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'A golden ram and a stone lion, unearthed from a tomb at the ancient archaeological site of Gonur Depe in Turkmenistan, dating back to 2400-1600 BC.'

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Release illness spell Aleksandra Czudżak 

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Garnet intaglio depicting an athlete (set in modern ring), Greece, 1st century BC

from The Walters Art Museum

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Initium Maris (Brittany, 2018-2021) by Nicolas Floc'h

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two persimmons by Okitani Koji

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Tutankhamun's Sandals for Eternity

▫ Not all of Tutankhamun’s footwear was meant for mortal steps. Among the most hauntingly beautiful pieces found upon his mummy were the sheet gold sandals, accompanied by delicate finger and toe stalls, each hammered from thin sheets of gleaming metal. These were not practical shoes, but funerary adornments, fashioned solely for the journey into the afterlife. To wear them in life would have been agony; rigid, unyielding, and wholly unsuited for movement, yet in death they symbolised eternal perfection.

Today, Tutankhamun’s funerary sandals will be on display at the Grand Egyptian Museum, no longer bound to a body but to memory, eternal shoes for eternal steps, crafted not for walking the earth, but for treading the fields of eternity.

Photograph by Harry Burton (1879–1940), The Griffith Institute, Howard Carter Archives. Restored by Egypt-Museum.

[thatshowthingstarted]

Archaic marble sculpture of a recumbent frog,

Shang Dynasty (1600-1045 B.C.),

Length 9⅞ in., 25 cm,

Courtesy: Sotheby's

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one of three known, all excavated and stripped from their context in the 20th century.

[egypt-museum]

Prosthetic toe of Tabaket en Mut

The “Prosthetic Toe of Tabaket-en-Mut,” commonly called the Cairo Toe or Cairo Wooden Toe, is one of the oldest known functional prosthetic body parts in the world.

The Cairo Toe is a wooden and leather prosthetic big toe discovered on the mummy of an Egyptian noblewoman named Tabaket-en-Mut, likely the daughter of a priest.

Although several ancient prosthetics are known, this toe stands out because it was designed to work, not just for cosmetic burial purposes.

Third Intermediate Period, ca. 1000 BC. From Tomb (TT95), Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Thebes. Now in the NMEC, Cairo. JE 100016

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Animal combs, Predynastic Egypt, 3900-3500 BC

from The MET

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Ivory inlay of a winged giraffe

Nubian, Classic Kerma, ca. 1700-1550 BCE

Kerma, Sudan, East Africa

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Gold plaque, Cocle culture, Panama, 700-900 AD

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Tablet depicting Agathodaemon, Graeco-Roman Period, Roman Period, Reign of Hadrian (117-138 CE)

P.I. Telegram / P.I. Facebook

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Horatio Henry Couldery, A Pup of Great Promise (1800s)

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A unique find, a map of the Holy Land, the oldest known (560-565, end of Justinian's reign) was discovered in 1894, in an old Byzantine church, Saint George, Madaba, Jordan. It was damaged when it was discovered, and it is believed that it would have measured about 7 m. wide by 22 long. Today it occupies an area of ​​approx. 5m wide by 10.5 long. Cities, geographical features and hundreds of inscriptions in Greek are represented on it: from Lebanon to the Nile delta, and from the Mediterranean Sea to the Arabian desert.

[thatshowthingstarted]

Roman Cobalt Blue Glass Jug with Symbols of Dionysiac Revelry,

A Cobalt-blue Glass Jug with low foot ring, tapering clindrical body, cylindrical neck with flaring rim turned in, and pale blue-green concave handle with high thumb-rest, the body modl blown in relief with symbols of Dionysiac revelry, the six panels containing an amphora with high handles, Pan pipes, cymbals, a calyx krater with voluted handles, crossed thyrsoi, and an oinochoe, a pattern of tongues above and below.

Roman, ca. 1st century A.D.

Mold blown glass, H: 9.75 cm (3.84 in).

[thatshowthingstarted]

A Pair of Greek gold, hardstone, and enamel earrings featuring swan pendants suspended from granulated discs and decorated with emerald beads.

Hellenistic Period, circa 3rd–1st century BC.

Each: 1 7⁄16 in. (3.6 cm.) long

Courtesy: Christie's.