Cylindrical clay cylinder, tapered and flat on each end, covered with cuneiform writing. It's a 'toasty' color, yellows and browns, and a bit chipped here and there.

"I built a strong wall that cannot be shaken, with bitumen and baked bricks... I laid its foundation on the breast of the netherworld, and I built its top as high as a mountain." - Nebuchadnezzar II

So says this Babylonian clay cylinder (604-562 BCE), inscribed with cuneiform. 🏺 1/

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Ancient Greek theatrical masks.

Ancient Greek theatrical masks.

🗡️ Mycenaean daggers from 1600 BC — gold and silver inlaid scenes of hunting and battle, hammered into bronze

🗡️ Mycenaean daggers from 1600 BC — gold and silver inlaid scenes of hunting and battle, hammered into bronze

Blinking eyeball necklace

Where structural masonry becomes architectural expression the stunning new belvedere at Begijnhof Hasselt, Belgium.

Where structural masonry becomes architectural expression the stunning new belvedere at Begijnhof Hasselt, Belgium.

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Chess #oilpainting #art

Umberto Boccioni,
The Morning 1909

by Derek Hess

This extraordinary vase of a bird-man, of high technical quality, is unique among the examples of Attic black-glazed pottery known today. It almost certainly relates to Aristophanes' well-known comedy The Birds (first produced in 415/414 B.C.) and may represent the costume that would have been worn by members of the chorus in the fifth century B.C. The body of the bird-man is upright, with human legs tucked under, and human arms wrapped around the bird body's overstuffed stomach. The head is a bird, except for somewhat human ears. The flared spout almost looks like a hat on top of the head of the bird-man, with a handle on either side, attached to the spout and to the feathered shoulders of the bird body. A little tiered circular stand is at the bottom.

This weird and wonderful Greek amphoriskos (flask) depicts a bird-man, but the explanation is astonishing. It almost certainly relates to Aristophanes' famous comedy 'The Birds' (first produced 415/414 BCE) and may represent a costume worn by members of the chorus. 🏺 #ancientbluesky

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Jason Anderson (British Artist, born 1970)
"Advance 2", 2025.
Oil on Linen, 40 × 40 cm.
Private Collection.
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Woman with large green ivy hair

by Vinie

Building Mural
Glasgow, Scotland
May 2025
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Forget Jim Ratcliffe’s half-apology: to speak of immigrants ‘colonising’ Britain is wrong and sinister | Sunder Katwala He fused an echo of Enoch Powell with the spirit of the far right’s great replacement theory. This is no way to progress a humane migration debate, says Sunder Katwala, director of British Future

I wrote for the Guardian about why Jim Ratcliffe's talk of Britain being "colonised" by immigrants crosses the line between legitimate debate and inflammatory rhetoric. It fuses echoes of Powellism with great replacement conspiracies of "civilisational erasure"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

1. this is a brilliant piece

2. FYI:

Pink lippys #oilpainting #art

AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."

Morning.

Photography teaches you this: linger, let the world reveal itself. Gear sharpens an image, but patience sharpens the eye, turning each moment into something you receive, not chase.

slow light gathers in
the quiet you learn to keep
the world waits, revealed

What do you think?

Walter Molino (Italian, 1915-1997)
The Burst of Flowers, 1958
Tempera and watercolor on thin cardboard
60 x 32 cm. (23.6 x 12.6 in.)
Private collection

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Ancient Roman altars to go on display in Edinburgh Two Mithraic Roman altars are to be displayed as a part of an upcoming exhibition after being acquired for the nation.

How exciting - I have always wanted to see these altars, the one featuring Sol is particularly amazing!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A symmetrical, eye-level photograph of a large, six-panelled window set into a light grey exterior wall. Through the window, a white ferry is centred on a calm body of water, framed by distant green hills and a cloudy blue sky. Below the window, a wooden barrel planter filled with colourful flowers—including yellow, orange, and pink blooms—sits on a brick-paved ground. Dramatic, sharp-edged shadows from an overhead structure cast a geometric, crisscross pattern across the wall and ground, creating high contrast. The overall mood is serene and meticulously composed, with a clean, architectural feel.

Framed

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Oskar Bergman, Swedish, 1879-1963

Birch trees in spring, dated 1933

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Josep M. Fontanet (Spanish Artist, born 1955)
"Pika 15", 2017.
Oil on Canvas, 46 × 55 cm.
Private Collection.
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Claudio Bravo (Chilean, 1936–2011)
"Lily", 1965.
Oil on Panel, 31 × 18.5 cm.
Private Collection of the Artist.

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