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Mostly re-posting items that I've found interesting relating to history or science. Some cinema and music too.
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Sarmatian bottle and lid (1st century CE, reproduction)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

#AncientBlueSky🏺
A Sarmatian bottle and lid (1st century AD, reproduction) refers to 19th-century electrotype copies made by firms like Elkington & Co., replicating precious ancient Sarmatian vessels (often perfume containers or flasks) from the 1st century AD, featuring intricate animal styles (like lions or elk) and precious inlay, found in elite burials and showcasing Sarmatian nomadic artistry for broader public display in museums like The Met. The actual 1st-century AD Sarmatian bottles were elaborate, often gold, items from rich burials (like the "Treasure of Novocherkassk") and used for perfume or liquids, reflecting their "animal style" art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art holds such reproductions, acquired in the late 19th century, like the "Sarmatian bottle and lid" (Object Number 83.18.254) In essence, you're looking at a Victorian-era copy of a significant ancient nomadic artifact, prized for its detailed craftsmanship and connection to the Sarmatian people, nomadic warriors known for their elaborate art.
December 29, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Netsuke: #Dog with #Puppy (and bonus auspicious #dragonfly!)
Japan, Edo period, 19th c.
Stained ivory, inlaid horn eyes
H 1.8 x L 5.3 cm
www.dorotheum.com/en/l/7120417/
#JapaneseArt #DogsInArt
composite image of two official auction photos on white background, front and turned profiles ivory (stained brown) carving of a mother dog curled up with her cute smiling puppy, with a lucky dragonfly on her back “Provenance: Collection of Conte Don Enrico Lucchesi Palli, Prince of Campofranco. Acquired in around 1889, when he accompanied his cousin Enrico (Henry) Prince of Parma, Count of Bardi, on his world tour (1887-91); his heirs”
December 29, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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Unna's Stone (U 613) 🇸🇪 🐍 ✝️

una + lit + reisa + þinsa + stein + aftR + sun sin + istin sum + to + i hoita+uaþum + kuþ hialbi + salu hans

Unna had this stone raised in memory of his son Östen, who died wearing a christening gown. God preserve his soul.

My 📷 | Ref. Historiska museet
Runestone
December 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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architecture.bsky.social
An Interior section of the 15th century Ranakpur Jain Temple, also called the Chaturmukh Temple, Rajasthan, India
Ranakpur Jain Temple
December 25, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Happy Christmas ✨️🎄
Two deer following each other nose to tail. The sculpture of swimming reindeer was carved about 13,000 years ago in what is now modern-day France by a Magdalenian sculptor who carved the artwork from the tip of a mammoth tusk.

www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
December 24, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Spirit guardian, Henan or Hebei China, ca. 500-534
Statue of a monstrous creature say the basic body template is a dog but the mouth has big fangs and is opened almost as big as a frogs I think the statue is made of bronze but the eyes appear to be a different material in red glass maybe I don't know and this creature also appears to have spikes or spines or something coming out of its back
December 24, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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🦇 #BatsInArt #PreciousBats #CentralAndes #NorthCoast #EarlyIntermediatePeriod #MocheCivilization
Artist of the Moche Culture
MASTIFF BAT VESSEL, 200 BCE - 800 CE
Ceramic, slip
https://www.artsy.net/artwork/central-andes-north-coast-moche-people-early-intermediate-period-mastiff-dog-faced-bat-vessel
December 22, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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A 16th Century CE, Italian Parade Shield, depicting ‘The Judgement of Paris’, a story that ultimately led to the Trojan War; sculpted by Leone Leoni.

MET Museum

#archaeohistories
December 21, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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2 NEW epic images of Phobos over Mars just released by @esa.int Mars Express

This view is especially striking, with Phobos between the Tharsis volcanoes and Noctis Labyrinthus–Valles Marineris

Full resolution 300MP(!) & info on: flic.kr/p/2rMW4so
Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY 🧪🔭
A wide view of the planet Mars fills the frame, shown as a curved, rust-colored world against black space. The bottom edge fades into darkness, marking the planet’s night side, while the upper portion is brightly lit by sunlight. Near the right side are three large, round volcanic mountains of the Tharsis region, each with a wide circular base and a darker central caldera, resembling shallow craters pressed into the surface. North of these volcanoes, stretching almost vertically across the upper right half of the planet, lies Noctis Labyrinthus and Valles Marineris: an immense system of deep canyons and fractured terrain that appears as pale, branching scars and cracks, partly softened by hazy, cloud-like atmospheric features. Near the center of the image, positioned between the volcanoes and the canyon system, a small dark oval appears against Mars’s surface. This is Phobos, one of Mars’s satellites. Its tiny size stands out sharply against the vast scale of the planet below.
December 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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This figurine is known as the Beersheba Venus. Dated 4500-3500 BC, Chalcolithic period, it was found in Beersheba, Israel 🇮🇱

