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Get a load of this guy. Real photo postcard from my collection, no date/info.
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going ape shit hooligan crazy searching the word Key on metmuseum dot org
egypt, 4th-1st century bce. the angle here is startling and charming to me and appears to have been standard at the time. at first i had difficulty imagining the lock it would fit into. looks like a guy clenching his big hand at you 🫴. A+
north china, 3rd century bce. hey everyone SHUT up. everyone SHUT UP for a fucking second and have some RESPECT while i tune my ZITHER with my beautiful little BEAR KEY. i said SHUT UP!! i am KISSING HIM. A+
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Daniel's vision of the four beasts from the sea and the Ancient of Days; Silos Apocalypse. f.240, BL Add MS. Illustrated in Spain, 1109.
The British Library.
Portrait of a Māori family group (twenty one adults, children and babies) standing in front of a western-style wood-slat house - Te Whiti's house; they are all wearing a mix of Maori and European style clothing; almost all wear one or two feathers in their hair; Parihaka, Aotearoa (New Zealand), ca. 1881-1890.
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Two horsemen aiming their lances, from Manual on the Arts of Horsemanship (Nihayat al-su’l wa al-umniya fi ta‘allum ‘amal al-furusiyya) by al-Aqsara'i. Cairo, 1366.
The Chester Beatty Collection.
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Every British guy in the War of 1812 has a name like John Smith, James Taylor, or William Brown; and every American guy is named like Eleazor Peabody, Dempsey Dimwiddle, or (checks notes) Tench Coxe
(tags via @captainswank)
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Ostracon from Luxor, Egypt dated between 1185 - 1070 BCE on display at the Great North Museum: Hancock in Newcastle, England
An ostracon is a pot shard used for writing and were a cheap and easy material to write on in Egypt. This one refers to an appeal by a workman called Nekhemmut over a number of thefts. Ostracons are a unique source of written evidence as the pot shards are more durable than traditional writing in archaeology such as animal skins and early paper.
Photographs taken by myself 2024
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look at the cute cow angel i saw when i tried to link to the correct page of that manuscript.
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That's amazing and beautiful, and I can't imagine doing it with a quill in an inadequately heated monastery scriptorium on an Atlantic island in November.
But it was done that way regardless.
Here's the Lindisfarne Gospels.
Here's the Book of Kells.
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my top funny colonial/early American names, in no particular order
- Unite Cox (male, 1752-1816, Malden, Massachusetts)
- Pleasant Cock (male, dates unclear; mentioned in a diary from 1777 of the writer's travels through Virginia)
- Submit Cox (female, 1702-c. 1735, Dorchester, Massachusetts. later married and became Submit Maudsley)
- Preserved Fish (male, 1766-1846, New York)
- Increase Mather (male, 1639-1723, Boston, Massachusetts)
Somewhat later but I would also like to Supply Clapp Thwing (male, 1798-1887)
(his daughter Annie was a renowned Boston historian and miniaturist who never married for reasons unknown. I want to believe she was gay, but I have no proof one way or the other)