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I am an extremely over-qualified high school chemistry teacher. (Photos captured by myself unless mentioned otherwise.)

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Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · Apr 4

Hi there, welcome, I don't "follow back" people.🙋‍♀️

Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 8h

Geology people @geohenning.bsky.social @pavementgeology.bsky.social ! What is in this rock? Some kind of a calcite? I came across it in the foundations of Pessinus temple in Eskişehir in Turkey today...

Shiny translucent sheetlike accumulations in arock

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Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 9h

After Robin Williams' death and a couple of heartwrenching personal losses, watching Dead Poets Society feels more and more bitter... But we don't drop off what's ours just because they weigh heavy don't we.😢

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 13h

Shells - ancient and modern - from the beach at Redcar. The modern oyster was considerably more battered than the 200 million year old ones. Watercolour painting.
#fossils #shells #art #nature
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Watercolour painting of shells found on the beach at Redcar, northeast England; there is a modern oyster shell on the left, showing outside and inside, though it is very sea-worn. The remainder are fossils from the lower Jurassic period (c200mya) - Cardinia bivalves, a fragment of Ammonite and Gryphaea oysters.

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Anne van den Broek Art @annevandenbroekart.bsky.social · 12h

My latest oil painting of the Bearded reedlings. Love these birds.
#wildlifeart #birdart #birds #oilpainting

Oil painting showing two male bearded reedlings. Both are sitting on reed branches with seed plumes.

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Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 10h

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Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 11h

The crows weren't much happy about our presence🙃

Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 11h

But the gaze of these figures are extraordinarily real

Same composition photographed from the side, a man and a woman are in eye contact

While the rest of the figures including a horse are looking to the right one man, with a romantic gaze, is looking left in the eyes of someone else

Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 11h

I don't know what is going on here but these people need a little more space... And, definitely, more clothes
📌Musei Capitolini

A marble sarcophagus, the deceased couple is reclining on the lid, on the long surface there are young naked men with helmets holding the harnesses of the horses, the old men are around them seated, and there are some women

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Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 14h

Autumn, an almost deserted village in the middle of central Anatolia, and the ruins of a Phrygian city.
Pessinus, today.
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Pessinus, theater seats and the mosque of the village.

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Peter S @peteringout.bsky.social · 16h

Good afternoon from #Herculaneum AD79 🇮🇹

#PhotoHour
#Archaeology
#UrbanGaze
#EastCoastKin

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Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 16h

Now

A fountain by the road tiled with İznik style tiles

Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 17h

Now

A roadside view- deserted fields, dark clouds, hills with patchy shadows.

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Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 1d

And I have no idea what this is- any guesses?🫣

A couple riding on a chariot on the right part of the sarcophagus is carrying a bearded man's head

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Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 1d

Closer

Figures dancing, riding, carrying fruits

One guy is carrying a pig, a pan is holding harnesses

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Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 1d

A Dionysiac parade with all grotesque figures, even the acroters look weird.😄 And the painted body parts make the group look even wilder.😁
📌Musei Capitolini 🏺

Long side of a sarcophagus with satyrs, pans, maenads, dancing, playing flutes, carrying animals to be sacrificed. In one end is Dionysos in his chariot. The hairs, the goat legs of the pans and the lion's mane is dyed brown.

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Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 1d

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Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 1d

Man urinates on the altar of San Pietro Basilica 😖😖😖
michelangelobuonarrotietornato.com/2025/10/11/s...

San Pietro: uomo urina sull’Altare della Confessione (Video)

🇮🇹Un uomo è riuscito a salire fin sopra i gradini che portano all’Altare della Confessione e, dopo aver aperto la cerniera dei pantaloni, ha urinato nel luogo più sacro della Basilica di San Pietro…

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Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 1d

Calydonian boar hunt. In Musei Capitolini.
Look, is the woman on the lid playing an instrument?
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A marble sarcophagus, on the lid is the reclining deceased couple without their facial details signified. On the long side a man (Meleager?) is attacking a boar with a spear, there are other hunters around, among them is Atalanta too.

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Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 1d

I think there are exceptions for the son tutulma bükücüs.😁

Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 1d

Funny and sad but true: If I weren't working in a state hospital I wouldn't be able to see any of these. Schengen visa applications of Turkish citizens with regular passports are often rejected.😢

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Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 1d

Reminder: Flowers are, after all, the organs of reproduction.

Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 1d

My lithopses are doing strange things again🫣

Three lithops plants in a 5.5 cms pot, one of them is growing a protrusion with a cap (flower?).

Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 1d

Friend with his sick son
-Who are you writing to, mum?
-To a friend of mine, she's a doctor (that being me🫣)
-I want to be a doctor when I grow up. Tell her not to die till then!

Done, sir.🫡😄

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Häferlkaffee @haeferlkaffee.bsky.social · 11d

For #ClassicsTober25 Day 1 Hypnos is pouring slumber from a horn over the young shepard Endymion on this mid-2nd c. Roman sarcophagus in the @metmuseum.org. Endymion falls asleep while the moon goddess Selene arrives for her nightly visit.

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#ClassicsTober

Endymion, naked, lying on his cloak which is being pulled away by two cupids. Behind him, above his head, stands Hypnos, bearded and with butterfly wings, empties a horn over sleeping Endymion. In his other hand, Hypnos holds a branch with leaves.

Image of the complete sarcophagus. On the right, Endymion and Hynos. On the left, Selene steps off her wagon.

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Häferlkaffee @haeferlkaffee.bsky.social · 8d

The left end of the sarcophagus' front and its sides show scenes from the boy's life: his first bath, his first riding in a chariot pulled by a goat, and school.

Images from Wikimedia Commons.

Image of the complete sarcophagus, on the far left iy the schooling scene.

Right short side of the sarcophagus showing the child's first bath: the mother sits on a stool on the right. In front of her, a nurse lifts a baby from a water bowl. Further women surround the scene.

Left short side of the sarcophagus: A small boy sits on a cart which is pulled by a goat. Two men accompany the cart in the background.

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Häferlkaffee @haeferlkaffee.bsky.social · 8d

The deceased child is wrapped in a shroud on this sarcophagus in the museum of Agrigento. As was the social ideal, the grieving parents sitting at the sides of the bed are composed. Only the nurse and pedagogue are openly showing emotions.

#ClassicsTober25 Day 4 #ClassicsTober #SarcophagusSaturday

Lectus with a boy lying on it, his body wrapped in a shroud. A nurse standing behind the bed touches his chin, while the bearded pedagogue next to her is raising his arms in mourning.

Image of the complete sarcophagus. On the left the death bed with the deceased child. On its right, the mother, her head bent down and covered by her mantle, sits in a chair. A small and chubby naked child leans onto her knee. At the left end of the bed is the father sitting on a chair, head also bent down and covered by his cloak. On the far left is a school scene: The boy is reading from a writing tablet to a headless man sitting in front of them. A pedagogue and two other men stand in the background. A column with a bust of Athena seta the scene.

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