Bernini's elephant has already been repaired. A piece of tusk was attached with 24 hour epoxy. I am going down tonight to see if the plastic is off it.
#RomanVandalism
My current crusade is against Bad Dolphins. These are NOT dolphins.
In other news, an idiot broke the tusk off Bernini's elephant! Seen here pre-break.
My current crusade is against Bad Dolphins. These are NOT dolphins.
In other news, an idiot broke the tusk off Bernini's elephant! Seen here pre-break.
I used PolyCam and an iPhone to capture and process images of a bad dolphin at the Pantheon fountain. Low res print on a BambuLabs H2C.
Very happy with the results.
That is a whole other thing. There mosaic fish attributed to needlefish that look a heck of a lot like a swordfish.
Looks more like a marlin.
A mosaic from the 1st century CE of an aquatic creature with the snout of a dolphin and the operculum and fins of a ray finned fish.
I call these things bad dolphins. Scholars have identified them as dolphins, but clearly they have never seen a dolphin. These are chimeras with som dolphin and quite a lot of actinopterygian fish and some sanctification. Which ain't illegal, but it's not a dolphin.
Palazzo Massimo.
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Palazzo Massimo has the Villa Giulia frescos, fish mosaics AND frescos, and excellent bronzes.
This boxer reminds me of my friend Jon Armbruster.
A 3d printed spiny lumpsucker.
I am starting to settle in to the studio space. Bambulabs H2C is up and running. Usual test print of a spiny lumpsucker, but this one has color!
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Priority deadline (Feb 16) for this years Fish Class at Friday Harbor is coming up quick! Get your applications in for what will be an amazing summer filled with great science, people, and tools!
Financial aid is available!!
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A small round plate with two bony fish and a ray.
Another awesome 4th century BCE fish plate. This one from the Capitoline museum. I am calling it the dangerous fish plate because I think the fishes are the electric ray Torpedo torpedo and the Greater Weever Tracinus draco.
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A small round plate with two bony fish and a ray.
Another awesome 4th century BCE fish plate. This one from the Capitoline museum. I am calling it the dangerous fish plate because I think the fishes are the electric ray Torpedo torpedo and the Greater Weever Tracinus draco.
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There is a lot of financial aid, and it goes mostly to the early birds.
3d printed boxfish in bright green
No, but I'd love to add one to my round fish collection 😁
They are! Do you have one?
Those lumpies sure are world travelers
A 3d printed spiny lumpsucker.
I am starting to settle in to the studio space. Bambulabs H2C is up and running. Usual test print of a spiny lumpsucker, but this one has color!
🐡🧪
I see the match to the negative space. Very cool.
interesting similarity to Sicily's Trinacria
Thank you! I work in a group trying to selectively breed Australasian snapper towards aquaculture in NZ and it’s always nice to include some different historical context too 😁
Sure. I took the photo of an artifact in the collection of the American Academy in Rome.
Hi! Would it be possible to use the first photo in presentation slides? If so, who/how could I credit appropriately?
A French archaeologist immediately identified it as Sarpa from his culinary experiences. But, I can't find an image with that coloration and I have not seen them in life.
I do have a plausible ID with an anterior wiggle stripe.
🤣 I figured it out.
Adding to the list of "artifacts I want museums to sell replicas of because I want this in my house"
Thank you!
it's in his seminal work De Posteriorem Meam
Ooooh. I want a citation for that!!
according to livy, the roman senate made it illegal to serve any other species of fish on this plate
That is also plausible for barred one. Not enough bars, but the lack of tail spot may not just be normal variation. Hard to be positive.
