The Quiet One
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Lover of history | All photographs my own
A limestone #ReliefWednesday from the 18th Dynasty that depicts blindfolded #musicians performing in a palace. Vocalists standing on the left, string players kneeling on the right. From a tomb in el-Amarna, now at the British Museum.
January 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
A limestone #ReliefWednesday from the 18th Dynasty that depicts blindfolded #musicians performing in a palace. Vocalists standing on the left, string players kneeling on the right. From a tomb in el-Amarna, now at the British Museum.
Walk with me around Linlithgow Palace in West Lothian, Scotland. Mary QoS was born here, as was James V. Pictures taken this morning.
January 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Walk with me around Linlithgow Palace in West Lothian, Scotland. Mary QoS was born here, as was James V. Pictures taken this morning.
For #ReliefWednesday, we are off to the Louvre to see a 2nd century sarcophagus that was reworked in the 14th century. Armed with a spear and holding a shield, this military figure is said to be a saint, although his identity (George? Theodore?) is based on speculation. Found in Asia Minor.
December 18, 2024 at 1:01 PM
For #ReliefWednesday, we are off to the Louvre to see a 2nd century sarcophagus that was reworked in the 14th century. Armed with a spear and holding a shield, this military figure is said to be a saint, although his identity (George? Theodore?) is based on speculation. Found in Asia Minor.
A fragmentary marble #ReliefWednesday from the #Louvre, wherein a gallus priest named #Soterides thanks his patron goddess #Cybele for reassuring him in a dream that his partner Marcus survived the Battle of #Thapsus...wow.
Inscription in alt text, found near #Cyzicus in Turkey.
Inscription in alt text, found near #Cyzicus in Turkey.
![Translation taken from http://www.attalus.org/ docs/sig2/s763.html. When Bouleides son of Metrodoros was hipparch. Soterides the gallos offered a prayer to Mother (?) Kotyana on behalf of his own partner Marcus Stlaccius son of Marcus, who served in the allied force that was sent to imperator Gaius [Julius] Caesar, son of [Gaius], in Africa, under the command of the hipparch Theognetos son of Apollonios, in the quadrireme ship Soteira; Marcus was taken prisoner from Africa and carried off linto slavery], but the goddess spoke to me in a [dream], telling me that Marcus had been taken prisoner, but [had been saved from] great dangers; I called upon [her]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pmyz5zagg4dlamp2oiiihh6y/bafkreiccvo2wdo4kympkjhnmp3bxcd5py33ebeooa7653uweei6zzq4qrm@jpeg)
November 22, 2023 at 8:07 PM
A fragmentary marble #ReliefWednesday from the #Louvre, wherein a gallus priest named #Soterides thanks his patron goddess #Cybele for reassuring him in a dream that his partner Marcus survived the Battle of #Thapsus...wow.
Inscription in alt text, found near #Cyzicus in Turkey.
Inscription in alt text, found near #Cyzicus in Turkey.