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A colossal marble head of a deified Antonia Minor, daughter of Mark Antony and mother to the emperor Claudius. Made of Parian marble, it was once part of an acrolithic cult statue - which would have had a head, hands and feet of sculpted stone, but a body of wood or limestone, covered with garments of cloth or gilded bronze.
Some historians feel that may instead represent the empress Livia, wife of emperor Augustus.
It was probably discovered in Rome, and was known to be in the Ludovisi collection by the 1530s.
1st century CE.
Palazzo Altemps, Rome
A MASSIVE front pushed out the fog and low pressure we have been experiencing here in PDX over the last few weeks. It stampeded in and caused one hell of a windshear.
Hot Lobster Roll with Quinoa Salad.
Lobster, marbled cheddar, parsley & butter on a toasted ciabatta olive rye loaf.
Quinoa, feta, avocado, kalamata olives, red pepper, celery, green onion, cucumber, black beans, cilantro, olive oil, lime juice.
Made at home.
San Lorenzo Colossal Head 2, before 900 B.C.E. (Olmec), basalt, 2.69 x 1.83 x 1.05 m (Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City)
Revisiting the TOU/Five Star MC 28mm f/2.8 wide angle. Took it along during Magic Hour, following another Monsoon storm.
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The sacred glacial lake Yilhun Lhatso, on its shores bedecked with colossal carved mani stones, many of which are the work of a local stone carver named Trador.
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Tibetan: ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པ་དྨེ་ཧཱུྃ། Om Mani Peme Hung or Om Mani Beh Meh Hung .
H.H. the 14th Dalai Lama's definition
"It is very good to recite the mantra Om mani padme hum, but while you are doing it, you should be thinking on its meaning, for the meaning of the six syllables is great and vast... The first, Om [...] symbolizes the practitioner's impure body, speech, and mind; it also symbolizes the pure exalted body, speech, and mind of a Buddha "
"The path is indicated by the next four syllables. Mani, meaning jewel, symbolizes the factors of method: (the) altruistic intention to become enlightened, compassion, and love . "
"The two syllables, padme, meaning lotus, symbolize wisdom "
"Purity must be achieved by an indivisible unity of method and wisdom, symbolized by the final syllable hum, which indicates indivisibility "
"Thus the six syllables, om mani padme hum, mean that in dependence on the practice of a path which is an indivisible union of method and wisdom, you can transform your impure body, speech, and mind into the pure exalted body, speech, and mind of a Buddha[...]"
A colossal -- or at least, very large -- statue of Hatshepsut at Deir el Bahri. She is depicted as Osiris, or if you prefer, she is shown wrapped. It depends on what you think was more important -- association with Osiris, or enclosed in wrappings the way many powerful things are wrapped.
Deir el Bahri, Egypt.
Abraham Lincoln (1920) is a colossal seated figure of the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), sculpted by Daniel Chester French (1850–1931) and carved by the Piccirilli Brothers. Located in the Lincoln Memorial, constructed between 1914 and 1922 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., the statue was unveiled in 1922. The work follows in the nation's Beaux Arts and American Renaissance-style architecture traditions.
The 170-ton statue is composed of 28 blocks of white Georgia marble[vague] and rises 30 feet (9.1 m) from the floor, including the 19-foot (5.8 m) seated figure (with armchair and footrest) upon an 11-foot (3.4 m) high pedestal. The figure of Lincoln gazes directly ahead and slightly down with an expression of gravity and solemnity. His frock coat is unbuttoned, and a large United States flag is draped over the chair back and sides. French paid particular attention to Lincoln's expressive hands, which rest on the enormous arms of a semi-circular ceremonial chair, whose fronts bear fasces, emblems of authority from Roman antiquity. French used casts of his own fingers to achieve the correct placement.
