Happy Easter! :) A Viking-era ceramic 'Resurrection egg', symbolising Christ's resurrection, found Uppland, Sweden: https://www.flickr.com/photos/historiska/6880142909/in/photostream/
And here's my favourite Romano-British chocolate lion Easter egg again, aka a sherd of Nene Valley Ware found at Lincoln :) https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?assetId=783104001&objectId=882915&partId=1
A happy purple hare in foliage, from a 4th-/5th-century AD Coptic textile :) https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/54441
My favourite Romano-British figurine of a hare, found Hackleton, Northamptonshire :) https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/124824
A 3rd- to 4th-century AD rectangular tapestry-woven panel of a hare, found at Faiyum, Egypt.
Roman tombstone of a young boy holding a hare, found 1869, St Swithin's Church in Lincoln, & now in @collectionusher :)
A 1st-/2nd-century AD Roman crouching hare, possibly an attachment from a piece of furniture: https://vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=750&sos=14
A 2nd-century Romano-British hare brooch, found in a 5th-/6th-century Anglo-Saxon grave on the Isle of Wight.
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