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blueiskewl · 5 months
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Etruscan Bronze Helmet in the Shape of a Wolf’s Head 6th-5th centuries BCE.
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romegreeceart · 3 months
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Athena mounting a four-horse chariot
Mersenaki
Ca. 510-460 BCE
Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm
Stockholm, November 2023
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theancientwayoflife · 4 months
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~ Coin, Tetradrachm: A. Head of Athena, three olive leaves on the helmet; B. AΘE
Country/Issuer: Ancient Greece, Attica Athenes
Date: 5th century B.C.
Medium: Silver
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thoodleoo · 3 months
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etruscan era boar/wolf's head helm (?) c.6th-5th century BC//wolf jawsome costume hate c.21st century AD
...Although this object has been described previously as a helmet, perhaps used as part of a ritual, the interpretation of the object as a helmet depends greatly on the modern reconstruction (3). The closest comparanda for the upper part of the head are boar-head protomes on Etruscan chariots, which consist of the top section of boar heads, including the snout, eyes, ears, and sometimes crests, but not the lower jaws (4). These protomes covered the draft poles of chariots at the juncture of the pole and the main body of the chariot. It is possible that the eyes, top of the snout, and parts of the upper dome are ancient pieces from an Etruscan chariot, while other sections, such as the teeth, tongue, and nose piece, were added later to create a more cohesive piece...
Transform yourself into the wolf that has had a bad rap in all the stories with this Jawesome Wolf Hat. This cap has a soft-sculpted wolf head surrounding its normal structure. It is lined for comfort and has hook and loop fasteners to keep the head in shape. (You'll even find a secret pocket so you don't need to depend on pants to keep your cards in place!)
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poethill · 21 days
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Hello Writeblr!
My name is Hayden (she/her)! In ye olden days, I had a semi-popular writing blog that I deleted on a whim, but I’m back now!
Genres:
I write YA low-fantasy. Clearly (via fairy/walrus post), people want to believe there are bits of magic here and there, right alongside our ordinary world. Or people are genuinely shocked at the very notion of a walrus.
My current WIP:
The book I am currently working on features four friends who are dealing with the hardships of life, growing up, deciding who they want to be. That’s boring, add 💫fairies💫
Ella is on a quest to find magic. She fancies herself to be one of the old poets of Ireland. After returning from an island out west, she’s been terribly ill… and all the myths end in death. It’s not looking good. Alongside her, she has Shira who is looking for magic for her own reasons, but she won’t talk about why. There’s Kate, a new student who fits in like she’s always been there, and Jack. He’s very polite. Ella isn’t polite, but she likes that he is.
This idea has been a long time in the making. It began when I was nine and I read a horrible story from the Junior Classics about a girl disappearing through time. It began with a reoccurring dream of a girl wearing an equestrian helmet. It began because of BBC Merlin. Arthurian legends and the like. I started writing this story after I did a deep dive on Irish history and folklore in the 5th in 6th centuries in my first year of uni. I gave a forty-five minute presentation on the subject, and I decided I needed to write or else I might die.
Goals:
🌱 Start editing by May
🌸 Finish editing by December
🌱 Querying in 2025 (I’m sweating at the prospect)
🌸 Finding a writing community, critiquing partners, friends!
Reblog and tell me about your WIPs, and please reach out if you want to help each other out! I’m looking forward to getting to know all of you!
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memories-of-ancients · 6 months
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Bronze Corinthian type helmet, Greece, 6th-5th century BC
from Hermann Historica
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lionofchaeronea · 10 months
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Marble bust of the great Athenian general, orator, and statesman Pericles (ca. 495-429 BCE), shown here wearing a Corinthian helmet. Pericles is credited by many historians, notably Thucydides, with guiding 5th century BCE Athens to its peak of greatness; among his achievements were the ambitious building program on the Parthenon and the conversion of the Delian League, originally formed to combat the Persians, into a tribute-paying Athenian empire. His reputation was not, however, unblemished. His political opponents accused him of aiming at tyranny, while his enforcement of the Megarian Decree--which barred Sparta's ally Megara from all Athenian harbors and was effectively an act of economic warfare--may have been the proximate cause of the Peloponnesian War. His death from plague plunged Athens into crisis and led to a succession of populist leaders such as Cleon and Hyperbolus, whose far more aggressive foreign policy ultimately proved disastrous for Athens. Though the city would survive and even make a second attempt at empire-building, it never regained the unchallenged supremacy it had enjoyed in the Periclean period.
