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Serena Blair

@serenablair.bsky.social

Design, art, tv, movies, music, baking, aspiring gourmet No MAGA, misogyny or fascists (same thing as MAGA) Bisexual 🏳️‍🌈 she/her Interior Designer. Recovering architect. Witch/Pagan

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𝚍𝚘𝚗 𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚎@donrice.art · 2d ago

SILENT ART SHARE - Show ‘em if you got ‘em. #artshare Post your work quietly, without a word. You know the drill! Share your work, tag your friends, and support other folks! Only human-made works. SFW encouraged. Label if NSFW. Alt-text also encouraged. Thank you all for being amazing! Cheers!

Show ‘em if you got ‘em. #artshare
Alison Fisk@alisonfisk.bsky.social · 4d ago

Toot toot! 🐭 🎺 🎉 I’m delighted to reach the milestone of 15,000 followers! Thank you for joining me! Great to see so many of you interested in #Archaeology! Here’s a tiny Roman bronze mouse playing a trumpet! Perhaps too loudly as he’s covering his ear with a paw! 1st-2nd century AD #Archaeology

My photo shows a tiny bronze figurine of a mouse playing a Roman tuba, a long, straight bronze trumpet with a flared bell, used by the Roman military (though not exclusively). The mouse is seen in profile, standing facing left, head tilted upwards playing the trumpet which is held in the mouse’s right paw - right paw not seen in photo. It covers its left ear with its left paw, perhaps the sound of the trumpet is too loud! The figurine is 3.81 centimetres tall. The bronze mouse appears dark grey in colour. Displayed on a thin vertical metal stand on a black plinth against a beige surface and dark brown backdrop. Small bronze mice statuettes were a very popular motif in Roman times, often attached to oil lamps and lampstands, a reference to the problem of mice gnawing at wicks and drinking lamp oil, a nuisance documented in various ancient texts. They’re often comically shown undertaking human activities out of proportion to their small size, which invoked the Hellenistic and Roman literary and artistic traditions of an ‘inverted world’, as discussed in an article by Philip Kiernan ‘The Bronze Mice of Apollo Smintheus’.