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It's the Day of Helios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
This ancient Roman silver disk depicts Sol Invictus, the Roman sun god, with two of his horses. On his head, he wears the sunray crown.
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It's the Day of Helios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
Greek silver-gilt disc, probably a phalera (military decoration, often put on horses), embossed with the head of #Helios with two horses on each side.
Dated 5th century BCE - 2nd century BCE.
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It's the Day of Helios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
#Apollo-Sol, the Sun god, with a seven-rayed gloriola in a #Roman floor #mosaic from El Jem, #Tunesia.
Dated 375 CE.
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It's the Day of Helios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
Sol the Sun god in a chariot drawn by 4 horses in this Roman mosaic, dated 375 CE.
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It's the Day of Helios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
Altar dedicated to Helios-Sol and Domitian. The marble relief shows a bust of Helios-Sol with his sunray crown and snake.
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It's the Day of Helios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
Meet this radiant bust of the sun god #Helios with a spikey sunray crown in his short hair.
Roman high relief, bronze, dated 1st-2nd century CE
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It's the Day of Helios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
#Helios rising from the sea in this Roman #mosaic found in the Villa Sileen in #Libya. The god's radiant crown and the whip raised in his right hand make him easy to identify. He is dressed in a red tunic with a flowing red cloak and golden belt. The 4 horses drawing his chariot are only partially shown as they emerge from the waves.
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It's the Day of Helios / Sol's Day / #Sunday!
Meet the "Rising Helios", a votive relief made of marble from 2nd century CE #ancientRome. #Helios rises from the sea with the four horses pulling his quadriga in front. His spikey sunray crown easily identifies the god.
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#HappyNewYear to everyone 🥂
I hope you welcomed the new year with as much joy as #Sol Invictus and Mithras are displaying in this polychrome reproduction of a Mithraic banquet scene featuring #Mithras and the #SolInvictus banqueting on the hide of the slaughtered bull 🥳
Sol is raising his drinking horn, large rays of light emerging from his head in the background.
Prosit!
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It's the Day of Helios / Sol's Day / #Sunday!
Sol Invictus (#Helios) with a halo of sunlight and #Mithras (to his right) feast together.
Emperor Aurelian built a new temple for Sol, which was dedicated #OTD, 25 December 274 CE. The cult, like Mithraism, had been introduced from the East
Read more about mid-winter festivals (ancient & modern) in my article:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/32058351
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It's the Day of Helios / Sol's Day / #Sunday!
"Dies Solis", the Day of Sol-Helios, as depicted in a 11th century medieval tapestry: #Helios is riding his #Sun chariot pulled by four horses. His head is crowned by spikey sunrays. He seems to be holding a scepter and a shield with a cross or a globus cruciger.
Creation of the World tapestry, Museo Tesoro Catedralico, Gerona, Spain
#DayOfHelios #Medievodons #MedievalArt #Sol #histodons @histodons @medievodons
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Erotic Mythology (comms open) · @AimeeMaroux
1240 followers · 1398 posts · Server mastodon.socialIt's the Day of Helios / Sol's Day / #Sunday!
"Dies Solis", the Day of Sol-Helios, as depicted in a 11th century medieval tapestry: #Helios is riding his #Sun chariot pulled by four horses. His head is crowned by spikey sunrays. He seems to be holding a scepter and a shield with a cross or a globus cruciger.
Creation of the World tapestry, Museo Tesoro Catedralico, Gerona, Spain
#DayOfHelios #Medievodons #MedievalArt #Sol #histodons @histodons @medievodons
#sunday #helios #sun #DayOfHelios #medievodons #medievalart #sol #histodons
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It's the Day of Helios / Sol's Day / #Sunday!
A rare vase painting of #Helios on what is likely an Apulian funery vase. The sun god is driving his quadriga, his chariot pulled by four horses. He wears a sunray crown and aureola of light around his head.
350-340 BCE, today in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, #Hamburg
#DayOfHelios #Sun #SundayVibes #AncMed #GreekRomanArt @antiquidons #VasePainting #SundayPicture
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Erotic Mythology (comms open) · @AimeeMaroux
1240 followers · 1398 posts · Server mastodon.socialIt's the Day of Helios / Sol's Day / #Sunday!
A rare vase painting of #Helios on what is likely an Apulian funery vase. The sun god is driving his quadriga, his chariot pulled by four horses. He wears a sunray crown and aureola of light around his head.
350-340 BCE, today in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, #Hamburg
#DayOfHelios #Sun #SundayVibes #AncMed #GreekRomanArt @antiquidons #VasePainting #SundayPicture
#sunday #helios #hamburg #DayOfHelios #sun #sundayvibes #AncMed #greekromanart #vasepainting #sundaypicture
Erotic Mythology (comms open) · @AimeeMaroux
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A #mosaic head of Sol-Helios caught on camera by @ilinterpaint@twitter.com 💛
#sunday #mosaic #DayOfHelios #sun #greekromanart #AncMed #helios
Erotic Mythology (comms open) · @AimeeMaroux
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It's the Day of Helios / Sol's Day / #Sunday!
A #mosaic head of Sol-Helios caught on camera by @ilinterpaint@twitter.com 💛
#sunday #mosaic #DayOfHelios #sun #greekromanart #AncMed #helios
Erotic Mythology 🔥 · @AimeeMaroux
339 followers · 384 posts · Server mastodon.socialIt's the Day of Helios / Sol's Day / #Sunday!
The Colossus of Rhodes, the famous sculpture of #Helios that stood on the island of #Rhodes, one of his cult centres.
Artwork for the boardgame 7 Wonders by Miguel Coimbra:
https://www.deviantart.com/miguelcoimbra/art/7-wonders-colossus-of-Rhodes-187774152
#sunday #helios #rhodes #DayOfHelios #sun #AncMedReception #histodon #antiquidon
Erotic Mythology (comms open) · @AimeeMaroux
1240 followers · 1398 posts · Server mastodon.socialIt's the Day of Helios / Sol's Day / #Sunday!
The Colossus of Rhodes, the famous sculpture of #Helios that stood on the island of #Rhodes, one of his cult centres.
Artwork for the boardgame 7 Wonders by Miguel Coimbra:
https://www.deviantart.com/miguelcoimbra/art/7-wonders-colossus-of-Rhodes-187774152
#sunday #helios #rhodes #DayOfHelios #sun #AncMedReception #histodon #antiquidon
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It's the Day of Helios / Sol's Day / #Sunday!
"[Gaia] seeing the icy hail embedded in [Typhon's] flesh, prayed to Titan #Helios with submissive voice: she begged of him one red hot ray, that with its heating fire she might melt the petrified water of Zeus, by pouring his kindred radiance over frozen Typhon."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 2. 543