Roman copy of uncertain date after a lost Greek original. Now in the Museo Chiaramonti, Vatican City.
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random-kazakh-stuff · 5 months
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Okay so one of the symbols of modern Kazakhstan's independence is Altyn Adam - Golden Man*(as in person).
Altyn adam refers to an artefact that was found 1970 in Issyk kurgan(burial)*.
It looks like this(id in the end of the post and in alt):
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It is actually quite interesting how the artefact was found.
In 1968 the town Issyk became a town and wanted to develop. However, they needed experts to first check that there are no historical sites, which is what they did. For all of 1969 they were carefully uncovering he kurgan, and in 1970 they finally opened it.
It was empty. The place had signs that it has been robbed several times before.
One archeologist, Bekmuhanbet Nurmuhanbetov*, decided to check some 30-40 meters away, and found a side-burial which was left untouched since 6-5th century BC.
They found so many artefacts that listing them all here would be quite difficult.
What I would like to mention though is who was buried here:
Gender is unknown*, but the age is around late teens(16-18)
The person that was buried here was most likely to be a child of some kind of tribe leader, because their burial is smaller than the main one.
About the tribe! The burial probably belonged to Saka tribes. Saka people might relate to Scythians(they are probably part of the same cultural group?)* *. Anyways this particular kurgan was made by Tigraxauda people. Their name derives from persian and means. Pointy hats........
The golden armor is probably more ritualistic(haven't seen it in direct text sorry) than anything because the golden pieces of armor are wood covered in golden leaf. The helmet is made from golden plates though.
There are actually some interesting thing that are present on the helmet. By that I mean the arrows, which are said to symbolise 4 parts of the world. There are also multiple animals* on it. As a whole the costume consists of 4000 golden pieces.
And finally, Why is it so important?
Well to answer this question, you should know USSR's relationship with history and how is was teached in Kazakhstan specifically: mainly, world history through the lense of revolution and how Kazakhstan just sorta became part of USSR after it was Russian Empire's colony*. Nothing before that as people that lived on this land.
Which led to a very hard situation after the independency was gained because well. The majority of people were Kazakhs, but a lot of culture and identity was lost. And part of it was history.
So an artefact this old brings a sense of legitimacy. It also doesn't hurt that it's pretty.
ID and notes under cut
[ID: Armor on a mannequin in a museum setting standing above camera. The mannequin is wearing long-sleeved jacket which is a mix of red fabric and triangular golden pieces. The same pattern is on its boots. The pants are made from a red fabric. It is wearing a very large conical headpiece almost as tall as its chest(40cm). It is very pointy. The headpiece has 4 golden arrows and some animal ornaments on it. The figure has a bow and and an arrow in its hands, and a sheath for sword and another weapon on its belt. It is also wearing a red cape just reaching its thighs. ]
* Actually there are several artefacts like this! Around 6 or so which were found in different regions at different time. All of them are called golden men, just the place that varies. This one is Issyk's Golden Man. Some of them are actually made from solid gold and not gold leaf which I find fascinating.
* Ok so kurgan is used interchangeably here with burial. And in a way kurgan is a burial. It is also in a way like a pyramid? There are things left for the dead so they can carry them to the afterlife, but the kurgan itself is built a bit in and above ground. The rooms are made from logs, and then covered with dirt to create mounds. I also heard that a herd of horses would run it over a bunch of times to set the earth.
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*Full name Bekmuhanbet Nurmuhanbetov Nurmuhanbetovich. He eventually organized a museum for the kurgans he found. He died in 2016, at the age of 81, and for some reason he has "Bekem-aĝa"(aĝa means older brother, uncle just an older friendly male figure) as his pseudonym on his Wiki.
*Actually Saka seem to had been pretty great about equality. There is also a very cool story about their female chief Tomiris.
*Historical records about nomadic people come exclusively from settled ones. Because a lot of stuff they would probably write on(despite the claims about lack of writing system) would't have survived because you know. Nomads.
*Haven't mentioned it in the post but sometimes Saka people are called ancestors of Kazakh people and uhhhh. They are probably more related to modern Europeans than to us. They still had similar lifestyle and lived on this land though. And they were more mixed than anything because you know, race is bullshit.
* Oh also fun fact one of the animals is a tulpar which is a horse with wings. The same mythical animal is present on Kazakhstan's official coat of arms.
*should I keep making these notes? because I feel they might take away from the flow of the text, and some details are simply not that important or I cannot convey them properly. so. what do you think?
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butt?
I had to substitute it for arse, sorry. Exploratory fic I began to explore some character dynamics and what the lifestyle of 4 growing nations and their mother in their last real time together would be like in a slightly Post-Roman Iron Age estate as the Migration period picks up and Germanic peoples cross the North Sea to make a home. I believe of these earlier themes have their origin with @balladofthewhitehorse.
5th Century AD, Cumbria
"Rhys," Alasdair appeared at the fence line, his face gloomy. Rhys had stopped here for his mid-day meal halfway between where the shepherds had herded the sheep in the northernmost glen and their home behind on the hill. It'd been a long two days in the hills. He offered the cider flask to his brother as Alasdair approached, his frown deepening. It wasn't raining, and the day's work wouldn't have been hard. Bad news, then. It was always bad news.
"What is it this time?"
"Rot in the south store."
"Oats, rye or wheat?" Rhys asked. The rye they might go without, but the rain hadn't come so early that anything else should rot.
"Oats,"
"Fuck." Rhys sat on the low wall of flagstones and pinched the bridge of his nose. "Fuck,"
He glanced up. His brother looked even more dour. "Gods, what else?"
"Seven horses," Alasdair said, sitting beside Rhys, boneless and upset.
Rhys gaped at him. "Seven? That's three more than were sick yesterday!"
"It's spreading." Alasdair shrugged helplessly. "I took the healthy ones into the third stables, and it didn't help."
"Is it distemper?"
"I didn't think so," Alasdair said. "They weren't so feverish, and there wasn't pus, but now I don't know.
"So, no horses to sell this year. At least half the oats are gone."
"Rhys." Alasdair's ingot grey gaze fell heavily, and Rhys glanced at his brother.
"I know," He said, and Alasdair didn't look convinced. He looked at his elder brother with a firm look. "I know."
"If we can't pay the tributes…"
He thought of the mustached helmets of the German kings and exhaled. "We don't know that we can't pay. There's plenty to sell."
"It's not just a lack of goods I'm worried about. It's been a bad year for everyone. There might not be anyone to sell to."
"There must be," Rhys said, pulling his cloak tighter over his shoulders. "There will be. We'll figure it out."
"I suppose all we can do is pray," Alasdair said.
Rhys frowned. Alasdair was the one with a mind for numbers, but he always worried, and they always managed before. So what if the horses would not fetch the total price if they were ill come market day? There was still the wool, the fine worked saddles he and Alasdair had made the year before, and plenty of cattle, sheep, honey and mead to sell. There were options. They had options.
"I'll see to the horses; if none of them die, we'll be fine," Alasdair said. "We have ore too. I might get a good price for my boar spears."
"Maybe," Rhys said. His hope was teetering precariously on the assumption that his brother was overly worried.
There was an unspoken sense of doom between them, both praying their worries were unfounded. Rhys grimaced after they parted ways at the outer gate, Alasdair marching off to the stables and Rhys to the poultry yard and the hives. One of the women in his mother's service alerted him to the fact that another of the hives had gone dark with rot. Honey was expensive, and now there wouldn't be enough to sell and use themselves over the long winter. Rhys waved her off with a pinched-off smile.
He stood in the poultry yard for a long moment, leaning against the half gate that kept the hens, quail, and ducks safe in their enclosure and away from the hounds. He watched Arthur tumble after a goose, laughing as it squawked and ducked him. Their dinner pail of scraps and grain was sitting neglected as he played, but Rhys looked on, letting him play. They'd have to keep more honey than what he'd wanted to sell, if only for Arthur's sake. Honey cakes with stored apples and cheese or on bread were one of those precious things that would cheer him when the worst of the winter gloom gripped him worse than any of them. Arthur rolled to a halt, cackling as the goose bobbed angrily and finally noticed him.
"Rhys!" He grinned, leaping to his feet and making a beeline for him. He exhaled a loud "oomph" as Arthur knocked into him, throwing his arms around him. "You're back!"
"I was only gone a night," He laughed. "How is Mother? And where is your cloak? Have you lost it again?"
"The same," Arthur said. "Maybe a little better. She laughed this morning when I fell right on my arse out of bed. Bridgie pushed me."
"Good! And you probably deserved it. You kick in your sleep." He replied, and his smile was genuine. Mother had at least made an effort to shake her recent gloom then. She'd been thinner, paler, and sadder than he'd ever seen her in the last few years, and it hadn't gotten any better as the days became shorter. "And your cloak?"
"I forgot it!"
