Sagaland

ancient stuff

[memories-of-ancients]

Bronze scissors, Roman Anatolia, 2nd century AD

from The MET

[memories-of-ancients]

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

[theinternetarchive]

comb (cisakulo) of wood with glass beads, chokwe-style; central african, possibly congolese c. 1800s.

[memories-of-ancients]

Horse bridle with wooden plaques in the form of human faces, Pazyryk culture, 5th century BC

from The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

[memories-of-ancients]

Glass cosmetic vessel, Byzantine Palestine, 6th century AD

from The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

[theinternetarchive]

spindle whorls of incised bone, iranian, early islamic period c. 700s-900s a.d.

[metmuseum]

Possibly a Lamp. 8th–13th century. Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1948 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/450888

[lionofchaeronea]

A Viking ship. Detail from the Överhogdal tapestries, named after the village in Sweden where they were discovered in 1909. The tapestries include imagery drawn from the Norse tradition, such as Odin's eight-legged horse Sleipnir and (possibly) the world-tree Yggdrasil, as well as Christian imagery. Interpretation of the tapestries differs, but the scenes may represent Ragnarök, the end of the world as recounted/prophesied in Norse religion and myth. Recent radiocarbon dating places the tapestries between 1040 and 1170. They are now located in Jamtli, a museum in Östersund, Sweden.

Photo credit: Jämtlands läns museum Jamtli / Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported

[snailspng]

Ancient glass bead PNGs

[sagaland]

what do you mean 45 notes for the blog i was going to delete wtf

[homerstroystory]

inspired by a VERY excited tag someone left on a pic of a minoan-style squid

[kristinagehrmann]

Cover illustration I made for "Minos: Dawn of Faith", a boardgame expansion pack, to be published by Board&Dice next year! 😊 Here I've imagined a religious ceremony in ancient Minoan culture.

[starweaverblog]

My very calm reaction:

[thatshowthingstarted]

The ''Two Dog Palette,'' Predynastic Period ca. 3300-3100 BC,

The both sides of the two dog palette are carved in low relief with scenes depicting the frenzy of an animal hunt.

The imagery includes real animals, such as the pair of Cape hunting dogs that frame the top (from which the palette takes its name) and a mixture of fabulous animals.

Made of siltstone, 42.5 x 22 cm.

From Hierakonpolis (Nekhen).

Egyptian Research Account excavations, 1898.

Ashmolean Museum. Oxford.

[memories-of-ancients]

Bead necklace discovered at the archaeological site of Bat in Oman, 2700-2300 BC

from The National Museum of Oman

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Necklaces of the child Myt, 2051BC-2030BC, Egypt.

[memories-of-ancients]

Silver inlaid axe uncovered near Mülheim-Kärlich, Germany, 7th century AD

from The British Museum

[consulships]

FOUND ONE OF THEM it's from here

and here is another (perhaps less poetic and more literal, and including the holes in the text) translation of it.

[consulships]

another one...

Gwendolyn Leick, Sex and Eroticism in Mesopotamian Literature (2013) p. 93