cvz.bsky.social
mostly lurking, occasionally reposting, very few original skeets | hobbies include Egyptology & history of ANE studies, Napoleonic and Roman reenactment | involvement highly variable | Wiki fan | cat lover
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I was so excited to see this wonderful piece in the “Legion” exhibition at the BM! Danced around the display case for at least ten minutes 😄
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Le temple de Dendur a été déplacé vers le Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) lors de la campagne UNESCO des années 1960 pour sauvegarder les monuments qui seraient noyés à cause du barrage d'Assouan, la « grande Nubiade ».
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Ici une photo prise par Caroline Ransom Williams dans les années 1910 : visiteurs dans un autre temple. On note que ces touristes portent une tenue plus formelle – je dirais que les chapeaus sont subtilement plus élégant que le chapeau pratique porté par Caroline.
www.frieze.com/article/dend...
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Il faut toujours comparer les details sur l’original. À cette page on voit Caroline Ransom Williams étudier un mur dans le temple de Médinet Habou (temple funéraire de Ramsès III) :
www.digital-epigraphy.com/readings/ame...
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On faisait encore ainsi dans les années 1990 au Chicago House à Louxor (la branche de travail sur le terrain en Égypte de l'Institut oriental de l'Université de Chicago). Aujourd’hui, l’épigraphie est réalisée numériquement.
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La « méthode Chicago House » pour copier les reliefs des monuments égyptiens (qu’elle a contribué à développer) utilise des photos. Une photo d’un relief est imprimée en grand format, on y trace les lignes en encre, puis la photo est surexposée/blanchie. Ce qui reste : lignes tracés sur papier blanc
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You can see this tablet in the National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden @rmoudheden.bsky.social.
In CDLI: cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/36...
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Sketch of a city with two circular enclosure walls; “calculate the circumference of the old and of the new city”. Old Babylonian school tablet with math problem (Böhl Collection, NINO Leiden, inv. no. LB 1821). www.facebook.com/share/1BSdre...
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Option to edit a posted skeet, maybe just for a limited time period – pretty please?🙏🥺
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Pleeeeease do an episode on Ea-nasir!
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My account still exists but I’m not posting on X anymore. I don’t want to deactivate, because then my account is deleted after a month and my handle becomes vacant – up for grabs. Also I may still want to log in to read. What are your thoughts on that? Genuinely asking as I’m unsure what to do.
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@whataweekhuh.bsky.social
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I’d like to make #woefulWednesday a thing
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Ja alleen de echte bikkels blijven over, denk ik (of de valsspelers met een nonreglementair kacheltje). Ook in de Middle Eastern Library schijnen de ijspegels aan de boekenplanken te hangen.
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Volgens mij zag ik net een pinguïn wegschuifelen. Vanochtend 11,7 °C; twee deuren verderop bij binnenkomst (naar verluidt) 10,5 °C 🥶
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That’s so wonderful! Encountering open-mindedness and having to explain your stuff “from scratch” can make you see your own subject in a clearer light, I find – plus it’s rewarding and just a lot of fun.
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Hoe eerder @unileiden.bsky.social kan overstappen op NextCloud hoe beter! Ik voel me hoe langer hoe ongemakkelijker bij MS Office 365. Het is wel cruciaal dat software serieus foolproof is èn goed ondersteund wordt – als gebruiker wil ik *zonder gedoe* kunnen Werken.
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Nooit van gehoord. Ik ga ‘t proberen, bedankt voor de tip!
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Drie dagen later: hee, een berichtje in de facultaire nieuwsbrief…
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(6/6) Waarom lees ik deze info in Mare (bravo, @mareonline.nl!), waarom geen updates over project Humanities Campus in facultaire nieuwsbrieven? Een simpele mail of skeet (liever geen X meer 😞): “Wat gebeurt er met Vrieshof? Opties zijn x, y en z. Beslissing wordt rond die-en-die maand verwacht.”
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(5/x) Vrieshof gaat Aleida Nijland heten, dat is nieuws! Goede keuze! Het zou wel heel mooi en passend zijn als de opleiding Nederlands hier wordt gehuisvest. Tussen haakjes: geen democratische stemming deze keer? Het Faculteitsbestuur wil ditmaal zeker weten dat haar keuze doorgaat?
