Ancient art and art from antiquity and cultural treasures from the past
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JimW
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See it has separate big toe like Japanese ones. Love seeing these rare textile survivals. Wasn't one of the Vindolanda letters from a Roman squaddie asking to be sent socks from home? Clearly not bothered about being seen in 'em and sandals.
ETA Thinking about it, must have been the other way, a letter accompanying a gift of socks from home, and here it is: h2g2 - The Vindolanda Tablets - 'Send More Socks' - Edited Entry
ringo
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It could have been the fashion for centuries and we might never know. I think Jesus preferred those separate toe socks with his sandals.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
note that its just the one sock. Theres where all the missing ones go, they go to the future
JimW
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So are they woven? I seem to recall knitting isn't invented until the late medieval period, but these look like they might be knitted.
ETA Looking at wiki: History of knitting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia seems it might be some version of nålebinding, sort of a basic one needle version.
ETA Looking at wiki: History of knitting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia seems it might be some version of nålebinding, sort of a basic one needle version.
ringo
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Dunno, but weaving was already very advanced by the time of the Romans, I've dug up hundreds of loom weights. I'd have thought knitting, or some sort of manual weaving, must have predated looms by a long way.
JimW
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Wish I had time to read the entire thread. My ongoing obsession is with Evolution of a Goddess and ancient beliefs represented in art.
Dama de Baza was found near a small town named Baza close to Granada. At the time she was thought to be the oldest example of 3D art.
Iberian sculpture | Wikiwand
Dama de Baza was found near a small town named Baza close to Granada. At the time she was thought to be the oldest example of 3D art.
Iberian sculpture | Wikiwand
ringo
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Admired this at the weekend at the natural History Museum.
Originally part of Sir Hans Sloane’s collection, this nautilus shell was carved by Johannes Belkien, a Dutch artist, in the late seventeenth century.
Sloane believed this carving, which approximates a mathematical Fibonacci spiral constructed according to the so-called golden ratio, improved on the animal’s natural perfection.
I really like the bronze cast replica they sell in their shop, but I don't have £600 for one, resembles late medieval Italian armour. It might work well upside down as a shoulder tattoo, possible without the cherubs.
Originally part of Sir Hans Sloane’s collection, this nautilus shell was carved by Johannes Belkien, a Dutch artist, in the late seventeenth century.
Sloane believed this carving, which approximates a mathematical Fibonacci spiral constructed according to the so-called golden ratio, improved on the animal’s natural perfection.
I really like the bronze cast replica they sell in their shop, but I don't have £600 for one, resembles late medieval Italian armour. It might work well upside down as a shoulder tattoo, possible without the cherubs.
wayward bob
i ate all your bees
my best guess (as a sometime weaver) is that tablet or "backstrap" weaving most likely filled that gap.
ringo
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ringo
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Golden Spiral: In geometry, a golden spiral is a logarithmic spiral whose growth factor is φ, the golden ratio.[1] That is, a golden spiral gets wider (or further from its origin) by a factor of φ for every quarter turn it makes.
The Fibonacci sequence is named after Italian mathematician Fibonacci. His 1202 book Liber Abaci introduced the sequence to Western European mathematics,[5] although the sequence had been described earlier in Indian mathematics.[6][7][8] By modern convention, the sequence begins either with F0 = 0 or with F1 = 1. The Liber Abaci began the sequence with F1 = 1.
Fibonacci numbers are closely related to Lucas numbers
in that they form a complementary pair of Lucas sequences
and
. They are intimately connected with the golden ratio; for example, the closest rational approximations to the ratio are 2/1, 3/2, 5/3, 8/5
In art:
The Fibonacci sequence is named after Italian mathematician Fibonacci. His 1202 book Liber Abaci introduced the sequence to Western European mathematics,[5] although the sequence had been described earlier in Indian mathematics.[6][7][8] By modern convention, the sequence begins either with F0 = 0 or with F1 = 1. The Liber Abaci began the sequence with F1 = 1.
Fibonacci numbers are closely related to Lucas numbers
In art:
ringo
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I love that lock, I've stood in front of it for ages before. Don't think I've seen those tiles, will have to go and find them
trabuquera
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The recent BBC4 thing on the story of Scottish art ((The Story of Scottish Art - BBC Two) has some interesting archaic things I'd never heard of or seen ... some unusual Pictish stonework (they had a sophisticated and charming script of carved glyphs of animal/natural things, it wasn't all about the tattooing) and even older, some properly mysterious hand-grenade-sized objects which nobody can explain...
