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Italy displays paintings from ancient Etruscan tomb, its latest cultural acquisition
Italy on Tuesday put on display one of the best-known examples of Etruscan painting, from a tomb that…
#Italy #Europe #Europa #EU ##AncientRome ##ArtHistory ##CulturalAcquisition ##EtruscanArt ##FrancoisTomb ##ItalianHeritage ##MuseumExhibition ##TorloniaCollection
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"Liber [Dionysos], falling in love with her, took her [Ariadne] from there [the island of Naxos] as his wife."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 43🏛 Dionysos and Ariadne crowned, Etruscan Red-figure pottery, 4th century BCE, Krater from Civita Castellana, ancient Falerii, Rome province, Italy
#antiquidons #history #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Dionysos #Ariadne #Etruscan #EtruscanArt
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"Liber [Dionysos], falling in love with her, took her [Ariadne] from there [the island of Naxos] as his wife."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 43🏛 Dionysos and Ariadne crowned, Etruscan Red-figure pottery, 4th century BCE, Krater from Civita Castellana, ancient Falerii, Rome province, Italy
#antiquidons #history #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Dionysos #Ariadne #Etruscan #EtruscanArt
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"Liber [Dionysos], falling in love with her, took her [Ariadne] from there [the island of Naxos] as his wife."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 43🏛 Dionysos and Ariadne crowned, Etruscan Red-figure pottery, 4th century BCE, Krater from Civita Castellana, ancient Falerii, Rome province, Italy
#antiquidons #history #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Dionysos #Ariadne #Etruscan #EtruscanArt
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"Liber [Dionysos], falling in love with her, took her [Ariadne] from there [the island of Naxos] as his wife."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 43🏛 Dionysos and Ariadne crowned, Etruscan Red-figure pottery, 4th century BCE, Krater from Civita Castellana, ancient Falerii, Rome province, Italy
#antiquidons #history #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Dionysos #Ariadne #Etruscan #EtruscanArt
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"Liber [Dionysos], falling in love with her, took her [Ariadne] from there [the island of Naxos] as his wife."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 43🏛 Dionysos and Ariadne crowned, Etruscan Red-figure pottery, 4th century BCE, Krater from Civita Castellana, ancient Falerii, Rome province, Italy
#antiquidons #history #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Dionysos #Ariadne #Etruscan #EtruscanArt
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It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡
"Because of his beauty, Zeus kidnapped Ganymedes by means of an eagle, and set him as cupbearer in the sky."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.141🏛️ Bronze mirror case depicting the abduction of Ganymede by Zeus, Late #Etruscan art from Palestrina, Italy
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It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡
"Because of his beauty, Zeus kidnapped Ganymedes by means of an eagle, and set him as cupbearer in the sky."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.141🏛️ Bronze mirror case depicting the abduction of Ganymede by Zeus, Late #Etruscan art from Palestrina, Italy
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It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡
"Because of his beauty, Zeus kidnapped Ganymedes by means of an eagle, and set him as cupbearer in the sky."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.141🏛️ Bronze mirror case depicting the abduction of Ganymede by Zeus, Late #Etruscan art from Palestrina, Italy
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It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡
"Because of his beauty, Zeus kidnapped Ganymedes by means of an eagle, and set him as cupbearer in the sky."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.141🏛️ Bronze mirror case depicting the abduction of Ganymede by Zeus, Late #Etruscan art from Palestrina, Italy
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It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡
"Because of his beauty, Zeus kidnapped Ganymedes by means of an eagle, and set him as cupbearer in the sky."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.141🏛️ Bronze mirror case depicting the abduction of Ganymede by Zeus, Late #Etruscan art from Palestrina, Italy
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Man and Boy
A young friend of my acquaintance sent me this picture a while ago. I think he found it here. I assume he thinks the old guy with the walking stick is me, and the boy is him. We’ll gloss over what he was trying to say by sending it to me but, whatever the reason, I found it intriguing.
The online description reads
Elderly man supported by boy, fresco of the Tomb of the Jugglers, Necropolis of Tarquinia (Unesco World Heritage List, 2004), Lazio, Italy, Etruscan civilization, 6th century BC.
