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Thursday, 16 June 2022

Iris

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Iris was originally the personal messenger of Zeus, later becoming the messenger of the Olympian gods in general... Her name contains a doub...

Fertility goddess with poppies

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Akkadian seal, currently in the University of Chicago .  Official description: "Sun god in a boat. On prow long-haired crowned figure w...
Wednesday, 15 June 2022

Sekirica

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The (most likely ceremonial) battle axe "sagaris" of the Scythian period, 7th century BC. The Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg (...
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Sunday, 12 June 2022

Mycenaean vessel with prickly pears

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Hammered conical silver vessel with gilded rim, known as the " Siege rhyton ". Mycenaean, c. 1550 BC. Find from the tomb IV in  Gr...
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Friday, 27 May 2022

Surya's wives

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This very happy looking dude (no wonder he is happy, he has two gorgeous babes sitting on his laps) is no other than the Vedic Sun God Surya...
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Watering papyrus

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Here is another very interesting object I've stumbled across in Louvre last weekend  It is a Hellenistic stela dated to the 4th-3rd c. ...

Goat and snake from Körtik Tepe

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Two very interesting objects from the 10,000BC  Pre-Pottery Neolithic B site Körtik Tepe, located in the Diyarbakır district of Turkey. Than...
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