Sermon on the sea-mount: the fascinating history of fishy sea pulpits
The 18th-century witnessed a strange proliferation of sea-themed pulpits across Central Europe:
www.worldofinteriors.com/story/sea-pu...
This mosaic emblema features edible sealife from the Mediterranean, exactly what a patrician household could expect to serve to guests for dinner. Therefore, although its findspot isn't exactly known, it almost certainly graced the floor of a Roman villa's <i>triclinium</i> or dining room. There’s a giant lobster, upside down, with a white octopus, a moray eel, and several varieties of fish against a background of black tesserae. Roman, ca. 100 CE. Said to be from Populonia, Tuscany, near Rome. British Museum, London (1989,0322.1)
I hope you like seafood, because this mosaic floor is showing what’s on the menu. 🦞 🐟
Said to be from Populonia, in Tuscany, this mosaic emblema was probably part of the floor of a triclinium, a dining room, of a patrician villa. That lobster is magnificent. 🏺 #mosaicmonday 1/
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#MyFieldNotes Kobe Edt.: Took the JR Line train to Motomachi Station for some object viewing at Kobe City Museum this morning 🌅 #Kobe #CrossingWorlds #DutchGlobalAge
#MyFieldnotes Sri Lanka Edt. : Off to Kandy today to check out some objects and my obsession is still with lions and the makaras! Unfortunately, there was a 50min delay for the train back to Colombo Fort… so off we go 🚂 #Kandy #DutchGlobalAge #CrossingWorlds
The Whale 🐳 Book 📕 edited by Florike Egmond & Peter Mason ready to accompany me for the next 4hrs journey! I’m looking forward to this whole week in Sri Lanka for my research trip 🩵 #DutchGlobalAge #CrossingWorlds
To celebrate #GuineaPigAppreciationDay, here's a guinea pig from 1760 (with a dodo for scale). #SciArt by George Edwards for "Gleanings of #NaturalHistory", contributed to #BHLib by the National Library Board, Singapore. www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50289605 #ILoveBHL
Just one week to go!
Join us in Cambridge for Sadiah Qureshi’s public lecture "Vanished" — on extinction, race & the politics of memory.
📅 Wed 9 July, 6–10pm
📍 David Attenborough Building
🎟 Free tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1395979053...
With Helen Macdonald & Sarah Qidwai!
#BSHS2025 #histSTEM
Dit belooft een interessante avond te worden: Zwart Marokko. Een geschiedenis van slavernij en migratie www.amsterdam.nl/stadsarchief...
Details of whaling ships engraved on the case.
In the 17th c., the Dutch Noordse Compagnie concentrated its hunting on Spitsbergen. Whaling was a dangerous business and filled with internal, as well as external conflicts. Dutch whaling only ended in 1964 with the sale of the factory ship Willem Barendsz II to Japan. [2/2]
#FirstPost on #WhaleWorldDay: Given my obsession & research on tobacco cases, here is a gilded one with engraved representation (whaling) of ships on lid and bottom from The Zuiderzee Museum, Enkhuizen [1/2]: hdl.handle.net/21.12111/zzm...
