Tidying up the coin room I found these in a plastic shopping bag 😭 unaccessioned & untracked. Some of these replicas are of coins in the @romtoronto.bsky.social#MuseumWork#Numismatics#Coins#Electrotypes
Some days you feel like a cracked limestone head, fallen off a statue from the Hellenistic period (about 300-30 BCE), excavated from Frangissa, Cyprus in the 1880's, now in the storage rooms @romtoronto.bsky.social#MuseumWork#Cyprus#Archaeology#sculpture#ABitCracked
A model chariot team excavated from Tamassos-Frangissa, Cyprus in the collection @romtoronto.bsky.social#MuseumWork#Ceramics#Cyprus#Horses#chariot#archaeology
Couldn't resist this pose with a limestone sculpture fragment from Cyprus in the collections @romtoronto.bsky.social#Archaeology#MuseumWork#sculpture#handscollections.rom.on.ca/objects/348467
Happy Leap Year! Here's my pic of a frog-shaped oil lamp in the collections @romtoronto.bsky.socialcollections.rom.on.ca/objects/382661#LeapYear#Frogs#MuseumWork
Heads are ready to roll... out of @ROMtoronto storage for study! Excavated at Tamassos, Cyprus, they were originally part of full-length standing votive figures. 3D scanning tech may identify matches to other excavated fragments. #MuseumWork#Archaeology#Cyprus#sculpture
Battered & chipped but still Archaic smiling! A limestone fragment from a votive figurine excavated from Tamassos, Cyprus, Archaic period 550 BCE. Traces of red pigment on the central panel of the cap, lips & tunic. #Collections#MuseumWork#Cyprus#Smiles#Archaeology
Inky paw print on a sherd from Thebes, Egypt, recording Maieuris paid their taxes at around 94 CE. I've flipped the image so the paw print is facing up & the text is inverted. My guess is this was a cat, it's a cat kinda thing to do no? But I'm not an expert. 6.5x6.4cm #MuseumWork#RomanEgypt#Cats