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@carolemadge
Dec 29, 2022 • 27 tweets • 40 min read • Read on X
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🧵 With New Year approaching, I thought I'd share some of my favourite moments and photos from my 2022 archaeological travels, which have seen me travel to Egypt, Turkey, Hadrian's Wall and Algeria.
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Sailing on Lake Nasser in Egypt between Aswan and Abu Simbel and visiting the temples that used to lie on the banks of the Nile but were moved when the Aswan High Dam flooded the region in the 1960s.
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Visiting the relocated Wadi es-Sebua temple with its beautiful avenue of sphinxes. The temple was built during the reign of Ramesses II and was dedicated to the deified pharaoh, Amun-Ra, and Ra-Harakhty.
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Approaching Abu Simbel from Lake Nasser.
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Having both temples of Abu Simbel almost to myself.
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Going back to Philae.
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Visiting the wonderful archaeological site of Anavarza in the Adana Province of Turkey. The ruins include a 1500 metre-long fortification wall with 20 bastions, a columned road, a triumphal arch, a theatre, an amphitheatre and a stadium.
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Finally spending the night at the wonderful Museum Hotel Antakya.
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Visiting the Hatay Archeology Museum with its extensive collection of Roman and Byzantine Era mosaics.
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Following the course of the Euphrates, the longest and one of the most historically important rivers of Western Asia.
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Visiting the fantastic Zeugma Mosaic Museum in Gaziantep, one of the biggest mosaic museums in the world, containing 1700 m2 of mosaics.
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Exploring Dara (Anastasiopolis), a beautiful and unusual Roman city whose ruins lie scattered around a Kurdish village close to the Syrian border.
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Visiting Göbekli Tepe, an archaeological site from the prehistoric period, between 9,600 and 8,200 BC. Enclosures with distinctive T-shaped pillars carved with images of wild animals were probably used in connection with funerary rituals.
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Exploring the magnificent Krom Valley near Gümüşhane in the Black Sea region of Turkey with its many churches, monasteries and chapels, and untouched nature.
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Visiting the Barberini Mithraeum in Rome with its beautiful frescoes.
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Visiting the "Rome's Flowing Frontiers" archaeological exhibition about the Romans Limes in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Bonn – Life along the Limes
Xanten – The Lower Rhine Limes
Cologne – Rome on the Rhine
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Giving my first full lecture at the Römermuseum Güglingen in Germany.
#Throwback2022 #Germany #Hadrian1900
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Visiting the Weiden burial chamber in Cologne, one of the best-preserved and most impressive Roman grave structures north of the Alps. It was the burial chamber of members of a wealthy family of landowners.
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Participating in the excavations at Vindolanda for the first time. A dream come true! ⛏
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Attending the Eboracum Roman Festival in York.
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Visiting the world-famous Carnac stones, with more than 3,000 prehistoric standing stones spread across three alignments: Ménec, Kermario and Kerlescan. There are also dolmens, tumuli and single menhirs.
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Exploring the remains of the ancient town of Noviodunum in Saintes. It was the capital of the ancient Gallic tribe of the Diablintes. Urbanized in the 1st century AD, the city had public monuments of which a theatre and a temple remain.
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Celebrating my 46th birthday by spending the day on Hadrian’s Wall. 🎂Hadrian was 46 years old when he visited Britannia in AD 122 to oversee the construction of his namesake wall.
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Giving my “Following in the Footsteps of Hadrian” lecture in the Hadrian’s Wall Gallery of the Great North Museum in Newcastle as part of the Hadrian's Wall 1900 Festival.

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Making the cover of The Journal, a daily newspaper in Newcastle upon Tyne, in anticipation of my talk at the Great North Museum in Newcastle.
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Exploring Timgad in Algeria, the "Pompeii of Africa". The Roman city was founded by Trajan around AD 100. The full name of the town was Colonia Marciana Ulpia Traiana Thamugadi.
Another dream come true!
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Visiting Lambaesis in Algeria, where Hadrian observed the Legio III Augusta and the auxiliary units stationed there during his visit to the province of Africa in AD 128. He witnessed their manoeuvres and praised them in speeches.
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Messene… what an amazing site!! This is a hidden gem, truly extraordinary. 😍

The first evidence of human activity in Ancient Messene goes back to the beginning of the 3rd millennium BC. A residential settlement of the 9th-8th century BC is detected at the Asklepieion while at the same time the sanctuary of Zeus Ithomatas is operating on the top of mount Ithome. The Messenian wars and the continuous uprisings of the Messenians against the dominant Spartans took place during the 8th-5th century BC.

