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| Warren Cup The Warren Cup is a unique silver Roman skyphos (or drinking cup) featuring two representations of homoerotic sexual acts. It is recognised as an artistic work of extremely high quality. It is named after its first modern owner, the collector and writer Edward Perry Warren. Warren_Cup | |
| Jamestown 2007 Jamestown_2007 | |
| Meetup/London3 Wikipedia_talk:Meetup/London3 | |
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| Pelike A pelike is a one-piece ceramic container similar to an amphora. It has two open handles that are vertical on their lateral aspects and even at the side with the edge of the belly, a narrow neck, a flanged mouth, and a sagging, almost spherical belly. Pelike | |
| Robert Bell (Speaker of the House of Commons) Sir Robert Bell (Unknown d. 1577) of Beaupre Hall, Norfolk, was a Speaker of the House of Commons (1572-1576), who served during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.Knighted 1577, Of Counsel King's Lynn 1560, Recorder from 1561, Bencher Middle Temple 1565, Autumn Reader 1565, Lent Reader 1571, HoP Of Counsel Great Yarmouth from 11 February 1562-3,DNB Justice of the Peace of the Quorum, Norfolk from 1564, Commissioner of Grain 1576, Musters by 1576, 22 January 1577-Serjeant-at-Law, 24 January 1577-Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer. Robert_Bell_(Speaker_of_the_House_of_Commons) | |
| Chariot burial Chariot burials are tombs in which the deceased was buried together with his chariot, usually including his (more rarely, her) horses and other possessions. The earliest chariots known are from chariot burials of the Andronovo (Timber-Grave) sites of the Sintashta-Petrovka culture in modern Russia, clustering along the upper Tobol river, southeast of Magnitogorsk, from around 2000 BC, containing spoke-wheeled chariots drawn by teams of two horses. Chariot_burial | |
| Palmette Palmette, also called anthemion (from the Greek ανθέμιον, a flower), is an artistic motif resembling the fan-shaped leaves of a palm tree. It was a common decorative motif employed in the Greek/Roman era to decorate the fronts of ante-fixae, the upper portion of the stele or vertical tombstones, the necking of the Ionic columns of the Erechtheum and its continuation as a decorative frieze on the walls of the same, and the cymatium of a cornice. Palmette | |
| Stater stater (Ancient Greek στατήρ, literally 'weight') was an ancient coin of Greek or Lydian origin which circulated from the eighth century BC to 50 AD. It was also heavily used by Celtic tribes. According to Robin Lane Fox, it was borrowed by the Euboeans from the Phoenician shekel, which was of about the same weight and was also a fiftieth part of a mina.Original mintings of this coin such as practiced in Athens valued the stater at a tetradrachm (4 drachms), though issues at other places or times applied the word "stater" to a Stater | |
| History of Sheffield history of Sheffield, a city in South Yorkshire, England, can be traced back to the founding of a settlement in a clearing beside the River Sheaf in the second half of the 1st millennium AD. The area had seen human occupation since at least the last ice age, but significant growth in the settlements that are now incorporated into the city did not occur until the industrial revolution. History_of_Sheffield | |
| Maiolica Maiolica designates Italian tin-glazed pottery dating from the Renaissance.The name is thought to come from the medieval Italian word for Majorca, an island on the route for ships bringing Hispano-Moresque wares from Valencia to Italy. Moorish potters from Majorca are reputed to have worked in Sicily and it has been suggested that their wares reached the Italian mainland from Caltagirone An alternative explanation of the name is that it comes from the Spanish term obra de Malaga, denoting “ Maiolica | |
| E. A. Wallis Budge Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge (July 27, 1857 November 23, 1934) was an English Egyptologist, Orientalist, and philologist who worked for the British Museum and published numerous works on the ancient Near East. E._A._Wallis_Budge | |
| Nicholas Mahudel Nicholas Mahudel (1704 French antiquary interested in prehistoric research. He proposed the chronological prehistoric sequence stone age - Bronze Age - Iron Age.With his work Three Successive Ages of Stone, Bronze, and Iron (1734), he influenced fellow antiquaries, notably William Borlase who further developed this idea.During the 18th century still, controversy was vivid as to whether thunder-stones had been made by men or were actually fossils. Nicholas_Mahudel | |
| Gladiatrix A gladiatrix was the female counterpart to the male gladiator, an armed fighter who engaged in violent combat with humans or animals for the entertainment of audiences in the arenas of the Roman Republic and Roman Empire. Though rare, gladiatrices are attested in archaeology and literature. Gladiatrix | |
| Coligny calendar Talk:Coligny_calendar | |
| Vauxhall Gardens Vauxhall Gardens /vɒks'ɔpleasure garden, one of the leading venues for public entertainment in London, England from the mid 17th century to the mid 19th century. Originally known as New Spring Gardens, the site was believed to have opened before the Restoration of 1660 with the first mention being made by Samuel Pepys in 1662. The Gardens consisted of several acres of trees and shrubs with attractive walks. Initially, entrance was free with food and drink being sold to support the venture. Vauxhall_Gardens | |
| 6 Burlington Gardens 6 Burlington Gardens is a building in Piccadilly, London that has been used by various London institutions in its history, including the University of London, the British Museum and the Royal Academy of Arts.The building was designed by Sir James Pennethorne between 1867 and 1870 as headquarters for the University of London. 6_Burlington_Gardens | |
| Parthenon Frieze The Parthenon Frieze is the low relief, pentelic marble sculpture created to adorn the upper part of the Parthenon’s naos. It was sculpted between ca. 443 and 438 BC most likely under the direction of Phidias. 420 ft of the original frieze survives, some 94%, the rest is known only from the drawings made by flemish artist Jacques Carrey in 1674 if at all. Parthenon_Frieze | |
| Senuna Senuna was a Celtic goddess worshipped in Roman Britain, whose name was at first read incorrectly as Senua. She was unknown until a cache of 26 votive offerings to her were discovered in 2002 in an undisclosed field at Ashwell End in Hertfordshire by metal detectorist Alan Meek (photgraphed here). Her imagery shows evidence of syncretism between a pre-Roman goddess with the Roman Minerva (for a parallel, cf. Sulis Minerva, the Romano-British goddess worshipped at Bath). Senuna | |
| Bassae Bassae (Latin) or Bassai, Vassai or Vasses (Greek, ModernΒάσσες, AncientΒάσσαι), meaning "little vale in the rocks", Bassae |
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