidons

Today's #DailyArchaeology is this marble statue base from the Greek island of #Delos

The bronze statue is long gone (you can see where it was placed)

But the inscription mentions a certain Telephonos. So, I had to snap a pic with my mobile telephone in place of the statue

#Archaeology @antiquidons

Floor of #AncientGreek pottery kiln from #Histria, Romania. Fuel was placed underneath & heat circulated up through the holes in the well-preserved floor to fire the ceramics or tiles

#DailyArchaeology #Archaeology
My 📷, in-progress excavations, Histria Multiscalar Archaeological Project #HMAP

For more details see my #archaeology Twitter thread (CW human remains) on our excavations https://twitter.com/FlintDibble/status/1116012524762275840

or our technical report (Romanian w/ English abstract): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/355489095_Archaeological_Report_-_Histria_Plateau_2019_CCA_2019_205-210

A bakery in #Pompeii with a large brick oven similar to a modern wood burning #pizza oven 😋

The round thing in the foreground was a flour mill. Its rough stone was ideal for grinding grain. The hole in middle fit a wooden beam, used as a lever for turning
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