Ain Taha
@aintaha.bsky.social
PhD Candidate #TheDutchGlobalAge | Faculty of Humanities @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social | Looking at #WaysofMaking in the Early Modern Material World - DutchxAsia
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I hope you like seafood, because this mosaic floor is showing what’s on the menu. 🦞 🐟
Said to be from Populonia, in Tuscany, this mosaic emblema was probably part of the floor of a triclinium, a dining room, of a patrician villa. That lobster is magnificent. 🏺 #mosaicmonday 1/
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Said to be from Populonia, in Tuscany, this mosaic emblema was probably part of the floor of a triclinium, a dining room, of a patrician villa. That lobster is magnificent. 🏺 #mosaicmonday 1/
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December 15, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I hope you like seafood, because this mosaic floor is showing what’s on the menu. 🦞 🐟
Said to be from Populonia, in Tuscany, this mosaic emblema was probably part of the floor of a triclinium, a dining room, of a patrician villa. That lobster is magnificent. 🏺 #mosaicmonday 1/
📸 me
Said to be from Populonia, in Tuscany, this mosaic emblema was probably part of the floor of a triclinium, a dining room, of a patrician villa. That lobster is magnificent. 🏺 #mosaicmonday 1/
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#MyFieldNotes Kobe Edt.: Took the JR Line train to Motomachi Station for some object viewing at Kobe City Museum this morning 🌅 #Kobe #CrossingWorlds #DutchGlobalAge
August 14, 2025 at 12:49 AM
#MyFieldNotes Kobe Edt.: Took the JR Line train to Motomachi Station for some object viewing at Kobe City Museum this morning 🌅 #Kobe #CrossingWorlds #DutchGlobalAge
#MyFieldnotes Sri Lanka Edt. : Off to Kandy today to check out some objects and my obsession is still with lions and the makaras! Unfortunately, there was a 50min delay for the train back to Colombo Fort… so off we go 🚂 #Kandy #DutchGlobalAge #CrossingWorlds
August 5, 2025 at 12:21 PM
#MyFieldnotes Sri Lanka Edt. : Off to Kandy today to check out some objects and my obsession is still with lions and the makaras! Unfortunately, there was a 50min delay for the train back to Colombo Fort… so off we go 🚂 #Kandy #DutchGlobalAge #CrossingWorlds
The Whale 🐳 Book 📕 edited by Florike Egmond & Peter Mason ready to accompany me for the next 4hrs journey! I’m looking forward to this whole week in Sri Lanka for my research trip 🩵 #DutchGlobalAge #CrossingWorlds
August 4, 2025 at 7:21 AM
The Whale 🐳 Book 📕 edited by Florike Egmond & Peter Mason ready to accompany me for the next 4hrs journey! I’m looking forward to this whole week in Sri Lanka for my research trip 🩵 #DutchGlobalAge #CrossingWorlds
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To celebrate #GuineaPigAppreciationDay, here's a guinea pig from 1760 (with a dodo for scale). #SciArt by George Edwards for "Gleanings of #NaturalHistory", contributed to #BHLib by the National Library Board, Singapore. www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50289605 #ILoveBHL
July 16, 2025 at 1:27 PM
To celebrate #GuineaPigAppreciationDay, here's a guinea pig from 1760 (with a dodo for scale). #SciArt by George Edwards for "Gleanings of #NaturalHistory", contributed to #BHLib by the National Library Board, Singapore. www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50289605 #ILoveBHL
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Just one week to go!
Join us in Cambridge for Sadiah Qureshi’s public lecture "Vanished" — on extinction, race & the politics of memory.
📅 Wed 9 July, 6–10pm
📍 David Attenborough Building
🎟 Free tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1395979053...
With Helen Macdonald & Sarah Qidwai!
#BSHS2025 #histSTEM
Join us in Cambridge for Sadiah Qureshi’s public lecture "Vanished" — on extinction, race & the politics of memory.
📅 Wed 9 July, 6–10pm
📍 David Attenborough Building
🎟 Free tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1395979053...
With Helen Macdonald & Sarah Qidwai!
#BSHS2025 #histSTEM
"Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction" by Sadiah Qureshi
Join us for a fantastic lecture by Prof Sadiah Qureshi with an introduction by Helen MacDonald at the Babbage Lecture Theatre in Cambridge!
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July 2, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Just one week to go!
Join us in Cambridge for Sadiah Qureshi’s public lecture "Vanished" — on extinction, race & the politics of memory.
📅 Wed 9 July, 6–10pm
📍 David Attenborough Building
🎟 Free tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1395979053...
With Helen Macdonald & Sarah Qidwai!
#BSHS2025 #histSTEM
Join us in Cambridge for Sadiah Qureshi’s public lecture "Vanished" — on extinction, race & the politics of memory.
📅 Wed 9 July, 6–10pm
📍 David Attenborough Building
🎟 Free tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1395979053...
With Helen Macdonald & Sarah Qidwai!
#BSHS2025 #histSTEM
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Dit belooft een interessante avond te worden: Zwart Marokko. Een geschiedenis van slavernij en migratie www.amsterdam.nl/stadsarchief...
Zwart Marokko. Een geschiedenis van slavernij en migratie
Een beeldende avond waar via wetenschap, Gnawa-muziek, literatuur en theater de gelaagde geschiedenis van ‘Zwart Marokko’ en diens diaspora in Amsterdam wordt ontvouwd. Woensdag 28 mei 2025 19.00 uur-...
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May 22, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Dit belooft een interessante avond te worden: Zwart Marokko. Een geschiedenis van slavernij en migratie www.amsterdam.nl/stadsarchief...
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#FirstPost on #WhaleWorldDay: Given my obsession & research on tobacco cases, here is a gilded one with engraved representation (whaling) of ships on lid and bottom from The Zuiderzee Museum, Enkhuizen [1/2]: hdl.handle.net/21.12111/zzm...
Tabaksdoos met een voorstelling van de walvisvaart
Verguld koperen tabaksdoos met gegraveerde voorstelling (walvisvaart) van schepen op deksel en onderkant.
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February 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
#FirstPost on #WhaleWorldDay: Given my obsession & research on tobacco cases, here is a gilded one with engraved representation (whaling) of ships on lid and bottom from The Zuiderzee Museum, Enkhuizen [1/2]: hdl.handle.net/21.12111/zzm...