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  6. More information about "Sistine Tapestry Detail"

    Sistine Tapestry Detail

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    yet more effeminacy!

     

    I mean look at them! Forget their dress, the body language alone makes it very hard to put stoic words in their mouths...

     

    And I must add that I'm hearing these captions spoken in Graham Chapman's 'Bigus Dickus' voice... :(

  8. More information about "Sistine Tapestry Detail"

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    no its not a chicken ..looks a bit gryphon like to me ..but id still feel silly wearing it.On the other hand the chap on the left has a nice selection of assorted blooms on his helmet, handy for startling the Gauls I suppose...

     

    Actually, I think the practive of putting animal forms on the tops of helmets started with the Celts. They had some crazy ones with boars and birds and one that had a big bird with flapping wings on a perch up there.

     

    My caption:

     

    "What the hell is this frilly thing? you've been shopping in Athens again haven't you Claudius?"

  9. More information about "Nemeton"

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    yes I did -in reply to the post attached to the second shot! This is very good for anyone unfamiliar with the habit of the parasite.

     

    For clarification to those interested but unsure, the actual leaves are just starting to bud so those green bushy areas are the mistletoe :(

  15. More information about "Digitalis Purperea (2)."

    Digitalis Purperea (2).

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    Pertinax, how large are these clusters in general? More than an inch or two?

     

    There is a small plant similar to that growing around my sisters house in the mountains. Flowers are tighter in the cluster though.

     

    I tried to take a picture of it to aid in identification but made the huge mistake of not turing on my close up macro... The result was three very out of focus shots because the camera did not auto focus in the right place. :(

  18. More information about "World's first coin"

    World's first coin

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    I just thought of something: Though rare, there are examples of Egyptian scarabs made of gold, silver & electrum that are stamped with cartouches dating from the Bronze Age.

     

    Granted scarabs were decorative amulets and not 'currency' but it makes me wonder why it took so long for someone to use the concept employed deep into Egyptian antiquity the way the Lydians did?

  19. More information about "World's first coin"

    World's first coin

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    Though I've not come across any standard, ancient name given to them, it is clearly attested is the archaeological record (mainly shipwrecks) that Bronze Age traders used specific, standard size & shape ingots for metals.

     

    So I agree, the concept of the 'coin' must have come about prior to the Lydians finally stamping nuggets in the 7th C.

     

    What Herodotus (book 1, chapter 94) tells us (rather tersely): "The customs of the Lydians are like those of the Greeks, except that they make prostitutes of their female children. They were the first men whom we know who coined and used gold and silver currency; and they were the first to sell by retail."

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