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[lionofchaeronea]

Denarius (diameter=18 mm; weight=4.07 g) minted by Lucius Cassius Q. f. Longinus in 75 BCE. The coin depicts Liber (right), a Roman name for Dionysus/Bacchus, and his female counterpart Libera, identified with Proserpina (Persephone). Libera wears a wreath of vine leaves with a grape cluster, while Liber wears an ivy wreath.

Lucius Cassius Longinus was a key player in the conspiracy of L. Sergius Catilina (Catiline). Cassius ran unsuccessfully for consul in 63, after which he joined forces with Catiline, possibly in an attempt to wipe out the debts he had incurred during his election campaign. He was charged with setting fire to the city when the anticipated uprising began, and he also conducted secret negotiations with the Allobroges, a Gallic tribe, to obtain their military support. In the event, the Allobroges informed on the plot to Cicero (then consul), while Cassius fled the city. Cicero issued an order for the arrest and execution of Cassius, but it is unknown whether the order was carried out successfully, as Cassius disappears from the written record at this point.

Photo credit: Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. http://www.cngcoins.com | Wikimedia Commons | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic

[armthearmour]

A beautifully etched and gilt Burgonet made for Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, attributed to Kolman Helmschmid,

Weight: 5 lbs/2285 g

Augsburg, Germany, ca. 1525, housed at the Real Armería, Madrid.

[blueiscoool]

The Back of the Gold Mask of Tutankhamun

The mask of Tutankhamun is a gold funerary mask that belonged to Tutankhamun, who reigned over the New Kingdom of Egypt from 1332 BC to 1323 BC, during the Eighteenth Dynasty. After being buried with Tutankhamun's mummy for over 3,000 years, it was found in 1922 following the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb three years earlier by the British archaeologist Howard Carter at the Valley of the Kings. It is on public display at the Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

Bearing the likeness of Tutankhamun in the form of Osiris, the Egyptian god of the afterlife, the mask is 54 centimetres (21.3 in) tall, weighs over 10 kilograms (22 lb) or 321.5 troy ounces, and is decorated with semi-precious stones. A spell from the Book of the Dead is inscribed in Egyptian hieroglyphs on its shoulders. In 2015, it was restored after its 2.5-kilogram (5.5 lb) plaited beard fell off and was hastily glued back on by museum workers.

According to the British Egyptologist and archaeologist Nicholas Reeves, the mask is "not only the quintessential image from Tutankhamun's tomb, it is perhaps the best-known object from ancient Egypt itself." Since 2001, some Egyptologists have suggested that it may originally have been intended for Neferneferuaten, a female pharaoh who reigned near the end of the Amarna Period.

[memories-of-ancients]

Wheel-lock tschinke from Teschen, Silesia (now Cieszyn, Poland) 17th century

from Czerny's International Auction House

[orcarriagesthatwork]

I think about this cake every day

[tizzymcwizzy]

sorry for exposing your tags but this is hilarious

[microsuedemouse]

OP, I hope you don’t mind me making an addition:

When I turned 17, we ordered a cake at the grocery store for my party, as we’d done many times before. If you wanted something written on the cake you’d write it into a section of the order form. We requested, very simply, “Happy Birthday Courtney”. When we went to pick it up the day of the party, this is what we got.

The bakery employees had absolutely no explanation for this. The order form, attached to the box, very clearly did not contain any of those extra names. Whomever had done the writing was no longer in, so there was no one to ask how this had happened. The fact that the name ‘Juan’ is misspelled bewilders me to this day. (I’ve never seen ‘Miley’ without the E, either, but it’s believable that someone might spell it that way.) Did this cake slip in from an alternate universe where I’m one quarter of a set of Hispanic quadruplets? Dyslexic Hispanic quadruplets, maybe?

This cake became the focal point of my party. At least two of my friends regularly called me ‘Courtney Mily Jaun Pablo’ for years to come. My siblings and I still reference it sometimes, eleven years later. It is probably the funniest thing ever to occur at any birthday celebration of my life, and may well remain so for the rest of my days.

I love a botched cake.

[helenarth]

one time me and some pals spotted one of those big cookie cakes in a store. it was done up with red icing and little X's for kisses and in the middle it said

No One Like You

now, it took us a while to realise it meant "(there is) no one like you". at first, we all parsed it as a botched "no one like(s) you"

for ages after when we'd wind each other up we'd declare "NO ONE LIKE YOU ☹️👎"

[egypt-museum]

Deep Tripod Bowl

Predynastic Period, Naqada I, ca. 3800-3500 BC.

