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Graham Taylor

@pottedhistory.bsky.social

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Potted History: Ancient maker of replica ancient pottery, shaper of clay, builder of kilns, maker of tools, Experimental archaeology: Ceramic Technology. Prehistory Neolithic, Bronze-Age, Iron-Age, Roman, Anglo-Saxon and Mediaeval.

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Graham Taylor @pottedhistory.bsky.social · 5h

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Graham Taylor @pottedhistory.bsky.social · 8h

Ah! Based on Trumps America "Ruins for a Profit, with made up figures!" Nice.

Graham Taylor @pottedhistory.bsky.social · 8h

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a man with a beard and mustache is wearing a floral shirt and looking down .

ALT: a man with a beard and mustache is wearing a floral shirt and looking down .

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Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social · 7d

This is Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron and considered to be the first person to write a computer programme which was for Babbage's Analytical Machine. She died in 1842
In her honour, today is Ada Lovelace Day and is all about encouraging women and girls in mathematics, science and engineering.

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Ardent Archivist @ardentarchivist.bsky.social · 11h

They look like extras from The Clangers, minions of the Soup Dragon!

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(In addition to looking wonderful, that is. 👍👍)

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Northumberart @northumberart.bsky.social · 11h

Probably because ALL inanimate objects hide and conspire against you...... I've seen it in action. (And if my awl ever comes out of hiding from you, can I have it back please?!)

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 13h

After a day at the games, little Flavius was thrilled when his father bought him a souvenir lamp with a man being devoured alive by lions. Just like it happened in the amphitheater! Such fun. 😳 🏺

Roman, 1-50 CE. #BritishMuseum #ancientbluesky
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Mold-made terracotta lamp. The central disk on the top has a relief scene with a man on his back being attacked and devoured by a thin lion. Another lion stands up, watching to the right.

British Museum (1977,1203.6)

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Graham Taylor @pottedhistory.bsky.social · 12h

Why do I get the feeling that they're conspiring against me 😬🏺

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 8d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 8d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Kayt Hawkins @kayth.bsky.social · 5d

Back to the sherdface after a spell of writting, how about these for some rsther lovely, if fragmentary, late Iron Age, grog-tempered pedestal jar 'trumpet' bases! #pottery 🏺

Joining sherds of a grog-tempered late Iron Age pedestal jar base, known as a trumpet base due its hollow high foot. This base has two decorative cordons.

Single sherd from a grog-tempered late Iron Age pedestal jar base, known as a trumpet base due its hollow high foot.

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Graham Taylor @pottedhistory.bsky.social · 5d

A bit like this?

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Graham Taylor @pottedhistory.bsky.social · 5d

Nice one!

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Moley𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕄𝕠𝕝𝕖 @moleymole.bsky.social · 5d

Quick - we need an empty pot in case of a bowl movement…
@pottedhistory.bsky.social

Frankie Howerd as Lurcio looking surprised - carrying a [replica by Potted History] Samianware bowl containing fruit.

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Northumberart @northumberart.bsky.social · 8d

My potter husband @pottedhistory.bsky.social has a replica Roman kiln at Vindolanda, which he fires periodically. So we've often had cause to visit that section of The Wall.

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Graham Taylor @pottedhistory.bsky.social · 11d

Yea, but people forget! It needs to be repeated again and again. Especially when they start promising to model themselves on the ramblings of a convicte felon on the other side of the Atlantic.

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Graham Taylor @pottedhistory.bsky.social · 11d

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Vanessa Christman @veeelcee.bsky.social · 11d

New tablet main character just dropped à la Ea Nassir: Lamassi’s Useless Husband. #archaeology 🏺

A cuneiform tablet, from around 4000 years ago, inscribed by an Assyrian woman named Lamassi, responding to her useless husband after her criticized her weaving by saying that he didn’t love the fabric she used. She responded in this tablet by saying “who is this man who lives in your house and who is criticizing the textiles when they get to him”. I feel like he got off easy.

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Graham Taylor @pottedhistory.bsky.social · 11d

The Tories pledge to go full blown Facist!! BBC News - Tories pledge to remove 750,000 migrants under borders plan
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Conservatives pledge to remove 750,000 migrants under borders plan

The party unveils new policies on illegal migration as its annual conference begins in Manchester.

www.bbc.com

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 13d

This is a zhènmùshòu (镇墓兽), or tomb guardian, from Tang Dynasty (AD 618–907) China. Placed in tombs, their ferocious expressions and hybrid animal features were designed to defend the deceased from malevolent spirits.

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📷 Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000.118.1

🏺 #Archaeology

Colourfully-glazed (green, blue, brown & white) earthenware sculpture of a lion-like hybrid animal with a fierce expression and many horns protruding from its body.

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 15d

And I meant to tag @pottedhistory.bsky.social on this!

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Graham Taylor @pottedhistory.bsky.social · 15d

One of my favourites!

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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 20d

"Our opposition and upset over Jimmy Kimmel being taken off air have led to Kimmel coming back. Let's organize that much noise for reporters like Mario Guevara detained (despite being here legally) for filming police and ICE." www.commondreams.org/news/mario-g...

Can Public Outrage and Protest Save Journalist Mario Guevara Like It Did Jimmy Kimmel? | Common Dreams

Mario Guevara's legal team wants a federal judge to free the Salvadoran journalist, who faces "imminent" deportation from the United States after being arrested while covering a June "No Kings" prot...

www.commondreams.org

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Graham Taylor @pottedhistory.bsky.social · 16d

Yea, looks like! Mass production of toys 🙂

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 18d

THE HILL
Opinion
Opinion - Kamala's newest lie:
Trump will send the army after you
Derek Hunter, Opinion Contributor
Wed, October 16, 2024 at 7:00 AM CDT • 4 min read

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Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 22d

Oedipus with the sphinx, from Vulci, now in Vatican
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Inside a red figures black kylix a man with a hat and a cloak is listening to the mythological creature on a column

Attic red-figured kylix (cup)
Inside: Oedipus, in wayfarer's clothing, listening to the question asked him by the sphynx
Outside: satirical farce
From Vulci
The Oedipus Painter (name-vase)
470-460 В.С.

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