🪷 29 Aug is the birthday of #Hathor, Egyptian goddess of home, love, beauty, motherhood. In 2017 archaeologists found a temple cornice stone at #Antinoopolis which mentions the deities Hathor and #Antinous, along with #Hadrian, Empress #Sabina and Egypt's intersex deity #Hapi.🪷

🪷 8 Aug is #WorldCatDay: What do you do with 180,000 Egyptian cat mummies found near #Antinoopolis? A Victorian UK firm sold them up as fur-tilizer! Punch magazine suggested they had more than 9 lives. Read the purr-fect #InternationalCatDay story: https://antinousgaygod.blogspot.com/2013/05/what-do-you-do-with-180000-cat-mumm-ie.html 🪷

🪷 This is the only painted portrait of #Antinous, called the Tondo of the Two Brothers - or were they lovers? This unique double-portrait mummy faceplate was found in a cache of mummies at #Antinoopolis, the city #Hadrian founded where Antinous died: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-two-lovers-of-antinoopolis.html 🪷

🪷 This linen-backed wool #Dionysus tapestry from the heyday of #Antinoopolis Egypt (known for fabulous fabric art) is extraordinary for its huge size: 210 cm x 700 cm (7 feet x 23 feet). The German language text says it adorned a Roman villa or temple: https://abegg-stiftung.ch/collection/der-spaetantike-mittelmeerraum/ 🪷

🪷 #NapoleonBonaparte born 15 Aug 1769, died 5 May 1821. #Napoleon is a saint of #Antinous for decriminalizing homosexual acts throughout his empire. Also, it was his experts who rediscovered, surveyed, mapped and researched #Antinoopolis. Full tribute: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/05/napoleon-bonaparte-saint-of-antinous.html 🪷

🪷 #NapoleonBonaparte born 15 Aug 1769, died 5 May 1821. #Napoleon is a saint of #Antinous for decriminalizing homosexual acts throughout his empire. Also, it was his experts who rediscovered, surveyed, mapped and researched #Antinoopolis. Full tribute: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/05/napoleon-bonaparte-saint-of-antinous.html 🪷

🪷 4 May is #BirdDay: Here we see an Egyptian and his BA soul spirit bird from the #Antinoopolis/#Fayoum Oasis area. Roman-Egyptian tempera-on-linen mummy shroud from the heyday of the city founded by #Hadrian where #Antinous died in the Nile in Egypt in 130 AD. Getty Museum. 🪷

🪷 Meet #MarcoAntinous, who lived near #Antinoopolis Egypt and whose encaustic linen mummy portrait is now at the Louvre. Worshipers named babies for Antinous so he would bless and watch over them. Marco Antinous lives in #Antinous for all eternity! https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/04/meet-marco-antinous-of-egypt-by-flamen.html 🪷

🪷 Religious intolerance resulted in executions of two men who lived in #Antinoopolis: Christian #Apollonius refused to bow to the gods. His Pagan lover #Philemon, flute player, stood by him to the death. Both were drowned in the Nile, like #Antinous: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/04/apollonius-and-philemon-saints-and.html 🪷

🪷 5 April #ReadARoadMapDay: Take the Blue Line to Alexandria and change to the #ViaHadriana Green Line for #Antinoopolis and Syene and points south up the Nile. Geographer #SashaTrubetskoy @sasha_trub has created this Roman Roads subway-style map: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2022/06/a-fantasy-subway-transit-map-of-ancient.html 🪷

🪷 Italian archaeologists have returned to the Sacred City of #Antinous, #Antinoopolis Egypt, after a long hiatus. Full report here: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/03/archaeologists-return-to-antinoopolis.html And watch this video about #Antinoupolis, the city founded by #Hadrian where #Antinoos died: https://youtu.be/v63vIsamXUY 🪷

🪷 Italian archaeologists have returned to the Sacred City of #Antinous, #Antinoopolis Egypt, after a long hiatus. Full report here: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/03/archaeologists-return-to-antinoopolis.html And watch this video about #Antinoupolis, the city founded by #Hadrian where #Antinoos died: https://youtu.be/v63vIsamXUY 🪷

Art by #idahlart ... Emperor #Hadrian loved #Antinous so much that when he died tragically in the Nile in October 130 AD, he declared #Antinoos a god and founded the city of #Antinoopolis there and erected temples and raised statues to him throughout the Roman Empire.

🪷This is the first priest of #Antinous in 1,600 years to visit #Antinoopolis #Egypt where #Antinoos died and was deified. Read Priest #AntoniusSubia's first-hand account of this historic visit escorted by armed guards and welcomed by smiling villagers: https://antinousgaygod.blogspot.com/2023/02/antonius-subia-first-priest-of-antinous.html 🪷

🪷 February 11th is the Feast of #Osiris. Antinous is identified with Osiris. An #Osireion-style tomb of #Antinous/Osiris may be at #Antinoopolis. #AntoniusSubia is the 1st priest of Antinous in 1,600 years to visit #Antinopolis. Here's the one at Abydos: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/02/now-you-can-see-tomb-of-osiris-just-as.html 🪷

🪷 February 11th is the Egyptian Feast of #Osiris. Antinous is identified with Osiris. An #Osireion-style tomb of #Antinous/Osiris may be at #Antinoopolis, say archaeologists who found a "deliberately buried stone structure" there. Here's the one at #Abydos: antinousgaygod.blogspot.com/2018/02/now-yo… 🪷

🪷 February 11th is the Egyptian Feast of #Osiris. An #Osireion-style tomb of #Antinous/Osiris may be at #Antinoopolis. #AntoniusSubia is the 1st priest of Antinous in 1,600 years to visit #Antinopolis: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2022/02/feast-… 🪷

🪷 February 9th: Happy Birthday to #AndrewPrior, who created this stunning portrait of #Antinous in the style of #Antinoopolis/#Fayoum funerary portraits, encaustic paint-on-wax with gilding! This and other portraits by this brilliant UK artist have been exhibited at the Petrie Museum of Egyptology. 🪷

🪷 On February 1st we mark the day #Hadrian may have officiated at the #openingofthemouth rites over the mummy of #Antinous at #Antinoopolis in 131 AD, final ritual in the 72-day mummification process. Here's how it may have happened: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-entombment-of-antinous.html Portraits by #AndrewPrior 🪷

🪷 On February 1st we mark the day #Hadrian may have officiated at the #openingofthemouth rites over the mummy of #Antinous at #Antinoopolis in 131 AD, final ritual in the 72-day mummification process. Here's how it may have happened: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-entombment-of-antinous.html Portraits by #AndrewPrior 🪷