Adam Summers

A 3d printed spiny lumpsucker.

I am starting to settle in to the studio space. Bambulabs H2C is up and running. Usual test print of a spiny lumpsucker, but this one has color!
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A small round plate with two bony fish and a ray.

Another awesome 4th century BCE fish plate. This one from the Capitoline museum. I am calling it the dangerous fish plate because I think the fishes are the electric ray Torpedo torpedo and the Greater Weever Tracinus draco.
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A small round plate with two bony fish and a ray.

Another awesome 4th century BCE fish plate. This one from the Capitoline museum. I am calling it the dangerous fish plate because I think the fishes are the electric ray Torpedo torpedo and the Greater Weever Tracinus draco.
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There is a lot of financial aid, and it goes mostly to the early birds.

3d printed boxfish in bright green

No, but I'd love to add one to my round fish collection 😁

They are! Do you have one?

Those lumpies sure are world travelers

A 3d printed spiny lumpsucker.

I am starting to settle in to the studio space. Bambulabs H2C is up and running. Usual test print of a spiny lumpsucker, but this one has color!
🐡🧪

I see the match to the negative space. Very cool.

interesting similarity to Sicily's Trinacria

Thank you! I work in a group trying to selectively breed Australasian snapper towards aquaculture in NZ and it’s always nice to include some different historical context too 😁

Sure. I took the photo of an artifact in the collection of the American Academy in Rome.

Hi! Would it be possible to use the first photo in presentation slides? If so, who/how could I credit appropriately?

A French archaeologist immediately identified it as Sarpa from his culinary experiences. But, I can't find an image with that coloration and I have not seen them in life.

I do have a plausible ID with an anterior wiggle stripe.

🤣 I figured it out.

Adding to the list of "artifacts I want museums to sell replicas of because I want this in my house"

Thank you!

it's in his seminal work De Posteriorem Meam

Ooooh. I want a citation for that!!

according to livy, the roman senate made it illegal to serve any other species of fish on this plate

That is also plausible for barred one. Not enough bars, but the lack of tail spot may not just be normal variation. Hard to be positive.

Sarpa salpa maybe?

I think the striped one is Lithognathus mormyrus. Diplodus sargus has a black spot near te base of the tail.

I think both those work. I do not think IDs can be better than 'plausible' here. The last one took me a while and is the lowest confidence for me.

I’d say Diplodus sargus and D. vulgaris for two of them?

I think I know who these fish are. Any sparid specialists want to guess?

Round ceramic plate with three fishes.

Bottom surface of the other picture showing no fishes.

Here is a 400BCE plate from souther Italy for serving fish. Three species of sparids (sea bream) are shown. Sea bream were among the first farmed fish this plate represents a common group of species from that area.
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I think I know who these fish are. Any sparid specialists want to guess?

Round ceramic plate with three fishes.

Bottom surface of the other picture showing no fishes.

Here is a 400BCE plate from souther Italy for serving fish. Three species of sparids (sea bream) are shown. Sea bream were among the first farmed fish this plate represents a common group of species from that area.
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