September 21, 2024The Harbaville Triptych is a 10th century CE Byzantine ivory triptych with a Deesis and other saints, now in the Louvre. It is regarded as the finest and best-preserved of the “Romanos group” of ivories from a workshop in Constantinople, probably closely connected with the Imperial Court [1293×2394]
September 21, 2024In 2015, an 80-meter-long belyana that caught fire some 350 years ago and was abandoned by its crew, was found in the Vetluga river in Russia. Belyanas were among the largest wooden ships ever built, with the largest ones being up to 120 metres long with a load capacity up to 12,800 tons [1100×1470]
September 21, 2024Bronze busts from the Villa of the Papyri, depicting clockwise from top left: Dionysus or Plato, Pythagoras, Ptolemy Apion and Hesiod or Aristophanes. The Villa was considered to be one of the most luxurious houses in all of Herculaneum and in the Roman world [5030×7795]
chubachus on September 21, 2024 12:36 am [Source.](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/319113)
YokaiZukan on September 21, 2024 1:00 am It’s clearly a snake eating an egg. Museum: “It’s (possibly) an otter eating a ball.” The Met has some odd descriptions sometimes.
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[Source.](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/319113)
It’s clearly a snake eating an egg.
Museum: “It’s (possibly) an otter eating a ball.”
The Met has some odd descriptions sometimes.
Is that a spike in addition to the club? Brutal
That looks very lethal
The grip looks suspiciously like the stock of a rifle