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Rebecca Bugge

@dameboudicca.bsky.social

Archaeologist (started in medieval Scandinavia - now firmly rooted in Etruscan Italy) with a love for architecture, books, Japan, cats and photography, and video games (because why not?)

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Alison Fisk@alisonfisk.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Tutankhamun’s ‘Duck Head’ shoes! 1330–1323 BC. Extraordinary sandals with gold insoles and gold daisies on a lapis lazuli beaded background - but the standout detail has to be the teeny-tiny gold duck heads projecting from the top strap! 🦆🦆❤️ Grand Egyptian Museum, Cairo 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo shows a pair of flat, open shoes with ornately decorated sides and upper and lower straps which run across the open top of the shoe attached to each side. A toe bar/thong runs down the top of the foot, attached to the straps and sole of the shoe. The leather outer sole is covered with a gold insole which is pointed at the front. The sides of the shoes and the wider upper strap are intricately decorated with gold daisies on a lapis lazuli beaded background. Projecting from the upper strap, either side of where the toe thong is attached, is a small projecting gold duck head which gives the shoes their nickname. The duck heads are inlaid with blue glass on the top and sides. These ornate shoes were found in the antechamber of Tutankhamun’s Tomb in the Valley of the Kings. Reign of Tutankhamun, c. 1330–1323 BC.
Chapps@chapps.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Art of the ancient Americas may not be your thing, but you have to love this earthenware crab vessel. I'm sorry, I don't make the rules. 🦀 This is going into our imaginary museum replica store, pronto. #LACMA Colombia, Calima style, Ilama period, ca. 1500 BCE-100 CE. 🏺 1/ 📸 me

Earthenware crab vessel with two spouts flanking a round handle on its back. It's painted a reddish-orange color and its stumpy claws are closed in front of its cute little face. It's standing up on its six non-claw legs, which are also stumpy. Insanely adorable.
Anfor@anforsorrow.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This is the Ife Head, a medieval Yoruba brass head found in 1938 in Ife (Nigeria). When the British Museum acquired it in 1939, it caused a huge uproar, because it is a beautifully carved naturalistic bust, but scholars didnt want to believe it was made by African people.

Brass head of an Ooni (king) of Ife (Nigeria). 1300s to early 1400s. British Museum.
Chapps@chapps.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This #Roman gold ring is set with a carved triangular hyacinthine garnet cameo with the head of a youth in a Phrygian cap. Perhaps Ganymede, ‘cup-bearer’ (ha!) to Zeus-Jupiter. The backlighting shows the colorful transparency of this stone. Pretty! 🏺 1/ 1st-2nd c. CE. #BritishMuseum 📸 me

Backlit triangular stone, set into a gold ring. The colors range from a deep yellow, to fiery orange and red. The sculptural head in the middle is a somewhat worried looking young man looking to the side; he wears a Phrygian cap, shorthand in the Greek and Roman world for a person from the east. Given his youth, he’s thought to be Ganymede, the ‘cup-bearer’ (read: bedmate) of Zeus.