For All Hallow’s Eve, learn one spell from the Papyri Graecae Magicae
After sunset, chant to lamp: BOASOCH OEAE IAOIE NICHAROPLEX STHOM OTHO THEOTE SIEOU IAO IE IEO IOY IEOY IO IEI EO IEAI IEOA A E E I O Y O
Draw the Headless One on hieratic papyrus. Place under head for dreams
Adapted from PGM II 1-64 #DailyArchaeology
Be careful this Halloween! Antiquities dealers smuggling artifacts disguised as candy. Check your goodies before someone breaks a tooth
Delicious Stone Age amber bear discovered in peat near Słupsk, Poland #DailyArchaeology
Pic: G. Solecki/A. Piętak https://muzeum.szczecin.pl/en/collections/archaeology/stone-age.html#fancybox-1
When it comes to ancient art, you just need to walk all the way around to the rear to tell if the sculptor wanted to show off the derriere
#DailyArchaeology #archaeology @archaeodons (my pic, Ashmolean Museum)
Today's #DailyArchaeology is about two of my favs: music & animals
Notice the musical instrument that Apollo's holding on this cup from Delphi
It's a tortoise-shell lyre, similar to this ceramic one, imitating a tortoise-shell in The British Museum (bought from the infamous Elgin)
Photograph of the painted kylix from Delphi by Fingalo, on wikimedia: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_black_bird_AM_Delphi_8140.jpg
Photograph of the ceramic tortoise-shell lyre: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1816-0610-501
cc: @archaeodons #archaeology
Boar's tusk helmets, described in Homer's Iliad, have been found in Mycenaean graves, deposited several centuries before the Iliad was written down
But, they were mostly made from tusks of domesticated boar (male pigs), not wild boar, as too many people fancifully imagine
#DailyArchaeology @archaeodons @histodons @antiquidons @mythology
The earliest example of someone chewing on the end of their pencil that I know of
Bone styluses from a 5th century BC grave at Acharnai, outside of Athens. Now in archaeological museum at Acharnai. My photo.
Go forth and gnaw on your pencils, future archaeologists will love it. #DailyArchaeology
This medieval tower was built at the entrance (Propylaia) to the Athenian Acropolis in the 13th century by the Frankish rulers of the duchy of Athens.
Heinrich Schliemann successfully campaigned to demolish it in 1874
This photo gives a sense of how modern our ancient sites are
Who's a good boy? #DailyArchaeology
Read more about the dogs at the Roman healing sanctuary of Llys Awel, Conwy in The National Museum of Wales: https://museum.wales/articles/1054/The-Healing-Power-of-Dogs/
Flint Dibble
