Ancient Roman Artifacts of the Day: These carved bone phalluses with finely detailed wings — dating back 1,600 to 2,000 years — were dug up in Britain and recently published in the journal Britannia.
Splendid!
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OH MY GOD
Phalloi! Favored subject of Hugo award winner Ursula Vernon.
we have not changed for thousands of years
That’s my favourite sculpture. Maybe you’ve already noticed this print on my wall in all my webcam photos :)
The Pergamon Altar, c. 200-150 B.C. Pergamon Museum, Berlin
Ancient Egyptian Statuette of Osiris sitting, Late Period, circa 664 - 332 BC, Bronze with gold incrustations.
Ancient Egyptian Brown Scarab 1070 - 712 BC
Carved brown limestone heart scarab, once placed on the throat, chest, or heart of the Mummy. Some were worn by the deceased on a necklace, or mounted in gold settings as a pectoral. Heart scarabs provided the bearer with the assurance that at the final judgment as depicted in the Book of the Dead, the bearer would be found ”True of Voice” and accepted into the eternal afterlife by the God Osiris. Six lines of hieroglyphics, including a standing Horus, ankh, sun God Ra, at the bottom. Third Intermediate Period.
Rumi poems (masnavi)
This is an illustrated and illuminated copy of the collection of poems, known as Masnavi, of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (d. 672 AH / 1273 CE). According to the colophon (fol. 314b), the text, written in black nastaʿlīq script, was completed in India in 1073 AH / 1663 CE / Walters Art Museum
