Dr Paula Lock

Classical history | Archaeology | Ancient Roman bars | Sensory studies

[Dr Paula Lock @PaulaLock5]

Inspired by one of my favourite bars at #Pompeii, I made some #ediblearchaeology. Betting its owner would have been chuffed to know that 2000 years later his bar had been immortalised in a walnut cake! #CauponaOfSpatalus #Roman

[Dr Paula Lock @PaulaLock5]

The wrath of the grapes: How the #Romans cheated the hangover by eating one of their five a day!
#HappyNewYear #Hangover #Roman #Archaeology

https://t.co/FaPVtOiU78

[Dr Paula Lock @PaulaLock5]

Wow your friends and family this festive season with a taste of the past. Try this ancient #Roman recipe for #Passum — a delicious sweet #wine with a rich and velvety texture that goes down a treat! Why not give it a go? #SensoryTimeTravel #Christmas

https://t.co/PbQLrmTj60

[Ulla Rajala 💗 #Dig4Arch 🇺🇦 @UllaMR]

A black and white mosaic from Piazzale delle Corporazioni in Ostia, Italy. #MosaicMonday

[Dr Paula Lock @PaulaLock5]

Wow your friends and family this festive season with a taste of the past. Try this ancient #Roman recipe for #Passum — a delicious sweet #wine with a rich and velvety texture that goes down a treat! Why not give it a go? #SensoryTimeTravel #Christmas

https://t.co/PbQLrmTj60

[Alison Fisk @AlisonFisk]

Lovely little Romano-British brooch in the form of a hare.

The artisan who made this brooch some 1,900 years ago, gave the hare a cheerful little face! 😍

Copper alloy decorated with enamel. 📷 British Museum https://t.co/7TPXCfl2CP

#Archaeology

[Dr Paula Lock @PaulaLock5]

Which came first, the hairdo or the bread?
Carbonised loaf from #Pompeii. Hairdo, Imperial family, #BritishMuseum.

#ChristmasQuiz #PanisQuadratus #Roman #Archaeology
📷 Me

[Dr Paula Lock @PaulaLock5]

Which came first, the hairdo or the bread?
Carbonised loaf from #Pompeii. Hairdo, Imperial family, #BritishMuseum.

#ChristmasQuiz #PanisQuadratus #Roman #Archaeology
📷 Me

[Pete Savin @pete_savin]

Fragments of wall plaster found during the fort headquarters building excavation under York Minster. The decoration came from a side room probably used by senior army officers #Archaeology #York

[Dr Jo Ball @DrJEBall]

A #Roman glass jug, decorated with irregular glass blobs . This particular vessel was made about 2000 years ago, probably in Italy, & looks amazing for its age! #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientGlass

[Alison Fisk @AlisonFisk]

Spectacular black and white floor mosaic in the women’s changing room at the Central Baths, ancient Herculaneum. Triton with octopus, cuttlefish, cherub and dolphins. Early 1st century AD.

Modern changing rooms could do with a #Roman style upgrade!

📷 by me

#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology

[Dimitri Tilloi-d’Ambrosi @DimitriTilloi]

Un buveur au banquet sur une coupe à figures rouges provenant d’Athènes et retrouvée en Étrurie, vers 490-480 J.-C. Prêt du musée du Louvre pour l’exposition « Vins, huiles et parfums - voyage archéologique autour de la Méditerranée antique » au ⁦@cdf1530⁩.

[Bardolphs Nose @BardolphsNose]

What better way to prepare for Xmas than seeing #TwelfthNight @TheRSC. Superb cast, marvellous music & beautiful staging. @MikeGradyHall is an outstanding fool. (That’s a good thing). This production is so deliciously funny your garters will be cross if you miss it!

[Gareth Harney @OptimoPrincipi]

A mosaic from the entrance to the Roman baths in Timgad, Algeria, inviting you to swap your sandals for a pair with wooden soles that protected feet against the heated floors ..and then 'Bene lava' – 'Wash well!'

c.2nd century AD, 📷by me at Timgad Museum.

[Dr Paula Lock @PaulaLock5]

Pecked to perfection: This rather splendid #cockerel with a basket of cherries can be found lurking in the back room of the bar of Sotericus at #Pompeii.
#FrescoFriday #Roman #Archaeology
📷 Me

[The Partial Historians🏺 @p_historians]

Start #FrescoFriday right with a good feast and a relax. Hair nets and drinking horns optional!

This fresco is from Herculaneum and now held in MAN Napoli.

[Kevin Wilbraham @KPW1453]

A wall painting fragment of theatre masks from the House of the Wrestlers at Ostia Antica, near Rome. Dating to the 1st century AD, the fragment is on display in the site museum. 📷 My own. #FrescoFriday #Rome #Archaeology

[Dr Paula Lock @PaulaLock5]

Pecked to perfection: This rather splendid #cockerel with a basket of cherries can be found lurking in the back room of the bar of Sotericus at #Pompeii.
#FrescoFriday #Roman #Archaeology
📷 Me

[Armand D'Angour @ArmandDAngour]

@PaulaLock5 in memoriam Petros Themelis

[Dr Paula Lock @PaulaLock5]

From rubble to restoration: The #theatre of Ancient #Messene back in 2004 and as it appears today. What a transformation! #Peloponnese #Greece #Archaeology
📷 Me

[Dr Paula Lock @PaulaLock5]

From rubble to restoration: The #theatre of Ancient #Messene back in 2004 and as it appears today. What a transformation! #Peloponnese #Greece #Archaeology
📷 Me