Here are #portraits of #Gallic speakers by @veliteaquila.bsky.social
They used the #Etruscan, #Latin, and #Greek scripts.
Learn more about these scripts here:
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ETRUSCAN BONE MIRROR-HANDLE, 350-300 BCE. MUSEO NAZIONALE DEL BARGELLO There are two double-tailed mermen or Tritons on this handle. The side we can't see here shows a bearded merman with his tails in a twist. Apart from the beard he also has outspread wings. The side in this image shows a young, beardless merman holding his tails turned upward, crossing in front of him so his right hand holds his left "foot" and so on. Two arms from above seem to be placing a missing circlet on his head. Both these strange, typically Etruscan monsters have their phalli pushed forward by the twisting of their tails, but there's nothing ithyphallic going on. We register their maleness. This mirror handle would be tightly grasped by a woman using the mirror. She had control over these male monsters. Women and seamen don't mix.
An #Etruscan bone mirror handle from 350-300 BCE gives us this two-tailed #merman holding his feet/fins at his sides. Two hands from above once held a diadem onto his head. As for his #phallus, as this is #PhallusThursday, he's in cold water. There is shrinkage. #AncientBluesky 🏺
Check them out here: artistree.io/veliteaquila
Learn more about the #Etruscan #script here: matuww.com/script_info/Etruscan.html
Extremely grateful for @veliteaquila.bsky.social allowing their #art to be included in #matuww
We felt the last post didn't do enough justice in showing the knowledge and meticulousness behind the research.
So we'd showcase their work in matuww here:
#Roman #Etruscan
#historicalart
Highly colorful relief on the front of a rectangular Etruscan funerary urn. It depicts two warriors in full armor battling one another, with one - whose helmet has fallen off (on the ground below his opponent) on his knee. It appears the standing warrior has stabbed the stumbling warrior in the neck, but the stumbling warrior may have stabbed the standing warrior in the groin. Two psychopomps - both apparently the winged female 'demon', Vanth - stand on either side of the scene, each carrying a torch. An inscription reads 'Arnsa: frauni: murinal', but the meaning is unknown. From Chiusi, 2nd c. BCE. In the collection of the Museo Archeologico Regionale "A. Salinas", Palermo, Sicily. Photo by Nick Thompson (pelegrino), Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/pelegrino/
#Polychromy is a broad term for a range of painted sculpture, terracottas, architecture and more. The vividness of ancient pigments always surprises people, and this #Etruscan funerary urn really showcases those natural colors. 🏺 1/
Chiusi, 2nd c. BCE.
📸 Nick Thompson, Flickr
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The #Latin script was descended from #Etruscan.
Initially used by the #Romans to write Latin, it spread worldwide to write a myriad of modern #langauges.
The initial #alphabet did not contain: G J U W Y Z
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#writingscripts
#linguistics
#history
#map
#matuww
A bronze woman’s arm with a bracelet
Oh the enchanting grace of the bronzes in the #Etruscan exhibition at the Ducal Palace in #Venice!
#OTD #TDIH #March7, 321: #ConstantineI decrees the #Etruscan #EightDayWeek be replaced by the #SevenDayWeek & that #DiesSolisInvicti ( #DayOfTheInvincibleSun [ #Sunday]) be the #DayOfRest in the #RomanEmpire. #DaysOfTheWeek #SolInvictus #AncientRome #Calendars
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#homeschooling #booksky #booksforsale #archaeology #anthropology #ancienthistory #pagansky #greek #roman #etruscan #europeanhistory
The cippus, which seems to have been a border stone, appears to display a text dedicating a legal contract between the Etruscan families of Velthina (from Perugia) and Afuna (from Chiusi), regarding the sharing or use, including water rights, of a property upon which there was a tomb belonging to the noble Velthinas.
#EpigraphyTuesday
The Cippus Perusinus is a stone tablet (cippus) discovered on the hill of San Marco, near Perugia, #Italy, in 1822. The tablet bears 46 lines of incised #Etruscan text, about 130 words - 3rd or 2nd century BC.
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#Archaeology #History #writing
A 2,400-Year-Old Embrace, Brought Back to Color
The Urna del Bottarone, an extraordinary Etruscan funerary urn housed at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Firenze, has been fully restored—revealing its original pigments for the first time in decades.
425–380 BCE #etruscan #archaeology
This terracotta hydria (water jar) will be one of the featured items in the Legion of Honor #Etruscan exhibition. It depicts Herakles (Hercl) and Iolaos slaying an incredible multi-headed hydra. 🏺
From Caere, ca. 520-510 BCE. #GettyVilla 📸 me
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The subject of the figural decoration of this hydria (water jar) is Herakles and Iolaos slaying the Hydra. Painted in black figure, the scene occupies the upper register on the body of the vessel between the two side handles. Herakles approaches from the right grasping one of the heads of the nine-headed, bearded Hydra with his left hand and raising his club with his right. Herakles is armored in a corslet and greaves. To his right, a large crab pinches Herakles' heel. Iolaos rushes forward from the left grasping one of the Hydra heads with his left hand and preparing to cut it off with the sickle he brandishes in his right. Underneath Iolaos is a small fire. On the reverse of the vessel, two sphinxes flank the vertical back handle, striding away from the center. Etruscan, from Caere, Etruria, about 520-510 BCE. Attributed to the Eagle Painter (Greek, Caeretan, acitve 530-500 BCE). Getty Villa, Pacific Palisades-Malibu, California (83.AE.346)
The Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco will be hosting the exhibition ‘The Etruscans: From the Heart of Ancient Italy’, from 2 May-20 September of this year. Over 200 pieces, promising to be a comprehensive exhibition on #Etruscan art and culture. 🏺 📸 me
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A LARGE PAIR OF WHITE OPALINE GLASS AND POLYCHROME ENAMEL VASES IN THE ‘ETRUSCAN’ STYLE
Carlton Hobbs LLC, Inv. No. 11232
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#objetdart #Russianart #Russianglass #etruscan #classical #19thcentury #decorativearts #decoration #antique #skystorians #arthistory #Bskyart
Two terracotta animal figures with elongated bodies and legs tucked under their trunk with spotted decoration. Each has two long pointed cone-shaped ears (or horns).
#TerracottaTuesday
Spotty crouching #Etruscan deer-shaped aryballoi C6 BC, vessels for perfumed oil.
Heads are formed to serve as stoppers, so can turn to appear look around.
In Fiesole museum, Tuscany, in hills above Florence.
So. Yep. I’ve just made a rather significant unsubstantiated claim in something I’ve just written & I’m pretty sure I’m on mark, but I need to do some digging (pardon the pun) to confirm 😑 #Etruscan #Archaeology
art of popular anime character Hatsune Miku as an ancient Etruscan, a civilization of Italy that predated and competed with early Rome
I saw that challenge going around where you draw #HatsuneMiku in the style of different cultures. Here she is as an #Etruscan, c. 600-400 BCE. Links to inspo on my Tumblr ➡️ gothinkdexign.tumblr.com
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#history #ancienthistory #illustration
I’m trying to establish if any residue analyses have been conducted on #Etruscan heron class plates! If anyone knows of anything along these lines please let me know.
Two Days, Two Landscapes
A weekend of contrasts with our #Rome-based #hiking community: #Etruscan trails near the city on Saturday, and snowy landscapes above 1800 m on Sunday. Thanks to everyone who joined in!
Next hikes: www.natureofsal.com/calendar
#aiimages #iconoplasm #AIArt #AIArtist #AIArtwork #GenArt #DigitalArt #AIArtGallery #AIGeneratedArt #AIArtCommunity #monster #aivideo #synthart #lovecraft #etruscan #goby #worm
The still got more likes than any of my others today (7) so here's an animated Etruscan Goby Worm. Enjoy the spew
ANGEL HEIST | Hiding behind #Etruscan columns, Karam waits to pounce on thieves making off with ancient relics after breaking in the Hermitage. Can he stop them in time and save the priceless art?
#hermitage #lego #afol #gayafol #legocharliesangels #charliesangels #legominifigures #legophotography
An Unusual And Large Pair Of ‘Etruscan’ Painted Klismos Inspired Chairs
Carlton Hobbs LLC, Inv. No. 11665
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#neoclassical #klismos #etruscan #seating #italianfurniture #19thcentury #interiordesign #antiquity #classical #antiquefurniture #neoclassicalfurniture #chair
Painted Etruscan terracotta funerary urn lid showing a reclining woman in banquet pose, holding a fan, wearing draped chiton, gold jewelry, on museum display.
A painted #Etruscan terracotta cinerary urn lid with a reclining woman.
Found in Chiusi, dating 150-120 BC.
It was on display at the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, which will be closed for the next couple of years.
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art of a god with a silly little sun on one side of him and a dark dank underworld on the other side
Śuri, #Etruscan god of the sun and the underworld. Full text on my Tumblr 👉 www.tumblr.com/gothinkdexig...
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#art #paganism #ancienthistory
Another 500 words of theoretical / philosophical musings written this evening. I now need to sleep as I’m starting to ponder on the ontological meaning of life & that’s a rabbit hole nobody wants to go down 🐇 🕳️ = 🤪 #Ontology #NewMaterialism #AssemblageTheory #Archaeology #Etruscan #Cerveteri
#Exhibition in Venice on the concept of the sacred in the #Etruscan world, through the many forms and expressions of worship connected with water. #cult, #archaeology
