#berenike

[suomiplorpoturnaus]

Suomiplorpoturnaus: Kierros 4 • Äänestys 4

Berenike vs. Riitaoja

Berenike (Hui Hai Hiisi)

Riitaoja (Tuntematon sotilas)

keiju on tonttu violence...... where is the sisterhood....

Voting ended onNov 17, 2024

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Berenike (Hui Hai Hiisi)

"Maailman kaunein keijuolento <3” – @lunar-system

"#berenike rakastettuni" – @hehkuvamyyhapero

"#jumalauta berenike for the win #ei hyvä tavaton olin niin ihastunu siihen lapsena" – @dadaistinenmanifesti

"#berenike my beloved #kaunis kanelipulla" – @koyhaopiskelija

"#kattokaa ny berenikee ja väittäkää ettei se ollu teidän queer awakening" – @siveydensipuli

"#noh kyllähän kauneus vie voiton #Berenike on varmasti queer ikoni #ja tyyli ikoni #suomen legolas" – @seksilelulaatikko

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Riitaoja (Tuntematon sotilas)

"Riitis on symppis ja ansaitsee paljon rakkautta <3” – nimetön

"Riitaojaa vähätellään ja kiusataan koko kirja. Sen viimeiset sanat on 'älkää, älkää, en minä mitään pahaa'. Se on säälittävin pikku raukka. Tää kuva on vielä 85 adaptaatiosta jossa tätä miestä aktiivisesti retuutetaan ihan liikaa. Se ansaitsee tän yhen voiton." – @samisfalse

"Riitaoja voittooon!!!!! #meidän söpö nugetti ansaitsee sen!!!" – @gopisgirl

"GO RIITIS GO!!!!!! #rakastan riitaojaa #ja säälin myös #raukka #ihan kyynel tai pari tirahtaa kun mietin sen kohtaloo #niin väärinymmärretty tyyppi koko lyhyen elämänsä :( #äänestä riitaojaa!" – @sleepyedgar

"#ja onhan se nyt riitaoja no question. ja 1985 ON ainoa oikea riitaoja #sen viimeiset sanat on älkää älkää en minä mitään pahaa ja se on niin valtava TRAGEDIA #koska sillä - kuten lehdollakaan - ei koskaan ollut MAHDOLLISUUKSIA riitaoja oli siellä alusta asti vain kuolemassa eikä koskaan tappamassa #😭😭😭😭😭" – @violasmirabiles

"se miten riitaoja on niin vilpitön ja quote unquote lapsellinen kertoessaan joukkosidontapaikan kärsimyksestä ja kuolemasta että se vie kaikilta muilta kaiken halun kiusata sitä. koska ne tietää että riitaoja ei oikeesti oo erityisen Lapsellinen vaan riitaojasta näkyy vaan muita selvemmin päällepäin miten paljon sitä pelottaa. kaikkia siellä pelottaa! riitaoja on vaan se joka ei turru ja totu siihen hirveyteen mitä sota on! riitaojan oli aina määrä kuolla sille metsäpolulle sopertaen ettei tarkoita pahaa!!!!!! 😭😭😭😭💔💔💔💔" – @violasmirabiles

"#RIITAOJA ANSAITSEE EDES YHDEN VOITON #KATTOKAA NY SITÄ SE ON VAA SÄÄLITTÄVÄ PIKKU HÖPÖNASSUKKA #RIITIS VOITTOON" – @maisseli

"#äänestäkää riitaojaa #ainainen lempi tuntsahahmoni <3 #haluaisin vaan halaa sitä ja sanoo et kaikki järjestyy #mut okei, ehkä vähän valehtelisin silloin.. #joten nyt äänestette sitä niin ees joku asia menee hyvin sen elon tiellä" – @toiveunto

"#riitaoja poikani riitaoja #riitis on ansainnut voiton muuan muassa seuraavista syistä: #1) muuan väinö linna antoi riitaojan kannettavaksi koko kookoon pelot ja se on aika paljon yhdelle pienelle riitaojalle #2) riitaoja ei saanut omaa hahmokuvausta siihen fucking juhlapainokseen #on tehtävä jotain vääryyden korjaamiseksi" – @neodyymi

"Riitaoja <3 Ku luin tuntsan ekaa kertaa seiskalla kiinnyin siihen heti! Se oli jotenki niin sydäntäsärkevää nähä toisen kärsimys, kaikki se lamauttava pelko ja katkerat kyyneleet. Ja mikä tekee hahmosta täydellisen? Murhe, suru ja muut mukavat seikat. Ja jos jonku vikat sanat on luokkaa 'en minä mitään pahaa' niin voiko olla kamalan huono tyyppi kyseessä? / Loppujen lopuks riitaoja oli vaan lapsi joka oli vedettu sodan melskeen keskelle. Symppis kaveri, herkkä ja haavottuvainen (myös kirjaimellisesti eiku siis—) / Ja ei saa unohtaa että ikoninen lausahdus ja yks munki lempi solvauksista 'saatanan tonttu mä sotken sut suohon' lausuttiin juurikin riitaojalle! Kiitos riitaoja, kun olit niin suohonsotkettavan sulonen. Siinä oli todellinen palvelus yhteiskunnalle ja mun sanavarastolle. / (Riitaoja, sinä senkin kanelipulla, nyt voitetaan tää matsi ja sitten juhlan kunniaksi leivotaan mansikkakakku. Mennään suihkulähteeseen kylpemään jos haluat.)" – @toiveunto

[blueiscoool]

Archaeologists Find Roman Centurions' Letters in Ancient Animal Cemetery in Egypt

Discovered among the graves of hundreds of cats, dogs and monkeys, the correspondence was likely written by centurions in the first century.

An ancient pet cemetery in Egypt is becoming a gold mine for rare Roman history. Alongside its carefully constructed graves of more than 200 beloved cats, dogs and monkeys, archaeologists have now found letters handwritten 1,900 years ago by Roman centurions stationed nearby.

Though Rome controlled Egypt for centuries—from the year 30 to the mid-600s—few Roman sites still exist in the region, lead researcher Marta Osypińska, an archaeologist at Poland’s University of Wrocław’s Institute of Archaeology, tells Science in Poland’s Ewelina Krajczyńska. The burial ground, which dates back to the first and second centuries, is located in Berenike, a Red Sea port in southern Egypt built by Roman Emperor Tiberius.

Osypińska’s team first discovered the cemetery in 2011, and they’ve been slowly excavating it since then. Among the burials of cats, dogs and exotic monkeys, researchers have found ceramics, Roman coins and now, several letters written on papyrus by military officers who commanded units of Roman legions.

According to a statement by the University of Wrocław, these “priceless sources of knowledge about the ancient inhabitants of Berenike” are from the era of Emperor Nero, a cruel Roman ruler of the mid-first century. During his reign, Berenike was a hub of cross-continental trade, through which goods from India, Arabia and East Africa flowed, Osypińska says in the statement. The port was home to regional merchants, Roman higher-ups in charge of trading and—as historians have long suspected but never before proven—a unit of the Roman military.

The newly-found correspondence contains several names of presumed Roman centurions: Haosus, Lucinius and Petronius. In one letter, Petronius asks Lucinius, who is stationed in Berenike, about the prices of some exclusive goods, Osypińska tells Science in Poland. Petronius writes that he’s sending money via “dromedarius,” a unit of Roman soldiers traveling on camels, and tells Lucinius to provide the soldiers with veal and tentpoles.

Researchers believe ancient Romans likely kept the papyri in a nearby office which was later destroyed, accidentally distributing its contents over the pet cemetery, as McClatchy’s Aspen Pflughoeft writes. Excavators found the papyrus in rolled fragments, which they showed to Rodney Asta, an expert of ancient inscriptions, who pieced together a page approximately one and a half feet long and a foot wide, Osypińska tells Science in Poland. Among the animal graves, researchers have found countless ostracons—pieces of pottery etched with writing—but the papyri are the first paper texts to be found on-site.

The letters are the latest evidence of advanced Roman trade to be found in the cemetery, per the statement: The skeletons of several buried monkeys, recently identified as macaques native to India, show that Romans imported non-utilitarian animals across oceans. These primates, along with long-haired cats and miniature dogs, were “elite pets,” and many were buried with toys, ceramics or other animal companions.

As Osypińska notes in the statement, it may seem difficult to reconcile the image of commanders of an ancient foreign legion with such animals, which were “treated as family members.”

“However, our findings unequivocally show that the military elite surrounded themselves with elite pets and led an exclusive lifestyle,” she adds.

By Sonja Anderson.

[ancientstuff]

1st-century Buddha statue from ancient Egypt indicates Buddhists lived there in Roman times

Buddhists lived in Egypt during Roman times, a 1st-century Buddha statue found in Berenike suggests.

This is just such a weird and fantastic find. If it were anywhere but Berenike, I'd wonder if it wasn't intrusive, but Berenike is so remote that that doesn't seem possible.

[redgryphon]

Painted World enemies

Bonus: BOSS WEAPONS!!!

[rudjedet]

So this fringe-source article came across my timeline on FB, and I’m wondering what the legit situation is with it—do you have any thoughts or better sources on it?

“Falcon shrine with cryptic message unearthed in Egypt baffles archaeologists: An ancient falcon shine in Berenike, an old port city in Egypt, has flummoxed archaeologists who aren't sure what to make of its headless falcons, unknown gods and cryptic message that reads, "It is improper to boil a head in here."

good lord imagine leading an article with that and then later literally having a paragraph that cites the team's fucking hypothesis from their own fucking paper.

the article: researchers baffled; nay, FLUMMOXED!! the researchers, according to the same article:

"We hypothesize that the sacrificial animals were boiled before being presented to the god, perhaps to facilitate plucking their feathers, and that their heads were removed, according to the prescription on the stele," the team wrote in their paper. 

like. my man. bro. owen jarus livescience contributor. are you mcfucking kidding me here.

so yeah, this is a stupid article even just because of that ~mysterious mysterieeees~ bait in the first paragraph. you have to know how to read between the lines to get an inkling of what's even happening here and many people just won't. it's vile, tbh, just write an upfront fucking article or shut the fuck up. but anyway. let's get to the actual science. which owen jarus livescience contributor should be aware of considering he cited the actual fucking paper (meaning he presumably read it) and still came up with this trash bullshit excuse of a bait article.

The find under discussion (term used very loosely) here is from 2019, and here's a link to the paper the team wrote on this, available to read for free. That's honestly the best source you can get; every time you come across an article like this and they give excerpts said to come from "the paper the team wrote"? Google a few keywords including "paper" or "abstract" to see if you can locate the original and just read that. Sometimes they'll link the actual paper and/or study (this one did, which is again interesting because that's probably the only scientific thing owen jarus livescience contributor did here), but usually you'll have to do your own digging.

This era of Egypt is not my specialty so I won't go into it too deeply myself, though I'm relatively confident talking about it because a) I read the paper and b) one of my own professors was involved and I remember a few preliminary online discussions on this.

Basically what is going on here is that we're looking at a late Roman Egypt cultic centre (with some, as Salima Ikram pointed out, really exciting in-situ finds) focussed on three gods, most notably a falcon god. The article states "two of the gods are enigmatic and unknown" (the third is Harpocrates, or Horus the Younger), but then describes them as "falcon-headed" and "a goddess with a headdress of cow's horns and a solar disk". While acknowledging the fact that the names are missing and we can't be sure about this since the specific attributes of either deity can apply to a few options, based on the peripherals we are most likely looking at Khonsu, Isis/Hathor/Isis-Hathor and Horus the Younger.

The interesting, not mysterious, thing about this find are the falcon remains. They're quite unique based on what we know of falconry/breeding and votive mummification of falcons from earlier periods, and so this is a matter of ongoing research. The stela itself is also interesting because the attested text is of a type (a prohibition) that hasn't been seen so far at Berenike.

I can absolutely recommend reading the full paper, it gives a really interesting discussion on the stela and its potential meaning, which presumably just registered as white noise in the brain of owen jarus livescience contributor because it wasn't sufficiently alike the plot of an indiana jones movie enough. The entire vibe of the paper is really just "scientists forming hypotheses based on available evidence" rather than "flummoxed archaeologists flailing squeamishly at decapitated falcons". The only flummoxed thing around these parts is the singular brain cell of owen jarus livescience contributor and his journalism degree. He deliberately left out information that is absolutely in the paper he himself linked with his own two hands to craft a more ~mysteriously baffling~ narrative that's far more likely to get clicks than the "hey check out these cool decapitated falcons we found in Berenike, quite unique actually!" an actual expert would've made of it.

So, bottom line, the article is a bit more properly sourced than one might expect from the phrasing, but I don't blame anyone for running doubt.exe on it. Actively encourage that, actually. Always look for the papers the media is reporting on rather than trusting the reporting!

[artharakka]

Beware The Cursed Crew of the Northern Shrike

[ltwilliammowett]

Ostrakon (clay shards)  with ancient roman merchant ship with lateen sail and box rudder. Date 50-60/70 A.D. Found in Berenike (Red Sea Coast in Egypt). Berenike was international harbour on the Ancient Maritime Spice Route from Africa via Arabia to India.  (c) Berenike and the Ancient Maritime Spice Route by Steven E Sidebotham           

[lockescoles]

sam replays ac origins (21/?) ↳ killing berenike, the crocodile

I will destroy everything you stand for, Berenike. And I will destroy all others like you.