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This depiction of a polar bear and cub is inscribed by the Swedish artist Vicke Lindstrand. We believe my grandmother (on my dad’s side) brought it back from one of her European trips.
The three deities depicted in this triad amulet are some of the main protagonists in the Osiride myth that tells the murder and revival of the god Osiris and the birth and triumphal avenge of his son Horus.
Faience
Late Period
Egypt of Glory exhibition, Amos Rex Art Museum, Helsinki
From the collection of Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy
9.10.2020-21.3.2021
From left to right : King Antiochus I Theos, Commagene-Tyche, Zeus-Oromasdes, Apollo-Mithras-Helios-Hermes, Artagnes-Herakles-Ares
Palling's village signpost, carved by Henry Barnett and depicting a lifeboat with crew. It was refurbished in 2002.
The village and parish of Sea Palling is in Norfolk. The village is 19.6 miles (31.5 km) south-east of Cromer, 19.6 miles (31.5 km) north-east of Norwich and 140 miles (230 km) north-east of London.
The Domesday Book of 1086 records that the Palling area comprised nine villagers and fourteen smallholders. There were 20 acres of meadow, 14 wild mares, two cobs, 23 pigs and 71 sheep with a total value of £4.00. It was surrounded by areas of salt marsh.
The areas story has been inextricably linked to the sea since pre-history. The town of Waxham Parva disappeared under the waves in the 13th. century together with its church and some of the land that was part of the large estate of Gelham Hall. One of the earliest accounts was written by John of Oxendes, a monk at nearby St. Benet's Abbey, in which he relates the destruction wrought by the great storm of 1287,
"The sea, agitated by the violence of the wind, burst through its accustomed limits, occupying towns, fields and other places adjacent to the coast ... it suffocated or drowned men and women sleeping in their beds, with infants in their cradles ... and it tore up houses from their foundations, with all they contained and threw them into the sea with irrevocable damage".
Several more incursions occurred over the centuries and by 1604 neighbouring Eccles-on-Sea had lost 66 houses and more than 1,000 acres of land. Three years later Sea Palling's defences were breached and Waxham was flooded in 1655 and 1741. The 18th. century owner of Waxham, Sea Palling and Horsey, Sir Berney Brograve, by reviving a previous Act of Parliament, unsuccessfully tried to have the sea breaches repaired after many destructive inundations of his estate. Lack of proper maintenance of the dunes led to continuous breaches and it was not until the 19th. century that a programme of sea defence work was started. The North Sea flood of 1953 took the lives of seven Sea Palling villagers, a memorial plaque is in St. Margaret's Church. Following this tragedy the sea wall was extended in 1986 and in 1995 the Environment Agency undertook a multimillion-pound project erecting four barrier reefs then later in 1998 put up five more to make them more effective.
The sea also provided opportunities for the villagers, smuggling being one which reached its peak in the mid-1770's. Revenue cutters patrolled the coast and there were seizures of tea, Geneva and other spirits on several occasions and it is reputed that Sea Palling was the headquarters of a band of armed smugglers. To counter this a Coastguard service was established in 1822 and a station built at Sea Palling, which contributed to a decline in smuggling.
Alongside smuggling there was also salvage work. Since before the formation of the Royal National Lifeboat Institute (RNLI), lifeboats have been operated from Sea Palling. As far back as 1840 two fast sailing and rowing yawls owned by private beach companies were stationed at Sea Palling, as part of the Norfolk Shipwreck Association, known locally as the Blues and the Whites. It was a perilous occupation and the demands for exorbitant payments may be excusable given the dangers involved. The salvage value of ships that came to grief were used for the upkeep of the lifeboats and to supplement the income of the beachmen. As the companies prospered with the increase in maritime shipping they built brick sheds for storage and a lookout to watch over the Haisborough Sands. On 16th. December 1842 one of the boats was lost with five crew and a few weeks later a yawl went down with the loss of seven crew. The impact on the village was immense as most of the drowned were young men with families.
In 1858 the Sea Palling station came under the control of the RNLI and in 1870 a second station was established. In those times the boats were launched by a gang of work horses from nearby farms. It is said that when a flare was fired to alert the crews of a stricken vessel the horses would make their own way to the station, arriving before the men.
