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I am an extremely over-qualified high school chemistry teacher. (Photos captured by myself unless mentioned otherwise.)

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    Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social

    Hehe. When on its usual display in Ankara it doesn't look that haunting.😁

    A sandstone sculpture of woman's head wearing a half-broken polos
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    Anthony Majanlahti @anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social

    #ReliefWednesday takes us into the Uccelliere or birdhouses in the #Farnese Gardens on the #Palatine in #Rome to find this frightening head of the #Anatolian goddess #Matar, the #Roman deity the #MagnaMater, whose history stretches back into the mists of time. #AncientBluesky 🏺

    HEAD OF CYBELE, C6 BCE. PARCO ARCHEOLOGICO DEL COLOSSEO This frankly terrifying head of the Magna Mater, Cybele, is in an exhibition on that goddess in various places on the Palatine and in the Forum. Normally this sandstone head is on display in the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara. It comes from Salmanköy in what was ancient Phrygia in Anatolia, where she was known as Matar, "mother". When her cult spread to the Greek-dominated coast of Asia Minor she was called "Meter Megale", Great Mother, Magna Mater in Latin. Here we see her Phrygian form, a face with huge round eye sockets which may have contained inlaid eyes, then a brow that meets at a narrowing pointed nose, now broken, high cheekbones, hair in short ringlets, and an ambiguous smile on her lips. Atop her head is a huge damaged vase-like crown with fluted leaves going up from the lower rim and a band of daisy-like flowers in the upper register.
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    Anthony Majanlahti @anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social

    #SarcophagusSaturday forced me to go to the #GalleriaNazionale in #palazzoBarberini in #Rome, which is indifferent to its ancient art collection and offers no information. I randomly found details about this #sarcophagus on a #German website, in German. But I'm glad I did. #AncientBluesky 🏺

    GARLAND SARCOPHAGUS, C. 150-180 CE. PALAZZO BARBERINI This beautiful Girlandensarkophag is of unknown provenance and is missing the entire back half. The front is measured out by four Erotes who are struggling to carry a richly-laden garland in three swags. The two Erotes on the end are stepping on animals (!), at left a duck, at right a bunny. Above the garlands are three damaged scenes that rapidly telegraph the legend of Marsyas: at left is Athena, her face puffing out with the effort of playing a flute to one of her maidens, seated on a rock above. An owl is also silently judging Athena for looking ridiculous. At centre, Marsyas has already found the flute discarded by Athena, has already foolishly challenged Apollo to a music contest, and has already lost. He is bound nude to a tree and a Scythian is about to skin him alive. At right, Apollo, the winner, reposes languidly, chatting to a nymph as the Eros at far right holds a crown over his head. The unrelated base is from about 1500 and features the double crowns of Castile and Aragon.
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    Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social

    Meanwhile at the shithole I am living in, allowing headscarves in kindergartens is marketed as "freedom" The freedom of oppressing 4 year olds

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    Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social

    "Instead of being worried about the fingers he was missing, 16 years old, he kept pointing to his mouth & telling me to feed him. He had no fingers left on his hands, that had been blown away."

    A US doctor talked to me from Gaza City about starvation. Shocking testimony. zeteo.com/p/bombs-go-o...

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    Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social

    Ivory sphinx found last year in the famous mosaic building of Phrygian capital Gordion is one of the artefacts on display in The Golden Age of Archaeology exhibition in Presidential Nation's Library in Ankara 🏺

    A sphinx on four feet, one of the forefeet is extended forward. Ivory, wing and hair is gold coated SPHINX Phrygian Period, 750 BC, Gold-Ivory The sphinx is a figure known in mythology as a protective being. It has a human head, wings and a lion's body. It was found in the Mosaic Building in Gordion and is thought to have been made to adorn a ruler's throne. Anatolian Civilizations Museum/Gordion
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