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Deeply honoured to be presenting @McrMuseum #research on Graeco-Roman funerary art at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina @BA_Main_Egy on 8th March.
I look forward to meeting Egyptian & Egypt-based colleagues on my first-ever visit to Alexandria ♥️🇪🇬📚🏦
#GoldenMummies #Egyptology
NFT 02-WWI-027
Nieuport 24
A WWI lightweight fighter with a significant manoeuvrability advantage.
The colour scheme has a skull and crossbones, funerary candles and a coffin inside a black heart - it is that of the French ace Charles Nungesser who scored 45 victories.
#NFT
🖌hey.its.soosa: Zhenya ◆ Moonlight Sailor
The 77th director of Khrustalny Funeral Parlor, Zhenya is a vital piece to managing the Land of Geo's funerary affairs.
She does her best to carry out a person's last wishes and preserve the balance within this world.
#Genshin
#โฮมุ้monthly
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⚠️blood // funerary ⚠️
The @Tate Hogarth exhibition is packed with many of his most well-known works. There are so many things to stop and stare at …and a funerary moment too courtesy of A Harlot’s Progress #HogarthAndEurope #Hogarth
I’ve only just learned of Xtabay, but she’s more of a modern myth then an ancient god. Said to enchant men only to kill them. The design of her mask resembles the funerary masks of K'inich Janaab' Pakal, Maya King of Palenque. #MayaAndTheThree (20/24)
Most penitents held this ceremony when their death approached, so the character of my card appears in the form of a funerary bundle
The teachings of Thaumaturgy were originally used in funerary rites. Freezing blizzards to halt corruption, fires to cleanse the corpse and lightning to expel sins.
Ancient Egyptians worshipped the sacred white lotus of the river Nile as as a symbol of creation. 💮 Extracting its perfume, they used it for funerary rites, temple decor & offerings. It's also a candidate for the plant eaten by the Lotophagi in Homer's Odyssey. #FolkloreThursday
YOU are invited to join poet Malika Booker for a special close reading of her poem ‘Nine Nights’ - a reimagining of the story of Lazarus which explores the Caribbean funerary traditions of nine-nights. #DDD15
Book here:
https://t.co/011zCCkLaC
Wander (they/he) is a firbolg grave cleric of Silvanus. They're shy and awkward but generally sweet. Their traditional name among their family is 'The One Who Places Flowers Upon Your Graves,' and he's out in the world to offer funerary services to anyone in need.
🆕 #archaeology: People in early medieval Europe kept reopening graves. What was thought to be isolated events, like grave robbing, is actually a regular part of funerary traditions from the 5th – 7th c. AD
Here's an #AntiquityThread on the work (🆓) https://t.co/Y84YugyXdo 1/🧵
Hathor was depicted as a woman wearing a headdress of cattle horns and a sun disk, with more temples dedicated to her than any other Egyptian goddess. She also appeared in funerary texts and art as the goddess, alongside Anubis, who welcomed the dead into the afterlife. 2/3
For #FrescoFriday painted sarcophagus from #Cyprus ~400 BCE, encaustic on marble.
The border of a lid is decorated with a repeating sequence of myrtle & flower branches. In the pediment scene with the conical funerary monument (tymbos), 2 women on the right, 2 men on the left.
Qin Shi Huang (秦始皇), was the founder of the Qin dynasty and the first emperor of a unified China. He is known for his interest in immortality, his huge funerary compound that contains some 8,000 life-sized terra-cotta soldiers (continued)
2/4 Schliemann was already famous for his discovery of legendary Troy at Hisarlik in Turkey. At Mycenae he was searching for the tomb of King Agamemnon who led the Greeks against Troy. He found 19 burials at Grave Circle A. Five of which had gold funerary masks.