During 1929 the service was reduced to one boat and the on the 16th. January 1931 the station was closed in a rationalisation of regional lifeboat stations. The achievements of the Sea Palling lifeboats are now almost forgotten, yet when the station was closed it had one of the finest records known to the RNLI. During its 91 years of service the boats was launched 400 times and saved 795 lives, a record bettered by only three other UK stations. There were four silver gallantry medals and several commendations awarded to men of the Sea Palling lifeboat for bravery. A replica of the RNLI silver gallantry medal awarded to Tom Bishop is on display in St. Margaret’s Church, Sea Palling.
Without the lifeboat the coast was still hazardous and in December 1948 a steamer, The Bosphorous, was ensnared on Haisborough Sands and its cargo of oranges were jettisoned. To a population emerging from wartime rationing the sight of the beaches strewn with loose and crated oranges was 'miraculous' and revived another Sea Palling custom, that of plunder. The inhabitants of 1948 could trace this pastime back for centuries when the scavengers of wrecks were known as 'pawkers', despite the attempts of the Lords of the Manor to claim all shipwreck. Perhaps the greatest coup was the wreck of Lady Agatha in 1768 with a cargo valued at £50,000, none of which was recovered by authorities.
In 1972, because of the increasing number of tourists visiting this area of the coast, several residents thought it prudent to provide a lifeboat based at Sea Palling. This led to the present independent lifeboat being founded. Following much fundraising and hard work the first lifeboat, The Hearts of Oak was launched. After seven years of service this boat was replaced by the rigid hull inflatable boat (RIB) named Leo. Many local associations contributed towards its purchase including the Norwich Lions Club. Leo was on service for over twenty years and carried out many rescues throughout the years. Today the charitable Palling Voluntary Rescue Service runs a Humber 5.7 Pro RIB (19ft.) called Lionheart, powered by a Mercury 150hp outboard motor, giving her a top speed of 40 knots and a Arancia ILB (inshore lifeboat) named Lion Ros Clipston, powered by a 30 hp Tohatsu outboard motor, giving her a top speed of around 30 knots. Both boats cover the area between Eccles-on-Sea and Winterton-on-Sea.
Away from the sea, the villagers maintained an agricultural existence. There was also, for a time, some brick making. The bricks were transported by wherry along the New Cut to various Broadland staithes. The industry ended around the start of the 20th. century and the kilns dismantled.
The Temple was a monumental structure; it measured 120 m in length and 50 m across. The sixty massive columns surrounding the cella were well over 2 m in diameter and more than 21 m high. The Temple was topped with the largest Corinthian capitals ever sculpted, one of which, 2.5 metres in height, 1.9 metres in diameter and 20 tons in weight, was unearthed in 2013.
In AD 124, the city of Cyzicus was granted the role of neokoros, temple warden of the imperial cult. The people of Cyzicus declared Hadrian the 13th Olympian god.
The Byzantine chronicler John Malalas called the Temple of Hadrian at Cyzicus “a very large temple, one of the wonders" with a very large bust of Hadrian on the roof and a marble stele inscribed "of Divine Hadrian". (Malalas, Chronography Bks 1-7, 10-18)
Cassius Dio called it “the largest and most beautiful of all temples, writing that “its columns were four cubits in thickness and fifty cubits in height" writing that "in general, the details were more to be wondered at than praised.” (epit. 70.4.1–2).
The birds allude to the cuckoo that played a role in the story of the courtship of Hera by Zeus, who changed into the bird.
Pausanias 2.17.4
The presence of a cuckoo seated on the sceptre they explain by the story that when Zeus was in love with Hera in her maidenhood he changed himself into this bird, and she caught it to be her pet. This tale and similar legends about the gods I relate without believing them, but I relate them nevertheless.
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As my exploration of Prequel ships continues, I'm trying to shift my focus to Minifig-scale more, and decided to give a crack at Obi-Wan's sleek Delta-7 from Episode II: Attack of the Clones.
At exactly 400 pieces, this compact and angular ship was full of technical challenges, especially with the constraint of making a proper interior that could accommodate a full Obi-Wan Minifigure without ending up with a bulky design.
Following my "wings must be as thin as possible" philosophy (like the Eta-2), I used a combination of plates & tiles for the outline of the wings, and bricks on their sides for the rest: this resulted in 2-plate thick wings, which give the ship all its slenderness, especially seen from lower angles. At this scale, and given how compact the ship is in-universe, I wanted to respect the slim and sharp look of the original design.
Making a functional cockpit with comfortable space was the most daunting task as I needed to securely attach the fin section and both angled fuselage parts that surround the cockpit without using any vertical space, where Obi-Wan sits. I also managed to incorporate a dashboard that doesn't obstruct the pilot's view and depicts the screen fairly well.
