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I don’t know if it was intentional but the cover to this week’s Storm & the Brotherhood reminded me of the ‘Sibyl Agrippina’ by Jan van den Hoecke.

This 1630s painting depicts an Oracle from Thebes, one of 12, who foretold Jesus’ arrival & death, with a whip and crown in hand.

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One day, just outside Thebes, young Oedipus encounters his father, King Laius, on the road. Things don't go well:

"This road is too narrow for the both of us."

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29th September is the Feast of St Michael and All Angels. Here are the Angels of Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, and Venus.

BL Royal 17 A XLII; Honorius of Thebes, Sworn Book of Honorius; England; 15th century; ff.67v-69r

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Details from the painted anthropoid coffin of Lahmose, 21st dynasty, found at Thebes, Upper Egypt (British Museum) / ancient egyptian

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2022-08-29

The Colossi of Memnon, Thebes, Carl Werner, 1872.

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2022-05-15

Cretans known as "Keftiu" in Egyptian sources bring gifts like metal ingots and metal containers to Egypt. This painting was found in the Tomb of Rekhmire at Thebes, during the reign of Pharaoh Thutmosis III. The painting is nowadays housed in the Metropolitan Museum in NYC.

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❖ Tomb-painting of Nebamun ( circa 1370BC, detail ) / Thebes, Egypt / The British Museum / https://t.co/8cmDrKDh13

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Sculptors at Work, Tomb of Rekhmire, 1479–1425 B.C. New Kingdom. reign of Thutmose III–early Amenhotep II, tempera on Paper, by Nina de Garis Davies (1881–1965).

The original mural comes from Upper Egypt, Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Tomb of Rekhmire.

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Angels of Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, and Venus

BL Royal 17 A XLII; Honorius of Thebes, Sworn Book of Honorius; England; 15th century; ff.67v-69r

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2021-09-27

The Prince of Wales at Thebes, Jemima Blackburn, 1862

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2021-09-20

The Obverse of this series shows a bearded and ivy-wreathed Dionysus. Dionysus was said to have been born in Thebes, and then famously returned to that City where its king, Pentheus, refused to acknowledge Dionysus' god-head.

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Ancient Coin of the Day: The last few days have been a bit coin-light, so let’s get back to it with a look at some electrum issues of Thebes, starting with this hemidrachm ca. 360-340 BC.

Image: ANS 1959.73.1. Link - https://t.co/nQKjqraMga

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2021-09-06

[After more or less memorizing the map of Thebes, Kamui finished reading through the atlas. The pair could see the stone pillars just right outside the temple, after having left the cafe not too long ago.]

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Charles Herbert Moore, Fish and Flower, after an Egyptian Wall Painting at Thebes, c. 1876-1878 https://t.co/AsKRTgbtAx

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4 details from a 1400s "Thebaid". Early Christian hermits lived the desert near the Egyptian city of Thebes, giving rise later to this Thebaid genre of painting. Here the Blessed Angelico (a Dominican friar himself) shows us some of their trials & miraculous deeds!

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Angels of Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, and Venus

BL Royal 17 A XLII; Honorius of Thebes, Sworn Book of Honorius; England; 15th century; ff.67v-69r

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Here, kitty. This painting, by Nina M. Davies, depicts a relief carving of a from the mortuary temple of Queen Hatshepsut (1502–1482 BC) at Deir el-Bahri in Western

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2020-10-18

Why shouldn't you offend Dionysus? Pentheus, king of Thebes, banned women from participating in his rites. A drunken frenzy of women mistook him for a wild beast, his own mother tore off his head as a trophy. Ouch! Scene from a triclinium of Vettii (Pompeii).

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Fish and Flower, after an Egyptian Wall Painting at Thebes, Charles Herbert Moore, c. 1876-1878 https://t.co/AsKRTgbtAx

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2020-09-30

Ancient Coin of the Day: we've bit a bit Rome-heavy of late, so let's head to Greece today with this striking electrum hemidrachm from Thebes, perhaps ca. 350-340 BC.

Image: ANS 1959.73.1

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