Ashmolean Museum: British Archaeology Collections - Carved Stone Balls
Carved Stone Balls - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Look at these:
Dozens and dozens of these have been found across Scotland - carved in various sorts of stone, almost perfectly spherical, dead old (technical term - late Neoloithic or early Bronze Age) and nobody knows what they're for. Too finely worked to be a prehistoric boules set; they're nearly all in good nick, meaning they probably weren't weapons either. There was some talk about them maybe representing particular clans or leaders, or being used for tanning skins, or being the 'talking ball' you had to hold if you wanted to speak in a public assembly. Who knows. But there are more of them (in many fascinating variations, loads of different stones, images in the telly doc above). Also, how did the 'primitive' people get so close to making perfect spheres?
Ashmolean Museum: British Archaeology Collections - Carved Stone Balls
Carved Stone Balls - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Look at these:
Dozens and dozens of these have been found across Scotland - carved in various sorts of stone, almost perfectly spherical, dead old (technical term - late Neoloithic or early Bronze Age) and nobody knows what they're for. Too finely worked to be a prehistoric boules set; they're nearly all in good nick, meaning they probably weren't weapons either. There was some talk about them maybe representing particular clans or leaders, or being used for tanning skins, or being the 'talking ball' you had to hold if you wanted to speak in a public assembly. Who knows. But there are more of them (in many fascinating variations, loads of different stones, images in the telly doc above). Also, how did the 'primitive' people get so close to making perfect spheres?
ringo
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I saw that, loved the one with closely spaced nodules like a curled up hedgehog. I'd seen pictures of them before but never film so until then I hadn't realised quite how fabulous and tactile they looked.
ringo
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Sirena
Don't monkey with the buzzsaw
Exactly. Just because people didn't know how to work metal doesn't mean they didn't live in sophisticated societies, probably over hundreds of thousands of years.Because they weren't primitive
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
markers to track wealth, money system the old school way
I recon
I recon
ringo
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That's lovely. I've got quite a few, I tried to get one from each community I went to in West Africa. I have one with cowrie shells and old pennies illustrating the different currencies before and after colonisation which is a favourite. Also got a massive one I call pigdog but he's in the loft because everyone else is scared of him
Photos??!!That's lovely. I've got quite a few, I tried to get one from each community I went to in West Africa. I have one with cowrie shells and old pennies illustrating the different currencies before and after colonisation which is a favourite. Also got a massive one I call pigdog but he's in the loft because everyone else is scared of him
ringo
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I'll try and remember to take some when I'm at homePhotos??!!
ringo
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The Story of Scottish art also featured this wonderful picture, which I recognised as being copied stylistically by the 1983 2000AD story of Celtic myths - Slaine The Horned God.
George Henry (1858–1943) and Edward Atkinson Hornel (1864–1933), The Druids Bringing in the Mistletoe. Oil on canvas, 1890.
Simon Bisley:
The Druid painting is currently on loan the the British Museum as part of their Celtic art and identity exhibition:
History
George Henry (1858–1943) and Edward Atkinson Hornel (1864–1933), The Druids Bringing in the Mistletoe. Oil on canvas, 1890.
Simon Bisley:
The Druid painting is currently on loan the the British Museum as part of their Celtic art and identity exhibition:
History
My favourite dragon in London, its the Birch Dragon (or Griffon) outside the Royal Courts of Justice.
I walk past him almost every day and have named him Theodore
Also one of my favourite buildings
The St Mary Le Strand, one of the 2 'Island Churches' on the Strand... it really is very pretty.
I walk past him almost every day and have named him Theodore
Also one of my favourite buildings
The St Mary Le Strand, one of the 2 'Island Churches' on the Strand... it really is very pretty.
Sirena
Don't monkey with the buzzsaw
The OP says 'cultural treasures' so I thought this would fit.
I'm not quite sure how they would prove it but the presence of a 'devil' character 6000 years ago is interesting.....
Fairy tale origins thousands of years old, researchers say - BBC News
I'm not quite sure how they would prove it but the presence of a 'devil' character 6000 years ago is interesting.....
Fairy tale origins thousands of years old, researchers say - BBC News