In 1914, Daniel Chester French was selected by the Lincoln Memorial Committee to create a Lincoln statue as part of the memorial to be designed by architect Henry Bacon (1866–1924). French was already famous for his 1874 The Minute Man statue in Concord, Massachusetts, and his 1884 John Harvard statue in Harvard Yard on the campus of Harvard University. He was also the personal choice of Bacon, who had already been collaborating with him for nearly 25 years. French resigned his chairmanship of the Fine Arts Commission in Washington, D.C., a group closely affiliated with the memorial's design and creation — and commenced work in December.
French had already created (1909–1912) a major memorial statue of Lincoln—this one standing—for the Nebraska State Capitol (Abraham Lincoln, 1912) in Lincoln, Nebraska. His previous studies of Lincoln—which included biographies, photographs, and a life mask of Lincoln by Leonard Volk done in 1860—had prepared him for the challenging task of the larger statue. He and Bacon decided that a large seated figure would be most appropriate for the national memorial. French started with a small clay study and subsequently created several plaster models, making subtle changes in the figure's pose or setting. He placed Lincoln not in an ordinary 19th-century seat but in a classical chair, including fasces, a Roman symbol of authority, to convey that the subject was an eminence for all the ages.
Three plaster models of the Lincoln statue are at French's Chesterwood Studio, a National Trust Historic Site in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, including a plaster sketch (1915) and a six-foot plaster model (1916). The second of French's plasters, created at Chesterwood in the summer of 1916 (inscribed October 31), became the basis of the final work, which was initially envisioned as a 12-foot (3.7 m) bronze. In deciding the size of the final statue, French and Bacon took photographic enlargements of the model to the memorial under construction. Eventually, French's longtime collaborators, the firm of Piccirilli Brothers, were commissioned to do the carving of a much larger sculpture in marble from a quarry near Tate, Georgia.
French's design took a year to transfer to the massive marble blocks. French provided finishing strokes in the carvers' studio in The Bronx, New York City and after the statue was assembled in the memorial on the National Mall in 1920. Lighting the statue was a particular problem. In creating the work, French had understood that a large skylight would provide direct, natural illumination from overhead, but this was not included in the final plans. The horizontal light from the east flattened Lincoln's facial features—making him appear to stare blankly rather than wear a dignified expression—and highlighted his shins. French considered this a disaster. In the end, an arrangement of electric lights was devised to correct this situation. The work was unveiled at the memorial's formal dedication on May 30, 1922.
Quartzite.
Thebes, Funerary Temple of Ay and Horemheb.
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, Reigns of Tutankhamun, Ay, and Horemheb (1355 - 1315 BCE).
One of a pair, this colossal figure with features of a young man may have stood in Tutankhamun's mortuary temple. After his early death, Ay appropriated the statue and carved his name on the front belt. Horemheb, in turn, took it over for his use and reinscribed the belt with his name. The large amount of surviving paint provides a hint of its original vivid colors.
Colossal Boy: Gim Allon, member of the Legion of Super-Heroes in the 30th century who can increase his size to many times the height of a human, with proportionate increases in strength and mass.
Colossus: Piotr Nikolaievitch Rasputin, a Russian mutant who is able to transform into a metallic form of "organic steel" and is the physically strongest member of the X-Men team.
If they had to fight, who would win?
#313 in the Duel 365 series.
Head of a colossal statue of Amenophis III
Egyptian Antiquities
The New Kingdom (circa 1550 to circa 1069 BC)
This head represents Amenophis III as the king of Upper Egypt. It belonged to one of the granite colossi erected by the king in his temple at Kom el-Hettan, whose entrance was flanked by the Colossi of Memnon. This temple, now in ruins, was once adorned with a great wealth of statuary.
Amenophis III as king of Upper Egypt
The king is represented wearing the crown of Upper Egypt, or "white crown" - a sort of miter with a bulbous top. The highly polished stone, huge almond eyes (designed to be seen from below), and thick-lipped mouth are all characteristic of monumental statuary from the reign of Amenophis III. The left side of this head literally melted away under the effect of the humid ground on which it lay for centuries after the fall of the stone giant.
