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Demetri Sofides

@thelordofhands.bsky.social

3D artist, game designer, NYC native, one-time archaeologist. Wishlist STRANGE FINDS: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4278870/Strange_Finds/

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Demetri Sofides@thelordofhands.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'm celebrating International Archaeology Day with the final announcement trailer for Strange Finds! Dig up ruins, piece together finds, and restore the timeline of a lost civilization. Check it out below:

𝕮𝖗𝖔𝖜 𝖔𝖋 𝕮𝖔𝖓𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖓𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓@discrowpanik.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Placing bets right now that the kid who had this annoyed their sibling with it by making it talk

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

An ancient Egyptian crocodile that bites! 🐊 More than 3,000 years ago, someone carved this crocodile from wood and gave it a movable jaw. Perhaps a child’s toy, it offers a small glimpse into the playful side of ancient life. From Thebes, c. 1540-1075 BC Neues Museum Berlin 📷 me #Archaeology

My photo shows an ancient Egyptian wooden crocodile with a movable lower jaw, resting on a white museum display surface. The elongated crocodile is carved to show its rough textured body, with carved scales along its back, raised eyes, and a hinged mouth with the jaw extended open. Perhaps it was once a toy. From Thebes, Egypt. Dated to the New Kingdom, 1540-1075 BC.
allsee@allsees.online · 2mo ago

hi new followers 👋🐱 im a game dev working on an insane new game for u all, and sharing indie games every day along the way. heres me + BigGaming64 for pic tax. ok ily bye

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Anfor@anforsorrow.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Two roman altars found near Edinburgh and related to the cult of Mithras are going to be displayed for the first time. One of the altars, dedicated to the god Sol, had holes so it could be illuminated from within, and don't tell me this is not the most rpg thing ever.

Roman altar with the face of the sun god Sol. It also includes carvings of the four seasons. Found in Inveresk in East Lothian, dating to about 140AD. It was designed so that light shone from behind, making the god's face and crown appear to glow in the darkness. This altar, along another one, were excavated in 2010 and are the only examples of their kind ever found in Scotland. They were set up by a Roman centurion whose name was written in short form as G CAS FLA, likely meaning Gaius Cassius Flavianus.
TJ Denzer@johnnychugs.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I fear that the youth of today don't have the imaginative fire and drive that would allow them to rise off of their knees and punch a celestial being so hard it explodes and an orchestral choir sings a song about it.

Alison Fisk@alisonfisk.bsky.social · 3mo ago

An enchanting Minoan jug made by a master potter some 3,500 years ago! Marine style decoration brings an underwater world to life with Nautili swimming among rocks, coral, and seaweed 🐚 🌊 🪸 The relief seashells add another dimension to the design! Heraklion Archaeological Museum📷 me #Archaeology

My photo shows a Minoan clay jug known as the Poros Ewer. The jug has a round body which tapers down to a slender circular foot. It has a single curved handle ornamented with applied relief seashells along the handle length. The neck has a trefoil (three-lobed) mouth. The jug has a yellow slip background with black hand-painted decoration which is an exquisite example of the mature Minoan ‘Marine Style’. The body is covered with dense painted and relief decoration depicting an underwater seascape. The main decorative theme is the floating nautilus (cephalopod with a smooth coiled spiral shell from which many curled tentacles protrude). Fifteen nautiluses are depicted around the body of the jug. They swim singly or in pairs in a seascape indicated by seaweed, coral, sea urchins, and three-lobed rocks in relief (meaning the rocks are raised from the surface of the vessel). In the background a scale-like pattern suggests ripples on the sun-dappled sea floor. Mended and restored. Maximum height: 26.2 cm. Rim diameter 11.6 cm. The jug was excavated in 1986 in the Neopalatial cemetery of rock-cut cave tombs excavated south of the port settlement at Poros, a suburb of modern-day Heraklion. Dated 1500-1450 BC. On display at Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete.