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[wei-sozertsayet]

Всем добрый день/вечер/ночь/утро :)

Это бэкап-блог для моего ТГК. Я пишу про культуру (в частности культуру Азии, востоковед по образованию), мифологию, готическую литературу (и литературу более широкого спектра), перевожу с английского, корейского (а иногда и других языков со словарём), просто пытаюсь жить интересную жизнь и постоянно узнавать что-то новое. И немного фотографирую. Сюда я планирую периодически переносить посты и фотографии.

Также я недавно создала сайтик на Тильде и Пинтерест

[randominteresting]

2000 year old Roman Mosaic on the bank of the river Euphrates, Turkey.

[greekmythcomix]

🚨HOMER ALERT 🚨 a copy of a section from The Iliad has been identified as the text in a papyrus placed on the abdomen of a mummified person, excavated last year, as part of the embalming ritual. Pride of place, not stuffed inside a cavity like previously found texts, and the first piece of Literature found on a mummy and in a funerary context.

And guess which bit it is?

THE CATALOGUE OF SHIPS 😂😂😂😂

(Well, we all knew those pages had to be *someone’s* favourite bit 😉)

BRB, off to shoehorn this into a lesson…

Article: https://share.google/6ljv0Ny7jeNBbvW60

Archaeologists stunned to find copy of Homer’s Iliad inside ancient Egyptian mummy

Papyrus fragment discovered inside mummy buried in Roman-era tomb around 1,600 years ago

[cair--paravel]

Interiors of Wightwick Manor, Wolverhampton, built by Edward Ould for industrialist Theodore Mander in the 1880s and 1890s.

[kafkasapartment]

Dancers Resting on a Rooftop, Asakusa, Tokyo, 1949. Toshinori Tanuma. Silver gelatin.

[animentality]

[ra3i-al-ebl]

Camel toy from Pakistan; before 1978

[oldpaintings]

The Intruder, c. 1910 by Leonard Campbell Taylor (English, 1874-1969)

[bronzeageecho]

sleeping fox misericord | c. 1400 CE | possibly from dunblane cathedral, perthshire, scotland

in the yale center for british art collection

[redscharlach]

I recently became aware of the delightful Cockerel-Headed Man mosaic from Brading Roman Villa on the Isle of Wight, and although I have yet to visit him personally, I have drawn his portrait, because I love him.

[fish-i-imagined]

pngs of ceramic fish water droppers!

Water droppers were used throughout East and Southeast Asia in calligraphy and brush painting! They were used to add water, by small drops, to an inkstone while grinding an ink stick. People loved making them in the shape of fish :)

From top left to bottom right: earthenware dropper from Korea, blowfish water dropper from Hai Duong Vietnam, blue and white dropper from 15th century Vietnam, Yaozhou greenware 11th-first half of 12th century

[rederiswrites]

There really really ought to be a book about how the staple crops of different civilizations shape and influence those civilizations, and I really want to read it.

[alexseanchai]

Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky and A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage (three are alcohol, three have caffeine) are not quite that, but may still be of interest?

[rederiswrites]

I read Salt back in the day and it's so so good, second the rec. I have heard of 6 Glasses and not read it but I am sure I would probably love it. Gotta see if the library has it. Thank you!

[pandorasquillandquotes]

Gonna throw Empire of Cotton by Sven Beckert in the ring here! You'll never see the modern world the same way again.

[vaspider]

A Short History Of The World According To Sheep by Sally Coulthard blew my mind. So many things are tied to wool and sheep and weaving and so many words and phrases are tied to wool, people have no idea.

Example words which come from textiles/weaving, if not specifically wool (go look them up!): subtle, shoddy, tabby, Brazil, rocket, twit, warped, going batty, on tenterhooks, text...

[argella1300]

@rederiswrites My sister recommends Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World. She got it for my dad last Christmas and he really liked it.

[thehungrycity]

I think you might be interested in Against the Grain, by James Scott. One of the arguments it makes is that civilizations that primarily grew cereals were more likely to end up with hierarchical societies built in taxing their citizens because grains are: visible, divisible, storable, transportable. In contrast, societies that primarily depended on tubers as their key source of carbohydrates were more likely to be less hierarchical because tubers are less of each of those things.

[frostedmagnolias]

Coin Purse

c. 1920

Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa

[frostedmagnolias]

Evening Dress

c. 1930

unknown maker, Australia

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

[frostedmagnolias]

A Ceil Chapman blue satin and soutache braided wiggle dress

late 1950s

Kerry Taylor Auctions

[artschoolglasses]

Clay loom weight decorated with an owl, Greek, 5th Century BCE

From the Acropolis Museum

[stlamb]

"monastic cells" - miniature models made by nuns, where they depicted themselves as little dolls praying in their monastic rooms. they can be found in museums in france, belgium, and switzerland. crosses, images, and quotes from the bible, as well as everyday items are meticulously crafted.

[bolaneno]

Oh these are so charming!