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hi did you know that ancient mesopotamians buried their dead under the floors of their own houses to always be close to them? i can't write a poem about this but by god i will write a master's thesis

enkidusbi

hey, remember this? i just successfully defended this master's thesis and i'm now officially an archaeologist

#mesopotamia #ane

catilinas

i go to carthaginian ikea….. I Purchase A Flat-Pack Quinquåeremë…..

(from carthage must be destroyed by richard miles)

#marine archaeology

battlecrazed-axe-mage

Shoutout to the time my partner and I got so excited to see Ea-Nasir's hate mail in person that we failed to notice the Code of Hammurabi next to it

#ea-nasir

anthonycrowley

just found fanfic written on clay tablets in cuneiform and then the pictures were uploaded to ao3 the good omens fandom is insane

anthonycrowley

this is the fic if you were wondering

fan-art-ic

THIS IS SO FUCKING FUNNY. DEDICATION TO THE BIT

this is going to have me on my hands and knees dry heaving

greelin

what the FUCK man.

#the epic of gilgamesh

the-puffinry

uhm he'll be having some pumpkin soup on your dashboard now... thank you.

(first time I ever attempted to animate something with gimp lol. same figurine as yesterday.)

(Zoomorphic vase in the shape of an animal, a little bear or a hedgehog, holding a bowl. Chalandriani, Syros. Early Cycladic II period, Keros-Syros Culture (2800-2300 BC).

#ancient objects

2.8.2021

lots of things to do this monday morning, including a zillion zoom meetings.

func team meeting 11

objective meeting 2

hours code review

b api bug

make morning muffins

cook dinner

schedule genetic test

insurance

#to do

theancientwayoflife

~ Body of a man (Syrian).

Period: New Kingdom, 20th dynasty; reign of Ramses III

Date: 1198-1166 B.C.

Place of origin: Tell el-Jahudija

Medium: Faience, different colored glaze

#ancient art

blue--folder

Disinfecting Pericles who died from the plague in 429 B.C.

thestonecuttersguild

It’s a little late now.

#i legit chortled

awed-frog

Augustus, Julius Caesar, Agrippina the Younger, Caligula, Nefertiti and Alexander the Great reimagined by Becca Saladin aka royalty_now.

#so cool!#nefertiti is my favorite

thoodleoo

i really love this roman mosaic depicting some racehorses not just because these are some Very Spunky Boys but also because it gives us some roman racehorse names! these fellows are named pupillus (”orphan,” which…okay), amator (”lover-boy”), cupido (”cupid”), and aura (”breeze”)

thoodleoo

ok im sorry i cant not include my favorite racehorse mosaic. just LOOK at this fancy lad with his ivy!

thoodleoo

@almareda those are some really good questions!

first off, here’s a link to a larger version of the image since the original link i included didn’t work. if you look closely, you’ll see that a lot of details on amator are actually painted on- possibly restorations of what the mosaic might have looked like? it’s hard to say without actually knowing the background of the mosaic (which sadly i have not found). the missing chunks of the mosaic are probably the result of damage over time, and the people who’ve worked on those mosaics just don’t have enough information to fill in the blanks on the missing tunics

as for the focus on the name of the horse- these are chariot horses! if you look at their tunics of the people leading the horse, we see red and white on the bottom too, and the juuuust a little trace of blue and green on the top. so, they represent the chariot teams! these are probably the charioteers based on the whips that they’re holding (there aren’t any amphorae around, so they’re not sparsores). these horses are likely the leading horse of each chariot team- it’s pretty common to see mosaics with the leading horse named.

charioteers are sometimes, but not always, named with their horses. i’ve seen mosaics where the charioteer and the lead horse are named, where neither are named…and then there’s another one of my favorites- a beautiful chariot-racing mosaic from barcino where all of the horses on each team are named, but none of the charioteers are!

yazhmog-deactivated20230713

Ok i’m invested now. Do you know if in Rome it was like in the Olympic Games where the winner of the race was the owner of the horses (and not the charioteer)?

thoodleoo

now THAT’S a thought…honestly i think it might depend on the situation! after all a lot of chariot racers were slaves, but at the same time they could become quite famous and wealthy in their own right- take scorpus and diocles for example

what i can tell you from material culture is that we have a lot of images of charioteers, and they are often named, rather than an owner. depictions of winning teams often feature the charioteer carrying palm branches or laurels. it was the charioteers and the horses who seem to have gotten all of the attention at the end of a race rather than the owners, so i think that points more towards charioteers as the “winners”

#roman racehorses #classics #ancient Rome

dererumgestarum

ROMAN BRICK STAMPS

Beginning in the 1st century AD, Romans brick manufacturers began stamping their product with the name of the proprietor, production manager and consular date. Brick-making techniques were also exported to all the regions of the empire by the legions, which traveled with kilns, fabricating bricks for military purposes and for the construction of permanent settlements. These bricks were stamped with the legion’s name and number.

Bricks were one of many mass-produced Roman commodities bearing images and information identifying their maker.

#roman #stamps #archaeology

fuckyeahbiguys

We’ve waited a year to reblog this. Happy Bread Anniversary!

Because it’s important to celebrate the little victories in life.

doomhope

[id: Photo of some bread on a table next to some wheat. Text over top reads, “Happy Bread Anniversary! ‘On April 19th, I made bread.’ -(CIL IV.8792) -Latin graffiti from Pompeii’s gladiator barracks. End id.]

#Bread day!!