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Grania3
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Into a little bit of everything. Books, art, photography, museums.
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classicalalan.bsky.social
How exciting - I have always wanted to see these altars, the one featuring Sol is particularly amazing!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ancient Roman altars to go on display in Edinburgh
Two Mithraic Roman altars are to be displayed as a part of an upcoming exhibition after being acquired for the nation.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 11, 2026 at 1:03 PM
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tatiana1979.bsky.social
Emmi-Riikka, 'Fairy Foxes'
February 12, 2026 at 10:25 PM
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catherinemmunro.bsky.social
Lace woven sea #Shetland
Blue sea with snow on the sand
February 12, 2026 at 10:43 AM
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frwildflowers.bsky.social
Eight years ago today 🌿

Another cluster of Caesalpinia pulcherrima flowers (Dwarf Poinciana or ʻohai aliʻi) blooming street side in Paia.
Frilly bright red flowers with very long stamens. One of the flowers is prominently yellow fringed
February 12, 2026 at 9:41 PM
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frwildflowers.bsky.social
Eight years ago today 🌿

Oxalis debilis, the nonnative Pink Woodsorrel, blooming at Ke'anae Arboretum
Pink five-petal flowers
February 12, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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trahias.bsky.social
"Interior, Music Evening"* (or simply "Evening Interior") and was created by the Danish artist Carl Vilhelm Holsøe (1863–1935).

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#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
February 12, 2026 at 7:43 AM
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iand777.bsky.social
Whistle down the wind - the lane to the barn.
#Landscape
February 12, 2026 at 6:25 PM
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arealmofwonder.bsky.social
A.A. Milne showing us how to wrap up a story in the most beautiful way possible.
February 12, 2026 at 6:53 PM
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rachelburch.bsky.social
Low cloud at Fourwinds Merrivale yesterday, the damp fogged the lens (camera is fine just on the skylight filter), I liked the effect…. #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography #landscapephotography #fog
Beech trees and wall in fog.
February 12, 2026 at 8:07 PM
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cathylowe.bsky.social
#AdoorableThursday at the Church of the Holy Innocents, Highnam.

Lovely lattice-work porch gates with tiny thorns seemingly carved into the pattern; a reference to the Crown of Thorns?

I may have seen thorn detailing in the work of Sydney Barnsley (look carefully at the vertical sections in pic).
February 12, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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ticiaverveer.bsky.social
Two exceptionally beautifully carved Mithraic altars found in Inveresk, East Lothian, Scotland, are going on display for the 1st time. The Roman altars date to the 140s - when S-Scotland was reoccupied under Antoninus Pius 📷 National Museums Scotland & Duncan McGlynn media.nms.ac.uk/news/rare-ro...
February 12, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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dmdphotoattic.com
daily dose of green
#photography #nature #trees #canada #landscape #fujifilm #forest #rainforest #vancouver #fog
February 12, 2026 at 3:59 AM
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chapps.bsky.social
The legs of most of these statuettes were broken just before burial to ensure that they posed no threat to the tomb owner. Hippos were represented in tombs to be hunted and killed in the afterlife (with broken legs!), ensuring the hunter immortality. 🏺 2/

More info ... 👇

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Egyptian faience standing hippo
Egyptian artists decorated statuettes of hippos with images of Nile flora and fauna. Common motifs included lotus buds, flowers, marsh grass, lily pads, frogs, waterfowl, and insects. The lotus plants...
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February 11, 2026 at 11:04 PM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
Happy #SuperbOwlSunday!

Here’s a lovely limestone plaque carved with the face of an owl!🦉😍

From Egypt, Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 400–30 BC.

