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Object of the Week 26 - Wet & Dry Greenhouse Thermometer Our 1930s coping w heatwave to calculate humidity by subtracting wet bulb temp from dry bulb temp & using conversion table for exact greenhouse humidity #museum #gardening #hassocks @TatesGCs #ObjectoftheWeek #onlyaweeklate
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
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
Object of the Week 19: Bird Scarer In 1700s & 1800s, young children employed dawn to dusk to scare birds off crops for penny a day Often used Rattle or Clacker also used by Police & later football fans #ObjectoftheWeek #museum #gardening #hassocks @TatesGCs #sussex #onlyaweeklate
Our #ObjectoftheWeek is a terracotta kitchen mold of an anthropomorphic woman, found at the Amorite royal palace complex in Mari (modern-day Syria). ca. 1782-1759 BCE. Louvre AO 18913. Credit: 2022 Musée du Louvre, Dist. GrandPalaisRmn / Raphaél Chipault
#Archaeology #Amorite
Our #ObjectoftheWeek is a terracotta model of a boat with multiple persons and birds, decorated with geometric patterns. From Cyprus, Middle Bronze Age, ca. 2000-1600 BCE. Louvre AM972. Credit: Musée du Louvre, Dist. GrandPalaisRmn / Raphaél Chipault
#Archaeology #Cyprus
Object of the Week 15: Pluviette Sprinkler
Invented Paul Zeyssolff, Germany, patented 1912 Later manufactured Lloyds of Letchworth various sizes/designs & we also have larger model. In action in this Gardeners World clip:
https://t.co/CFIADjtw3y
#ObjectoftheWeek #museum @TatesGCs
Eid Mubarak! Our #ObjectoftheWeek is a ceramic bowl likely from Samarqand, Uzbekistan—with "blessings, prosperity, well-being, happiness" inscribed in Arabic—dated to late 10th-11th century CE. Credit: Metropolitan Museum of Art. 40.170.15
#Archaeology #Uzbekistan #Calligraphy
Our #ObjectoftheWeek: A shallow faience bowl from New Kingdom Egypt—decorated with a double-sistrum with Hathor heads and blue lotus flowers—dated to ca. 1539-1292 BCE. Credit: Museo Egizio, Turin, Cat. 3368. CC0 1.0.
#Archaeology #Egypt #Hathor
Our #ObjectoftheWeek: A cuneiform tablet recording a land transfer document from ancient Girsu, Iraq dated to ED IIIB period (ca. 2500-2340 BCE). CBS10000. Credit: Penn Museum.
#Archaeology #Iraq #Mesopotamia #Cuneiform
Our #ObjectoftheWeek: A series of grave goods from a cemetery in Kedurma, Sudan, dated to the Meroitic period. ca. 3rd cent. BCE–4th cent. CE. Photo credit: Mohamed Bashir, CC by-SA 4.0.
#Archaeology #Nubia #Kush
This week's #ObjectOfTheWeek is from our rare books library.
'The Winchester Partbooks' (1564-66) have been described as 'one of England's musical treasures'. They contain a selection of Italian and English madrigals and French chansons composed during the 16th century.
Our #ObjectoftheWeek: A limestone statue of an eagle wrestling with a serpent found at Khirbet et-Tannur, an ancient Nabataean temple in southern Jordan. ca. 100-200 CE. CAM 1939.222. Photo credit: Cincinnati Art Museum.
#Archaeology #Jordan #Nabataean
This week's #ObjectOfTheWeek is one of four Charters of Henry of Blois in our College Archives, dating from c. 1140.
It relates to a hide of land called ‘Hamela’, which was acquired by the College in 1391.
Find out more: https://t.co/vfFg8e7G39
Our #ObjectoftheWeek: Alabastron from the tomb of Nubian king Aspelta in Nuri, Sudan, ca. 593-568 BCE. MFA 20.1070. Photo credit: Harvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition.
#Nubia #Alabastron
Our #ObjectoftheWeek is a limestone statuette of a temple boy, from Cyprus. 4th century BCE. You can read more about statues of “temple boys” by subscribing to our ANE Today Substack here! https://t.co/XtnaNdcUPp
📷 Credit: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 74.51.2767.
Welcome back to our #ObjectOfTheWeek series!
This week's object is a Greek cup by 'the Winchester Painter', dating from c. 515-510 BC.
It is a large drinking cup - or 'kylix' - and an early example of the red-figure technique, developed by Athenian vase painters around 530 BC.
Our #ObjectoftheWeek: Two-headed statue from Ain Ghazal, on the outskirts of Amman, Jordan. Pre-pottery Neolithic period B, ca. 6500 BCE. Jordan Archaeological Museum. Source: Osama Shukir Muhammed Asmin FRCP(Glasg), CC By-SA 4.0 /https://t.co/gobe9GUpTY
#Jordan #Neolithic
Noch bis zum 2.11. läuft die Jahresausstellung der FB Gotha zum GOTHA - und letztmalig stellen wir hier das #ObjectOfTheWeek aus der Ausstellung vor. Diesmal handelt es sich um die Interpretation eines historischen Experiments zur Sichtbarmachung von Tönen.
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