#2nd century CE

[romegreeceart]

Dionysos

Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli

2nd century CE

Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm

Stockholm, November 2023

#Dionysos #Tivoli #2nd century CE #Roman #marble #head #ancient #art #god #Dionysus #Medelhavsmuseet #Swedish Museums #my photo

[ancientromebuildings]

Temple of Hadrian, Rome

* 2nd century CE

Rome, July 2015

#Rome #Temple of Hadrian #2nd century CE #ancient #ruins #column #Rome by night #Roman #temple

[artschoolglasses]

Head of Mars, Roman, 2nd Century CE

#head of mars #mars #roman #ancient roman #2nd century #100s #sculpture #statue #ancient #ce #2nd century ce #art

[tmblrfuckingsucksass]

Roman Aureus of Emperor Antoninus Pius (2nd century CE)

#roman history #roman empire #gold #aureus #gold coin #high relief #numismatics #antoninus pius #roman emperor #hail caesar #2nd century ce #concordia #goddess of harmony #roman mythology #classical antiquity #western civilization

[barbucomedie]

Roofing Tile from England dated to the 2nd Century CE on display at the Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery in Carlisle, England

The Roman legions all made roofing tiles for forts they made or maintained within the empire and stamped their legions mark on them to record their work. This tile is stamped with the Ninth Legion Hispana from modern day Spain.

The Ninth Legion Hispana was part of the initial invasion of Britain in 43 CE and they suffered badly during the revolt led by Boudica. Around 117 CE they mysteriously disappeared and they were thought to have been wiped out either in Britain or the Middle East in the Second Jewish Revolt or the Parthian War against King Vologases IV.

Photographs taken by myself 2023

#art #history #roman empire #england #english #archaeology #ancient #iron age #2nd century CE #tullie house museum and art gallery #carlisle #barbucomedie

[lemuseum]

#Mummy portrait from Roman Egypt (2nd century CE)

[ephemeral-winter]

so you know how medieval medical theory holds that periods were the way women expelled toxins from their body well my period is 5 days late and i am becoming the more evil version of my self by the second and i would really like to be expelling some toxins rn!!!! 

#also haven't slept properly in like 4 days due to the humidity but i'm blaming galen (2nd century CE) on this one #it's fine it's all fine #rare pic of me in the wild

[onuen]

#original photography #gold #jewel #greek antiquities #piece of a necklace? #1st or 2nd century CE #so beautiful #look at those incredible details #Old pictures from an old visit to the Louvre I thought I might share #my pictures

[lesbianshepard]

This comparison has been living in my brain for months:

A humorous Roman tombstone from the 1st-2nd century CE:

Translated, the text reads:

Calidius Eroticus made this for himself and Fannia Voluptas while still alive. – Innkeeper! Let’s work out the bill! – You’ve had a sextarius of wine, and bread for one as. Stew, two asses. – Okay. – The girl, eight asses. – That’s okay too. – Hay for the mule, two asses. – The damn mule will bankrupt me!

And a tweet from 2013

#m #i literally can not stop thinking about this #also the names roughly mean 'hot sexy' and 'miss pleasure' #both COULD be real names of freed slaves but like #considering the context it could also be part of the joke

[res3000]

#met muesum #bronze #Bronze tail of a horse #horse #roman #1st or 2nd century CE

[fdelopera]

Yo Gentiles! Looks like I'm going to need to give some of you a crash course on what antisemitic language looks like, because I've been seeing entirely too much of it from some of you here on Tumblr.

Now, I think it's time for a Jewish history lesson, because I've been seeing way too many Nazi-related conspiracy theories going around. If you hear contradictions to the basic information that I am about to share (i.e., if you hear someone saying that the Jewish people are "a race that originated in Europe"), it is likely that you are hearing a white supremacist, anti-Jewish conspiracy theory.

So, here's the basics of Jewish history. Jews are indigenous to the Levant have been there for thousands of years. The Levantine people that Jews descended from have been in that area of the Levant since the Bronze Age. Jews as a distinct people have been there since the Late Bronze Age. Before it was Palestine it was the Kingdom of Judah, then Judea, and then Judaea, and that is literally where we are from. The word Jew means "a person from the Kingdom of Judah." The Romans renamed the area Syria-Palaestina (which they borrowed from the Greek name Palestina) in the 2nd century CE after destroying the Second Temple in Jerusalem and leading another campaign to try to eradicate the Jewish people (guess what, we're still here, motherfuckers).

And even after the Romans tried to annihilate us, even after they scattered many of us into European diaspora, many Jews came back, again and again over the ages, and there have nearly always been Jewish communities in the region throughout history.

And if you come for me or try to dispute any of this history with white supremacist bullshit, I am a Jew who has studied way more Jewish history than you. And as politely as possible, you can take your white supremacist conspiracy theories and fuck off into the sun.

Okay, with all that out of the way, let's get into it!

Gloves are coming off, because this is just a sampling of the Nazi dogwhistles I've been seeing here on Tumblr about the Jewish civilians who were tortured, murdered, and worse:

- If you say shit like, "The Jews got what they deserved"...

GUESS WHAT? You're talking like a white supremacist, and you need to fucking check yourself.

- And if, on the other hand, you say shit like, "The reports were probably overblown. I think those were paid actors. I don't think those Jews were murdered. No Jewish children were killed. No Jewish bodies were desecrated" blahblahblah...

GUESS WHAT? You get to sit with the Nazis at their table for lunch.

- If you tell Jews "go back to Europe where you came from"...

