We all need a timeline cleanse right now, so let's start the day with this lovely jug with an octopus motif, dating ca 1200-1100 BC.

On display at National Museum Copenhagen.

A lovely weekend to all of you!

📷 me

#archaeology

@ninawillburger Where is it from?
@amenonsen @ninawillburger I think it's Mycenaean. My parents used to have a coffee table book with one a lot like this in it.
@amenonsen @ninawillburger I guess its Minoan. Wonderfull!

@ninawillburger I love those! The museums in #Cyprus have quite a few of them.

#octopus #pottery

@ninawillburger we love these

Here is my son's interpretation in the form of a paper mache bowl

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The poor thing looks terrified

@ninawillburger never saw Mr Burns depicted in a jar
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Octopus?
Are you tripping or am I?
No disrespect intended.
It just seemed very abstract, but in the context of other examples of ancient clayware decorated with octopuses -- shown in this thread -- I now wish to withdraw my impertinent questions, Nina.