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Had to take a week away from my blender journey of self discovery for a business trip but I'm happy with the progress I'm making. Feeling comfortable with model construction and now it's on to posing and scenes. Archmage fits in the meantime. 😮‍💨 #bg3rolan

My photo shows a museum display with colourful Minoan pottery cups arranged on three clear shelves, one above the other. These cups, known as Kamares Ware, are from Phaistos, Crete. They were made in palace workshops, c. 1800-1700 BC. The cups range in shape and size from conic and cylindrical cups (top and middle shelves) to hemispherical and carinated shaped cups (bottom shelf). They are decorated with multi-coloured geometric motifs; with spirals and swirls painted in red and white pigment on black.

Sipping my coffee ☕️ and thinking about these marvellous Minoan cups!

They look so modern it’s incredible to think they were made during the Bronze Age some 3,800 years ago!

Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. 📷 by me

#Archaeology

Top tier pair 😤🤝

The killing of Iranian children during an illegal war is an impeachable offense (not to mention a grave crime) and Congress should really act like it.

15 Republicans in the Senate could end this nightmare before it somehow gets even worse.

Who can reply: anyone, nobody, people who can be normal about it.

trying out a new feature, lmk if it works

A display of nine ornate ancient metal toothpicks

Today is #DentistsDay. Although #dentistry did not exist as a separate profession, #Romans had ways to take care of their teeth. Archaeological and textual evidence shows that they practiced tooth extraction and cauterisation of infected gums in addition to using a variety of medical concoctions.

MAGA is the most toxic, hollow, phony, grifty, obnoxious, fraudulent, culty, soulless political movement in US history built on lies, hate, paranoia and greed. And as it unravels, so many rats will claim they were never really on the ship.

So glad to hear it! ❤️

Hoping you find relief soon 🫂

NYT.

It appears we bombed a girls elementary school and killed 175 people, most of them children. This is who we are with Trump as president.

NOEM: I would disagree with the judge

CROCKETT: I'm sure you would, but can you tell me whether or not you have a law degree?

NOEM: A what?

CROCKETT: A law degree

NOEM: No I do no-

CROCKETT: Okay

Babies weren't supposed to be mourned in the Roman Empire. These rare liquid-gypsum burials prove otherwise. Despite historical records saying otherwise, Roman babies were mourned at death, research into unique plaster burials from York reveals.

'Babies weren't supposed to be mourned in the Roman Empire. These rare liquid-gypsum burials prove otherwise.'

Starry Sapphics Poses 4 BT1/BT3 poses, w/tail posing for BT3 tieflings, and refits for BT1/BT1 (no tails).

Just released! Thank you to @emberst4r.bsky.social for the comm and trust. I loved the refs, but I really love their VP shots for the pack even more so.

Check it out on Nexus! www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3...

#bg3mods #bg3poses #bg3

BATTLE SCENE FROM THE GREAT TRAJANIC FRIEZE, 114-120 CE. ARCH OF CONSTANTINE This triumphal arch is a triumph of spolia, consisting as it does of many pieces of relief work from the reigns of Trajan, Hadrian, and Marcus Aurelius, intelligently chosen by Constantine in 315-316 to reflect a reassuring programme of pacification and an end to civil war. Four large panels from a Hadrianic relief 30 m long and 3 m high, of which this is one, were reused. This relief is known as the Great Trajanic Frieze, though its original location is unknown. It is often said to have come from Trajan's Forum, though that was intact until at least the reign of Theodoric, two centuries after the arch was built. This scene shows a mêlée between Roman cavalry and infantry and Dacians who are falling or already on the ground. In the background are three trumpeters blowing the curved horns called buccinæ, and the whole scene resembles the front of the Great Ludovisi Sarcophagus, from 250-260 CE.

#ReliefWednesday takes us to the #Arch of #Constantine in #Rome, where a piece of the so-called Great Trajanic #Frieze, probably from the reign of #Hadrian, shows a battle scene from the #Dacian wars which may have influenced the sculptor of the Great #Ludovisi #sarcophagus. #AncientBluesky 🏺

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I never thought I’d have to do this again, but my partner is back in hospital after their life threatening pulmonary embolism in 2024. We didn’t expect this and thought we were over it but here we are.

I have opened April commissions early to help us deal with this.

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I need to go back and shoot them more at Last Light Inn because I really just like the vibes of the two of them together there with everything going on. More from the archives. #Thunderweave #bg3gale #bg3rolan

Cartoon by Tommy Siegel

My photo shows a Roman Rippenschale (ribbed) blue glass drinking cup with a rounded body and slightly flaring rim. There is some breakage to the rim. The ribs run vertically around the body of the cup, with horizontal bands of white trail decoration around the cup. At the rear of the museum display case, part of a larger ribbed dark blue glass bowl can be seen.

A 2,000 year-old Roman blue glass drinking cup found in Trier, Germany.

Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier
📷 by me

#Archaeology

Sign the Petition Keep the Classical Languages Major at the University of Iowa

Hi friends. As I previously noted, the U. of Iowa is planning to get rid of African American studies; Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, & the Classical Languages major—along with others. If you wish, please sign the classics petition: www.change.org/p/keep-the-c.... I will add more as I find out.

If you’re gonna post a dead char on the TL for an event please for the love of God use the tag so I can mute it, because otherwise that’ll be the fastest unfollow and block in the West.

The U.S. Senate must be clear: no war with Iran.

New Yorkers Demand Funding for Gender Affirming Care Gender affirming care is life saving care. Private hospitals have shown they will bend to the whims of a fascist federal government, so we need to secure a public option. As New Yorkers, we demand tha...

If you live, work, or have a connection to NYC, please consider signing. I hope we all understand by now that blue cities and states are not immune from attacks on human and healthcare rights.

Black-and-white photo of two kittens sitting side-by-side. One is a medium haired black tuxedo. The other is medium haired white with darker patches and wearing a ribbon bow around its neck. Text at the bottom of the photo says “engaged“.

Engaged! Postcard from my collection, no date.

#karlach

This will be the end of CNN. The viewers they still have left will be gone and they won’t be replaced with MAGA. MAGA doesn’t want Fox Lite and nobody else does either.

Image of the bone die described

A #Roman bone die found at #Trimontium. The die is very similar to a modern example. The points are marked by incised circles with holes in the centres and someone last threw it sometime between AD80-100. This is part of the #NationalMuseumsScotland collection.

Nurul Amin Shah Alam crossed oceans to flee unimaginable violence, only to die here — where he should have been safe.

The cruelty is endless.

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Fringed with ancient and modern coins, this ceremonial Palestinian woman's marriage cap was part of a bride's dowry, with the number of coins & their value being an indication of wealth & status. Made by female artisans, the shape, embroidery and coins varied from region to region. Donated in 1952.