📷© Avraham Hay

The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

#archaeohistories
December 17, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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A break from Christmas content to enjoy this capybara eating a banana. From François Froger's 'A relation of a voyage ...' (London, 1698).
17th century engraving of a capybara under a palm tree eating a banana
December 17, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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For #NationalMonkeyDay 🐒:
There are a lot of cute #monkeys in #JapaneseArt but this one may be the cutest 🥰
Kanō Sansetsu (Japan,1589-1651）
猿猴図（えんこうず) Monkey Figure (Enkozu), 17th c.
Ink on scroll
Tokyo National Museum
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pa...
Long vertical scroll with an illustration of a monkey (Gibbon) sitting on a branch - extremely cute with a happy little smiling face!
December 15, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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From (long) Ship to Spire! ⛪️

Gilt copper-alloy weather vanes, like this Ringerike-style example from Söderala Church, were seemingly taken from the prows of elite drakkar ships and repurposed as vanes for church spires.

My 📷 Ref. Historiska museet
Gilt copper-alloy weather vane
December 14, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Wall Clock, so-called Plate Clock c. 1661 Gilded silver, amethyst, jasper, turquoises, wax (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)
December 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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globalmuseum.bsky.social
Speaking of the #Hermitage, the Peacock Clock is one of the most extraordinary surviving 18th‑century #automata. Created in the late 1770s by James Cox, it was bought by Prince Grigory Potemkin for Catherine the Great, shipped to Russia and reassembled there.
@xmuse_ #globalmuseum #museums #clocks
December 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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These are just three of the thousands of so-called 'eye idols' that were discovered at a temple in Tell Brak in Syria. Dating to around 3600 BCE, they are probably votive offerings. They are now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. @camunivmuseums.bsky.social #FindsFriday
Three carved stone objects which look like stylised human figures with enormous eyes.
December 5, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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This golden pectoral is considered the most beautiful of those found in Tomb 7 at Monte Albán, Oaxaca, Mexico. It measures 115 mm at its widest point and is 2 mm thick at its thickest point, weighing 112 grams. Collection of the Museum of Cultures of Oaxaca.
December 4, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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globalmuseum.bsky.social
A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
December 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Table Clock, Augsburg, 1564 by Jeremias Metzker (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)
December 3, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Not far from my hotel is the absurdly blingy 18th century Late Baroque private chapel Asamkirche, home to a golden skeleton brandishing scissors to cut the cord of life..!
December 2, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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An elaborate hand with long, bendy fingers marking parts of the manuscript that were thought to be of importance or interest - 14th century, Bancroft Library, BANC MS UCB 085
November 30, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Lámh Laichtín • The Shrine of St Lachtin's Arm

This remarkable shrine in the shape of a forearm dates to around c.1120.

A hollow in the shrine is believed to have held the arm bone of St. Lachtin, a saint of the 6th century.

(some additional detail in the Alt-Text)

#Ireland #SpéirGhorm
A life-size depiction of a human forearm known as The Shrine of St Lachtin's Arm on display in the Treasury exhibition of the National Museum of Ireland. The shrine is made of wood and covered with plates of bronze, though the hand is cast from a single piece of bronze with applied silver panels on the palm and fingernails. The interlacing snakes, serpents, and beasts along the plates that form the forearm are a striking example of Urnes art.
November 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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The ‘Fool's Cap World Map’, from 1590. The print uses a jester's face to display the world map of the time - Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. Currently part of the British Library’s ‘Secret Maps’ exhibition.
November 21, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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Venus figure from the Siberian Paleolithic site of Mal'ta, dated approximately 24,000 BP. There is a leaf shaped mark on her right shoulder/breast and a hole drilled in the base, presumably indicating it was worn or hung as a pendant.

#archaeohistories
November 20, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Helmet of Ferdinand II, 1560 by Giovanni Battista Panzeri known as Serabaglio (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)

A playful little piece of headgear..
November 12, 2025 at 8:02 PM