The model features detachable landing gear to be displayed on the ground, as well as a canted stand for a more dynamic pose. The model is very stable overall and perfectly swooshable.
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"Dali's depiction of Lenin in this work seriously offended the other Surrealists when it was shown in 1934 at the Salon des Independants in Paris.
Given their Marxist convictions, it is not difficult to see why a group of Surrealists even tried to damage it at the exhibition: fortunately, according to Dali, they were unable to reach it.
The painting represents Lenin stripped from the waist downwards with an enormous bare buttock, which Dali described as 'shaped like a breakfast roll with its end held up by a forked crutch'.
The irreverence of this image is aggravated by Dali's additional statement that the 'buttock, of course, was the symbol of the Revolution of October 1917.'
The motif of the soft watch, first developed in The Persistence of Memory, reappears on a marble plinth; its limpness is visibly reflected in the enormous peak of Dali's cap, which, like Lenin's buttock, also requires artificial support.
Why Lenin should have been selected for such unenviable treatment is not entirely clear, nor is it meant to be. However, the meaning of the painting is suggested by the title inscribed on the plinth: Lenin is identified with William Tell, who, according to Dali, represented the oppressive father-figure against whom Dali was himself rebelling at that time."
Odysseus bound himself to the mast of his ship to resist the Sirens' seductive and deadly song. This vase for funerary oil is part of a series of Attic vessels depicting Homeric legends from the Odyssey. It is part of the permanent collections of the Natiional Archaeological Museum in Athens, Greece.
Photographed at the exhibit "The Greeks: Agamemnon to Alexander the Great" at The Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois.
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This is a short and long reports that I made this year in Scicli (Sicily); it's a popular event called "Ride of Saint Joseph", tradition handed down from the Middle Ages, with some features that most likely originated during the period of ancient Rome, when the ancient Romans thanked the "sol invictus", the moment of the triumph of Light (the coming of Spring) who wins the cold and dark winter. Every year during the feast of St. Joseph in Scicli (Sicily) is commemorated with a "ride" that takes place along the streets of the town, the escape that took place in Egypt riding a donkey, of Joseph, Mary and the Baby Jesus; for the occasion, people will light characteristic bonfires light up the night. The figurative narrative of the escape into Egypt recounted in the Gospels, it is held every year around March 19 (this year on 2 April), with the preparation of the horses that are covered by a particular structure which is then decorated - harnessed with various flowers "of spring", wild lilies, wallflowers mantles, the horses thus assume the role of real "living tableaux" bearing depictions that tell of the Holy Family and theyr escape into Egypt. The traditional feast has its roots in the peasant culture, people ask St. Joseph for his intercession so that the harvest is plentiful, so the water does not ever fail: His image is present in every stable, the Holy protected the peasant family from every misfortune, every famine. This year the city of Scicli was literally "invaded" by the presence of numerous horses and riders, anticipating the appearance of horses "harnessed", donated suggestions and choreography that seemed to belong to an ancient Sicily.
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Questo è un breve e lungo report che ho realizzato quest'anno in quel di Scicli (Sicilia), della caratteristica manifestazione popolare chiamata "cavalcata di San Giuseppe", festa tradizionale che si tramanda fin dal periodo medioevale, con alcune caratteristiche che molto probabilmente originano finanche dal periodo dell'antica Roma, quando si ringraziava il "sol invictus", il momento del trionfo della Luce (ovvero il giungere della Primavera) che vince sull'inverno freddo ed oscuro. Ogni anno durante la festa di San Giuseppe a Scicli (Sicilia) si rievoca con una "cavalcata" (che si svolge lungo le vie della cittadina), la fuga che avvenne in Egitto in sella ad un asinello, di Giuseppe, Maria e del bambin Gesù; per l'occasione si accendono caratteristici falò che illuminano la notte. La narrazione figurata della fuga in Egitto raccontata dai Vangeli, si svolge ogni anno intorno al 19 marzo (quest'anno il 2 Aprile), con la preparazione dei cavalli che vengono rivestiti da una particolare struttura la quale poi viene decorata - bardata con fiori vari "della primavera", gigli selvatici, manti di violaciocche; i cavalli assumono così il ruolo di veri "tableux viventi" recanti raffigurazioni che narrano della Sacra Famiglia e della fuga in Egitto. La festa affonda le sue radici nella cultura contadina, si chiede a San Giuseppe la sua intercessione affinchè il raccolto sia abbondante, affinchè l'acqua non abbia mai a mancare: la Sua immagine è presente in ogni stalla, il Santo proteggeva ieri come oggi la famiglia contadina da ogni sventura, da ogni carestia. Quest'anno la città di Scicli è stata letteralmente "invasa" dalla presenza di numerosissimi cavalli e cavalieri che, anticipando la comparsa dei cavalli "bardati", hanno donato suggestioni e coreografie che sembravano appartenere ad una Sicilia ... antica.
