Inspiration From The Great Beyond

Inspirational things vaguely related to Good Omens, Freddie Mercury, Terry Pratchett, Discworld, and other miscellany. main at Pendragyn.tumblr.com

[themuseumwithoutwalls]

MWW Artwork of the Day (5/30/26) Mamluk Sultanate (Egypt, 1250-1517) Enameled and Gilded Bottle (late 13th c.) Glass, greenish, enameled & gilded, 45.5 cm. high, 27.9 cm. diameter The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Rogers Fund)

The size and delicate decoration of this bottle are remarkable; few such large or painterly examples of enameled glass are known. The polychrome phoenix on the neck soars above the central scene of mounted warriors wielding maces, swords, and bows. The warriors might well be participants in a horsemanship exercise, outfitted as combatants from the rival Ilkhanid and Mamluk states. Apart from its astonishing technological accomplishment, evidenced by its size and variety of colors, the most extraordinary aspect of the bottle is its figural decoration.

[thejewellerybox]

Dove earrings, Dior Womenswear SS26

[versaversa]

[scottsbifh]

Bern, Switzerland, I believe.

[moonstruckdraws]

Athena

Guys she’s real

Ignore the helmet on this one, I wasn’t gonna even try with this angle

BUT OH MY STARS THIS HELMET WAS A PAAAAAAIN TO DRAW AND IT DOESNT EVEN DISPLAY THE FULL THING

Oh iT wOuLD Be sOooOOOo COOL tO dRAw ThIS heLmET aNd ATHENA GETS BOWS

NO. IT WAS NOT COOL OR FUN. AND NOW ITS PERMANENT.

i spent three hours on this helmet.

Anyway..

The only change to consider is her hair. Gonna see what I do with it

And patterns for her helmet but I ain’t touching that for six months so good luck future me.

This is the image I used for basically all of this design

Ignore the fact the tassel is for her spear

Also ignore the fact I didn’t realize that until now

I’m keeping it

It’s too late for this

just let me pretend.

I also remember my headcanon of the war Gods’ faces not being visible. Changed that to only being with the helmet on

It’s cooler that way

[mioritic]

Double wedding ring, Transylvania, ca. 1600

When joining the rings together, the hands clasp. The inscription reads: "PETKI JÁNOS - KORNIS KATA" (the names of the couple) and "CORDE CONIUNCTI VIVAMUS" ("We live with a united heart")

Iparművészeti Múzeum

[unusedpreparatorydrawing]

toast rack, 1927

designed by hukin & heath

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Bottle.

Place of origin: Middle East (?)

Date: A.D. 1st-3rd century

Medium: Blown glass

[velvetcloak]

Victorian Reverse Painted Crystal Intaglio Earrings, 1870

[memories-of-ancients]

Shell, limestone, and lapis lazuli game board, city of Ur, Sumer, circa 2450 BC

from The Penn Museum

[vintage-treasures]

Wonderland, watercolour (ca. 1860–1890) British artist Adelaide Sophia Claxton (1841–1927) was a pioneering illustrator and one of the first women to earn a major living through the commercial press. This work, often simply titled Wonderland, captures a young girl engrossed in a book by candlelight.

Claxton was known for her ability to infuse everyday Victorian scenes with ghostly or dreamlike elements, and here a faint spirit appears to emerge from the candle's rising smoke. This image became so popular that it was widely reproduced as a print and later used as a cover for reprints of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Loc. Private Collection, London. Dim. 42.6 cm H x 34.1 cm W (16 3/4 x 13 3/8 in.).

[lelif]

on survival

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[medoisa]

I did a metrical translation of CIL 4. 5296, a piece of graffiti from Pompeii which comprises of a love poem from one woman to another (we can tell this from the grammatical gender of two of the words). 

[kallistoi]

[image text: oh would that I could hold embraced around my neck your little arms, and bring to tender lips a kiss. go now and to the wind your joys, my dear, entrust - and trust me that the ways of men have little weight. so often whilst awake, at midnight when I’m lost, I think this to myself: that fate lifts many high who then off-hand she flings and headlong tramples down - as suddenly when Venus lovers’ body joins the light divides them and

o utinam liceat collo complexa tenere braciola et teneris oscula ferre labelis. i nunc, ventis tua gaudia, pupula, crede crede mihi levis est natura virorum. saepe ego cum media vigilare[m] perdita nocte haec mecum meditans: multos fortuna quos supstulit alte hos modo proiectos subito praecipitesque premit. sic Venus ut subito coiunxit corpora amantum dividit lux et se]

[memories-of-ancients]

Gold oak wreath, Greece, circa 250 BC

from The Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki

[venustapolis]

A Grotto with Castel Gandolfo Beyond (Louise-Joséphine Sarazin de Belmont, 1826)

[thetelesterion]

A unique form of Zeus from ancient Anatolia-- Zeus Labraunos. He wields the "labrys" axe, as well as a lotus tipped scepter.

This specific form of Zeus is only known from depictions on ancient coins, and may in some way be visually linked to pre-existing depictions of the Hittite/Luwian deity Tarhunna/Tarhunz.

[tridentandtales]

Greek ring with a bee and the letters E and Φ (short for Ephesos)

3rd century BCE

J. Paul Getty Museum 85.AM.278

[pwlanier]

Silver-Gilt 'Phoenix' Hairpin, Liao Dynasty, 10th-12th Century.

Courtesy Alain Truong