Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art

Hey #PortfolioDay ✨ My name is Flora and I'm a freelance illustrator specialising in vibrant illustrations of the ancient Mediterranean world 🏺🏛️🌿 📜 flora@flarohillustration.com 🌿 Portfolio: flarohillustration.com 🌿 Patreon: patreon.com/flaroh 🌿 Merch: rdbl.co/2TQS2xm

Patrons! There’s one day left to tell me what past illustration of mine (if any) you’d like to feature in 2027’s calendar🏺🏛️🌿 www.patreon.com/posts/172566...

The October sticker is the utterly delightful skeleton mosaic from Antioch, modern-day Turkiye. The Ancient Greek slogan reads euphrosynos, loosely translated to “Be cheerful (and enjoy your life).” My Ancient Greek is very rusty, so I cannot comment on the accuracy minutiae Patreon.com/flaroh

Memento Mori 💀🦋🏛️🐈

I love neoclassical ppl what do you mean your gravestone has akroteria

It's happening!!! My 2027 calendars are nearly ready! 🗓️🏺🌿 Members of ALL tiers can view a sneak peek on my Patreon, and vote on 3 of my past illustrations to feature this upcoming year🗓️ www.patreon.com/posts/172566...

It's happening!!! My 2027 calendars are nearly ready! 🗓️🏺🌿 Members of ALL tiers can view a sneak peek on my Patreon, and vote on 3 of my past illustrations to feature this upcoming year🗓️ www.patreon.com/posts/172566...

Finally finished an absolutely jampacked few months of work and life admin! Good to be busy but lorde I didn’t realise how stressed I’d been until now, once the looming responsibilities have wrapped up… hope to be more active on here from now on ☺️

Book haul from my day trip into Alnwick, Northumberland📚 Knossos handbook is from the iconic Barter Books, but their fiction and classics selection was pretty poor so I had better luck in the charity shops

Sometimes you see an artefact where myth, magic & reality all seem to converge… Behold, the Iron Age Torrs Pony Cap; pulled from a Scottish bog in the 19thC & dating to the 3rdC BC, the horns were still attached when found. Chariot ponies knew they were cool. National Museum Scotland #FindsFriday

Only a few hours left to snag a September reward!🧡 Patreon.com/flaroh I'm so pleased with how the ghost lady has printed I think I'll get a larger print for my room☺️

The best part of having a part time office job is I can clock in no matter what Emotional Struggles™ are happening and get my work done, which I just find impossible for my self employed work 🙃

🍂✨ Today marks the #Autumn #Equinox, when day & night are approximately equal in length. For the #Romans, autumn meant harvest, including the #vindemia — the grape harvest. The season could be personified as Autumnus, while Ceres, Pomona & Bacchus were all linked with agriculture, fruit & wine.

The Knight’s Repose, this month’s entry in the riso print club. I’ve been wanted to draw some medieval marginalia for a while now, especially snail-related

As we enter spring in Australia, here’s four beautiful birds from a Pompeian fresco. 📍 House of the Golden Bracelet 🕰️C 1st AD 📷 mine

Night at the Museum 🏛️🌌🏺👻

🏺 Looking at this and (thanks to @emmasouthon.bsky.social ) wondering how many enslaved people's hands opened the pouch and got out this expensive imported comb and de-loused the hair of powerful owners who controlled every aspect of their lives, again and again and again

Work is back up! Epic the Musical never even bothered to respond to my counter notice, so it was reinstated after 2 weeks. None of my tags were dodgy so all I can assume is my work was taken down over Epic trying to copyright… checks notes… Aphrodite Areia 🙃 what a fucking joke

Roman Coria! Is Sunday #RomanDrainDay?

The Minoan Bull Leaper postcard prints and Bull Rhyton sticker have arrived! Available until Aug 31 ☺️ Patreon.com/flaroh

“This is the tomb of the dog, Stephanos, who perished. Whom Rhodope shed tears for and buried like a human” 💔 Bringing back my 2023 Rhodope & Stephanos portrait for #internationaldogday 🐶🏺🌿

A white vase of sunflowers is captured with impasto oils on canvas. The vivacious brushwork adds movement and color to the painting. Sunflowers in White Vase by Erin Hanson, 2025 Oil on canvas 36 x 28 in www.erinhanson.com/portfolio/su... #oilpainting #painter #art #artist #sunflowers @bsky.art

I call this Sansa-maxxing

Nearly 2,000 years ago, a dog walked across a wet clay tile as it lay drying at Chedworth #Roman villa in Gloucestershire 🐾🐕 "Every dog knows, deep in his heart, that he is a Bad Dog" (Terry Pratchett) Canis malus. Nulla tibi cena 📷 August 2026 #TilesOnTuesday #Archaeology

Prints and merch are now available! 🐐 www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1823...

Epic the musical filing a complaint against one of my Ancient Greek myth artworks was not on my 2026 bingo card 🙃 I’m actually really pissed off

the slop of it all has me celebrating analogue in a lot of different ways lately, including art ✍️

Given the state of things re books, predatory corporations, etc... it is more imperative than ever to buy your books from indie bookstores and their online sites. Exclusively.

The Bull Leapers 🤸‍♂️🌀🐂 🌿

A 3,400 year-old Egyptian glass kohl tube and applicator! ✨ It belonged to a woman named Merit, and was part of her beauty case. Glass was a luxury material at that time, making this a precious possession. From Merit’s tomb (TT8), Deir el-Medina. 📷 Museo Egizio, Turin #Archaeology

Those with baby experience, what would be a good baby gift for new parents (like a month in?) in addition to a non-baby related main present?

They basically did an emergency alert to tell us this: