Chapps
@chapps.bsky.social
Former tech drone, living in L.A. I now create digital reconstructions of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture. No, really. 🏳️🌈
Flickr account (museum photos, mainly, free to use and high res): https://www.flickr.com/photos/125386285@N02/
Flickr account (museum photos, mainly, free to use and high res): https://www.flickr.com/photos/125386285@N02/
The head of the Egyptian god Bes appears on the front of the Oxus chariot-model, which is compatible with it having been made for a young boy - Bes was regarded as being a protective deity of the young (and he was popular in the Persian empire).
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Achaemenid Persian gold model of a chariot (Oxus Treasure)
Model of a gold chariot drawn by four horses abreast. At the front of the cab are two diagonal bracing struts with a head of the Egyptian god Bes at the intersection. The two large wheels each have ni...
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November 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The head of the Egyptian god Bes appears on the front of the Oxus chariot-model, which is compatible with it having been made for a young boy - Bes was regarded as being a protective deity of the young (and he was popular in the Persian empire).
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Very difficult to say. It’s a hanging lamp, so it wouldn’t have been on a shrine shelf, but could certainly have been part of a sacred area. Or just hanging out in a dining room. It probably came from a tomb, so perhaps it was funerary, a light for visiting family.
November 26, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Very difficult to say. It’s a hanging lamp, so it wouldn’t have been on a shrine shelf, but could certainly have been part of a sacred area. Or just hanging out in a dining room. It probably came from a tomb, so perhaps it was funerary, a light for visiting family.
I’m four years older than you, but my wilder days are looong behind me.
November 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I’m four years older than you, but my wilder days are looong behind me.
Haha! Yes, I saw. There used to be some places in Palm Springs like this - probably still are. I’m in very good shape, but there’s no way I’m going starkers while having a drink.
November 26, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Haha! Yes, I saw. There used to be some places in Palm Springs like this - probably still are. I’m in very good shape, but there’s no way I’m going starkers while having a drink.
Yeah, the Grand Tourists were mighty stingy with donating their sarcophagi to the BM. But I think this points to the fact that they preferred to collect ‘portable antiquities’ and sculpture. I’ve seen some sarcophagi in the grand houses, but very few.
November 26, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Yeah, the Grand Tourists were mighty stingy with donating their sarcophagi to the BM. But I think this points to the fact that they preferred to collect ‘portable antiquities’ and sculpture. I’ve seen some sarcophagi in the grand houses, but very few.
I haven’t heard of that place before, but I can probably guess everything about it. 😂
November 26, 2025 at 2:42 AM
I haven’t heard of that place before, but I can probably guess everything about it. 😂
Since it’s Etruscan, and very much a swan, the only association I can make is Turan, the Etruscan Aphrodite - the swan is one of her attributes. He may actually be a spirit who transforms into a swan, given the wings and head. But as to what this means … 🤷♂️
November 26, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Since it’s Etruscan, and very much a swan, the only association I can make is Turan, the Etruscan Aphrodite - the swan is one of her attributes. He may actually be a spirit who transforms into a swan, given the wings and head. But as to what this means … 🤷♂️
The swan in Etruscan mythology is associated with Turan, their equivalent of Aphrodite, but I’ve never seen a male swan association. There’s still so much we don’t know about the Etruscan culture and religion.
November 26, 2025 at 12:32 AM
The swan in Etruscan mythology is associated with Turan, their equivalent of Aphrodite, but I’ve never seen a male swan association. There’s still so much we don’t know about the Etruscan culture and religion.
Haha - likewise, Anthony!
November 26, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Haha - likewise, Anthony!
Oh, clever boy. I’m but a babe in the woods …
November 26, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Oh, clever boy. I’m but a babe in the woods …
Several times over! It’s now added to the list of our fantasy museum replica store …
November 26, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Several times over! It’s now added to the list of our fantasy museum replica store …
That was a wonderful exhibition. I remember the felt swan - decoration for a chariot or something? The Etruscan spirit is more of an unknown - what does the swan represent, why does he have wings? Is he a transformative spirit, halfway between human and swan form?
November 26, 2025 at 12:19 AM
That was a wonderful exhibition. I remember the felt swan - decoration for a chariot or something? The Etruscan spirit is more of an unknown - what does the swan represent, why does he have wings? Is he a transformative spirit, halfway between human and swan form?
Never listen to that advice. The same advice my husband gives me, but I’ve got stacks of books everywhere.
a little girl in a blue shirt is standing in front of a shelf in a pink room .
ALT: a little girl in a blue shirt is standing in front of a shelf in a pink room .
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November 25, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Never listen to that advice. The same advice my husband gives me, but I’ve got stacks of books everywhere.
Still more accurate than ‘Gladiator 2’ …
November 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Still more accurate than ‘Gladiator 2’ …
Oh, er … reminds me of the time when I was 9 years old and flying to New York with my parents and found these incredibly absorbent pads in the toilet. I brought several back to my mother’s seat, proclaiming them as brilliant for drying hands. You can imagine the reaction.
November 25, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Oh, er … reminds me of the time when I was 9 years old and flying to New York with my parents and found these incredibly absorbent pads in the toilet. I brought several back to my mother’s seat, proclaiming them as brilliant for drying hands. You can imagine the reaction.
Oh, wing costumes of all kinds are all over Amazon. Etruscan cosplay! 😂
November 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Oh, wing costumes of all kinds are all over Amazon. Etruscan cosplay! 😂
Not that he's also got a cute little anklet around his left ankle. He's also got Iggy Pop's hairstyle from the 70s.
High res downloadable version on my Flickr account.
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High res downloadable version on my Flickr account.
flic.kr/p/2rHrsW8
Bronze three-nozzled lamp with a winged spirit wearing a swan's head cap
Bronze three-nozzled hanging lamp surmounted by a naked statuette of a winged youth on a plinth pouring wine into a patera/phiale (offering dish). This figure wears a swan's head cap and appears to be...
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November 25, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Not that he's also got a cute little anklet around his left ankle. He's also got Iggy Pop's hairstyle from the 70s.
High res downloadable version on my Flickr account.
flic.kr/p/2rHrsW8
High res downloadable version on my Flickr account.
flic.kr/p/2rHrsW8
November 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Were you hurt by an Egyptian grasshopper?
November 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Were you hurt by an Egyptian grasshopper?
Don’t forget this Ptolemaic or Roman sard sealstone, in which a grasshopper plays a lyre. As we know they’re very musical. 🏺
4th c. BCE-2nd c. CE, Egypt. #BritishMuseum
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4th c. BCE-2nd c. CE, Egypt. #BritishMuseum
📸 me
November 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Don’t forget this Ptolemaic or Roman sard sealstone, in which a grasshopper plays a lyre. As we know they’re very musical. 🏺
4th c. BCE-2nd c. CE, Egypt. #BritishMuseum
📸 me
4th c. BCE-2nd c. CE, Egypt. #BritishMuseum
📸 me
