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Ben Potts @benjaminsteven.bsky.social · about 2 hours ago
Carreg y Big and Cynynion standing stones sit just 2.7km apart near Selattyn, Shropshire. Both feature similarities: heavy limestone blocks, angled leaning profiles, and quartz veins running through them. 📷 Wednesday last week. #StandingStoneSunday #Shropshire #AncientBluesky
A large lichen covered standing stone, leaning at an angle, in a field.
A large standing stone in a grassy field.
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Simon Bralee @simonbralee.com · about 3 hours ago
The Anubis mask was also used as a symbol for the month in the Calendar of Philocalus. Ominously this image also depicts a goose. We have evidence that geese and cakes were eaten as part of the festivities. #AncientBluesky #Egyptology
An early modern illustration based on a Roman image. A bald man shakes a sistrum rattle before a table or altar on which stands an Anubis mask (with eye holes visible). On the man’s other side a goose looks up quizzically. Image added to Wikipedia by Wolfgang Rieger.
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Anthony Majanlahti @anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social · about 12 hours ago
For #SarcophagusSaturday, a C3 CE strigillated sarcophagus plumbed as a fountain at the Villa Medici. Ecstatic corner figures elevate it above mere plumbing. The Dionysiac theme carries a Renaissance joke: trickling water, like wine, stimulates the bladder. #AncientBluesky 🏺
STRIGILLATED DIONYSIAC SARCOPHAGUS, C3 CE. VILLA MEDICI A rectangular ancient marble sarcophagus repurposed as a garden fountain, resting on mismatched column bases. The front face is decorated with undulating S-shaped flutings known as strigillation, representing the ripples of the river Styx, flanking a central architectural niche containing a relief of a drunken Dionysus supported by a companion. What elevates this piece above a banal repurposed box are the unusually beautiful, albeit damaged, ecstatic Bacchanalian figures carved into the corner panels. Cardinal Ferdinando de' Medici clearly chose this coffin not just for its wave-like strigillation, which suits a water feature, but for its subject matter. Repurposing Dionysiac imagery for a fountain is a spirited Renaissance joke, carrying the distinct implication that the sound of trickling water will, much like a surplus of good wine, inevitably stimulate the bladder.
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Rusty Mcgee @rustymcgee.bsky.social · about 16 hours ago
What has two clumsy thumbs and just registered for an MA in Classics? Me. I have two thumbs. I cannot show you those two thumbs as I am using them to type. #AncientBluesky
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · about 23 hours ago
There are more things, Lucilius, that frighten us than crush us; and more often we suffer in our thoughts than in reality. Plura sunt, Lucili, quae nos terrent, quam quae premunt, et saepius opinione quam re laboramus. Sen. Ep. 13.4 #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · about 23 hours ago
There are more things, Lucilius, that frighten us than crush us; and more often we suffer in our thoughts than in reality. Plura sunt, Lucili, quae nos terrent, quam quae premunt, et saepius opinione quam re laboramus. Sen. Ep. 13.4 #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics
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