Łukasz Sokołowski
@sokolowskiluk
Doctor of archaeology and cultural anthropologist interested in Roman art and portraiture with special emphasis put on #RomanEast and #Palmyra🏺📖🇵🇱🇪🇺🌍🙋♂
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https://uw.academia.edu/%C5%81ukaszSoko%C5%82owski 23-06-2013 15:38:19
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#OTD the battle of #Antioch was fought, AD 218 #Elagabalus was victorious over #Macrinus and became emperor. In this #aureus a car carries a conical stone that represents Elagabal, who Elagabalus tried to make the chief deity of Rome Coin now at the British Museum
Łukasz Sokołowski NyCarlsbergGlyptotek Oh those are really wonderful snail curls - one of my favorite design styles of Palmyrene portraits. Similar to the man with the camel below (name missing). Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen IN 2833. 📸 me
Buste en marbre de Sérapis, vers 150-200, Musée de la Romanité de Nîmes. Musée de la Romanité - Nîmes
Exquisite "Plato's Academy", found in the villa of Siminius Stephanus in #Pompeii. Roughly a square, 86 cm x 85 cm, 100 BC to 79 AD, displayed at Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, inv. 124545 Plato points with a stick at a celestial model, surrounded by Greek philosophers and scholars. #MosaicMonday
📰 Two almost life-sized sculptures have been uncovered at a tomb in Pompeii, perhaps depicting an elite couple or a priestess and a male relative. Such funerary sculptures are rare in southern Italy. #ArchaeologyNews via Archaeology News Online Magazine archaeologymag.com/2025/04/two-fu…
Palmyra by Alexander Jacovleff (1887-1938). Between 1931 and 1932, he travelled through Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, Mongolia and China, and created a number of orientalist paintings. From 1934 to 1937, Jacovleff was the Director of the Painting Department of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