In 369 BC, the Theban general Epaminondas ended the long Spartan occupation and founded the city of Messene, bringing back the exiled Messenians from Italy (Rhegium), Sicily (Zankle-Messene, Messina) and Cyrenaica (Euesperides). The new Messenian capital was founded in the foothills of Mount Ithome, a place inextricably linked to the local political and religious history.

The city was named after the mythical queen Messene and developed into a notable political, religious and cultural centre mainly during the Hellenistic and Early Imperial years (3rd century BC-1st century AD).

From the 3rd century AD, the city declined and shrank in size. However, during the Early Byzantine years (5th-7th c. AD) until the beginning of the 15th century AD, Messene remained a remarkable centre in the southwestern Peloponnese, known from the written sources of the 10th century AD, and thereafter under the name “Vourkano".

The traveller Pausanias visited the city between 155 and 160 B.C. and recorded significant information regarding its form and all public and holy buildings.
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Mar 6
🧵 In early AD 124, Hadrian toured Bithynia in Asia Minor. After sailing along the southern Black Sea coast, possibly visiting the Pontic towns of Amisus, Sinope and Amastris, Hadrian is thought to have spent the winter of 123/4 in Nicomedia or possibly Byzantium.

Nicomedia was the capital of the dual province of Pontus et Bithynia in what is now Izmit in northern Turkey. It was also the hometown of his lifelong friend Arrian, who may have been his host on this occasion, like in 117/8.

During his stay in the Bithynian province, the Emperor probably visited several major cities, including Heraclea Pontica, Claudiopolis (former Bythinium), Prusias ad Hypium and Nicaea. During one of these visits, Hadrian probably met Antinous, a beautiful young Greek boy who would accompany him on his many travels as a cherished lover and companion.

Early AD 124 – Hadrian spends the winter in Nicomedia, tours Bithynia and "meets" Antinous
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Nicomedia and Nicaea were only just recovering from the damage caused by an earthquake. The date of this earthquake is not certain. It probably took place in the fifth year of Hadrian's reign in 121, between August and December, as stated by Eusebius, but definitely before Hadrian visited the area in 124. Saint Jerome places it in the 224th Olympiad, the fourth year of Hadrian's reign, AD 120.

"After an earthquake had happened, Nicomedia lay in ruins, and many things were overturned in the city of Nicaea: for the reconstruction of which, Hadrian generously gave funds from the public treasury."
Jerome, Chronicle 180

Hadrian took special care of the province and contributed to the reconstruction of both cities, as suggested by the new set of coins celebrating Hadrian as Restitutor Bithyniae and Restitutor Nicomediae. Nicomedia also added the epithet 'Hadriane' (Ἁδριανή) to its titulature to express its gratitude (CIG 1720).Sestertius of Hadrian of the “restitutor type” with the legend RESTITVTORI BITHYNIAE on the reverse. © The Trustees of the British Museum
Sestertius of Hadrian of the “restitutor type” with the legend RESTITVTORI NICOMEDIAE on the reverse. © The Trustees of the British Museum
Hadrian is credited with reconstructing city walls, gates and markets in the two neighbouring towns, which had a long rivalry over which city held the rank of capital of the province. Nicomedia was the metropolis or 'first city' of Bithynia and wanted to be the only city claiming the title, which Nicaea also claimed. Hadrian also entrusted Patrocles, a Bithynian who had commanded two Roman cohorts, with overseeing the reconstruction of his native Nicaea (IK Iznik 56).


