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Object of the Week 41- Steam Mower- Acquired last year, 1950s Atco lawn Mower converted to steam power Undergoing refurbishment to comply with current regulations Hopefully steaming up early next year! #museum #gardening #hassocks @TatesGCs #sussex #ObjectoftheWeek #onlyaweeklate
Our #ObjectoftheWeek is the magical stele of Horus. Dating to the Ptolemaic Period, it offered protection from desert animals. On the back is a healing spell, while the front features young Horus.
📸 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1920, 20.2.23
#Egypt #Horus #Magic
Our #ObjectoftheWeek is a glazed amulet representing the head of the demon Pazuzu, found in ancient Nineveh. Dating to ca. 700-500 BCE, it contains features of a lion, fish, and goat.
📸 ©The Trustees of the British Museum (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), 91873
#Mesopotamia #Nineveh #IronAge
Our #ObjectoftheWeek is a Canaanite smiting god statue, ca. 15th–14th century BCE. The bronze figure represents a local deity but wears the atef crown of Osiris, reflecting the Egyptianizing style during the Late Bronze Age. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986.42.
#Levant #BronzeAge
Object of the Week 37 - Boot Protector
Designed to protect sole of worker’s boot/shoe, also to reduce pressure on arch of foot when using a spade or fork This e.g. could be late 18th/early 19th C. #museum #gardening #hassocks @TatesGCs #sussex #ObjectoftheWeek #onlyaweeklate
Our #ObjectoftheWeek is a small copper bull figurine from the Temple of Baalat Gebal in ancient Byblos, Lebanon. Dating to ca. 1800–1700 BCE, it was part of a votive deposit known as the “Golden Calf” deposit.
📷️ ©2024 Louvre Museum, Dist. GrandPalaisRmn/Raphael Chipault
Silver kneeling bull holding a spouted vessel. Proto-Elamite, ca. 3100–2900 BCE. Thought to be from southwestern Iran. Metropolitan Museum of Art 66.173
#ObjectoftheWeek #Mesopotamia #Iran
Object of the Week 34: Qualcast Major Lawn Mower
Introduced in 1924, the first roller mower manufactured by Qualcast, only sold for a few years, quite a rare lawn mower.
#museum #gardening #hassocks @TatesGCs #sussex #ObjectoftheWeek #onlyaweeklate
Object of the Week 33 - Ecko Plastic Watering Can
Plastic, 1957 but much rarer than copper cans from mid-19thC! Designed William Rowland, also iconic 1960s ‘Trim Phone’ Only 1 other known to exist at @V_and_A #museum #gardening @TatesGCs #sussex #objectoftheweek #onlyaweeklate
Our #ObjectoftheWeek is this set of cat mummies found in Egypt, wrapped in different colored textiles with facial features outlined in black, ca. 30 BCE. From the British Museum, EA55614.
📸 © The Trustees of the British Museum (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
#AncientEgypt #Mummies #Cats
Object of the Week 32: Multicut Shears
Patented in 1908 by James Hathaway and manufactured by C.T. Skelton & Co.
#museum #gardening #hassocks @TatesGCs #sussex #objectoftheweek #onlyaweeklate
Object of the Week 31: Tap/Hose Connector
Enots Everon connector for Hose/Tap which was patented in 1925. The first formal #hosepipeban was implemented in London in 1929.
#museum #gardening #hassocks @TatesGCs #sussex #objectoftheweek #onlyaweeklate
Our #ObjectoftheWeek is this bronze appliqué representing the Etruscan sun god Usil, ca. 500-475 B.C.E. Appliqués depicting Usil are associated with burials, which often held grave offerings of funerary carts. From the Getty Museum, 2017.126.
#Etruscan #Italy
📸 Public Domain.
Our #ObjectoftheWeek is this limestone tablet from Sippar, Iraq, depicting the king Nabu-apla-iddina and the sun god Shamash, ca. 888-855 BCE. BM 91000. © The Trustees of the British Museum, CC By-NC-SA 4.0. #Babylonia #Tablet #Iraq
Object of the Week 28 - Zinc Garden Pump for spraying plants washing walls etc, L.1800s/E.1900s W.B.Fordham&Sons ad 1907, 3s: Pump throws water 40ft & did when tested! & Happy Birthday to our curator Clive Gravett today! #museum #hassocks @TatesGCs #objectoftheweek #onlyaweeklate
Our #ObjectoftheWeek is a calcite funerary stele from Yemen, ca. 100 BCE–100 CE. The Sabaean inscription mentions a woman named Ghalilat and invokes the protection of the god Attar. BM 125041.
© The Trustees of the British Museum, CC By-NC-SA 4.0.
#Yemen #Sabaean #Arabia
Our #ObjectoftheWeek is a clay seal from Iraq, ca. 2217-2193 BCE. This bulla label impressed with a cylinder seal is from Bismaya, ancient Adab, and dates to the Akkadian period. Credit: ISAC
#Iraq #Mesopotamia #Akkadian
Object of the Week 23: Enots Hand Sprayer
A sprayer for distributing water of liquid insecticides. Patent applied for in 1899.
#gardening #museum #ObjectoftheWeek #hassocks @TatesGCs #sussex #onlyaweeklate
Our #ObjectoftheWeek is a cuneiform tablet recording the peace treaty between Ramesses II and Ḫattušili III—popularly known as the Treaty of Kadesh—ca. 1259 BCE. Displayed in the Istanbul Airport Museum. Photo credit: Jessica Nitschke.
#Archaeology #Egyptian #Hittite
Our #ObjectoftheWeek is a small, bronze statuette of a horse from Greece, ca. 750–730 BCE. It was likely created as a devotional gift to a god, with horses being a symbol of wealth at the time. Credit: Art Institute of Chicago. 2016.193.
#Archaeology #Greece #Horses
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