Replacing the slaughter of a pig traditional to Christmas iconography with the climax of a #boarhunt, the keep and towers of the #ChâteaudeVincennes, completed under Charles V (and the birthplace of the #DucdeBerry. #LimbourgBrothers #BarthélemydEyck
🪷 This exquisite jasper intaglio reminds us of the day in 129 AD when #Hadrian and #Antinous slew a wild boar in the forests of #Antinoos homeland #Bithynia. Boars are sacred to #Adonis, whom #Diana loved and with whom Antinous is equated. #BoarHunt Ring art courtesy @doccrom.bsky.social 🪷
The fourth novelette, "a-Hunting," wraps up this week!
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