#ancient pottery

[theancientwayoflife]

~ aBridge-spout vessel in the form of a quail.

Date: A.D. 100–500

Culture: Nazca

Period: Early Intermediate Period

Place of origin: Perú

Medium: Ceramic with polychrome slip.

[blueiscoool]

A GREEK POTTERY LIDDED PYXIS GEOMETRIC PERIOD, CIRCA MID 8TH CENTURY B.C.

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[vulturesouls]

Fish plate, made in Athens, 400-370 BCE

This footed plate was made to serve succulent morsels of grilled seafood, like the fish, mollusks, and other marine creatures that are painted on its surface.

Art Institute of Chicago

[polypharmakoss]

Etruscan red-figure small stamnos, Settecamini Painter, ca. 400-375/350 BC. Museo archeologico nazionale di Parma.

According to the description given, it has two interpretations:

Odysseus with sword threatening Kirke, companion of Odysseus turned into a pig.

Odysseus greated by a woman (Eurykleia or Penelope), dog.

I'm more prone to identify the woman with Circe (but no way that is a pig lol must be a confusion I'm sure and I dont see the sword🙃), but the second interpretation breaks my heart, either Euriclea or Penelope😭😭😭😭

or maybe is a random guy meeting Hekate accompanied by one of her dogs? Maybe Jason in the middle of the night doing the ritual ?Would be amazing but there is no presence of torches nor libation😭 (and that could be a posterior tradition)

Ap. Rhod. Argon. 3. 1191-1224:

Far away in the west the sun was sailing beneath the dark earth, beyond the furthest hills of the Aethiopians; and Night was laying the yoke upon her steeds; and the heroes were preparing their beds by the hawsers. But Jason, as soon as the stars of Heliee, the bright-gleaming bear, had set, and the air had all grown still under heaven, went to a desert spot, like some stealthy thief, with all that was needful; for beforehand in the daytime had he taken thought for everything; and Argus came bringing a ewe and milk from the flock; and them he took from the ship. But when the hero saw a place which was far away from the tread of men, in a clear meadow beneath the open sky, there first of all he bathed his tender body reverently in the sacred river; and round him he placed a dark robe, which Hypsipyle of Lemnos had given him aforetime, a memorial of many a loving embrace. Then he dug a pit in the ground of a cubit's depth and heaped up billets of wood, and over it he cut the throat of the sheep, and duly placed the carcase above; and he kindled the logs placing fire beneath, and poured over them mingled libations, calling on Hecate Brimo to aid him in the contests. And when he had called on her he drew back; and she heard him, the dread goddess, from the uttermost depths and came to the sacrifice of Aeson's son; and round her horrible serpents twined themselves among the oak boughs; and there was a gleam of countless torches; and sharply howled around her the hounds of hell. All the meadows trembled at her step; and the nymphs that haunt the marsh and the river shrieked, all who dance round that mead of Amarantian Phasis. And fear seized Aeson's son, but not even so did he turn round as his feet bore him forth, till he came back to his comrades; and now early dawn arose and shed her light above snowy Caucasus.

It's just speculation (very high speculation 😂), and besides all I already said, maybe Jason didn't actually have a massive beard😫 but it's cool, don't you think @arkimessa?

[thinkingimages]

Dipper or Ladle with Interlocking Zigzag and Step-Fret Designs

Date: 1000–1300

Artist: Ceramist unknown (Ancestral Puebloan), Black-on-white. West-central New Mexico

[bronzeageecho]

vase | c. 4000 - 3500 BCE | susa (modern-day shush, iran), ubaid period

in the louvre collection

[storehaus]

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