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Rob's Solomon's Knots @robl4a1.bsky.social · 23d

Il Nodo di Salomone: Un simbolo nel Nuovo Mondo
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Solomon's Knot: A Symbol in the New World

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Rob's Solomon's Knots @robl4a1.bsky.social · 2h

Late Roman Emona, Slovenia
Font from Insula XXXII where Knots of Solomon abound.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
#FontsonFriday #MosaicMonday

Rob's Solomon's Knots @robl4a1.bsky.social · 21h

Filigree rings from the grave goods of a young girl buried under Frankfurt's St. Bartholomäus Cathedral.
8th Century
inpress.lib.uiowa.edu/feminae/Deta...

Rob's Solomon's Knots @robl4a1.bsky.social · 2d

Ašuḫani, Good Woman of Kurunta
Hittite stamp seal from The Met
ca. 14th–13th century BCE
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

Rob's Solomon's Knots @robl4a1.bsky.social · 2d

Solomon's Knot over Mary
The Annunciation, Chartres Cathedral
13th Century
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ch...
#WindowsonWednesday

Rob's Solomon's Knots @robl4a1.bsky.social · 4d

Solomon's Knot introducing The Enneads of Plotinus
San Lorenzo de El Escorial Real Biblioteca Mss. Σ. I. 19 (Revilla 079)
Benito Arias Montano, possessor
pinakes.irht.cnrs.fr/notices/cote...
#ManuscriptMonday

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Rob's Solomon's Knots @robl4a1.bsky.social · 4d

Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki
#MosaicMonday

Rob's Solomon's Knots @robl4a1.bsky.social · 7d

Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Shernborne, Norfolk.
Solomon's Knot on the "barbaric but mighty" Norman font.
#FontsonFriday

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Rob's Solomon's Knots @robl4a1.bsky.social · 11d

Saint-Omer. Urban Library, Ms. 77 folio 133v
liber Agustini / [de] verbis domini et de verbis apostoli / scripsit Salomon / summo doxa deo
Augustine's book / [on] the words of the Lord and the words of the apostle / wrote Solomon / most holy to God
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Rob's Solomon's Knots @robl4a1.bsky.social · 11d

These go to eleven
Saint-Omer. Urban Library, Ms. 77 folio 1r
Solomon's Knot in ascending strand variation
1, 2, 3, 6, 11
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Rob's Solomon's Knots @robl4a1.bsky.social · 11d

Saint-Omer. Urban Library, Ms. 77
Augustine of Hippo on the Gospels and Acts of the Apostles.
Abbey of Saint-Bertin in Saint-Omer c. 1175
The first and last folios, alpha & omega, might be the earliest link of the Solomon's Knot symbol with the name Solomon.
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Dr Pat Witts @wittspat.bsky.social · Mar 17

A delightful early record of an excavation - with a question in 3/3! F W Fairholt's engraving of the now-lost Old Broad Street mosaic in London, March 1, 1854. Note the spade and pickaxe lower left. From Smith's 'Illustrations of Roman London', 1859, pl. VII. 1/3

A black and white engraving showing an oblique view of the excavation of an elaborate geometric mosaic with a small figured centrepiece depicting a person on an animal. At upper left, a man gestures towards the mosaic as if showing it to his companion, who is taller and well dressed, wearing a top hat and holding a cane.

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Rob's Solomon's Knots @robl4a1.bsky.social · 12d

Good Luck

Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · May 20

A Roman-era mosaic, measuring 4.30 by 2 meters, has been discovered in Homs, Syria.
The mosaic depicts Tyche, the goddess of luck, chance, and fortune.

www.sana.sy/en/?p=356047...

🏺 #archaeology

A photo of the mosaic, the central panel shows Tyche

Rob's Solomon's Knots @robl4a1.bsky.social · 12d

Matthäus Greuter balcony detail from a Roman palazzo
ca. 1600
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Rob's Solomon's Knots @robl4a1.bsky.social · 12d

Tis but a scratch
The Martyrdom of Thomas Becket
Luttrell Psalter BL Add MS 42130 f.51
East Anglia circa 1325-1335

Rob's Solomon's Knots @robl4a1.bsky.social · 14d

If not on the font then find on the floor.
Solomon's Knot here in the corners four.
Église Notre-Dame du Taur
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89g...
#FontsonFriday

Rob's Solomon's Knots @robl4a1.bsky.social · 17d

Coptic textile fragment
300 – 700 AD
Spencer Museum of Art
spencerart.ku.edu/art/collecti...
#TextileTuesday

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 18d

Mosaic fragment from Roman Cirencester (Corinium). The fragment was discovered at Victoria Road in 1947, and would have been part of a larger mosaic pavement. Now on display at Corinium Museum in Cirencester. 📸 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain #Cirencester

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Rob's Solomon's Knots @robl4a1.bsky.social · 18d

The Rape of Europa, from a villa on the Via Prenestina outside Rome, 1st century AD
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Rob's Solomon's Knots @robl4a1.bsky.social · 18d

Saint-Omer. Urban Library, Ms. 30
Concordance of the Evangelists
Master of the Zacharie of Besançon
Folios 189r, 114v

Rob's Solomon's Knots @robl4a1.bsky.social · 18d

Saint-Omer. Urban Library, Ms. 30
Concordance of the Evangelists
Master of the Zacharie of Besançon
Folios 137v, 106r

Rob's Solomon's Knots @robl4a1.bsky.social · 18d

Saint-Omer. Urban Library, Ms. 30
Concordance of the Evangelists
Master of the Zacharie of Besançon
Folios 54r, 131r

Rob's Solomon's Knots @robl4a1.bsky.social · 18d

Saint-Omer. Urban Library, Ms. 30
Concordance of the Evangelists
Master of the Zacharie of Besançon
Pillars in the tables of evangelical canons
Folios 38v, 39r

Rob's Solomon's Knots @robl4a1.bsky.social · 18d

Saint-Omer. Urban Library, Ms. 30
Concordance of the Evangelists
Master of the Zacharie of Besançon
Pillars in the tables of evangelical canons
Folios 33v, 35r, 38r

Rob's Solomon's Knots @robl4a1.bsky.social · 18d

Saint-Omer. Urban Library, Ms. 30
Concordance of the Evangelists
Master of the Zacharie of Besançon
A variety of Solomon Knots decorate the pillars in the tables of evangelical canons
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#ManuscriptMonday

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · Apr 11

Baking and distributing the matzot in early 14th century Spain
#Passover
BL Or 2737; the 'Hispano-Moresque Haggadah'; 1275 CE-1324 CE; Spain (Castile) ff.88r, 89v

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