Investment manager, art fan, reader and traveler
Interested in antiquity, psychology, humor. Happy living in the trees on Mt Tamalpais.
Investment manager, art fan, reader and traveler
Interested in antiquity, psychology, humor. Happy living in the trees on Mt Tamalpais.
I just leave this here #AncientJewelryLiterature
#AncientJewelry
Carnelian-encrusted gold lamella from Mal Tepe, Grave 1; (right) Similar lamella found elsewhere in the tomb (photographs, National Archaeological Institute with Museum, Sofia).
Source:
THE #HELLENISTIC TOMB OF MAL TEPE IN #THRACE: A RECONSIDERATION OF BURIAL SEQUENCE AND DATING*
By CHAVDAR TZOCHEV
https://www.academia.edu/resource/work/5899248
Many scholars have tried to make sense of the puzzling situation in the Mal Tepe tomb, which contained traces of multiple burials and objects of Greek, Thracian and Celtic origin. A widely accepted view holds that the monument had three phases of
Across town from #LittleRock Central HS, a young Jerry Jones joined a mob of white students trying to block Black students from integrating the school.
Yes, that Jerry Jones
#notevenpast
#BrownvBoard
#histodons #historians @histodons @politicalscience
@histodons
#academics
photo Straeter/AP
@jdmccafferty This is the image I confused it with, from San Martino, showing Pope Sylvester before a Synod held in 324. (Please correct me; this is what I gather about the painting.)
Photo found online, ©️ Jozef Smedmak.
@jdmccafferty I haven't visited that church; will check it out next time!
I did some head-scratching and remembered the church I was looking for... Santa Maria in Trastevere. The Sant'Isidoro painting seems to be a replica, or vice-versa. Here's the Santa Maria fresco.