This is from the Etruscan (i.e. pre-Roman) period and the best guess for the date is around 530 BC, so the first thing of interest is that, although it is damaged, it has survived pretty well. Fresco (paint on wet plaster, left to dry) is a very fragile medium and many made 1,000 years after this have not lasted as well. The reason for this is that the tomb was not unearthed until 1961, so it was undisturbed for about 1,500 years. The piece above is a section from a larger work that depicts a sort of funerary ritual.
Now to the description quoted above. For a start, the man is not all that “elderly” as his beard is not grey. He is however clearly older than the boy, who isn’t wearing a beard (nor anything else for that matter). The description says “supported by a boy” but if you look at the painting the older man is holding the younger man firmly by the wrist. That doesn’t look like “support” to me!
When I first saw this piece I assumed the older man was holding a staff or walking stick of some sort, but if you look at his right hand you’ll see his index finger extended as if he is pointing and the object in question is behind his hand. The stick also appears to be decorated, but I think it might be the trunk of a small tree; there are fig trees with fruit than hangs on the trunk, for example. It could be that the damaged area at the top of the stick represented foliage at the top. There are several depictions of several trees elsewhere.
Iinitially I thought the shapes under the original excerpt were meant to be waves, but it seems they are just part of an abstract frieze that runs all the way around.
So what can we infer from these clues? One interpretation is that the man with the beard is taking the boy away reluctantly for some nefarious activity? Sexual relationships between boys and older men were not uncommon in Greek civilisation so maybe that was also the case for the Etruscans?
But there is another interpretation, which I find more plausible given the context of the painting. The scenes in the centre and right represent the funeral rites, including music, but the man and boy (on the left) are clearly walking away from all that. Moreover, the figure apparently standing in some sort of vessel looks very much like the boy in the panel above. Is the lid off to let him out, or is he about to be sealed in?
My reading of it, therefore, is that the boy is dead, and the man with the beard is no less than Charun, the demon charged with guiding the departed to the underworld. The name Charun is derived from the Greek Charon, but the character of Charun is quite different from the ferryman Charon. Anyway, he definitely looks like he’s taking the boy somewhere he doesn’t want to go, and Charun is often depicted wearing a skull cap as he is in the picture.
Now I definitely need to find out why my young friend sent me this…
#Charun #Etruscan #EtruscanArt #Fresco #NecropolisOfTarquinia #TombOfTheJugglers
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Man and Boy
A young friend of my acquaintance sent me this picture a while ago. I think he found it here. I assume he thinks the old guy with the walking stick is me, and the boy is him. We’ll gloss over what he was trying to say by sending it to me but, whatever the reason, I found it intriguing.
The online description reads
Elderly man supported by boy, fresco of the Tomb of the Jugglers, Necropolis of Tarquinia (Unesco World Heritage List, 2004), Lazio, Italy, Etruscan civilization, 6th century BC.
This is from the Etruscan (i.e. pre-Roman) period and the best guess for the date is around 530 BC, so the first thing of interest is that, although it is damaged, it has survived pretty well. Fresco (paint on wet plaster, left to dry) is a very fragile medium and many made 1,000 years after this have not lasted as well. The reason for this is that the tomb was not unearthed until 1961, so it was undisturbed for about 1,500 years. The piece above is a section from a larger work that depicts a sort of funerary ritual.
Now to the description quoted above. For a start, the man is not all that “elderly” as his beard is not grey. He is however clearly older than the boy, who isn’t wearing a beard (nor anything else for that matter). The description says “supported by a boy” but if you look at the painting the older man is holding the younger man firmly by the wrist. That doesn’t look like “support” to me!
When I first saw this piece I assumed the older man was holding a staff or walking stick of some sort, but if you look at his right hand you’ll see his index finger extended as if he is pointing and the object in question is behind his hand. The stick also appears to be decorated, but I think it might be the trunk of a small tree; there are fig trees with fruit than hangs on the trunk, for example. It could be that the damaged area at the top of the stick represented foliage at the top. There are several depictions of several trees elsewhere.
Iinitially I thought the shapes under the original excerpt were meant to be waves, but it seems they are just part of an abstract frieze that runs all the way around.
So what can we infer from these clues? One interpretation is that the man with the beard is taking the boy away reluctantly for some nefarious activity? Sexual relationships between boys and older men were not uncommon in Greek civilisation so maybe that was also the case for the Etruscans?
