Jim Cleary

Done!

Well that is a fascinating hypothesis, and (as a complete amateur) far more credible than the measuring tool suggestion. Thank you for sharing this link.

Indeed. And the sofas set at right angles to the tv are rather confusing too...

Thanks for sharing this - so much useful & interesting information that really helps in understanding the stele.
Have a grand time at the re-opening; I'll look forward to seeing your photos of the Combat Agate!

I was rather anxious about the Getty exhibition - there didn't seem to be much time for the exhibits to get back to Bulgaria, but everything was back on display. Although some of our group were very confused by a funeral stele in Nessebar which was still lying on the floor...

You are right! There are two doors, one with a Medusa & the other with what looks like a Helios, and the picture I chose to post is the Helios - well spotted!

Silver coin with a square labyrinth, letters A and P (Greek R) on either side of the image of the labyrinth, and KNOSI below.

Silver coin with an image of the labyrinth, which has a tiny (and rather indistinct) image of the minotaur at the centre

Tile which has been stamped with an image of the labyrinth

Museum label giving descriptions of the 3 artefacts in the previous images

Sorry I'm arriving on this fascinating thread a bit late! I saw an almost identical coin in the marvellous Labyrinth Exhibition at the Ashmolean a couple of years ago. Here are some photos of it (number 2) plus another coin (1) showing the Labyrinth & the Minotaur; also a tile stamp of the Labyrinth

I saw this wonderful artefact when the Landesmuseum was kind enough to loan it to the British Museum for their "World of Stonehenge" exhibition recently.
I'd always wanted to see it & it is quite marvellous.

The Butt du Lion! Seriously steep, that hill.

Max isn't going to go back down - here's some of the lyrics of Duw it's Hard:

And now I know those dusty mines
Have seen the last of me

'Cause it's hard
Duw it's hard
Harder than they will ever know

Small fragment of a fresco, with two heads wearing boars-tusk helmets against a light-blue background.

Here's a lovely little fragment of wall-painting (dated 1345 - 1240 BCE) showing two warriors wearing the same style of helmet, from that same exhibition.

Good luck - I hope you cab resolve it quickly & easily!

Ashlar masonry forming the corridor leading to the tomb-chamber

The roof of the tomb-chamber with concentric circles of ashlar masonry

One of the doors of the tomb-chamber. Marble, carved to resemble wood with metal reinforcing bosses. There is also a small Gorgon head on the upper half of the door

Bronze portrait head of Seuthes in a glass display case. He has a large moustache, and long beard.

#TombTuesday The interior of the tomb of Seuthes III, King of Odrysia in ancient Thrace in the 4th century BCE.
Located in the Golgama Kosmatka Tumulus near Kazanlak in modern day #Bulgaria.
His famous bronze portrait head can be seen in the National Archaeological Museum in Sofia.

It's not much fun. If you haven't tried Voltarol for your shoulder I strongly recommend it. My brother suggested I try it, and I was really surprised (& pleased!) by the pain relief that it gave.

I have mommy thumb - although since I'm a 71 year-old bloke, mine is obviously the far more important-sounding de Quervain's tenosynovitis!

Good luck! you can do this!

That sounds brilliant. I'm in London and I've no plans to visit the Getty, but I'm certainly hoping that whatever display technique they devise comes back with the agate so that I can get a better view of it in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens early next year.

Wonderful! I went to Kalamata just to see the agate. It was displayed in context with many other finds, and space limitations in the museum there meant that you couldn’t get close to it. I’ve been assured that in the Getty you will be able to get much closer for a great view - I’m jealous!

The Pylos exhibition has some fantastic artefacts, including the magnificent Pylos Combat Agate: go & see it if you can!

That's excellent news!

The restoration has been in progress for a while - when I visited in February you could see inside, as they had removed one part of the sarcophagus

Amazing tile! I think you have a typo. Perhaps "now part of the collections" rather than "not part of the collections"?

Grand start!

I'll be watching once I've finished my dinner!

and the museum galleries were closed early - I can only assume as part of the preparations...

He was a fine player. In the next round of that cup run we lost 1:0 at Burnley. Smallman played Arfon Griffiths in one-on-one with their keeper, and he saved it. We all wished it had been Griffiths playing in Smallman - we knew he'd have scored.

I remember Smallman - he scored the winner when we won at the Dell in our cup run in 73/74. I think he went to Everton but got badly injured soon after

I was there last week! Here are a few more of the fine horses

#MosaicMonday These ones are in the superb Bishop’s Basilica of Philippopalis (modern day Plovdiv, Bulgaria)

I hope you've been to Sicily? Ice cream and a bun (officially Granita & brioche) is a standard for breakfast there!