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18+ AimeeMaroux , to antiquidons
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / ! 🌛

"Selene (the ) at her full and all the signs with which heaven is crowned. Greetings, all you immortal gods everlasting and immortal goddesses!"
Greek Lyric V Anonymous, Fragments 937, Inscription from the shrine of Asklepios at

🏛️ Reddish marble carved votive relief of

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18+ AimeeMaroux , to antiquidons
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Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

" glorious-crowned, the Bride of strong ."
Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 1.909

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18+ AimeeMaroux , to antiquidons
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka ! 🐏

"They [the Aloadai giants] decided to fight the gods. [...] And they also bound up Ares. But Hermes secretly snatched Ares away."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.54

🏛 and , 300-200 BCE, limestone relief from Tarentum, Italy, Cleveland Museum of Art

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18+ AimeeMaroux , to antiquidons
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / ! 🌛

"The story goes that comes down to this cave [on Mount Latmos in Karia] to meet ."
, Fragment 199

🏛️ , Selene and Endymion, dated ca 3th century BCE, from ancient Dimitrias, Magnesia. Today at the National Museum of ;
https://www.namuseum.gr/en/monthly_artefact/gods-in-love-sublime-mortals/

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phistorians , to antiquidons
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This detailed ivory relief is thought to depict the goddess Roma ~ C5th–C6th CE

Roma appeared with a helmet and staff, and holds the globe in her hand while being crowned by the goddess Victory.

This is part of a diptych showcasing a personification of Constantinople but I’m afraid I don’t have a picture of that side. But pairing these two together would make perfect sense in a world where Constantinople was increasingly the central city and Rome a historic symbol…

🏛 Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

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18+ AimeeMaroux , to antiquidons
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / ! 🌛

"He has this haughty symbol on his shield: a well-crafted sky, ablaze with stars, and the brightness of the full moon (panselene) shining in the center of the shield, the moon that is the most revered of the stars, the eye of night."
Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 389

🏛️ Luna-Selene, relief on the pediment at the Roman Baths

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This depiction of praetorians comes from the Arch of Claudius celebrating his invasion of Britain. The arch has not survived, but this panel suggests the artistry used to enhance the sense of military glory…

🏛 The Louvre
📸 Christophe Jacquand

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18+ AimeeMaroux , to mythology
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / ! 🌛

"Selene, circle of gleaming gold, daughter of radiant-belted Helios (the Sun)."
Euripides, Phoenicians 175

🏛️ -Saturnus, -Sol & -Luna Relief on marble bowl

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This polychromatic relief shows a classic scene of satyrs crushing grapes for the production of wine 🍇🍷

This looks to be a painted terracotta relief and the colours add to the sense of movement.

🏛 Pushkin Museum

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The monument of Eurysaces the baker offers us a beautiful insight into the funerary displays possible in the late Republic/early principate while also offering a great cycle of friezes exploring the making of baked goods in ancient Rome.

Delicious!

The excellent illustration allows you to see more clearly all the phases of getting the bread made from the extant sides of the monument.

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Illustration of the friezes from Eurysaces’ monument showing weighing and trading, milling, kneading, and baking. Source: https://digitalmuret.inha.fr/s/digital-muret/agorha/263139

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This Greek marble stele commemorates a young girl. Although there is some damage to her face and what she holds (pomegranates?), the poignant grief of saying goodbye to a child too soon is clear.

🕰️ c. 440–425 BCE
📍Boeotia
🏛 The Met, 11.141

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phistorians , to mythology
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Roman mirror of the goddess Diana ~ C2nd CE

Diana sits in divine nudity with her cloak offering respite from the rock ledge she sits on. She sits before a garlanded altar with a small herm, her quiver nearby.

🏛 Art Institute, Chicago

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This relief was found at Hadrian’s villa in Tivoli. The young man (Castor?) seems to be in a tousle for control with the horse while a dog watches on. Likely Roman in manufacture, but definitely inspired by the Greek style!

🏛British Museum, 1805,0703.121

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Greek marble grave stele of a girl ~ c. 450-440 BCE

Every child is precious. This stele memorialising a lost girl who loved doves is heart wrenching for the beauty and the grief conveyed.

🏛 The Met, 27.45

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Self-portrait of sculptor, draughtsman, and painter Baccio Bandinelli

🎨 Coming soon: a wide range of captivating films about the Italian Renaissance in a fresh, original format!

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Roman marble relief with amphorae ~ C2nd CE

In this relief, we see stacks of amphorae delicately wedged together to ensure they remain upright. Next to the stack are two figures, one carries an amphora over their shoulder.

🏛 The Met, 25.78.63.

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18+ AimeeMaroux , to mythology
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka ! 🐏

For , have a relief of in his role as . Hermes guides the souls of the dead to the underworld. Here, he takes the hand of a dead woman named Myrrhine on the way down to Hades.

🏛 Relief on Myrrhine's lekythos, ca 420-410 BCE, National Archaeological Museum,

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Roman relief? ~ Virunum

I’m not sure about the date of this piece, but it’s been repurposed as part of church in Maria Saal. The covered carriage is particularly striking.

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18+ AimeeMaroux , to mythology
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka ! 🐏

carrying down from Mount Olympus, a artwork based on a design by John Flaxman.

🏛 Bronze medal dated 1854 CE. Today it seems to be in a private collection.

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Funerary relief of Apelles from Herakleia ~ c. 110 BCE

Apelles holds a scroll(?) in his left hand and also rests his left foot on a cylinder, while resting his right hand on a herm with a youthful head.

Inscription reads: Ἀπελλῆ Θεμίσωνος / Ἡρακλεῖε χρηστὲ / χαῖρε (this is for ancient Greek fans, I can’t translate Greek!)

🏛 Kunsthistorisches Museum, inv. I 753

Interested in this artefact? There are more details here: https://www.khm.at/en/object/51788/

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This C2nd CE Roman relief is part of a celebration of Hadrian’s twentieth year as emperor. A bull is about to be sacrificed. The detail in the relief work is spectacular!

🏛 Uffizi Gallery
📸 Yair Haklai

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☀️ For : A 4th c. AD stele with a dedication of a wife to her deceased husband, Centurion of Cataphracti: "To the Manes and in eternal memory of Klaudius Ingemuus, Centurion of the Senior Cataphracti Horsemen, who died at the approximate age of 35. Candida raised this tomb to her cherished husband and dedicated under the Ascia".

Now in Lyon museum. 📸 Own pic.
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Sarcophagus with a frieze depicting the labours of Hercules. This piece is thought to have been made in Asia Minor in c. 160 CE before its transfer to Rome. Today it can be found in the Galleria Borghese.

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This is part of a triumphal monument by Boccus I, King of Mauritania.

The style leverages Roman symbols but is visually distinct. It is thought to celebrate the victory shared with Sulla in the the Jugurthine War.

🏛 Centrale Montemartini
📸 My own

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