Now in the Brooklyn Museum. 07.447.399

[armthearmour]

The tonlet armor of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, attributed to Kolman Helmschmid, Augsburg, Germany, ca. 1525-1530, housed at the Real Armería, Madrid.

[tahthetrickster]

did a bit of driving through the state of georgia today and wound up driving through a small town that i later discovered was called newborn, which is an odd name but doesn’t technically have anything wrong with it, except for the fact that i nearly gave myself whiplash doing a double-take at a building sign advertising NEWBORN TAXIDERMY

[o-craven-canto]

NEWBORN TAXIDERMY

your move, Hemingway

[himbodiaz]

would y’all ever date someone with the same name as you?

[hmslusitania]

I’m sorry for adding directly to a post but I went to a wedding once where the groom’s name was Loren and the bride’s name was Lauren and at the end the officiant was all “introducing Loren [surname] and Lauren [surname], husband and wife” and the entire assembled lost it

[tevankinkley]

also sorry for adding on but at my high school there was a Dominic and a Dominique who were dating and everyone just called them “Dom and Dommer” which is honestly the funniest shit ever

[faerytale-wings]

My parents are both named Terry (spelled differently) but I’m pretty sure that’s one of the reasons my mom never changed her last name.

People would call and ask for Terry and child me would be like “boy or girl?” And they’d panic and hang up. My mom found this endlessly amusing.

[tungledotfuck]

Why would you leave this GOLD in the tags??

[faerytale-wings]

Had to submit it to the tags for peer review

[poketcg-art]

Alolan Vulpix – Tomokazu Komiya

[topspin-the-fuzzy]

The duality of Silver the Hedgehog

[velvetmasonry]

Paw prints on a 15th-century Flemish manuscript

[informants-little-wonder]

La Fleur des Histoires, Jean Mansel, Belgium, ca. 1470-1480

The Walters Art Museum - Paws on Parchment

[yaellaharpe-blog]

This Roman fresco exemplifies the Second Style of Pompeian wall painting, characterised by architectural illusions.

(English / Español / Italiano)

The work originally came from the Villa of Publius Fannius Sinistor in Boscoreale, near Pompeii, and dates from approximately 43–30 BC.

The fresco is currently part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

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Este fresco romano representa el Segundo Estilo de la pintura mural pompeyana, caracterizado por ilusiones arquitectónicas.

La obra proviene originalmente de la Villa de Publio Fannio Sinistor en Boscoreale, cerca de Pompeya, datada aproximadamente entre 43-30 a.C.

Actualmente, el fresco forma parte de la colección del Museo Metropolitano de Arte de New York.

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Questo affresco romano rappresenta il Secondo Stile della pittura murale pompeiana, caratterizzato da illusioni architettoniche.

L'opera proviene originariamente dalla Villa di Publio Fannio Sinistor a Boscoreale, nei pressi di Pompei, e risale approssimativamente al periodo compreso tra il 43 e il 30 a.C.

Attualmente, l'affresco fa parte della collezione del Metropolitan Museum of Art di New York.

Source: Historia del arte en resumen

[memories-of-ancients]

Commemorative stela uncovered from the Temple of Marduk in Babylon, 900-800 BC

from The British Museum

(1) (This) image of Adad-etir, the dagger-bearer of Marduk, (2) adorned by Sin, Shamash, and Nergal, (3) who fears Nabu and Marduk, who owes allegiance (4) to the king, his lord, Marduk-balatsu-ikbi, (5) his eldest son, has fashioned, (6) and for future days, (7) for his seed and his posterity, (8) has set up. (9) Whosoever in days to come (10) the image (11 f.) or this memorial-stone (13) shall destroy, (14) or by means of (15) a crafty device shall cause them to disappear, (16) may Marduk, the great lord, in anger (17) look upon him, and his name and his seed (18) may he cause to disappear! May Nabu, the scribe of all, (19) curtail the long number of his days! (20) But may the man who protects it be satisfied with the fullness of life!

[memories-of-ancients]

Gold ring with pearls, Byzantine, 1st half of the 10th century

from Dumbarton Oaks

[achillesinhighheels]

[cognitohazardous]

my luminous mama

[spekterjester]

i was so moved by this picture i had to draw it

[froggos-are-superior]

I love you characters who try so hard to avoid becoming one specific thing that they end up becoming something arguably worse. I love you characters with backwards development. I love you characters whose ideals dissolve over time. I love you characters who start out bright-eyed and end their stories with several important pieces missing.