GUESS WHAT? Not only are you telling the descendants of Jewish refugees to go back to the Spanish Inquisition, the Russian pogroms, and the Nazi gas chambers, as I explained in this post, but you are also repeating a white supremacist conspiracy theory about the origins of European Jews.

Jews are a Levantine people from the area of the Middle East currently called Israel (formerly called the Kingdom of Judah, and then Judea). While there was some emigration to Europe during the late Roman Republic and the early days of the Roman Empire, the first mass migration of Jews to Europe was a forced migration. Gentiles from the Roman Empire dragged us there as captives after 70 CE, the year Rome destroyed the Second Temple.

- And if you're telling yourself that there are "good Jews" and "bad Jews," and those Jewish civilians were "bad Jews," so they deserved to be tortured and killed...

GUESS WHAT? You're spouting white supremacist ideology.

Antisemitism takes a long time to deprogram.

A lot of gentiles grow up with anti-Jewish ideology that they have never questioned.

And a lot of Christians are kept ignorant about Jewish history because preachers and priests fear it would make Christians question the many inaccuracies in the Bible.

But the first step in noticing antisemitic beliefs is to notice when you start singling people out *because* they are Jewish.

And I have been seeing some of you gleefully celebrating the murder of Jewish civilians *because* they are Jewish.

And that is antisemitism.

That is one step closer to the next generation of Jews getting shoved into the gas chambers. And there are only 16 million of us left in the entire world. We're 0.2% of the world's population. And we cannot afford another Holocaust.

And if your response to me saying that is, "Well, those Jews deserve it."

Guess what. You are making it easier for Nazis and white supremacists to spread hatred and commit acts of violence against Jewish people. And you will have to live with that blood on your conscience.

So...

If you are a gentile, and you see other gentiles repeating these kinds of white supremacist dogwhistles about Jewish people, here's how you can help:

1. MOST IMPORTANTLY: Help them direct their focus away from attacking random Jewish people online and towards helping Palestinians.

Actions that people can take right now are contributing to verified charities and relief organizations that help the people of Gaza. Some organizations that are verified by CharityNavigator.org and CharityWatch.org are:

Anera (92% rating on Charity Navigator)

Palestine Children's Relief Fund (97% rating on Charity Navigator)

Doctors Without Borders (98% on Charity Navigator)

2. Call that shit out. Tell people that they're being antisemitic, and explain that Jew-hatred is dangerous to Jewish people. Antisemitism gets Jews attacked and it gets Jews killed. In the US, many synagogues require round the clock security to protect against white supremacists who want to murder Jews. In Pittsburgh, my old home town, a group of Nazis from north of the city planned the murder of Jewish congregants at Tree of Life Synagogue, and so far only one of them (the gunman) has been arrested and convicted of the murders. The others are still at large.

3. Explain to them that it is antisemitic to celebrate someone's death *because* they're Jewish. ALSO, it is antisemitic to blame a random Jewish person for the actions of ANY government, whether that be the Israeli Government or the US Government.

4. Explain to people that they're not going to solve this conflict by posting antisemitic statements and memes online. All they will do is alienate the Jewish people in their lives and make those Jews feel scared and unsafe. And they will contribute to this current wave of antisemitism.

Antisemitic hatred doesn't help Palestinians. All it does is put Jewish people around the world in danger.

#tl;dr if you celebrate the murder of jews *because* they are jews you are an antisemite - end of story #just fyi - i will be monitoring the comments so if anyone posts anything antisemitic i will delete your comment and block you #antisemitism tw #jumblr

[romegreeceart]

Mask of a female mummy

Fayum

2nd century CE

Egyptian Museum, Turin

Turin, June 2023

#Roman Egypt #2nd century CE #eye #mummy mask #ancient #art #Roman #Turin Egyptian museum #my photo #hairstyle

[the-puffinry]

This is so.. ! Such a fragile object in the shape of such a fragile creature surviving through the centuries intact.

"Roman glass unguentarium in the form of a dove, containing the remains of a balsam. Sealed since its manufacture, containing the remains of balsam and the liquid in which it was once suspended. The vessel would be blown and filled through either the open tail or beak, which would then be reheated to seal it. Accessing the contents would require snapping off the beak or tail, which in this case was never done. Dated to the 2nd half of the 1st c. CE. Found at Rovasenda (Vc).Museo di Antichità di Torino (alias Museo Archeologico Nazionale del Piemonte), Italy."

#ancient rome #glass art #ancient art

[artschoolglasses]

Cupid, Roman, 190 CE

#cupid #roman #ancient roman #ancient rome #sculpture #statue #art #190ce #190 ce #ce #2nd century #100s

[thoodleoo]

6th grade is probably my favorite grade to teach because they're the perfect combination of relatively enthusiastic and "just now starting to learn not to take things too seriously" without typically getting "too cool" for anything we do. as a result they're the best kids to read marcus aurelius to because they still think it's fun and will quiet down for it while also finding some of the things marcus aurelius says amusing. the best part about it though is that if i accidentally get distracted and forget to give them their dose of 2nd century CE stoic philosophy they call me out on it because they really want to hear what he has to say

what im saying is the other day in class i may have had a small group of 11-12 year olds yelling "WHAT ABOUT MARCUS" at me because i forgot to read them a passage from the meditations at the start of class

#tagamemnon #marcus aurelius #sarah teaches latin #probably the best teaching decision of my life to start out class with marcus #queueusque tandem abutere catilina patientia nostra

[museum-of-artifacts]

The 2nd century CE Roman Barbegal watermill complex, a unique cluster of 16 waterwheels in southern France, was the first known attempt in Europe to set up an industrial-scale complex of machines. The mills had an estimated production capacity of 25 tonnes of flour per day

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