#inscription

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Ring Inscribed with Hieroglyphs.

Place of origin: Egypt

Date: 305–30 B.C.

Medium: Gold

▪︎ From the source: Upon death, people who were thought to have lived moral lives were reborn in the afterlife as a form of the god Osiris. This ring is inscribed with the title “Osiris,” followed by the owner’s names and titles, attesting to his faith that he would become one with the god after death.

[velvetbronte]

a note and a kiss discovered in my thrifted mary oliver poetry collection

[romegreeceart]

Roman magical nails

3rd-4th century CE

British Museum

London, July 2022

[thesilicontribesman]

10th Century CE 'Cross of Ilquici' Cartwheel Cross, Margam Stones Museum, Margam, nr. Port Talbot, Wales

[othmeralia]

Last week, one of our long term research fellows made a fun discover in one of our rare books.

While researching Il Tesoro della Sanita (1588) by Castore Durante, Claire Litt found some interesting marginalia. This book is on health, and this passage, where the marginalia was found deals with how much one should eat for lunch and dinner. The marginalia notes a similar book on this topic.

The inscription reads, "De [Di] prandÿ et cene portioni ni scrivi Luciano Beli da Percca (Pereca, Perca?) Contrada med.[esim]o Del Duca d'Urbino."

The English translation is: "Of lunches and dinners' portions writes Luciano from Percca, [the] same land  (or "district") as the Duke of Urbino [Francesco Maria II della Rovere]" 

The marginalia is referring to a book: Luciano Beli, De coenae ac prandii portione, Bononiae, 1533. Unfortunately, we don't have this book in our collection, however, it might be one that we should be on the lookout for in the future!

[oceancentury]

[archaeologs]

Chalcidian Ware: Black-figured pottery found in Etruria and the Chalcidian colony of Rhegium (modern Reggio) in Italy. The style included lettering of the inscriptions as part of the decoration. Learn more https://www.archaeologs.com/w/chalcidian-ware/

[pipapepesalleo]

Gay FAGGOT

Design by @/dookins

[renegade-hierophant]

Votive stele with Sabaean inscription adressed to the moon-god Almaqah, mentioning five South Arabian gods, two reigning sovereigns and two governors; alabaster, ca. 700 BCE, Yemen.

[archaeologicalnews]

One of the oldest written sentences on record blasts hair and beard lice

One of the oldest known sentences ever written was a plea against contracting lice, a new study has found.

Archaeologists made the hair-raising discovery several years after unearthing a hair comb, which they found in 2016 at an Israeli archaeological site called Tel Lachish, located south of Tel Aviv. The site was once a city inhabited by the Canaanites, who lived in what is now Syria between 3500 B.C. and 1150 B.C., during the Bronze Age.

Made of ivory, the pocket-sized comb measures less than 1.5 inches long (3.8 centimeters) and 1 inch (2.5 cm) tall. One side contained six teeth, which were likely used for untangling hair, while the other had 14 finer teeth for removing lice and their eggs, the researchers said. All of the comb's teeth have broken off over time, but researchers did find the partial remains of head lice on its second tooth, according to the study. Read more.

[twistofstory]

Fanart for Cabin in the Woods Superscryption AU MAP by Yuskebub let's gooo!! I'm absolutely in love with this AU and it's execution, can't wait to see more of it in the second project >:3 Also I tried a new technique for rendering the illustration, still love how it turned out

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Aquamanile in the Form of a Lion.

Artist/Culture: German or Netherlandish

Date: late 13th or early 14th century

Period: Late Medieval

Medium: Brass

▪︎This unusual example bears a Hebrew inscription on one side that reads: (On the side and rear hip of the lion): ברוך אתה ה אלהינו מלך העולם אשר קדשנו במצוותיו וצוונו על נטילת ידים ; [Translation] Blessed be God, King of the Universe, who blessed us and instructed us to wash our hands (Baruch ata adonai alokhenu meleh Ha-olam asher Ridshanu bemitsvotsar vetsivanu al netilas yadayim).

[swforester]

"Reader behold as

you pass by

As you are now so

once was I as

I am now so you must be

prepare for death and follow me"

Whately Center Cemetery 10/15/24

[romegreeceart]

Wool merchant Titus Aelius Evangelus

* Ostia Antica

* 2nd century CE

* Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm

Stockholm, November 2023

[thesilicontribesman]

The Temple of Mithras, Carrawburgh, Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland

[viagginterstellari]

Latin inscription - Djémila, 2022