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Thatâs terrible! Itâs on my list of places to see. Hopefully if the conversion happens, it will be easier to go round.
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The photo is also currently exhibited at the Tate Britain 80s photography exhibition.
The building itself has been empty 20 years but there is a plan to convert it into a branch of the British Library.
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A more complementary image of Ptolemy VIII honouring the Buchis bull in Armant (now in Ashmolean). Although Ptolemaic patronage can be read as a way to get support from Egyptians, a wide range of people living in Egypt were intrigued by the divine animals venerated there.đș #Egyptology AncientBluesky
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On my last visit to the Petrie I noticed they had put their two terracottas of Ptolemy VIII together. Not a nice guy by all accounts. (He was immortalised on screen by Richard Griffiths in the Cleopatras. Placing these objects together is a great way to think about image production in antiquity
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^I should have said the discovery of the Ras El-Soda temple was by a team led by Achille Adriani.
They also hold a few examples in various sizes and from various sites in Egypt at the Louvre.
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They also found two in the Ras El-Soda Temple in Alexandria, alongside some other statues and now in the Graeco-Roman Museum Alexandria.
Great photo from @followinghadrian.bsky.social (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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There are a few around. These jars are linked to the Osiris Temple in Canopus, a town near Alexandria which subsided into the seas and is being explored by Frank Goddio and team. They found this one. www.franckgoddio.org/fileadmin/pi...
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A gorgeous fresco with a lot going on. A vase is also depicted as the culmination of the Isis procession in Corinth in March in the Golden Ass. Several small vases survive which may be linked to this kind of thing, like this example originally from Pompeii and now in Munich (SMĂK Ant. WAF 512).
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The Durham University page says that âvehicle parts included linchpins and no less than 28 iron tyres. They were found with other metalwork pieces suggesting that they may have been parts of four-wheeled wagons, rather than better-known two-wheeled chariotsâ.
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This is how I read it from the Guardian. The research promises to be be very exciting www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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Exciting research lies ahead - they are literally reinventing the wheel!
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Images of Isis nursing her child were particularly popular across the ancient world. This bronze figurine, in Sigmund Freudâs collection, has a particularly prominent solar disk with horns, originally an attribute of the goddess Hathor, it became associated with Isis.
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For comparison, terracottas from Egypt depicting Harpocrates with his finger to his mouth. This poise comes from a hieroglyph representing childhood. This image of the god was fairly well known in Renaissance Europe where is was interpreted as symbolising the mystery aspects of the Egyptian gods.
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Itâs just asking for an animated adaptation by Aardman.
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Replica of an ancient Egyptian statue of Ankhwa. This plaster cast was made between 1880 and 1900 in London. Copies like this have had and will have an important role to play in the future of museum collections. The original was found in Saqqara and is held in the British Museum. đș #Egyptology