But there is another interpretation, which I find more plausible given the context of the painting. The scenes in the centre and right represent the funeral rites, including music, but the man and boy (on the left) are clearly walking away from all that. Moreover, the figure apparently standing in some sort of vessel looks very much like the boy in the panel above. Is the lid off to let him out, or is he about to be sealed in?
My reading of it, therefore, is that the boy is dead, and the man with the beard is no less than Charun, the demon charged with guiding the departed to the underworld. The name Charun is derived from the Greek Charon, but the character of Charun is quite different from the ferryman Charon. Anyway, he definitely looks like he’s taking the boy somewhere he doesn’t want to go, and Charun is often depicted wearing a skull cap as he is in the picture.
Now I definitely need to find out why my young friend sent me this…
#Charun #Etruscan #EtruscanArt #Fresco #NecropolisOfTarquinia #TombOfTheJugglers
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It's #PrideMonth, so we have some same sex love this #PhallusThursday! 🏳️🌈
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It's #PrideMonth, so we have some same sex love this #PhallusThursday! 🏳️🌈
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It's #PrideMonth, so we have some same sex love this #PhallusThursday! 🏳️🌈
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It's #PrideMonth, so we have some same sex love this #PhallusThursday! 🏳️🌈
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It's #PrideMonth, so we have some same sex love this #PhallusThursday! 🏳️🌈
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Exploring the divine through the Statuette of Tinia reveals the Etruscan connection to Greek and Roman mythology. The unique surface texture tells a story of time, artistry, and preservation. How do you interpret the rough patina of this ancient piece?
#ClevelandArt #EtruscanArt #BronzeSculpture
https://clevelandart.org/art/1928.196 -
Exploring the divine through the Statuette of Tinia reveals the Etruscan connection to Greek and Roman mythology. The unique surface texture tells a story of time, artistry, and preservation. How do you interpret the rough patina of this ancient piece?
#ClevelandArt #EtruscanArt #BronzeSculpture
https://clevelandart.org/art/1928.196 -
Exploring the divine through the Statuette of Tinia reveals the Etruscan connection to Greek and Roman mythology. The unique surface texture tells a story of time, artistry, and preservation. How do you interpret the rough patina of this ancient piece?
#ClevelandArt #EtruscanArt #BronzeSculpture
https://clevelandart.org/art/1928.196 -
The Etruscans said #TransRights :BlobhajTransPrideHeart:
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The Etruscans said #TransRights :BlobhajTransPrideHeart:
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The Etruscans said #TransRights :BlobhajTransPrideHeart:
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The Etruscans said #TransRights :BlobhajTransPrideHeart:
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The Etruscans said #TransRights :BlobhajTransPrideHeart:
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It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
"13 miles inland from Pilo [in Elis] is the shrine of Zeus of Olympos, which owing the celebrity of its Games has taken possession of the calendar of Greece."
Pliny the Elder, Natural History 4.14🏛️ #Zeus from the Eastern pediment of the Temple of Zeus at #Olympia
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It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
"13 miles inland from Pilo [in Elis] is the shrine of Zeus of Olympos, which owing the celebrity of its Games has taken possession of the calendar of Greece."
Pliny the Elder, Natural History 4.14🏛️ #Zeus from the Eastern pediment of the Temple of Zeus at #Olympia
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It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
"13 miles inland from Pilo [in Elis] is the shrine of Zeus of Olympos, which owing the celebrity of its Games has taken possession of the calendar of Greece."
Pliny the Elder, Natural History 4.14🏛️ #Zeus from the Eastern pediment of the Temple of Zeus at #Olympia
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It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
"13 miles inland from Pilo [in Elis] is the shrine of Zeus of Olympos, which owing the celebrity of its Games has taken possession of the calendar of Greece."
Pliny the Elder, Natural History 4.14🏛️ #Zeus from the Eastern pediment of the Temple of Zeus at #Olympia
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It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
"13 miles inland from Pilo [in Elis] is the shrine of Zeus of Olympos, which owing the celebrity of its Games has taken possession of the calendar of Greece."
