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Archaic marble sculpture of a recumbent frog,

Shang Dynasty (1600-1045 B.C.),

Length 9⅞ in., 25 cm,

Courtesy: Sotheby's

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Archaic Words: Colours

for your next poem/story

Adarnech - colour like gold

Albyn - white

Argentine - silver

Ashied - made white

Aureat - golden

Bicollede - blackened

Blackbrown - brunette

Blewing - blue paint

Bleye - blue

Brune - brown

Camet - silver

Ende - a blue colour

Falwe - yellow

Florrey - a blue dye

Gaudy green - a light green colour

Ginger - a pale red colour

Gold-hewen - of a golden colour

Gridelin - a sort of colour composed of white and red

Grisard - grey

Grizle - a darkish grey

Inde - azure-coloured

Minim - a kind of brown tawny colour

Parvenke - a pink

Pear-coloured - red

Purpuring - having a purple colour

Sangronie - blood-red colour

Shay - a light colour

True blue - the best blue colour

Tuly - a kind of red or scarlet colour

Umber - a sort of brown colour

Vermaile - red

Virent - green, unfaded

Watchet - a pale blue colour

Whity brown - a pale dusky brown

Yvor - ivory

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~ Kylix with a Symposion Scene.

Artist, attributed to: Gales Painter (Greek, Attic, active ca. 530–ca. 500. B.C.)

Culture: Greek, Attic

Period: Late Archaic

Medium: Terracotta, red-figure with added red

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For my OG Medusa lovers out there I present to you Medusa from the temple of Artemis in Kerkyra/Corfu one of the oldest known archaic temples!

Not gonna lie guys I felt my heart skipping a beat standing under this masterpiece that I have only seen in books! And this thing is HUGE!

Like you can see people for scale:

A gift of the tyrant family of Cypselids around the years 590-570 BC but constantly reconstructed and sustained for many years this masterpiece is a doric pseudo-dipteral temple. This masterpiece is depicting Gorgon Medusa and her two children, the winged horse Pegasus and Chrysaor that here is depicted as a young man. And the details man! The details!

I mean look at the details of her winged feet!

Medusa is depicted at her usual archaic way of 3/4 perspective with her head facing the viewer as an apotropaic mask and her body is depicted with the characteristic skip that is being used to indicate fast pace or flight. She is surrounded by lions and male forms.

I could sleep there guys! I think this apotropaic symbol would protect me! When I visited that museum to visit her was like a life experience! I was so privileged to have seen it and also to my leisure without many people around! I felt like paying my tribute to Artemis after Hera, Apollo, Poseidon and Asclepius back then in Mon Repos: