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look i know i make jokes where i take something about ancient rome and oversimplify it to make it funny but i am begging you all to please google any facts you see about the classical world and try to find at least one reliable source because 99% of all the “greece and rome were cool and progressive :)” posts are either 1) Accepting Ancient Roman smear campaigns as fact 2) horribly misrepresenting something 3) straight up wrong

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i see we’re simply making things up today

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Ea-Naṣir Goes Clothes Shopping (UET V 848/BM 131428)

In the interest of helping y’all stalk a guy who’s been dead for three thousand years, I present to you another document excavated from the archives of Ea-Naṣir!  This one is a purely practical one: a record of sale for 50 garments to Ea-Naṣir.  The guy apparently liked his clothing (or, more likely, bought it to sell as a merchant).

11 garments: value: 1/3 mina, 2 2/3 shekels of silver 5 garments: value: 13 shekels of silver 2 garments: value: 6 ½ shekels of silver 5 garments: value: 10 2/3 shekels of silver 27 garments: value: 5/6 mina, 4 ½ shekels, 15 še ______________ 50 garments: value: 1 2/3 mina, 7 1/3 shekels, 15 še: in the hands of Mr. Ea-Naṣir

(A mina was about 500g; a shekel was 8.3g; a mina was .05g.  So the total weight in silver for 50 outfits was about 895g, or two pounds.)

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hm yeah that sure is a deer, huh.

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me n my crab buddies are getting ready 2 party

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Portrait of a Young Boy, Egyptian, 2nd century, Saint Louis Art Museum: Ancient Art

https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/3817/

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Amphora with Nike and Youth, Greek, 490–460 BC, Saint Louis Art Museum: Ancient Art

https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/1327/

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Re: the last post, the article mentions that some places use clams to test the toxicity of the water. It’s like that in Warsaw- we get our water from the river, and the main water pump has 8 clams that have triggers attached to their shells. If the water gets too toxic, they close, and the triggers shut off the city water supply automatically.  

The clams are just better at measuring the water quality than any man-made sensors.

Edit: check out this documentary trailer : https://vimeo.com/408820791

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Paestan Fish-Plate, c. 340-330 BC, Cleveland Museum of Art: Greek and Roman Art

Size: Diameter: 38.3 cm (15 1/16 in.); Overall: 7.9 cm (3 1/8 in.); Diameter of foot: 16 cm (6 5/16 in.) Medium: red-figure terracotta

https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.50

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Dagger, late 1600s, Cleveland Museum of Art: Medieval Art

The carved grip of this dagger depicts the female followers of Bacchus, the Roman god of wine. Size: Overall: 30.2 cm (11 7/8 in.); Blade: 20.3 cm (8 in.); Quillions: 6.4 cm (2 ½ in.) Medium: steel and ivory

https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1713

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what ???

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Black-Figured Lekythos, c. 500 BC, Cleveland Museum of Art: Greek and Roman Art

Size: Overall: 32.4 cm (12 ¾ in.) Medium: black-figure terracotta

https://clevelandart.org/art/1929.135

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  Ancient Greek theater Masks

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Stand in the Form of Three Lynxes, Persian, 12th century, Saint Louis Art Museum: Islamic Art

https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/1010/

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Stemmed Cup (kylix), Greek, c.1250 BC, Saint Louis Art Museum: Ancient Art

https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/664/