Pliny the Elder, Natural History 4.14🏛️ #Zeus from the Eastern pediment of the Temple of Zeus at #Olympia
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It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
"On the boundary between the territory of Kyzikos and that of Priapos is a place called Harpagia, from which, according to some writers of myths, #Ganymedes was snatched, though others say that he was snatched near Dardanos."
Strabo, Geography 13.1.11🏛️ Bronze mirror case depicting the abduction of #Ganymede by #Zeus. Late #Etruscan from Palestrina, Italy.
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It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
"On the boundary between the territory of Kyzikos and that of Priapos is a place called Harpagia, from which, according to some writers of myths, #Ganymedes was snatched, though others say that he was snatched near Dardanos."
Strabo, Geography 13.1.11🏛️ Bronze mirror case depicting the abduction of #Ganymede by #Zeus. Late #Etruscan from Palestrina, Italy.
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It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
"On the boundary between the territory of Kyzikos and that of Priapos is a place called Harpagia, from which, according to some writers of myths, #Ganymedes was snatched, though others say that he was snatched near Dardanos."
Strabo, Geography 13.1.11🏛️ Bronze mirror case depicting the abduction of #Ganymede by #Zeus. Late #Etruscan from Palestrina, Italy.
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It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
"On the boundary between the territory of Kyzikos and that of Priapos is a place called Harpagia, from which, according to some writers of myths, #Ganymedes was snatched, though others say that he was snatched near Dardanos."
Strabo, Geography 13.1.11🏛️ Bronze mirror case depicting the abduction of #Ganymede by #Zeus. Late #Etruscan from Palestrina, Italy.
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It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
"On the boundary between the territory of Kyzikos and that of Priapos is a place called Harpagia, from which, according to some writers of myths, #Ganymedes was snatched, though others say that he was snatched near Dardanos."
Strabo, Geography 13.1.11🏛️ Bronze mirror case depicting the abduction of #Ganymede by #Zeus. Late #Etruscan from Palestrina, Italy.
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The Statuette of Tinia captivates with its representation of power in ancient Etruscan art. Featuring a thunderbolt and a rough yet captivating surface, what stories might this figure whisper from the past?
#ClevelandArt #EtruscanArt #AncientGreece
https://clevelandart.org/art/1928.196 -
The Statuette of Tinia captivates with its representation of power in ancient Etruscan art. Featuring a thunderbolt and a rough yet captivating surface, what stories might this figure whisper from the past?
#ClevelandArt #EtruscanArt #AncientGreece
https://clevelandart.org/art/1928.196 -
It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
Fufluns or Puphluns is the #Etruscan god of plant life, happiness, wine, health, and growth in all things. He is the son of the god Tinia and Semla, who was killed by Tinia in the form of a lightning bolt. Like #Zeus, Tinia sews the infant into his thigh and later gives birth to him.
🏛️ Birth of #Fufluns (#Dionysos), Etruscan mirror in Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale
@antiquidons @mythology @archaeodons #DayOfZeus #EtruscanArt
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It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
Fufluns or Puphluns is the #Etruscan god of plant life, happiness, wine, health, and growth in all things. He is the son of the god Tinia and Semla, who was killed by Tinia in the form of a lightning bolt. Like #Zeus, Tinia sews the infant into his thigh and later gives birth to him.
🏛️ Birth of #Fufluns (#Dionysos), Etruscan mirror in Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale
@antiquidons @mythology @archaeodons #DayOfZeus #EtruscanArt
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It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
Fufluns or Puphluns is the #Etruscan god of plant life, happiness, wine, health, and growth in all things. He is the son of the god Tinia and Semla, who was killed by Tinia in the form of a lightning bolt. Like #Zeus, Tinia sews the infant into his thigh and later gives birth to him.
🏛️ Birth of #Fufluns (#Dionysos), Etruscan mirror in Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale
@antiquidons @mythology @archaeodons #DayOfZeus #EtruscanArt
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It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
Fufluns or Puphluns is the #Etruscan god of plant life, happiness, wine, health, and growth in all things. He is the son of the god Tinia and Semla, who was killed by Tinia in the form of a lightning bolt. Like #Zeus, Tinia sews the infant into his thigh and later gives birth to him.