The stadium is 60 m long and 12.5 m wide. The stadium has 17 steps on one side and 8 on the other and could accommodate about 4000 people.
The Stadium is about 100m below the site to the south-east. Excavations have revealed that it was used for athletic contests including running races, boxing, javelin and discus throwing. The stadium was constructed in the 3rd century BC and remained in use until the 3rd century AD.
Chinese lanterns depicting scenes taken from "Fantastic Mr Fox", from "The Wondrous Worlds of Roald Dahl", this year's theme for the Festival of Light.
Terracotta statuette depicting a lyra player seated on a stool.
The statuette belongs to “genre subjects” in fashion in Boeotia during the 6th century BC. Numerous Boeotian tombs from the archaic period have yielded up delightful figurines illustrating scenes from daily life. The subjects represented range from cooking and teaching to riding and animal scenes, some of them highly picturesque. These “genre scenes”, which were mainly designed for funerary purposes, were particularly widespread in Boeotia by 550 BC, before disappearing under that form around 480–470. The faces, which by that date were exclusively cast from molds and were used for male and female figures alike, show little variation, whereas the bodies and accessories, which were modeled directly in clay and applied to a base, show great diversity. The liveliness of these figures will have been further enhanced by their originally having been painted in bright matt colors.
Boeotian terracotta statuette
H. 10.0 cm; L. 7.4 cm; W. 4.5 cm
C. 525–475 BC.
From Thebes
Department of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities
Paris, Musée du Louvre – Inv CA 685
RPPC depicting three Swedish soldiers.
Unknown photographer and nothing on reverse.
Date: before 1915.
This illustration depicts the design features of the Hubble Space Telescope's Support Systems Module (SSM). The SSM is one of the three major elements of Hubble and encloses the other two elements, the Optical Telescope Assembly (OTA) and the Scientific Instruments (SI).
The purpose of Hubble, the most complex and sensitive optical telescope ever made, is to study the cosmos from a low Earth orbit. By placing the telescope in space, astronomers are able to collect data that is free of Earth's atmosphere. Hubble detects objects 25 times fainter than the dimmest objects seen from Earth and provides astronomers with an observable universe 250 times larger than is visible from ground-based telescopes, extending our view more than 13 billion light-years away. Hubble views galaxies, stars, planets, comets, planet formation in other solar systems, and even unusual phenomena such as quasars, with 10 times the clarity of ground-based telescopes.
The spacecraft is 42.5 feet (13 meters) long and weighs 25,000 pounds (11,600 kilograms). Two communication antennas, two solar array panels that collect energy for Hubble, and storage bays for electronic gear are on the outside. Hubble was deployed from the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-31 mission) into Earth orbit in April 1990.
The Marshall Space Flight Center was responsible for the design, development, and construction of the observatory. The Perkin-Elmer Corporation in Danbury, Connecticut, developed the optical system and guidance sensors. The Lockheed Missile and Space Company of Sunnyvale, California, produced the protective outer shroud and spacecraft systems, and assembled and tested the finished telescope.
Date Created: 1980-10-01
The stele is adorned with a relief depicting Demeter and Persephone with torches in their hands and the goddess Athena in armour, offering her right hand to a young man (Triptolemus or the personification of the deme Eleusis).
In ancient Mesopotamia, human-headed bulls were protective creatures that preceded the later winged human-headed bulls known as lamassu. The lion-headed eagle, known as Anzu, was a favored image in the southern Mesopotamian city of Lagash. According to Sumerian scholar, Thokild Jacobsen, Anzu was originally envisioned as a huge black thundercloud in the shape of an eagle, and was later depicted with a lion's head to connect it to the roar of thunder.
Photographed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, New York.
An elaborate interactive diorama depicting multiple costumed trick-or-treaters in a simple suburban neighborhood – with one house in particular being especially spookier than the others!
