Dr Sophie Hay

Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 16:11 UTC

Correct! Filling the voids of decomposed organic matter.

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 16:47 UTC

The coil of the rope, the weave of the basket, the texture of the timbers, the blades of a saw and pickaxe…
Surrounded by the ghostly white casts of tools & objects, just as the last occupants left them in a room in the servile quarters of villa Civita Giuliana in AD 79 #Pompeii 🏺

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 22:32 UTC

Amazing! 🤭

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 04, 2024 at 08:28 UTC

I’ll have a look into that, thank you!

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 04, 2024 at 08:27 UTC

Ah ok! 😁

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 03, 2024 at 20:52 UTC

Seems a little harsh! (The moderation, not your comment!)

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 03, 2024 at 20:51 UTC

Thank you!

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 03, 2024 at 20:50 UTC

Thank you, Roger!

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 03, 2024 at 20:47 UTC

Really? Oh for goodness sake… a couple of frescoes of some scantily clad women sets alarm bells ringing huh?

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 03, 2024 at 20:44 UTC

It’s stunning. Standing in the room is like being swallowed up by the sky.

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 03, 2024 at 20:42 UTC

I did my best…

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 03, 2024 at 19:40 UTC

Blue is the new black (room) in Pompeii. The latest discovery of a sacred room within a house decorated in rare Egyptian blue. 🏺

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 01, 2024 at 10:30 UTC

Aside from the slightly maniacal eyes, me too!

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social [ View ] May 31, 2024 at 23:46 UTC

Vesuvian soils for you.

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social [ View ] May 31, 2024 at 19:28 UTC

I have no idea but it’s an interesting question, thanks.

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social [ View ] May 31, 2024 at 17:31 UTC

There are no other painted faces in Pompeii that I find more chilling than the recently discovered one of the hooded boy whose large asymmetrical eyes possess a haunted gaze. An incredible artwork possibly of a deceased child. In the House of the Painters at Work. 🏺

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social [ View ] May 31, 2024 at 17:19 UTC

Oh goodness me too!

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social [ View ] May 31, 2024 at 17:17 UTC

You’re most welcome!

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social [ View ] May 30, 2024 at 18:24 UTC

Could not agree more. You can almost hear the children giggling with delight at their drawings.

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social [ View ] May 30, 2024 at 17:28 UTC

A humbling feeling to have witnessed firsthand the discovery of some of these charcoal drawings thought to be the handiwork of children in Pompeii. The stick figures hunting and fighting across the walls are wonderful but it’s the outlines of hands that are especially touching🖐🏿 🏺

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social [ View ] May 25, 2024 at 20:37 UTC

The Lattari mountain range serving as a luscious backdrop to Pompeii. 🏺

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social [ View ] May 07, 2024 at 11:23 UTC

🤭

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social [ View ] May 06, 2024 at 21:31 UTC

Phew! 🥵

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social [ View ] May 06, 2024 at 21:17 UTC

I hope that wasn’t me… think I was too busy glugging water with the author on a Pompeian kerbstone!

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social [ View ] May 06, 2024 at 20:22 UTC

@elliemackinroberts.bsky.social By all means contact me privately and I can help!

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social [ View ] May 06, 2024 at 16:42 UTC

💔

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social [ View ] May 06, 2024 at 16:42 UTC

Helloooo!

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social [ View ] May 06, 2024 at 16:15 UTC

The poppies are somewhat stealing the show in Pompeii at the moment in their vast swathes and their sunlit little clumps.

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social [ View ] May 04, 2024 at 21:29 UTC

♥️♥️♥️😊

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social [ View ] May 04, 2024 at 10:49 UTC

I love the little flourishes of spring greenery and meadow flowers in the amphitheatre of Pompeii at this time of year.

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social [ View ] May 04, 2024 at 10:46 UTC

It’s superb. Slow paced and at its heart a very touching portrayal of the archaeologists and conservators who work on site. Pompeii and what we can learn from the fragments of its buried stories are the real stars, however.

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social [ View ] May 04, 2024 at 10:43 UTC

Yet to make an appearance but I’m there just behind the camera helping with logistics! 😎

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 25, 2024 at 14:04 UTC

The luscious locks of Apollo. A beautiful bronze representation of the god found off the coast of Salerno in 1930 and thought to be part of a full length statue. Currently on display in the Provincial Archaeological Museum of Salerno

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 14, 2024 at 21:05 UTC

The electoral dipinti don’t seem to be for mass consumption no, but very visible in the lararium so anyone who was invited into that room would have seen it. They were also old as ARV became duumvir so his aedile messages must be pre AD 73.

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 14, 2024 at 17:51 UTC

😬

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 14, 2024 at 17:51 UTC

You’re most welcome! Under the arches of the staircase (thing that looks like a ladder in the plan) just to the right of the black room marked in blue. Really high up in the last arch next to the east wall. The staircase was on an internal courtyard.

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 14, 2024 at 17:47 UTC

Oh goodness, yes. I’m incredibly lucky that part of my job is to document the excavations.

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 13, 2024 at 15:59 UTC

Lucky enough to have seen them up close!

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 13, 2024 at 15:07 UTC

It’s been a privilege watching these frescoes of scenes from Trojan mythology emerge from the pumice in Region 9, Pompeii. What an unforgettable experience it’s been working with the BBC to bring these discoveries to the public gaze. Huge gratitude to the archaeologists and conservators of Region 9🏺

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 05, 2024 at 19:25 UTC

Excellent! Glad it helps.

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 05, 2024 at 18:00 UTC

Wandering through the House of Fabius Rufus/Maius Castricius, Pompeii, I was particularly struck by this fresco of a female divinity. Her necklaces, headdress, and earrings are gloriously elaborate and fine. Identified by some as Venus Pompeiana. 🏺

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 31, 2024 at 08:44 UTC

A Roman who clearly forgot to put his sundial forward an hour as the inscription describes him as having to ‘run to dinner’ and in his haste he’s lost his sandal. •Antakya Archaeological Museum, Turkey. 🏺

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 29, 2024 at 23:54 UTC

Delightful to see them both and have a quick wander up to the Vettii with them and then to Caecilius’ House, obviously. Sorry not to meet you… next time.

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 29, 2024 at 09:49 UTC

A small creative detail that brings me huge delight: the recent replanting of the peristyle garden in the House of the Vettii, Pompeii was partly inspired by the frescoes of plants that decorate the portico around the garden. 🏺

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 26, 2024 at 13:40 UTC

Especially when I specifically stated three columns!

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 26, 2024 at 13:39 UTC

Hahaaaaa!

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 24, 2024 at 12:28 UTC

I’m not sure there is anything more satisfying when it comes to frescoes than seeing them in situ and in the context in which they were meant to be seen. (Or at least, as close as we can get). House of the Four Styles, Pompeii. 🏺

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 20, 2024 at 08:47 UTC

Spring has sprung! From the House of the Vettii, Pompeii 🏺

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 09, 2024 at 15:34 UTC

Nature pared-down courtesy of an ancient painter in Pompeii. From the House of the Lararium. 🏺

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 08, 2024 at 19:49 UTC

But we try and put the pieces together, evidently!

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