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Thinking about embracing Tumblr’s bold new policy against pretty much all images/representations of the human form and becoming a hardcore iconoclast.
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Detail - Fibula (ancient brooch) from the Regolini Galassi Tomb
(They do love ducks!)
Mid-7th Century BCE
Vatican Museums, Vatican City, Italy
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Ancient Egyptian travertine objects
From front left: a cosmetic spoon with the handle in the form of an ankh-sign and a small ‘magical jar’ vase with a stopper. From left, rear: a bag-shaped flask; a kohl-pot; and a cosmetic vase with lid, all part of Treasure of Harageh collection. Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
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me: no one understands me
me also: behaves unintelligibly
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White-ground terracotta lekythos (oil flask) depicting the winged goddess Nike on her way to crown a victor. Attributed to the Carlsruhe Painter; ca. 460-450 BCE. Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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A Nubian woman cleaning her carpet in the Nile while her child is having a swim.
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Symmetrical rock cave Church (Aynalı Kilise) in #Göreme #Cappadocia, Turkey. 11 th. c.
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Amulet of Horus as a falcon
Nubian
Napatan Period, reign of Harsiyotef or his successor
404–353 B.C.mfa
Artemisia Prepares to Drink the Ashes of her Husband, Mausolusca (1630) Artist attributed: Francesco Furini, Felice Ficherelli
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Shell paint palette
Maya
Late Classic Period, 550–850 AD
Object Place: Guatemala, Mexico, or Belize
Palette for holding water-based paints carved from a large conch shell. The palette is carved asf the formal pose of Maya court painters portrayed on the pictorial ceramics, with fingers curled towards the palm and the thumb or forefinger pointing forwards.
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Feline Bottle, Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Purchase, Nelson A. Rockefeller Gift, 1968 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Medium: Ceramic
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