This was originally created by me in September 2022 for a LEGO Ideas Challenge for family-related creations, and I decided to pay tribute to my late mother who passed away in 2021. In our family, Halloween was a holiday we took very seriously, and each year my mother and stepfather would decorate the front yard with an elaborate array of Halloween props. Then they'd dress in costume and absolutely terrify the trick-or-treaters who were brave enough to reach the front door that night! Because of this, everyone would anticipate visiting our house especially, as they'd refer to it as "the coolest house in the neighborhood" within the housing development of townhouses where we lived.
In this model, two of the houses merely have adults passing out candy to cheerful kids, but the middle home is completely decked out with Halloween decorations as a group of kids are running away in terror – which is basically what our block was like! The witch minifig at the middle scary house is a nod to my mother who was fascinated by classic witch lore and even collected miniature sculptures of witches in our old house.
Unfortunately my submission didn't make it to the finals of the contest, so I submitted this to LEGO Ideas as a submission for gathering support, however it was rejected due to using too many minifigures.
IK Perge 128
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ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος
Γ. Ἰούλιον Πλάνκιον
Οὐᾶρον Κορνοῦτον
τὸν πάτρωνα καὶ εὐεργέτη[ν],
στεφανωθέντα πάντα
τὰ ἀθλήματα θέμιδος
Οὐαρείου ἐννεατηρίδος
ϛʹ τειμῆς χά[ριν]
C. Iulius Plancius Varus Cornutus was proclaimed victor in all disciplines at the sixth execution (forty-one years since they were initiated) of the Varus-Agon games, and was honoured as a patron and benefactor of the city.
The Schola Juvenes (Latin for "School of Youth") was a kind of clubhouse and training school for young men found in Roman cities.
The building was financed by Julius Piso and constructed on the site of a Flavian sanctuary dedicated to Mars. It was modified several times and turned into a pagan basilica where funerary rites were performed, and two gravestones from the nearby necropolis were utilised as altars. Eventually, in the 4th century, it was turned into a church during the reign of Diocletian.
The remains include a courtyard with porticoes, rooms for worship to the north, sanitary facilities to the east, and a meeting room to the west. The layout follows the Hellenistic tradition of the quadrangular palestra with peristyle.
Black figure kylix depicting Ajax carrying the body of Achilles.
The accounts of Achilles’ death differ very much, though all agree in stating that he did not fall by human hands, or at least not without the interference of the god Apollo.
According to some traditions, he was killed by Apollo himself as he had been foretold (Hom. Il. xxi. 270).
According to Hyginus, Apollo assumed the appearance of Paris in killing him, while others say that Apollo merely directed the weapon of Paris against Achilles, and thus caused his death, as had been suggested by the dying Hector.
His body was rescued by Odysseus and Ajax the Telamonian ; his armor was promised by Thetis to the bravest among the Greeks, which gave rise to a contest between the two heroes who had rescued his body. In the contest, Agamemnon, on the advice of Athena, awarded the prize to Odysseus. This discomfiture threw Ajax into an awful state of madness that led him to commit suicide by using the sword that Hector had once given him as a present.
Attic black-figured kylix
Made in Athens
Approx. half of VI century BC
Attributed to Phrynos Painter
From Vulci, Etruria
Rome, Vatican Museums, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco
In the top register, five girls are engaged respectively in the wheel rotation (only the legs remain), the long jump with weights in hand, the discus throw, and the run.
In the lower register, two girls are playing ball; a girl is awarded the victory palm, and a girl with a wheel in her hand is about to be rewarded by a young girl wearing a gold cloak and holding a wreath and palm leaf.
This window depicts the scene of the Transfiguration recorded in all three Synoptic Gospels. In an anticipation of the resurrection, Jesus was transfigured before Peter, James, John. On either side are Moses and Elijah, figures of the Law (two tablets) and the Prophets (fierce chariot) respectively, who appeared with christ on Mount Tabor.
High rise art in Paris 13th Arrondissement (3 posts)
Mural depicting Philippe Pinel, a French physician who developed humane methods to treat the mentally ill.
This diorama depicts King Poseidon of Atlantis' Annual Royal Chariot Race.
The race consists of three chariots, racing along an ancient Atlantian highway.
The chariots consist of a mermaid in a giant oyster shell, being pulled by Seahorses, a mermaid riding a Jellyfish, being pulled by Sea Turtles and finally a merman riding a crow's nest (from a wrecked Pirate ship) being pulled by a giant eel.