#500s ce

[blondebrainpowered]

6th century Byzantine gold openwork bracelet adorned with various gemstones and pearls

[sleepsucks]

[kino-free-time]

Vessel in the Shape of a Wild Boar

Wild boars were a favourite motif in classical antiquity, but this vessel has long puzzled scholars. Its brown, burnished surface, with incised geometric decoration, recalls Etruscan impasto pottery from as early as the seventh century BC. The naturalistic shape of the boar, however, resembles terracotta vessels made in the fifth century BC or later. Recent scientific analysis suggests that this vessel may have been made in the 20th century, and our curators and conservators are continuing their research. (700–500 BCE or 1900s CE)

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[kontchou-1993kjebusiness]

PROJET DE D'AMÉLIORATION DES PROCESSUS DE VENTES DE MATÉRIEL VÉGÉTAL ET DÉVELOPPEMENT DE VERGERS AU CAMEROUN

[hassiegfrieddoneanythingwrong]

Since Mash doesn't have a bond bonus for this event, I'm lucky enough to throw in someone else who I have lined up for Bond 10, and uh...

I don't know what kind of vibe this is giving off, but it certainly is one.

[artifacts-and-arthropods]

Child's Sock from Egypt, c.250-350 CE: this colorful sock is nearly 1,700 years old

This sock was discovered during excavations in the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus. It was likely created for a child during the late Roman period, c.250-350 CE.

Similar-looking socks from late antiquity and the early Byzantine period have also been found at several other sites throughout Egypt; these socks often have colorful, striped patterns with divided toes, and they were crafted out of wool using a technique known as nålbinding.

Above: a similar child's sock from Antinoöpolis, in Egypt, c.250-350 CE

The sock depicted above was created during the same period, and it was found in a midden heap (an ancient rubbish pit) in the city of Antinoöpolis. A multispectral imaging analysis of this sock yielded some interesting results back in 2018, as this article explains:

... analysis revealed that the sock contained seven hues of wool yarn woven together in a meticulous, stripy pattern. Just three natural, plant-based dyes—madder roots for red, woad leaves for blue and weld flowers for yellow—were used to create the different color combinations featured on the sock, according to Joanne Dyer, lead author of the study.

In the paper, she and her co-authors explain that the imaging technique also revealed how the colors were mixed to create hues of green, purple and orange: In some cases, fibers of different colors were spun together; in others, individual yarns went through multiple dye baths.

Such intricacy is pretty impressive, considering that the ancient sock is both “tiny” and “fragile."

Given its size and orientation, the researchers believe it may have been worn on a child’s left foot.

Above: child's sock from Al Fayyum, Egypt, c.300-500 CE

The ancient Egyptians employed a single-needle looping technique, often referred to as nålbindning, to create their socks. Notably, the approach could be used to separate the big toe and four other toes in the sock—which just may have given life to the ever-controversial socks-and-sandals trend.

Sources & More Info:

Manchester Museum: Child's Sock from Oxyrhynchus

British Museum: Sock from Antinoupolis

Royal Ontario Museum: Sock from Al Fayyum

Smithsonian Magazine: 1,700-Year-Old Sock Spins Yarn About Ancient Egyptian Fashion

The Guardian: Imaging Tool Unravels Secrets of Child's Sock from Ancient Egypt

PLOS ONE Journal: A Multispectral Imaging Approach Integrated into the Study of Late Antique Textiles from Egypt

National Museums Scotland: The Lost Sock

[rosesradio]

at 3k words i’m done with the jasico secret santa 🤠

[catsconflictscopicsandchamomile]

1) this is amazing, this is everything, this is exactly what Cas POV fic should be imho

2) I ALSO have a bunch of ancient-history Cas hcs if you ever want to trade

3) I see your Illiad!Cas and raise you this song someone wrote from the point of view of Grendel

so. i may be in a illiad kick recently (again).

good news is, i came up with a destiel au plot around it!! so basically i am writing the illiad fanfiction AND supernatural!! how cool is that?? haha (i haven't slept since last night)

[jade-curtiss]

La shot moment génie ou y crisse son porte feuille dans le micro ondes paske yé un peu mouillé. Ca couté cher mais y s'en ai rendu compte sur le coup, mais oh. Brillant. Quelle noblesse.

[blondebrainpowered]

Pair of Byzantine Bracelets; Gold, silver, pearl, amethyst, sapphire, glass, quartz, emerald plasma, 500-700 A.D., Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Emerald plasma usually refers to green chalcedony or jasper.

[midshipmank]

does anyone have their own like “personal dark ages?” like time periods in history you just don’t care to know anything about? i feel like my brain shuts off somewhere between 1400-1789 CE, and though i could remember some information about this time period if pressed (like shakespeare or the fall of constantinople), i would never go out of my way to learn more about it

[artifacts-archive]

Bowl Depicting Foxes* Attacking Human

Nazca, 180 BCE–500 CE

[snailspng]

Random PNGs, part 190.

(1. Antique baby pin, 2. Bat embryo, 3. Sculpture by Glen Martin Taylor, 4. Illustration by Leonora Carrington, 5. Head fragment from Mexico c.900-300 BC, 6. Albino bat, 7. Illustration from "Stellaluna" by Janell Cannon, 8. Coral flower brooch, 9. Vietnamese horn vessel from 500 BCE-100 CE)

[bronzeageecho]

head of an adorant | c. 201-500 CE | gandhara (either afghanistan or pakistan)

in the art institute of chicago collection

[mornyavie]

Also if you want a book where The Numbers are used really well as part of the story/characterization, 16 Ways To Defend A Walled City is a recent read that I enjoyed.

i've seen that "don't add numbers to sff" post a bunch of times and it's not a bad point but i'm so tired of writing advice phrased that absolutely - sure, there are times when i've noticed Bad Numbers*, but there are ALSO times when numbers, even general ones, would have really helped to give an idea of scale or reference. "know when a number will help and when it will hurt" is harder to follow, as advice, but unfortunately writing is applying your judgement over and over and over again