The great courtyard of the temple of the royal cult at Kom el-Hettan was adorned with a row of statues of this kind - in pink granite, wearing the white crown of Upper Egypt (on the east side), and in quartzite, wearing the red crown of Lower Egypt (on the west side). They were all at least eight meters high. The temple of Amenophis III at Kom el-Hettan was indisputably one of the most extraordinary edifices ever built by the Egyptians, both as regards its size (about 560 meters from east to west) and the splendid statuary that was made for it. Many of the hundreds of statues of the lioness goddess Sekhmet that were commissioned by Amenophis III definitely came from here.
Unfortunately, the temple was constructed rather carelesssly, too quickly, and on humid ground. It is now almost totally ruined, the only remaining elements being the Colossi of Memnon (16 meters high), a monumental stele, and the bases of a few columns. However, the archaeological excavations currently being undertaken at the site by the German Institute in Cairo are unearthing precious evidence of its gigantic statuary.
Colossal bull head
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Carved in the court style typical of the Achaemenid Empire, this highly polished stone head originally belonged to one of two guardian bulls flanking the portico of the hundred-columned Throne Hall at Persepolis. The heads of the bulls projected in the round and the bodies were carved in relief on the sidewalls of the porch; the ears and horns had been added separately. The use of pairs of guardian figures such as these to protect important buildings was a common architectural feature in the ancient Near East.
The Robert and Deborah Aliber Persian Gallery
Oriental Institute - University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, USA
And the sunsets from Bandon continue..... There are several amazing compositions down here, enough to entertain & challenge you. It is almost overwhelming really. Spending over half of the day though allowed a lot of beach combing and pre-visualizing some of the best compositions to be had. You never know though what that amazing sun is going to do though, here it was pretty damn amazing. Thanks for checking this out. Enjoy!
Villahermosa, Parque-Museo La Venta, The Old Warrior, Monument 4
The Olmec colossal heads are at least seventeen monumental stone representations of human heads sculpted from large basalt boulders. The heads are a distinctive feature of the Olmec civilization of ancient Mesoamerica. All portray mature men with fleshy cheeks, flat noses, and slightly crossed eyes; their physical characteristics correspond to a type that is still common among the inhabitants of Tabasco and Veracruz. The backs of the monuments often are flat. The boulders were brought from the Sierra de los Tuxtlas mountains of Veracruz. Given that the extremely large slabs of stone used in their production were transported over large distances, requiring a great deal of human effort and resources, it is thought that the monuments represent portraits of powerful individual Olmec rulers. Each of the known examples has a distinctive headdress. The heads were variously arranged in lines or groups at major Olmec centres, but the method and logistics used to transport the stone to these sites remain unclear.
Dating the monuments remains difficult because of the movement of many from their original contexts prior to archaeological investigation. Most have been dated to the Early Preclassic period (1500–1000 BC) with some to the Middle Preclassic (1000–400 BC) period. The smallest weigh 6 tons, while the largest is variously estimated to weigh 40 to 50 tons, although it was abandoned and left unfinished close to the source of its stone.
The Olmec civilization developed in the lowlands of southeastern Mexico between 1500 and 400 BC. The Olmec heartland lies on the Gulf Coast of Mexico within the states of Veracruz and Tabasco, an area measuring approximately 275 kilometres east to west and extending about 100 kilometres inland from the coast. The Olmecs are regarded as the first civilization to develop in Mesoamerica.
The Olmecs were the first inhabitants of the Americas to construct monumental architecture and to settle in towns and cities. They were also the first people in the Americas to develop a sophisticated style of stone sculpture. In the first decade of the 21st century evidence emerged of Olmec writing, with the earliest examples of Olmec hieroglyphs dating to around 650 BC. Examples of script have been found on roller stamps and stone artefacts; the texts are short and have been partially deciphered based on their similarity to other Mesoamerican scripts. The evidence of complex society developing in the Olmec heartland has led to the Olmecs being regarded as the "Mother Culture" of Mesoamerica, although this concept remains controversial.
