dabble in dirt

let's talk of graves, of worms and epitaphs

[nomios]

Hello! I'm Noa (they/he), 26. I'm a commercial archaeologist in the UK, and this blog is my personal jumble of overtagged posts about archaeology, history, and more.

You can find my uploads here! enjoy your stay!

[dame-de-pique]

Dr Hugh Welch Diamond (1809-1886) - Pevensey Castle, ca.1855

[memories-of-ancients]

Mosaic with Orpheus in tondo, Roman, late 2nd-3rd century AD

from Hermann Historica

[mioritic]

Stained glass panels depicting the Baptism of Christ (top) and the Adoration of the Magi (bottom), from a larger Tree of Jesse window

Austria, 1290–1300

As seen at the Art Gallery of Ontario, 28 December 2023

[mioritic]

Glass bowl fragments depicting a menorah, shofar, and Torah ark, with partial inscription ("...CI BIBAS CVM EVLOGIA CO...P..." - "...may you drink with praise..."), Roman Empire, 300-350

The Met

[fiftysevenacademics]

Details from The Book of Kells, (x)

[discardingimages]

Out and in

Book of hours, Flanders c. 1485

Kraków, MNK 3025 I, p. 469-470

[hdslibrary]

Marginalia Monday: Valentine’s Edition

The annotator of this 16th century Latin bible (one of our favorites for all its interesting markings) always adds what looks like a little heart to the “nota” abbreviation and pointing finger.

Bible. Latin. Vulgate. 1527.   Biblia cum concordantijs veteris et noui testamenti et sacrorum canonum … –  [Lugdini : Jacobum Mareschal], 1527.

[zyggy]

Godstow Abbey

[nomios]

this stone from my enviro sample looks like a fried egg

[rherlotshadow]

St John the Baptist medieval church, Inglesham. A series of paintings, from the thirteenth to the nineteenth century, cover the walls often with one painted over another, in places seven layers thick. While it is not always easy to puzzle out the subjects, you can see fifteenth-century angels above the chancel arch.

[nomios]

Crinoid stem fossils from some samples I've been processing!

[wingedprincessheart]

we all have that friend that reminds us of a wretched and despotic boy-king

[gliklofhameln]

Presentation key commemorating the opening of the Hebrew National Orphan's House in 1914, New York, United States, painted wood.

[catsofyore]

Weapons-grade disappointment. Ca. 1860. Source.

[nomios]

Stained glass from Ightam Mote, showing the arms of Edward the Confessor, Oswald of Northumbria, and Æthelberht of Kent

[protoindoeuropean]

Of course it goes without saying that I am hopelessly dependent on the monolith