This mosaic emblema features edible sealife from the Mediterranean, exactly what a patrician household could expect to serve to guests for dinner. Therefore, although its findspot isn't exactly known, it almost certainly graced the floor of a Roman villa's <i>triclinium</i> or dining room. There’s a giant lobster, upside down, with a white octopus, a moray eel, and several varieties of fish against a background of black tesserae.
Roman, ca. 100 CE. Said to be from Populonia, Tuscany, near Rome.
British Museum, London (1989,0322.1)
I hope you like seafood, because this mosaic floor is showing what’s on the menu. 🦞 🐟
Said to be from Populonia, in Tuscany, this mosaic emblema was probably part of the floor of a triclinium, a dining room, of a patrician villa. That lobster is magnificent. 🏺 #mosaicmonday 1/
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15.12.2025 22:01 — 👍 198 🔁 46 💬 3 📌 2
#MyFieldNotes Kobe Edt.: Took the JR Line train to Motomachi Station for some object viewing at Kobe City Museum this morning 🌅 #Kobe #CrossingWorlds #DutchGlobalAge
14.08.2025 00:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Whale 🐳 Book 📕 edited by Florike Egmond & Peter Mason ready to accompany me for the next 4hrs journey! I’m looking forward to this whole week in Sri Lanka for my research trip 🩵 #DutchGlobalAge #CrossingWorlds
04.08.2025 07:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
To celebrate #GuineaPigAppreciationDay, here's a guinea pig from 1760 (with a dodo for scale). #SciArt by George Edwards for "Gleanings of #NaturalHistory", contributed to #BHLib by the National Library Board, Singapore. www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50289605 #ILoveBHL
16.07.2025 13:27 — 👍 26 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
"Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction" by Sadiah Qureshi
Join us for a fantastic lecture by Prof Sadiah Qureshi with an introduction by Helen MacDonald at the Babbage Lecture Theatre in Cambridge!
Just one week to go!
Join us in Cambridge for Sadiah Qureshi’s public lecture "Vanished" — on extinction, race & the politics of memory.
📅 Wed 9 July, 6–10pm
📍 David Attenborough Building
🎟 Free tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1395979053...
With Helen Macdonald & Sarah Qidwai!
#BSHS2025 #histSTEM
02.07.2025 12:03 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Details of whaling ships engraved on the case.
In the 17th c., the Dutch Noordse Compagnie concentrated its hunting on Spitsbergen. Whaling was a dangerous business and filled with internal, as well as external conflicts. Dutch whaling only ended in 1964 with the sale of the factory ship Willem Barendsz II to Japan. [2/2]
16.02.2025 20:04 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Tabaksdoos met een voorstelling van de walvisvaart
Verguld koperen tabaksdoos met gegraveerde voorstelling (walvisvaart) van schepen op deksel en onderkant.
#FirstPost on #WhaleWorldDay: Given my obsession & research on tobacco cases, here is a gilded one with engraved representation (whaling) of ships on lid and bottom from The Zuiderzee Museum, Enkhuizen [1/2]: hdl.handle.net/21.12111/zzm...
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