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This red-figure amphora offers an ancient spin on the old adage ‘eat a bag of d***s’. Seems like you could also ‘hop in a basket of phalloi’!

Attributed to the Myson Painter, 480-475 BCE

🏛 Archaeological Museum of Syracuse, 20065

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The so-called ‘Tellus’ relief from the Ara Pacis is my all time favourite relief. The details are mesmerising with so much layered symbolism built in from the infant twins to the vegetation.

The Augustan style often calls for abundance to be on full show and this relief captures that idea in spades.

A skilful and jaw-dropping relief not to be missed!

🏛 Ara Pacis Museo

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@BeebsyMcA @histodons @antiquidons Definitely deliberate and symbolic. It’s partly on account of all the variety that scholars continue to discuss who the central figure might be. Spaeth’s article is a great starting point to dive into this further: https://www.jstor.org/stable/506222

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Cretan bronze helmet ~ C7th BCE

This magnificent helmet depicts winged youths grasping intertwined snakes. Other animals include panthers and lions. The helmet bears two inscriptions: a reference to Neopolis and “Synenitos, the son of Euklotas, took this object”.

🏛 The Met, 1989.281.50

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A youth holds a snake in their left hand and reaches towards another with their right. It’s not clear whether the snake to the right is biting the youth or the youth is holding the snake by the jaw…

📍Syria or Lebanon, C5th CE
🏛 The Louvre

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@Loukas @histodons @antiquidons Totally - puts me in mind of Gilgamesh with the lion!

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@riggbeck @histodons @antiquidons 😳 Maybe!

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