The seventeen confirmed examples of Olmec colossal heads are known from four sites within the Olmec heartland on the Gulf Coast of Mexico, namely San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán, La Venta, Tres Zapotes, and La Cobata.
La Venta Monument 4 measures 2.26 metres high by 1.98 metres wide and 1.86 metres deep. It weighs 19.8 tons. It was found a few metres to the west of Monument 2 and has been moved to the Parque-Museo La Venta. As with the other heads in the group, its archaeological context has been radiocarbon dated to between 1000 and 600 BC. The headdress is elaborate and, although damaged, various details are still discernible. The base of the headdress is formed by three horizontal strips running over the forehead. One side is decorated with a double-disc motif that may have been repeated on the other; if so, damage to the right side has obliterated any trace of it. The top of the headdress is decorated with the clawed foot of a bird of prey. Either straps or plaits of hair descend on either side of the face, from the headdress to the base of the monument. Only one earspool survives; it is flat, in the form of a rounded square, and is decorated with a cross motif. The ears have been completely eroded away and the lips are damaged. The surviving features display a frown and creasing around the nose and cheeks. The head displays prominent teeth.
Build the ultimate castle adventure with the Colossal Heroica building set! Raise the drawbridge to keep the heroes at bay. Or, if you choose to play as one of the 4 heroes; defeat enemies, find keys, climb towers, send the rock pillar crashing down, extinguish fires in your path, and gain treasure and special abilities along the way. Will you be brave enough to fight the dragon and giant troll to save the kingdom? Choose your hero wisely as you play as the druid, the wizard, the ranger, or the barbarian. For 2 to 4 players.
The pictures really don’t do this justice, I wish you could see it in person. ;)
I’ve had this in mind for quite a while now and I think I’m the first to build a minifigure-scale Heroica game! Comments are appreciated!
Build the ultimate castle adventure with the Colossal Heroica building set! Raise the drawbridge to keep the heroes at bay. Or, if you choose to play as one of the 4 heroes; defeat enemies, find keys, climb towers, send the rock pillar crashing down, extinguish fires in your path, and gain treasure and special abilities along the way. Will you be brave enough to fight the dragon and giant troll to save the kingdom? Choose your hero wisely as you play as the druid, the wizard, the ranger, or the barbarian. For 2 to 4 players.
The pictures really don’t do this justice, I wish you could see it in person. ;)
I’ve had this in mind for quite a while now and I think I’m the first to build a minifigure-scale Heroica game! Comments are appreciated!
San Lorenzo Colossal Head 2, before 900 B.C.E. (Olmec), basalt, 2.69 x 1.83 x 1.05 m (Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City)
This larger than life statue, possibly discovered in the Baths of Caracalla, has been identified as the goddess Pomona, Roman goddess of fruits, gardens, and orchards. Renaissance restorers added the missing right hand and have her holding flowers (the other flowers in her himation are ancient). She has been made to look more like the goddess Flora, given the flowers in both her himation and her crown (the head may or may not be original to this statue), and is sometimes known as Flor Minor. It's almost certain that this statue was originally associated with Flora, who represented spring; Pomona represented autumn.
Roman, second half of the 2nd century CE.
Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN inv. 5978)
Khlong Sam Wa became a district on 21st November 1997, when it was detached from Min Buri. Previously it was a Amphoe within the district of Min Buri. My usual taxi driver suggested I try Safari World instead of Dusit Zoo which I wanted to video, he charged me 1200 Baht for the days journey, waiting in the car park while I wandered round the park. The main attraction in this district is this Safari World, which I visited on the 28th June 2014. This theme park began in 1988 on a 480 acre site for its open zoo and 180 acres for its bird park. It consists of two parks names Marine Park and Safari Park. A private company operates it called Safari World Public Company Limited.