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(4/x) De Matthias de Vrieshof wordt gerenoveerd, dat is nieuws! Toen we er uithuisden was het onzeker wat er met het gebouw zou gebeuren. Ik heb er gestudeerd en 20 jaar gewerkt. Wat ermee gebeurt, interesseert me (nog steeds geen fan van de architectuur)
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(3/x) Je kunt in de Reuvensplaats nu niet op de begane grond van het ene deel van het gebouw naar het andere. Dat is verwarrend en in een noodsituatie potentieel gevaarlijk. Pro tip: deze keer wèl denken aan een lift die geschikt is voor menselijk gebruik (i.e., geen open kooi)
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(2/x) De Reuvensplaats kan alleen een geschikt onderwijsgebouw worden indien er behoorlijke trappen in worden geplaatst – de metalen trappen zijn een nachtmerrie. Of alleen onderwijsruimtes op de begane grond en kantoren op de verdieping(en).
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Vraag: ik las ergens dat het beter is om je (bedrijfs-)account inactief te laten voortbestaan, zodat de accountnaam niet vrijkomt – en dus niet door iemand anders geclaimd kan worden. Is dat nuttig?
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Als mensen denken je niet te verstaan, gewoon HARDER PRATEN (is heel Hollands)
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#addEgypt
I don’t skeet much, but I’d like to be included when using relevant hashtags. Thank you!
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Alt text for photo 2: UK reenactment group Ermine Street Guard
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As of 2020 the “Sphinx” ceramics brand has ceased to exist. Sphinx art déco ashtrays can still be found – iconic Dutch design pieces and desirable collectibles.
P.S: Sphinx was adopted as company name in 1899, allegedly inspired by a sphinx statuette found in “king of pots” Regout’s legacy. (12/12)
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Sphinx started taking over competitors in Belgium, Germany, and France. Among international mergers, divisions, and acquisitions, production was mostly outsourced to other countries in the early 2000s; Sphinx ultimately became a brand name among others in Swiss multinational Geberit. (11/x)
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Sphinx merged with its longtime competitor Société Céramique (founded 1863) in 1958 and was awarded the honorary title “Royal” in 1959. A large reorganisation, decentralisation, and international offices followed in the 1970s. Fully focused on ceramic bathroom hardware and tiles, in the 1990s (10/x)
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mass production of ceramic hardware - washbasins, toilet bowls, … Production of ceramic tableware for domestic and professional use stopped in 1969. The dinner plates I used for many years, inherited from my Limburg grandparents, must’ve been older than me 😄 (9/x)
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Competition between family members and their factories made for complicated business developments after the founding father’s death in 1878. Around this time the sphinx logo was also first used. The First World War destroyed much of De Sphinx’ sales market, so it shifted to (8/x)
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Maastricht’s status of fortress was abolished in 1867. Regout bought land at a former fortification site and elsewhere. His sons continued and expanded, founding new ceramics factories. One producing tiles was named Mosa (the Latin name for the river Meuse that flows through Maastricht). (7/x)
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1834 is officially regarded as the starting date of Regout’s ceramic production, competing with popular English creamware. The family businesses expanded and so did the terrains they occupied. Most Dutch cities tore down their city walls in the second half of the 19th century, (6/x)
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- glasswares initially made from semi-finished lead glass produced in nearby Liège. Belgium had separated from the Netherlands in 1830, and the trade block between the two countries was lifted in 1834. The production of iron nails and rifles were not successful; a lime kiln and gasworks were. (5/x)
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The Regout family and their company “De Sphinx” had huge local impact: economy, politics, infrastructure, … The factory first started in a former nunnery (closed after the conquest of Maastricht by Revolutionary French forces 1794). It started producing glasswares and ceramic tableware (4/x)
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“De Sphinx” was founded in 1834 in Maastricht, the Netherlands, by Petrus Regout. As first large-scale mechanised factory in the Netherlands, it is regarded as the start of the Industrial Revolution in my country. (3/x)
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These ashtrays are not just merchandise emblem of “De Sphinx” ceramics factory in Maastricht, NL - as an ashtray, in art déco style. They are also colour samples showcasing what the company produced. (2/x)
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All this happened after the cameo was (probably) in the possession of famous painter Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), who collected antiquities.
Read this in Dutch publications on the cameo; not sure if these details are available in English too.
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This object has a wild history: it survived a shipwreck off the coast of Australia in 1629. The Dutch East India Company ship “Batavia” ran aground on a coral reef. Mutiny, massacre among the shipwreck survivors. Rescue; gruesome execution of mutineers. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batavia...
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The Heraklion Museum should totally do a replica tote bag for their museum shop! I would buy one. Or just print the decoration on brown paper bags (one with every purchase)
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What a beautiful bowl! Reminds me of the Starry Night by Van Gogh.