Fascinating world of (broken and stunning colourful) ancient #glass: some fragments of #Hellenistic and #Roman mosaic glass vessels.
Sherds - archaeologists' joy!

On display at London Mithraeum.

#archaeology #RomanArchaeology Archaeology

RT @DrJEBall
A #Hellenistic Greek-period bronze sculpture of a lizard, lounging on a block. It looks incredibly realistic, & looks like the sculptor may have based it on an actual individual lizard - it is a beautiful piece of ancient animal art 🦎

RT @DrJEBall@twitter.com

A #Hellenistic Greek-period bronze sculpture of a lizard, lounging on a block. It looks incredibly realistic, & looks like the sculptor may have based it on an actual individual lizard - it is a beautiful piece of ancient animal art 🦎

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/DrJEBall/status/1619797061377073153

GOLD EARRINGS with disk and boat shaped pendant ca. 300 BCE, Hellenistic, East Greek
A tiny figure of Nike (the personification of victory) driving two horses is set amid the floral design above the boat-shaped forms on these extraordinarily elaborate earrings.
Medium: Gold; Dimensions: Overall (A): 25/8 in. (6.6 cm); Other (Diameter of disc): 7/8 in. (2.2 cm); Diam.: 3/4 in. (1.9 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

#culture #Art #decoration #Hellenistic

#Hellenistic influences on ancient #Nabatean #tombs in #Hegra #SaudiArabia
A gorgon head with snakes on the facade above the tomb’s entrance

#arab #polytheism #hellenism #pagan

RT @DrJEBall
An amazing piece of ancient art - a #Hellenistic bronze sculpture of a seated boxer, often known as the 'Boxer at Rest', which was excavated in #Rome in 1885. He is depicted sitting down, probably moments after a fight, still wearing his boxing gloves.

Like many modern astrologers I've been wresting with the different house systems. This cymatics image by Shawn Picarsic, a photo of vibration upon water, provides clearer understanding of why it's appropriate to shift my focus from Placidus to Whole sign houses. It's how Nature behaves.
#astrology #Hellenistic #cymatics

@histodons and @antiquidons

Calling all #histodons and #antiquidons: does anyone have good recs for #academic articles on #Hellenistic #history? Looking for resources that are good for undergraduates in particular. I’ve got some initial ideas, but want to make sure I’m not missing anything new and exciting!

#ancient #ancmed #ancienthistory #teaching

I just leave this here #AncientJewelryLiterature
#AncientJewelry
Carnelian-encrusted gold lamella from Mal Tepe, Grave 1; (right) Similar lamella found elsewhere in the tomb (photographs, National Archaeological Institute with Museum, Sofia).

Source:
THE #HELLENISTIC TOMB OF MAL TEPE IN #THRACE: A RECONSIDERATION OF BURIAL SEQUENCE AND DATING*
By CHAVDAR TZOCHEV
https://www.academia.edu/resource/work/5899248

cc @histodons @antiquidons

Calling all #ancient #histodons and #antiquidons – I'm #teaching a #hellenistic #history course next term. Does anyone have advice re good sourcebooks (in English translation) and/or textbooks? Looking for a good balance of #historiography and documentary/epigraphic sources. My go-to is Austin's sourcebook with supplemental readings (i.e., modern scholarship), but wondering what else people have enjoyed working with #ancienthistory

He was talking and arguing with the Hellenists (Greek-speaking Jews); but they were attempting to kill him.
-Acts 9:29

#scripture #HELLenistic

He was talking and arguing with the Hellenists (Greek-speaking Jews); but they were attempting to kill him.
-Acts 9:29

#scripture #HELLenistic

Choosing of the Seven
Now about this time, when the number of disciples was increasing, a complaint was made by the Hellenists (Greek-speaking Jews) against the [native] Hebrews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily serving of food.
-Acts 6:1

#scripture #HELLenistic

Choosing of the Seven
Now about this time, when the number of disciples was increasing, a complaint was made by the Hellenists (Greek-speaking Jews) against the [native] Hebrews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily serving of food.
-Acts 6:1

#scripture #HELLenistic

So he [obeyed and] went away and began to publicly proclaim in Decapolis [the region of the ten Hellenistic cities] all the great things that Jesus had done for him; and all the people were astonished.
-Mark 5:20

#scripture #HELLenistic

So he [obeyed and] went away and began to publicly proclaim in Decapolis [the region of the ten Hellenistic cities] all the great things that Jesus had done for him; and all the people were astonished.
-Mark 5:20

#scripture #HELLenistic

RT @DrJEBall: A beautiful #Hellenistic or #Roman glass bowl, with a colourful cane-formed pattern in blue, purple, & green, with black & white stripes along the rim. It was made between 200-100BC in the eastern Mediterranean - looking good for a 2000+ year old piece of crockery! #AncientGlass

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/Baroness_Nichol/status/1519054119096532998

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Detail of an ancient Greek diadem, made of gold, garnet, carnelian, and sardonyx.
~250-150 BCE (Hellenistic period)
📍MET, New York
#Archaeology #AncientGreece #Hellenistic #jewelry

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ArysPan/status/1515771417551413256