"[Hadrian] surrounded with strong walls Nicaea and Nicomedea, which had suffered in an earthquake."
Niceph. 256/i. 944epigraphy.packhum.org/text/277836?&b…The city walls of Nicomedia.
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[New post] Autumn AD 123 – Hadrian reaches Trapezus and sails westwards along the Pontic coast #Hadrian1900
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After his inspection tour of the eastern frontier provinces, Hadrian travelled through the Pontic mountains to the Black Sea port of Trapezus (present-day Trabzon), the northernmost end of the Cappadocian limes. Trapezus was one of the furthest points reached by Hadrian, and in the AD 130s, his friend L. Flavius Arrianus, as governor of the province of Cappadocia, would report on his visit, following in the footsteps of Xenophon and the Ten Thousand.

"We came in the course of our voyage to Trapezus, a Greek city in a maritime situation, a colony from Sinope, as we are informed by Xenophon, the celebrated historian. We surveyed the Euxine sea with the greater pleasure, as we viewed it from the same spot, whence both Xenophon and yourself had formerly observed it."
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Xenophon and his later great admirer Arrian both described Trapezus as a Greek city settled on the sea and as a colony of Sinope. Eusebius, who lived in the 4th century AD, dated the foundation of Trebizond as 756 BC but may refer to an early emporium (a place of fishery and commerce) in the territory of Colchis. Settlers from Sinope of Paphlagonia (colonists from Miletus), a Greek city on the southern shore of the Euxine (Black Sea), about 400 kilometres to the west, refounded the city around 630 BC with the aim of trading with an inland tribe, the Mossynoeci, and taking advantage of the rich metal region of the east Euxine trade network (Doonan, 2010).

The city was laid out on a flat rock overlooking the sea and protected on either side by deep ravines, the shape of which occasioned the name of Trapezous, from the Greek word trapeza (“τράπεζα”), signifying a table. The table appears on the reverse of the city’s first coins minted in the 4th century BC, surmounted by a huge bunch of grapes. The obverse bears the head of a young bearded man, thought to represent the god Hermes. The town’s name has varied over the centuries: Trapezous, Trebizond, Trebisonda, Trapezunte, Tarabzundah and Trabzon.
A silver drachma coin from Trapezus (Trapezus) with the head of a bearded male (Hermes?) on the observe and a table with grapes on the reverse. The ethnicon TPA appears between the legs of the table. Dated to the 4th century BC. © The Trustees of the British Museum
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#GeorgiaOdyssey Day 3 - Today, we visited Gelati Academy and Monastery, built by King David the Builder in 12th century AD. Gelati was the center of spiritual and scientific life of the Middle Ages, the tomb of Georgian kings, and the cult place for pilgrims. It is under UNESCO… https://t.co/tSbujVz76utwitter.com/i/web/status/1…



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#RuinoftheDay - The remains of the Temple of Hadrian at Cyzicus in Mysia, the eighth wonder of the ancient world. The Temple was a monumental structure; it measured 120 m in length and 50 m across. The sixty massive columns surrounding the cella were well over 2 m in diameter and… https://t.co/enPO1tYtEKtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…



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The Byzantine chronicler John Malalas called the Temple of Hadrian at Cyzicus “a very large temple, one of the wonders" with a very large bust of Hadrian on the roof and a marble stele inscribed "of Divine Hadrian". (Malalas, Chronography Bks 1-7, 10-18)

Cassius Dio called it… https://t.co/J5BDTaVjBCtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
More architectural fragments (lion-headed marble gutters) from the Temple of Hadrian can be seen at the nearby open-air museum in Erdek.

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Mar 9, 2023
I saw the wonderful Apollo Kithara by Jeff Koons yesterday at the Liebieghaus in Frankfurt. The polychromed and animatronic sculpture is a version of the Apollo Kitharoidos from Cyrene in the British Museum. Music from @AncientLyre accompanies the presentation, layered with… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Apollo Kitharoidos (holding a lyre), a 2nd century AD Roman copy of a Hellenistic original of about 200-150 BC. From the Temple of Apollo at Cyrene (modern Libya).
British Museum, London.
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The "Apollo Kithara" by Jeff Koons is presented as part of the MACHINE ROOM OF THE GODS exhibition at Frankfurt's Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung.
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