Did you watch Dirty Business? I can't believe how much water companies have gotten away with. They're putting profit before public health - it’s a scandal and the Government MUST take action! Sick of sewage? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...
What a result!! Huge congratulations to the amazing Hannah Spencer - everyone in Gorton and Denton has just made history. This result shows @greenparty.org.uk can win anywhere, that the politics of hope can win over the politics of hate & there is no longer any such thing as a Labour safe seat 💚
Sir John More, well into his 70s, lost in the thoughts of old age. Father of Sir Thomas More, and wonderfully drawn here by Hans Holbein. Love this drawing!
The picture shows a vessel in the shape of a two handled basket of brown colour.
Fascinating world of ancient #glass: One of my favourite #Roman objects made of glass is this little basket (height 6.5cm). It is not clear what it was used for, possibly to hold cosmetics.
From Syria, dating 3rd century AD.
On display at British Museum
📷 me
🏺#archaeology
Signing off with a sleeping cat, drawn by Federico Barocci. Italy c. 1600. Today has been his day.
Left: Yvette Cooper, "The regime is not allowing the Iranian people's voices to be heard, we need to see an Iran that does not repress the rights of women"
Right: Non violent protestor Heba Muraisi has been held on remand for 15 months and is currently on hunger strike in prison
“It’s like half of y’all ain’t never seen Star Wars or a Disney movie. How do you not know which side to root on?”
My photo shows an ornate gold wreath displayed against a black background. The wreath is adorned with gold branches densely covered with delicate, jagged-edged oak leaves rendered in thin, hammered gold, and acorns at the end of thin curved, tendril-like wires. The leaves are packed together, some bent, others folded, and slightly twisted, as if caught in a breeze, suggesting movement and rustling of the leaves. At the front of the wreath, in the centre, is a small standing, winged figure of Nike, the goddess of victory. The museum spot lights enhance the warm gleam of the gold.
Hellenistic gold wreath, 3rd century BC.
A dazzling example of ancient goldsmithing! 🤩
From Pergamon (modern-day Bergama), Turkey. Istanbul Archaeological Museum
📷 by me
#Archaeology
Thankfully it's #HillfortsWednesday 🍻🥳🙀
Here's our fabulous @rcahmwales.bsky.social Sketchfab model of the incredible St David's Head coastal promontory fort in Pembrokeshire, surveyed just before Christmas
The rock terrain created a very special place to live ⛰️
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A regular haunt of mine, perched up there with a book and a flask. Thanks for sharing this amazing viewpoint
My photo shows a cylindrical drinking cup made of reddish-brown terracotta. It has a wide mouth, a long slender body with rounded base and two large curved handles extending from the rim to near the base. This type of vessel is known as a ‘depas’ goblet (depas amphikypellon) out of reference to their mention in Homer’s Iliad. More than one hundred of these vessels have been excavated at Troy, dating from 2500 to 2000 BC. Recent organic residue analysis from fragments excavated at Troy show they were used for consuming wine.
Clay goblet from Early Bronze Age Troy.
Known as a depas goblet after the Homeric ‘depas amphikypellon', recent residue analysis shows these two-handled vessels were used for drinking wine some 4,250 years ago!
Istanbul Archaeological Museum
📷 by me
#Archaeology
Nigel Farage says the hunting ban is "monstrous", the only thing that's monstrous is defending a pastime that rips apart animals for fun.
A carved chess piece representing a knight, depicted in an abstract, stylized form with a triangular head, amd wide circular eyes,. The figure has a hunched, cylindrical body and is displayed on a dark surface with an other game pieces and a die nearby.
The most adorable chess piece ever!
A knight, made of antler.
Dating 11/12th century
Found at the Burgstein, Lichtenstein-Holzelfingen.
📷 me
#archaeology
Exquisite rendering of fabric
What freezings have I felt, what days seen!
What old December’s bareness every where!
Beautiful double reflection in this still life of bread & wine by Isaack Luttichuys, whose day is today. Save this wine, you will need it later.
So yes then….
She was always THE woman. Looking right at you from 1590: Infanta Catalina Micaela (almost surely), painted by Sofonisba Anguissola (probably). Surely one of the greatest renaissance portraits.
My photo shows a limestone fragment measuring 17 cm x 11.5 cm x 4 cm with a painting of a female dancer shown in profile performing an acrobatic back bend. The girl has long wavy/crimped black hair which falls down to the ground. She is wearing large gold circular earrings and a black kilt with decorative red and white pattern which is tied at the front around her hips. This limestone fragment comes from the Workers Village of Deir el-Medina which housed the artisans who worked on the royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings. Flakes of limestone were readily available as by-products of tomb construction. They were used by artisans as sketch and note pads for practice drawings, sketching, writing poetry etc.etc. These stone flakes are known by Egyptologists as ostraca, (singular: ostracon). Thousands of ostraca have been found at Deir-el Medina.
Artist’s painting of an acrobatic dancer on a flake of limestone, c. 1292 - 1077 BC.
Around 3,000 years ago in ancient Egypt, artists used stone fragments for painting and drawing instead of paper sketchpads!
From Deir el-Medina. Museo Egizio, Turin 📷 by me
#Archaeology
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Fed up with this annual shithousery? I am.
If nothing else, the last nine months should have made it clear that elections matter. But what’s remarkable about America is that we have the power, as citizens, to change this country by voting. Go to IWillVote.com.
Recipe: the key to creamy cream free soup is hiding in your pantry Person: OK i'm hiding in my pantry, what next?
Born on this day in 1560 in Bologna, Annibale Carracci. Here drawn by himself.
Three standing stones carved in relief on a stone panel
It's #StandingStoneSunday 🥳 The triple stone alignment of Harold's Stones, Trellech, is depicted as a relief carving on Lady Probert's sundial of 1689, now in the local church
This shows the stones have barely changed in 3 centuries 😮
@stoneclub.bsky.social
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Zack Polanski on renationalising water companies,
"Shareholders can't say stock not worth anything then expect payment to renationalise"
“Ceramic sculpture, shaped like a frog, coloured terracotta and brown. The frog is positioned on all four feet, with bumps for the eyes and an engraved mouth. The object is covered with engraved line and dash patterns.”
#FrogFriday 🐸:
Ceramic #Frog
Sepik River, Papua New Guinea
20th c. (purchased 1969)
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (UK) MN0241.20
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#AustralasianArt #MelanesianArt #IndigenousArt
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Invest in our communities.
My long form conversation with @lewisgoodall.com 👇🏼
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Jar with octopus motif, 1450–1400 BCE,
Knossos, Crete
74.5cm tall
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
