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King Idrimi of Alalakh…the oldest autobiography in the world and the first cuneiform written mention of “Canaan”. #Idrimi #canaan #habiru #hebrew #BritishMuseum

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Nice summary 👌🏻

Indeed…The Greeks always portrayed them as small, neat and tidy, power was with the brain and a ‘sculptured’ body…large was associated with animals and barbarians

Zeus or Poseidon…was it a thunderbolt or a trident in his hand originally, which would have provided the much needed insight…I go for Zeus personally. 460 BCE. @Archeological Museum Athens

Found in the 'House of the Poseidoniastai of Beryttos' (Beirut), Delos. Aphrodite attempts to fend off the goat-footed god Pan who makes erotic advances to her. She holds her sandal threateningly in her right hand, while the winged god Eros comes to her aid.
About 100 BCE.

Ha! Nothing he hasn’t done to himself recently…

DISCOBOLUS
Roman, 2nd century CE. It would’ve been copied from a Greek statue from c.500 BCE. Romans loved the Greek works.
This statue was discovered in 1791 in the Villa of the Roman Emperor Hadrian
(AD 117-138) at Tivoli outside Rome. @BritishMuseum

enjoy…https://www.academia.edu/127423175/Who_were_Hebrews_before_they_were_Hebrews_In_WHEN_BIBLE_MEETS_HISTORY

Re-read what I’ve said…

Ive no idea what you’re getting at…some scholars believe the habiru were early hebrews…end.

No. Hebrew had nowhere near emerged as a distinct language back then.
The Habiru were a diverse, loosely defined social group rather than a single ethnic…

The phonetic resemblance between Idrimi and Ivrim is sometimes noted, but there is no linguistic or etymological basis to directly connect the two.

King Idrimi’s cuneiform inscription tells his dramatic rise from exile. Forced to flee with his mum’s family, he sought refuge in Canaan. There, he lived among the Habiru, who some scholars believe were early Hebrews. 7 years later, Idrimi reclaimed his land as king of Alalakh. 1570 - 1500 BCE.

Gold Indo-Pacific nautilus associated with the Avars, nomads who migrated west from the northeast Asian Steppe.
In the late 700s, Charlemagne waged war against them. Treasures like this bankrolled Charlemagne's imperial ambitions, including gold ink used in some luxury Carolingian manuscripts. 750CE

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Hallelujah! …actually Lewis was very good…but 10am on a weekday morning requires Jimmy O’B as you’re referred to round ours

4 x dwarf god Bes, guardian of mothers and infants. Brandishing sword while seizing a snake. A ferocious protector of the family, relied on to ward off evil.
Featured at shrines concerned with childbirth and sexuality, and his powers served humans as well as the gods. 1st century BCE #BritishMuseum

Jewish community of Fustat (Cairo's earlier twin city) placed all old texts in a geniza, in the synagogue.
Not to dispose of anything with the name of God in, they kept over 400,000 texts…Bibles, private letters, bills, slave receipts etc …over 400,000 texts from spain to India. From c.900 CE. #BM

The photo shows a Roman iron stylus pen used to write on wax-filled wooden writing tablets. It has an inscription which runs along its length on four sides. The image shows the four lines of inscribed text which read: ‘ab urbe v[e]n[i] munus tibi gratum adf(e)ro
acul[eat]um ut habe[a]s memor[ia]m nostra(m)
rogo si fortuna dar[e]t quo possem
largius ut longa via ceu sacculus est (v)acuus’ ‘I have come from the City. I bring you a welcome gift with a sharp point that you may remember me.
I ask, if fortune allowed, that I might be able (to give) as generously as the way is long (and) as my purse is empty.’ Excavated in London by MOLA. Photo by Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA

Some things never change!

A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to:

“I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂

Dated to about 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was found in London during excavations by MOLA. 📷 MOLA

#EpigraphyTuesday
#Archaeology

The stone age finished 11,000 years before this was written, so…no 😉

The Book of the Fixed Stars 964 CE. describing northern and southern constellations, and constellations of the zodiac. The author, al-Sufi, produced dual illustrations of constellations - the upper image as portrayed on a celestial globe, and the lower as viewed directly in the night sky.

Deciphered Egyptian Hieroglyphs by Jean François Champollion - 1824. The first stages of his Rosetta Stone understanding.
Showing both the hieroglyphic and the later Demotic alphabet, allowing him to start reading texts. #archaeology #BritishMuseum

4 figures of the Egyptian dwarf god Bes, guardian of mothers and infants, brandishes a sword while seizing a snake. A ferocious protector of the family, much relied upon to ward off evil. Seen at shrines for childbirth and sexuality: his powers served humans & gods. 1st century BCE #archaeology #BM

Will look it up!

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…actually this is poss the first time I’ve used!! …was copying text seen at the Temple 🤷🏼‍♂️…check my other posts …honest! 😉😂

Temple of Mithras built here underneath Bloomberg’s offices, on the banks of the Walbrook river, around AD 240, in the ancient Roman city known as Londinium….quite a cult, males only…

The space physicist on a mission to discover why Mercury has shrunk Suzie Imber is a co-investigator for the BepiColombo mission, currently on its way to Mercury. She explains how it will cast new light on the planet's many oddities, from its massive core to its epic ...

Suzie Imber is a co-investigator for the BepiColombo mission, currently on its way to Mercury. She explains how it will cast new light on the planet's many oddities, from its massive core to its epic solar storms. www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

I know what you mean …do some aDNA and isotope studies to get a detailed back story, and leave everything in situ