🪷 #Antinous wears the Egyptian "HemHem" crown of divinity in this portrait by #wolfkith based on the Braschi statue. He also wears the HemHem crown on the #Antinoopolis tondo as well as on coins. It likely was fitted into holes on heads of several #Antinoos busts and statues. 🪷

🪷 27 May is #NationalGrapeDay 🍇 #Antinoopolis stele seems to show #Antinous / #Dionysus holding grapes in one hand and a Christian cross in the other. A fusion in #Antinoos of Jesus and #Dionysos? There's no historical proof, only hints. Read: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/07/is-this-antinous-dionysus-holding.html #GrapeDay #Grapes🍇 🪷

🪷 "10 May" is written below this tiny image of #Antinous on this unique mummy face plate portrait of two #Antinoopolis males. Why? Were they Lovers? Brothers? The only Fayoum area mummy face plate showing two persons. The only painting of #Antinoos: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-two-lovers-of-antinoopolis.html 🪷

🪷 8 May is #NoSocksDay and 9 May is #LostSockMemorialDay: #Antinoopolis, built where #Antinous died in Oct 130 AD, is known for woven cloth, tapestries. Now a child's stripey sock found in an #Antinopolis dump reveals innovative weaving and dyeing techniques. Such socks were exported throughout the empire. They have been found as far away as Roman Legion outposts at Hadrian's Wall in Britannia. Full report: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/05/stripey-sock-shows-antinoopolitans-were.html 🪷

🪷 8 May is #NoSocksDay and 9 May is #LostSockMemorialDay: #Antinoopolis, built where #Antinous died in Oct 130 AD, is known for woven cloth, tapestries. Now a child's stripey sock found in an #Antinopolis dump reveals innovative weaving and dyeing techniques. Such socks were exported throughout the empire. They have been found as far away as Roman Legion outposts at Hadrian's Wall in Britannia. Full report: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/05/stripey-sock-shows-antinoopolitans-were.html 🪷

🪷 8 May is #NoSocksDay and 9 May is #LostSockMemorialDay: #Antinoopolis, built where #Antinous died in Oct 130 AD, is known for woven cloth, tapestries. Now a child's stripey sock found in an #Antinopolis dump reveals innovative weaving and dyeing techniques. Such socks were exported throughout the empire. They have been found as far away as Roman Legion outposts at Hadrian's Wall in Britannia. Full report: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/05/stripey-sock-shows-antinoopolitans-were.html 🪷

🪷 #NapoleonBonaparte born 15 Aug 1769, died 5 May 1821. #Napoleon is a saint of #Antinous for decriminalizing homosexual acts throughout his empire. In addition, it was his experts who rediscovered, mapped & surveyed #Antinoopolis, Egypt. Full tribute: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/05/napoleon-bonaparte-saint-of-antinous.html 🪷

🪷 4 May is #BirdDay: Here we see an Egyptian and his BA soul spirit bird from the #Antinoopolis / #Fayoum Oasis area. Roman-Egyptian tempera-on-linen mummy shroud from the heyday of the city founded by #Hadrian where #Antinous died in the Nile in Egypt in 130 AD. Getty Museum. 🪷

🪷 Meet #MarcoAntinous, who lived near #Antinoopolis Egypt and whose encaustic linen mummy portrait is now at Musée Louvre. Worshipers named babies for Antinous so he would bless and watch over them. Marco Antinous lives in #Antinous for all eternity! https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/04/meet-marco-antinous-of-egypt-by-flamen.html 🪷

🪷 Religious intolerance resulted in executions of two men who lived in #Antinoopolis: Christian #Apollonius refused to bow to the gods. His Pagan lover #Philemon, flute player, stood by him to the death. Both were drowned in the Nile, like #Antinous: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/04/apollonius-and-philemon-saints-and.html 🪷