This park consists of several attractions that need to be taken in order, to enjoy fully all the attractions of this park. Arriving at the ticket office the staff there were helpful in explaining what I needed to see first along with the prices for each area. However be warned, this is not a cheap day out, especially for Thailand. The main park was 1300 Baht for myself and 610 Baht for my Thai friend, then an additional payment for the river cruise of 360 Baht for myself and 180 Baht for my Thai friend, this was only after haggling for a cheaper ticket because they wanted 360 Baht each originally. Is it worth it? Well that depends on your view. I thought it was. However you do need to get there early to cover all the attractions.
The first attraction is the Safari Park, a 8 kilometres long drive by bus through the animal enclosure. This takes about 45 minutes to drive through this part of the park. The bus is boarded to the right of the ticket office. I was lucky the two front left hand seats are individual seats, and so the families did not want to sit on these. For me it was ideal for taking photos and videos. The entrance was a little drive away of about 5 minutes, where we came on the twin electric huge gates that help keep the animals from getting to the people.
One show I did manage to watch was Spy Wars. It’s a spoof on a famous film character with a grand and spectacular setting based around mountains and water. The arena was impressive, holding thousands of people when full. I was going to sit down at the front instead I chose to take the elevated view from up above. How pleased I was that I made this choice. The setting was full of school kids out for the school days outing, sat there in their neat and tidy school uniforms. The show started with many bangs and cannon fire and machine gun fire. It was a well presented show, with lots of action, a weak script but it was fun. Halfway through the show two Jet Ski’s came thundering into the arena at full speed. Taking a 90 degree turn to the left, sprayed a colossal amount of water over the front 50 rows of seats where about 400 kids were sat cheering. I can honestly say I have never seen so many kids move so quick to avoid all this deluge of water thrown over them. This is why I was glad I had not chosen to sit at the front. Be warned about this, there are no notices to tell you about it, and the amount of water two Jet Ski’s can move is amazing. After this all the front seats were empty of people.
Leaving the show I ventured towards the exit, it was getting late and I didn’t want to get caught in the rush hour traffic. However this was a day to remember, a place I had said I would visit, but had not got to before. The whole day cost me nearly 5000 Baht ( £100 ) but it did provide me with many videos and many photographs to use for my web site.
After the king of the forest's secret hideout was discovered by the kings scouts (see my secret hideout entry for last years CCC), the fortress was attacked and the outlaws inprisoned in a nearby castle.
Now the rest of the outlaws try to free their king with the help of a spy among the castle's guards and a barrel of good wine...
Colossal portrait head of Hadrian.
AD 130 – 140
Thasian marble
From Athens, Agora
Athens, National Archaeological Museum – inv. 632
The head is turned slightly to the left and was intended for insertion into the torso of the statue. The figure might have worn a himation. This sculpture is a distinguished work of Greek artistic sense, created by a distinguished sculptor.
Antinoüs Mondragone
Vers 130 après J.-C. Portrait colossal posthume du favori de l'empereur Hadrien.
Collection Borghèse (Musée du Louvre - Paris)
Quartzite.
Thebes, Funerary Temple of Ay and Horemheb.
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, Reigns of Tutankhamun, Ay, and Horemheb (1355 - 1315 BCE).
One of a pair, this colossal figure with features of a young man may have stood in Tutankhamun's mortuary temple. After his early death, Ay appropriated the statue and carved his name on the front belt. Horemheb, in turn, took it over for his use and reinscribed the belt with his name. The large amount of surviving paint provides a hint of its original vivid colors.
Quartzite.
Thebes, Funerary Temple of Ay and Horemheb.
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, Reigns of Tutankhamun, Ay, and Horemheb (1355 - 1315 BCE).
One of a pair, this colossal figure with features of a young man may have stood in Tutankhamun's mortuary temple. After his early death, Ay appropriated the statue and carved his name on the front belt. Horemheb, in turn, took it over for his use and reinscribed the belt with his name. The large amount of surviving paint provides a hint of its original vivid colors.
Sandstone
Karnak, East Temple of Gempaaten
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, Reign of Akhenaten (1372-1355 BCE).
