🪷 #Retrograde #Jupiter turns around now to go "direct" (forwards) again, enabling your dreams to soar like an eagle after 5 months of introspection. #Antinous #MoonMagic #astrology forecast: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/03/astro-forecast-march-5th-2026.html Art: "Divus Pater" #Hadrian as Jupiter by #RobertSekulovich. 🪷

🪷 March 7th is the #Junonalia festival of the Roman goddess #Juno, queen of heaven, with whom #Hadrian 's wife Empress Sabina is identified ritually. Celebrate the way the Romans did: lots of flowers, dancing, merriment and fabulous feasting. Details: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/03/we-joyfully-celebrate-junonalia-feast.html 🪷

🪙 Roman Empire Sestertius — Hadrian, 118 AD

Obverse: Laureate and draped bust of Hadrian facing right. Legend: IMP CAESAR TRAIANVS HADRIANVS AVG.

Reverse: Roma seated right on a pile of arms, holding a spear in her left hand. Opposite her stands Hadrian in toga; both clasp right hands (dextrarum iunctio). Legend: PONT MAX TR POT COS II // ADVENTVS AVG / S C.

📏 35 mm · ⚖️ 26,05 g · 🟤 Bronze

📖 RIC II 547 / RIC II-3² 158

🏛️ Department for Ancient History, University of Freiburg (Inv. 01606)

🔗 https://ikmk.uni-freiburg.de/object?id=ID7559

Shot using a Sony A 7R V, 100 mm, at f/8.0, ISO 100, 1/250 s.

30 photos were focus-stacked for each picture.

Disclosure of generative AI use: removal of single fibres from the rim of the coin.

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🪷 #Antinous sculptures often had inlaid gemstone eyes so that, in darkened temples, his eyes twinkled divinely. Those gemstones came from far corners of the Roman Empire. ... and beyond! Now researchers have traced the vivid red gemstone eyes of a #Hadrian -era bronze sculpture to India, linking a Roman bust of a maenad (Greek: μαινάδες) female follower of #Dionysus to garnet mined in India. Full report here: https://greekreporter.com/2026/03/05/roman-bust-eyes-mine-india/ 🪷

📚 #WorldBookDay is the 1st Thursday in March. #Antinous #BookTip: Memoirs of #Hadrian ( #MémoiresDHadrien ) by Marguerite #Yourcenar is the finest Historical Novel ever written.📚

🪷 #WorldBookDay is the 1st Thursday in March: #TheLoveGod by #MartinCampbell is a well-researched, fast-paced novel of the life of #Antinous. The best historical fiction book on #Hadrian & #Antinoos since #Yourcenar #HadriansMemoirs. Order: https://www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/1500902543 #BookTip 🪷

🪷 4 March is the Egyptian Feast of #Ra at #Heliopolis, where #Antinous proclaimed he would give his life for #Hadrian. Hieroglyphs on the Obelisk of #Antinoos say he rides with Re-Harakhte on the sun god's barque. Exclusive photos by #AntoniusSubia: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/03/antinous-sails-solar-boat-by-night.html 🪷

🪷 "Hadrian & Antinous - Love and Apotheosis in the Roman Empire" is a spectacular new video by Planet Gay ... Watch the 12:16min HD Video: https://youtu.be/68fXuV7Zyj8 #Hadrian #Antinous #AncientHistory #LGBTQHistory #loveisloveislove 🪷

🪷 #Hadrian appears to be "kissing" #Antinous at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in this photo via @erics_garden_in_paradise on Instagram. 🪷