Met Museum www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

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#Archaeology
My photo shows a roughly square-shaped piece of limestone with a relief carving depicting a front facing owl on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. This relief represents the ancient Egyptian owl hieroglyph ‘m’. Limestone plaque dimensions H. 10.3 x W. 11.1 x D. 2.5 cm
February 8, 2026 at 3:29 PM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
A little blue hippo made by an Egyptian artisan around 4,000 years ago! 🦛 ❤️

Decorated with river plants and lotus flowers, blue faience hippos are associated with the life-giving Nile and rebirth. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. 📷 by me

#Archaeology
My photo shows a ‘roaring’ hippo statuette made of Egyptian blue faience, a ceramic material made of ground quartz. The hippo is seated with head at left, and turned to front. The hippo’s original tusks (top incisors and lower canine teeth are known as tusks), are missing, so it looks as if the hippo is smiling. The blue body is decorated in black with Nile river plants such as water weed and lotus flowers. This decoration depicts the hippo’s marsh habitat as well as having layers of symbolism associated with regeneration e.g. lotus flowers open with the sun in the morning and close at night symbolising rebirth. Height 7.5 cm, length 12.5 cm. On display Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen.
February 11, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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chapps.bsky.social
This #Egyptian faience hippo statuette is painted with lotus flowers and buds, found in its marshy environment. The lotus flowers - closing every night and reopening again in the morning - also represented regeneration and rebirth. 🏺 1/ @alisonfisk.bsky.social

1938-1539 BCE.
#BrooklynMuseum 📸 me
Blue faience hippo statuette with black line drawings of lotus flowers and buds on stalks painted on its surface (including its face). In a way, it's like seeing the hippo through the marsh plants of its environment.
February 11, 2026 at 11:04 PM
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canavart.bsky.social
First Daffodils

Victoria, BC

#bloomscrolling #saanich #vancouverisland #photography #eastcoastkin #britishcolumbia #daffodils #spring #yellow #yyj #victoriabc
Small yellow daffodil flowers and a pair of purple crocusses atop green stems and leaves emerging from a dirt garden bed.
February 12, 2026 at 12:39 AM
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annijyn.com
the moomins went folk horror
black and white illustration of moomin, a small hippo like creature stands at the bottom of a hill wearing a shawl blanket around his shoulders and holding a gas lantern. on top of the hill other whimsical characters are dancing around the midwinter bonfire, the moon is full and bright in the distance
July 22, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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nicktankard.bsky.social
2/2 …comprehend achievements. I’d ALWAYS hoped to be a published illustrator & yes…I did it. It doesn’t really matter what I do now (perhaps financially it does). I do have ambitions, to write & illustrate my own picture book.

No more giving myself a hard time, life is too short.
December 4, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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nicktankard.bsky.social
1/2 I had a moment earlier this morning. I was thinking about my mums funeral & the Auntie (I hadn’t seen her for a few years) who after the service was talking about my illustrations for The Woman in Black & she said “you did it” meaning I got illustrations published. It’s easy to not fully…
A black pen in a crosshatch technique and printing ink applied with a rubber roller on white paper Illustration of a large Victorian house situated on a small island surrounded by a misty estuary. A track or causeway leads up the house, long damp grass and seaweed either side of it, cart tracks visible in the damp muddy track. The house has many dark windows, chimneys and a porch at the front of the building, it is tall and imposing and sits awkwardly in the landscape. A lone figure in a long coat stands in front of the house. A streaky grey sky above and a thin mist is rolling across the island. Atmospheric and eerie.
December 4, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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michaelwarburton.bsky.social
In 1962, 54-year-old BETTE DAVIS placed this famous advert in @variety.com
February 11, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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michaelwarburton.bsky.social
In Maryborough, Australia - birthplace of PL Travers - there are MARY POPPINS traffic lights.
February 11, 2026 at 6:19 PM
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michaelwarburton.bsky.social
Taylor & Burton - Mexico, 1963
February 11, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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davidswildlife.bsky.social
A Kingfisher #BirdOfTheDay #Blue #Nature #Wildlife #Photography #EastCoastKin
February 11, 2026 at 10:14 AM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Vivian Maier's (1926-2009) photographic self-portraits in mirrors, shadows, reflections, suggest her enigmatic persona, a shadowy presence behind her camera which enabled the capture of candid moments of life #WomensArt
Four monochrome photographs featuring images of a white woman caught in mirrors , reflections and shadows, in streets and an interior
February 11, 2026 at 9:17 AM