🏛️ Birth of #Fufluns (#Dionysos), Etruscan mirror in Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale
@antiquidons @mythology @archaeodons #DayOfZeus #EtruscanArt
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It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
Fufluns or Puphluns is the #Etruscan god of plant life, happiness, wine, health, and growth in all things. He is the son of the god Tinia and Semla, who was killed by Tinia in the form of a lightning bolt. Like #Zeus, Tinia sews the infant into his thigh and later gives birth to him.
🏛️ Birth of #Fufluns (#Dionysos), Etruscan mirror in Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale
@antiquidons @mythology @archaeodons #DayOfZeus #EtruscanArt
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
Terracotta head of #Hermes of Véies from the sanctuary of Portonaccio in Veji.
🏛 Hermes-Turms, Etruscan terracotta head wearing a pilos, 6th century BCE, Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia, #Rome
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
Terracotta head of #Hermes of Véies from the sanctuary of Portonaccio in Veji.
🏛 Hermes-Turms, Etruscan terracotta head wearing a pilos, 6th century BCE, Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia, #Rome
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
Terracotta head of #Hermes of Véies from the sanctuary of Portonaccio in Veji.
🏛 Hermes-Turms, Etruscan terracotta head wearing a pilos, 6th century BCE, Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia, #Rome
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
Terracotta head of #Hermes of Véies from the sanctuary of Portonaccio in Veji.
🏛 Hermes-Turms, Etruscan terracotta head wearing a pilos, 6th century BCE, Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia, #Rome
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
Terracotta head of #Hermes of Véies from the sanctuary of Portonaccio in Veji.
🏛 Hermes-Turms, Etruscan terracotta head wearing a pilos, 6th century BCE, Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia, #Rome
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It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
Meet Etruscan #Zeus or #Tinia watch his adult son #Hercle being breastfed by his wife #Uni [Hera] as a sign of adoption. #Aplu [#Apollon] and another god and goddess are present to witness the ritual too.
🏛️ #Hera breastfeeding #Herakles, drawing of an #Etruscan mirror case engraving from Volterra, 4th century BCE, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, #Florence
@antiquidons @mythology @archaeodons #DayOfZeus #EtruscanArt
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It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
Meet Etruscan #Zeus or #Tinia watch his adult son #Hercle being breastfed by his wife #Uni [Hera] as a sign of adoption. #Aplu [#Apollon] and another god and goddess are present to witness the ritual too.
🏛️ #Hera breastfeeding #Herakles, drawing of an #Etruscan mirror case engraving from Volterra, 4th century BCE, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, #Florence
@antiquidons @mythology @archaeodons #DayOfZeus #EtruscanArt
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It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
Meet Etruscan #Zeus or #Tinia watch his adult son #Hercle being breastfed by his wife #Uni [Hera] as a sign of adoption. #Aplu [#Apollon] and another god and goddess are present to witness the ritual too.
🏛️ #Hera breastfeeding #Herakles, drawing of an #Etruscan mirror case engraving from Volterra, 4th century BCE, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, #Florence
@antiquidons @mythology @archaeodons #DayOfZeus #EtruscanArt
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It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
Meet Etruscan #Zeus or #Tinia watch his adult son #Hercle being breastfed by his wife #Uni [Hera] as a sign of adoption. #Aplu [#Apollon] and another god and goddess are present to witness the ritual too.
🏛️ #Hera breastfeeding #Herakles, drawing of an #Etruscan mirror case engraving from Volterra, 4th century BCE, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, #Florence
@antiquidons @mythology @archaeodons #DayOfZeus #EtruscanArt
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It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
Meet Etruscan #Zeus or #Tinia watch his adult son #Hercle being breastfed by his wife #Uni [Hera] as a sign of adoption. #Aplu [#Apollon] and another god and goddess are present to witness the ritual too.
🏛️ #Hera breastfeeding #Herakles, drawing of an #Etruscan mirror case engraving from Volterra, 4th century BCE, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, #Florence
@antiquidons @mythology @archaeodons #DayOfZeus #EtruscanArt
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Helena, spilling her booze, while rocking her horse…
Amsterdam Klezmer Band - BOMBA
Artwork by Martin Draax -
Helena, spilling her booze, while rocking her horse…
Amsterdam Klezmer Band - BOMBA
Artwork by Martin Draax