Consider that this arrowhead came from a Crimean hoard. What’s the country of origin?
#Ukraine?
#Russia?
USSR?
Scythia?

Or does it depend on who’s in the White House and how cozy they are with Moscow?

What's this timeline where Trump's geopolitics determine #tariffs on 2500-year-old artefacts? 3/3

Here’s a Scythian-Cimmerian trilobate arrowhead (6th–2nd c. BC) from my collection. Nomadic people from the Eurasian steppe who invaded the Near East in the 8th c. BC and controlled hegemonically areas in present-day Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Syria, Turkey, Ukraine, Russia, Moldova… 2/3

a member of her, [name], so that she may remember no one but me, [name], alone.» And take a lead tablet and write the same spell and recite it. And tie the lead leaf to the figures with a thread from the loom after making 365 knots while saying as you have learned, «ABRASAX, hold her fast!» […]” 3/3

fully armed, holding a sword in his left hand and threatening to plunge it into the right side of her neck. And make her with her arms behind her back and down on her knees. […] And take thirteen copper needles and stick 1 [in each body part] while saying, […] «I am piercing such and such… 2/3

…, it’s presumed they got away with the famous invaluable golden helmet of Coțofănești, which dates from around 450 BCE, and three #Dacian royal bracelets dated to 50 BCE. 2/2

Lovely Dionysian hairstyle and style.

Here he is depicted on a #denarius struck by the moneyer M. Furius L.f. Philus in 119 BC, the obverse depicting the head of #Janus; the reverse commemorating the defeat of Gallic tribes the Allobroges and the Averni in Gaul by Quintus Fabius Maximus, which finally secured this region for Rome. (2/2)

Plating breaks reveal the greenish copper core and there's a lot of oxidation around Concordia. The craftsmanship is stunning for a "fake". That's of course because many fourrées were produced by mint workers moonlighting or using retired or stolen dies, not only by out and out counterfeiters. (2/2)