Akhenaten's religious revolution focusing on the sun disk, Aten, had just begun, when the pharaoh had a seies of statues created for the colonnade in his Karnak temple. The different headdress on each column signified different aspects of the king. The double crown and nemes suggest that Akhenaten was the earthly representative of his new god.
And to my surprise, there was not only one colossal statue, but two.
The beautiful statue of Meritamun and Ramses II.
Akhmim, open air museum
Quartzite.
Thebes, Funerary Temple of Ay and Horemheb.
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, Reigns of Tutankhamun, Ay, and Horemheb (1355 - 1315 BCE).
One of a pair, this colossal figure with features of a young man may have stood in Tutankhamun's mortuary temple. After his early death, Ay appropriated the statue and carved his name on the front belt. Horemheb, in turn, took it over for his use and reinscribed the belt with his name. The large amount of surviving paint provides a hint of its original vivid colors.
This enormous building dominates the lower part of the Old City of Montevideo, Uruguay. There was no signage or other clues of it purpose on the side we saw. Its fortress-like construction suggested it involved money, banking, or weapons.
I was partly right. Searching for it on Google Earth, I learned it is the Banco República.
Wikipedia says:
Casa Central del Banco República is a building, seat of the administration of the Banco de la República Oriental del Uruguay. It is located in Ciudad Vieja of Montevideo, Uruguay.
The building is the work of Italian architect Giovanni Veltroni and was inaugurated on 19 February 1938, ten years after the approval for its construction. The sculptures of its facade are the work of Uruguayan sculptor Juan Zorrilla de San Martín and were inaugurated in 1940 and 1950. An expansion of the third floor and restructuring of the base floor were done in 1953.
The building is one of the notable architectural sights of the Ciudad Vieja and is a National Heritage Site since 1975.
The colossal statue depicts Mars Ultor, the god worshipped in the temple that dominated the forum of Augustus. The identification with Pyrrhus, the famous King of Epirus, was prevalent until the 18th century and was based on the presence of elephants in the decoration of the fringes of his clothing (pteryges.).
The statue is based on an Augustan original, rebuilt through copies and modifications, and clearly shows its classic matrix; the original Augustan work, in accordance with the cultural climate of the period, broadly speaking draws upon a 4th century BC late classic model.
The lack of differentiation between the locks of hair and beard, together with the characteristic shape of the lower lip, are elements now considered typical of 2nd century AD productions.
If this dating is correct, it is unlikely that the sculpture could have been part of a religious group; the question of its original location thus remains open, but it cannot be ruled out that it could have decorated another sector of the Forum of Nerva .
The Capitoline colossus can be dated to the late Trajanic and early Hadrianic period on a stylistic basis and in particular for the rendering of the hair and beard
The statue was found in the 16th century in the Forum of Nerva. After having been placed in several patrician homes, it was acquired by Pope Clemente XII in 1736 and taken to the Capitoline Hill in 1740.
The Vishnu Purana of ancient Indian classical literature states that the continent of Jambudwipa (Jambu = Java Plum; Dwipa = Island) takes its name from this tree.
According to the Dirghama Sutra it is one of the four(4) colossal mythical trees which make the four(4) cardinal points standing to the south of Mount Meru; four(4) great rivers rise at its base.
World traveller Ibn Batuta on his visit to India in 1332, came across large numbers of these stately tall trees in and around Delhi and mentions them in his travelogues.
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Sanskrit Name: Jambu, Rajajambu, Mahajambu
Bengali Name: Jaam or Kalojaam
Hindi Name: Badi Jamun, Phadena
English Name: Java Plum, Jambolan, Black Plum
Scientific Name: Syzygium cumini, Eugenia jambolana
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The states of Hawaii and Florida continue to fight a loosing battle trying to contain this highly invasive and virtually indestructible plant that keeps on spreading by our avian friends in a higly prolific manner.
At present any commercial transactions dealing with Java Plums had been banned in at least 28 counties of the State of Florida.
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Java Plums in various sizes and in various stages of ripeness in a roadside tree.
Syzygium cumini
Family Myrtaceae
Satellite Beach, Florida, USA.
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