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Words and heart should be handled with care, for words when spoken and hearts when broken are the hardest things to repair.
Unusual door handle and fancy brass door plate in the National Trust managed property Belton House.
The Belton House emblem dog is a greyhound. The Brownlow family, who owned Belton House for 300 years, had permission from Elizabeth I to use a greyhound in their crest. The greyhound appears in various forms throughout the estate.
For 7DOS I've chosen the theme "old tools" as I want to try something a bit different. This is part of the handle of a very old screwdriver - scuffed & worn. More texture than I usually like in minimal photos, but I hope this shows the age of the tool.
So I took the initial image on my ipad and when I posted it you could see the pixels from the screen peeking through. I decided to put this to my benefit and edited this in photoshop to look like a painting thus making the background an asset instead of a distraction.
Flint knife with a fish-tail shaped blade.
The handle is covered in gold leaf and decorated with scenes typical of Naqada II phase paintings found on pottery vases. Three female figures, probably dancers, stand in a line holding one another´s hand, the first one to the left holds a fan. The four wavy lines on the right hand side of the handle represents the water of the Nile, while the other side of the handle shows a boat with two cabins.
The knife was not intended for use in daily life, but rather had a religious function and was used for rituals.
Naqada II, provenance unknown.
JE 34210, CG 64868
Ground floor, gallery 43
Cairo Museum
Viejo San Juan, Puerto Rico.
13 de Junio 2013
Canon EOS 60D
Lente Canon Zoom EF-S 18- 200mm 1:3.5-5.6 IS
Handles for decorative cutlery.
Fimo (red, black, and translucid) and acrylic paint on sculpey light.
Inspired by a post from 11BoldStreet (www.11boldstreet.com/2011/11/fun-with-faux-jasper_25.html).
A disturbed night's sleep is normally a nuisance but the recent bright Wolf Moon caused me to have a succession of early starts to my day. It also provided some photography opportunities, of course!
A monkey dressed in a short belted tunic with a hood hanging at the back sits on the ground with a lantern beside him. Its long dog-like muzzle clearly identifies it as a baboon. Such creatures were a fairly common sight in Rome; smaller monkeys were kept as pets, but a larger breed such as this baboon would probably have been trained to perform in public shows. However, this creature's posture and the lantern at his side might mean that it is in fact a parody of a popular figure in small-scale Roman sculpture--the little slave, dressed in a hooded garment and carrying a lantern, who waits sleepily for his master to end his night's revels (a Lanternarius.
The baboon decorates the end of a bronze handle, which takes the form of a bundle of leaves. This class of small handles decorated with comical or risqué themes are found all over the ancient world from Hellenistic into Roman times. No complete examples have been found, but suggestions include knife, razor or plectrum handles.
Roman (?), 1st c. BCE-1st c. CE, bronze.
Height: 6 cm (2 3/8 in.)
Getty Villa Museum, Malibu, California (96.AC.179)
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Samoin te, miehet, eläkää
taidollisesti kukin vaimonne kanssa,
niinkuin heikomman astian kanssa,
ja osoittakaa heille kunnioitusta,
koska he ovat elämän armon perillisiä niinkuin tekin;
etteivät teidän rukouksenne estyisi.
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Sammalunda skolen I ock, I män,
på förståndigt sätt leva tillsammans med edra hustrur,
då ju hustrun är det svagare kärlet;
och eftersom de äro edra medarvingar till livets nåd,
skolen I bevisa dem all ära,
på det att edra böner icke må bliva förhindrade.
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You husbands, in like manner, live with your wives
according to knowledge,
giving honor to the woman,
as to the weaker vessel,
as being also joint heirs of the grace of life;
that your prayers may not be hindered.
1. Pet. 3:7