A medieval Christmas hedgehog for your Christmas Eve 🎄🦔
This little guy dates from around 1302 and can be found in Verdun, Bibliothèque Municipale MS 107, fol. 8
A beautiful Hellenistic/#Roman-period glass pomegranate, which survives in amazing condition given that it is at least 2000 years old. A very lovely thing indeed! (Photo: Phoenix Ancient Arts)
my favorite medieval story is the one about how alexander the great wanted to see the world, so he built a contraption to dive underwater and brought his cat and chicken to explore the ocean with him :)
We are having a really good week!
This is a silver phalera (military decoration) depicting the head of Medusa,uncovered from a barrack floor, dating to the Hadrianic period of occupation. #Vindolanda