"You'll catch your death." Rhys ruffled his hair. "Hurry and feed the birds and come in for dinner."
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artifacts-archive · 1 month
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Helmet
Japanese, 5th century
This rare Japanese helmet was excavated in Ise Province, Mie Prefecture. The type of construction—horizontal rings to which rectangular scales are riveted—was probably imported from China or Korea. Most helmets of this type were made of iron, but some were made of gilt copper, probably for ceremonial display. This example is unusual because it combines both materials.
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paganimagevault · 1 year
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Bronze warrior (probably a Saka) from Xinyuan 5th-3rd C. BCE. Tuanchang, Burial Site.
"This warrior sports distinctive headgear that resembles a type fashionable in ancient Greece and Rome. The figure was recovered in the far northwest of China at a site linked to nomadic peoples, perhaps the Scythians, who dwelled in that region from the fifth to third century B.C. Although crudely cast, the figure’s well-modeled shoulders, arms, and collarbones reveal an awareness of human anatomy—a characteristic of the Hellenistic sculpture that Alexander the Great introduced into Central Asia in the fourth century B.C. Nomadic peoples helped transmit this influence to their Chinese neighbors.
42cm high, 4 kilograms. Documented in "Cambridge Ancient History" IV. Also in Boardman "The diffusion of Classical Art in Antiquity", with photograph: "A bronze figurine of a kneeling warrior, not Greek work, but wearing a version of the Greek Phrygian helmet. From a burial, said to be of the 4th century BC, just north of the Tien Shan range". Urumqi, Xinjiang Region Museum"
-taken from MetMuseum and wikipedia
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blueiskewl · 9 months
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Greek Helmet of Chalcidian Type 5th century BC
Decorated with stylised eye-brows and fixed paddle-shaped cheek guards. The thin band of discoloration along the edge is where a textile lining was once secured. H. 19.5 cm.
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romegreeceart · 2 years
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Corinthian helmet from a trophy
* 500-450 BCE
* British Museum
London, June 2022
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auryborealis · 10 days
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WELCOME TO DAY 1 OF OC X CANON WEEK!!🥰
Day 1: Historical (or more like big quotation marks "Historical." Their outfits may be horribly inaccurate to the time and location😅 Sanji's outfit is just taken from this official art) // @theocxcanonweek 💕
The concept of this drawing is based on the female pirate Awilda, whose story is disputed by historical scholars and so she is considered to be more of a legend.
Awilda was a princess of Gotland during the 5th century. Her father had locked her up in a tower guarded by two poisonous snakes and filled with deadly traps as a challenge for any suitors. Alf, the crown prince of Denmark, was able to defeat all the traps but before he and Awilda could meet, she escaped with the help some female friends and together commandeered a ship. Later, they met a group of pirates who had recently lost their captain. The two groups merged and elected Awilda as their new captain. Her conquests drew the attention of the Denmark king, who sent Alf to confront her. Alf - who was unaware that his former betrothed was the captain - bested her crew with his naval army. With the pirates subdued and bound in chains, Alf removed Awilda's helmet that concealed her face. Apparently impressed by the prince's courage and skill, Awilda revealed her true identity and offered to marry Alf. The two were wed on the spot and lived happily ever after as King and Queen of Denmark.
Bonus: Initial sketch of this prompt
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ltwilliammowett · 2 years
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A greek chalcidian styled helmet worn by an Etruscan, found near the greek Harbour City of Elea (Roman Velia), Campania, South Italy. Between 541-535 BCE
During this battle, which probably took place between 541-535, a fleet of Phocaean ships - who had founded a colony, Alalia, on the island of Corsica - entered the nearby Tyrrhenian Sea to repel attacks from neighbouring Etruscan and Carthaginian forces. Although the Greeks emerged victorious, the costly naval battle eventually caused the Phocaean colonists to abandon Alalia, leaving it to the Etruscans, and establish a colony closer to other Greek settlements along the southern coast of Italy.
The Phocaean settlers sailed to the mainland and acquired a piece of land that would later become Velia. To prevent the Greeks from establishing more settlements in Sicily, Corsica and Spain and from expanding further, the Carthaginians established a naval blockade and the Etruscans tried to drive the Greeks out in several battles, which they lost.
The conflicts between Carthaginian and Greek cities in Sicily eventually led to the Greek-Punic Wars in the 5th- 4th century BC. 
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peashooter85 · 2 years
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Illyrian Greek bronze helmet, 5th-6th century BC
from Hermann Historica
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