Matasha Mazis @mattyhari@qoto.org

#EpigraphyTuesday; a bronze legal tablet describing a transfer of property as a debt guarantee (mancipatio fiduciae causa). Dated to the early 1st century CE. Found in the area of Bonanza, now in the Museo Arqueológico Nacional in #Madrid.

#Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #Spain

BYZANTINE MONK CHAINED WITH IRON RINGS UNCOVERED

#archaeology #archaeologist #archeology #archeologist #heritagedaily

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/01/byzantine-monk-chained-with-iron-rings-uncovered/145717

🚨Welsh academic Mastodon - I'm looking for an expert to write an article on the Red Lady of Paviland. Please boost! #archaeology #Wales

#JewelryOnSculptures
Gold earring "probably a Urartian work based on Assyrian models", h: 5.8 cm; diam. of arms 3.2 cm. On the ends of arms "there is a large cell rosette, which was originally probably filled with multicolored paste".

Relief is from Khorsabad #Assyria 710–705 BCE

The relief is in the British Museum https://britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1847-0702-9 Wery similar is in The Met https://metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/322896

The earring photo by Artokoloro https://alamy.com/earrings-gold-forged-pressed-welded-granulated-electron-gold-silver-alloy-total-height-58-cm-diameter-32-cm-arms-weight-15-g-body-jewelry-antique-the-earring-consists-of-a-boat-shaped-body-with-radially-arranged-conical-arms-of-the-original-three-attachments-only-two-are-preserved-the-third-was-added-while-the-body-was-modelled-over-a-core-and-pressed-together-at-the-ends-the-arms-are-formed-by-rolled-up-sheet-metal-funnels-and-separately-produced-and-welded-on-end-shells-image392063269.html
The longer description >> https://imageselect.eu/en/image-details/Balb5143054.html

Wir wünschen ein gutes und gesundes neues Jahr!
Zwei kleine Tonschweine, ca. 5000 Jahre alt. Sie wurden zusammen mit Keramik- und Axtfragmenten in einer Grube der neolithischen Siedlung Scheiplitz gefunden und könnten Teil eines Rituals gewesen sein. Foto © LDA Sachsen-Anhalt, J. Lipták.

#archäologie #SachsenAnhalt #Museum #MuseumHalle

A piece that is quite directly based on ancient Hellenistic and Roman glass bead necklaces, featuring apotropaic "eye beads". Eye beads are still being made today in places like Greece, Turkey and Cyprus, though mainly as tourist souvenirs. LINK: https://www.etsy.com/listing/917500556/handmade-lampwork-glass-eye-bead-bead?click_key=929e9241624cbc1d864a6f7fe24f41872ad3c3ea%3A917500556&click_sum=5b4d5b99&ref=shop_home_active_1&clickFromShopCard=1&frs=1 #glass #glassbeads #GlassArt #GlassArtist #ArtHistory #etsy

The interior of the House of Paquius Proculus, Pompeii, Italy, with its splendid 'cave canem' ('beware of the dog') mosaic. Read more about the house here:
http://pompeiisites.org/en/archaeological-site/house-of-paquius-proculus/
📷 Milena Boeva / Alamy Stock Photo

Remarkable ancient Egyptian fibre sandals still looking as good as the day they were made some 3,400 years ago!

From the Tomb of Yuya and Tjuya in the Valley of the Kings. Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III. Egyptian Museum, Cairo. 📷 my own.

#Archaeology

Annum novum faustum felicem vobis - I wish you a happy and prosperous #NewYear!

The Romans exchanged New Year's gifts to wish a prosperous and happy new year, e. g. coins or coin banks.

Roman coin banks found in Rottweil, dating 2nd/3rd century AD

#archaeology #RomanArchaeology

#égyptologie #Fayoum

Sous le regard d'une jeune fille du Fayoum

https://egyptophile.blogspot.com/2015/09/sous-le-regard-dune-jeune-fille-du.html

People are like "why use the #favorite button if it doesn't boost it algorithmically?" and it's like, I don't know about any of you, but it makes me feel happy when someone favorite's something I say.

So from my perspective, you have a button whose sole purpose is that when you press it you could make someone feel a little happy.

Why wouldn't you press that button as much as you can?

This last month on Mastodon has been such a relief. Not only did I meet my Twitter friends, I have met many other logical and agreeable humans, cats, even God.
Here is to more of it in 2023.
Thank you friends. 🖖

“It’s important that, as we begin the New Year, look forward, we should project our intention ahead, so that we make this year a meaningful one, with a sense of happiness and joy. When we talk about the transformation of society, the transformation really has to start from the individual, from inside to outwards.”
—Dalai Lama

~3,700 years ago in ancient Babylon, someone approximated the square root of 2 to the equivalent of 6 decimal digits (they used the sexagesimal system back then, so base 60) 1.414213.

How they did it is explained here: https://ipch.yale.edu/news-events/3d-print-ancient-history-one-most-famous-mathematical-texts-mesopotamia

#Science #Math #History #Archaeology

My hi-light of 2022 social media came late this year with Greta Thunberg's exquisite one line take down of yet another vile misogynistic attack on her...

... and that same misogynist was *so* unbothered by being owned by a 19 year old woman that he had to make a two minute video response in a failed, pathetic and weak attempt to prove he really didn't care, no, not at all, not a single bit, not a scrap...

🤣🤣🤣

#Ratio #SheRises #GretaGotcha

Biologist J. B. S. Haldane once quipped that if there's a God, the Creator seems to have “an inordinate fondness for beetles.”

Why? Well, 1/2 of species described in #science are insects (among eukaryotes). Of those, >1/3 are beetles, at ~400,000 known species.

I’m especially fond of these critters bc I began my career working with Plagiodera versicolora, a particularly cute beetle.

Now some entomologists suspect there may be just as many parasitic wasps, but that’s a tale for another day.

Fission is in the news, but few recognize that a woman physicist was behind the discovery.

Lise Meitner’s brilliance led to the discovery of nuclear fission. But her long time collaborator Otto Hahn, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry w/o her in 1944, even though she had given the first theoretical explanation.

Albert Einstein called Meitner “our Marie Curie." She also adamantly refused to work on the atomic bomb during WWII. https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201502/physicshistory.cfm #women #history #science #energy

The Urra=hubullu glossary, dating to the second millennium BCE, which lists important words in both Sumerian and Akkadian. The words are separated into categories, including types of vehicles, names of stars, and types of animals and plants. The title of the glossary comes from the first entry, which contains the words for "interest-bearing debt" -- urra in Sumerian, and hubullu in Akkadian.

#history #histodons @histodons

Rivers and lakes have always had a special place in beliefs and ritual. During the Bronze Age of southern Germany, in particular swords were frequently deposited in rivers. Swords found in the Danube and its tributaries, Historisches Museum Regensburg. #archaeology #museum #prehistory

"Ukrainian troops uncover ancient #Roman settlement while digging trenches in Kherson Oblast"

https://english.nv.ua/life/ukrainian-troops-uncover-ancient-roman-settlement-while-digging-trenches-in-kherson-50292279.html

#archaeology #Ukraine️ @archaeodons