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The Marlborough Antinous - a Roman black chalcedony intaglio portrait created circa AD 130–138, depicting Antinous, Emperor Hadrian's favourite. Carved from deep black chalcedony and mounted in a modern gold setting, it was formerly part of the Giorgio Sangiorgi Collection before being acquired by the J. Paul Getty Museum.
The cup was made for the French royal family at the end of the 14th century, and later belonged to several English monarchs before spending nearly 300 years in Spain. It has been in the British Museum since 1892. Much the most prominent decoration on the cup is the cycle of scenes from the life of Saint Agnes.
This cup was explicitly mentioned in the 1901 short story A Jubilee Present by E. W. Hornung, where A. J. Raffles, a gentleman thief steals it, keeps it for a while and then sends it to Queen Victoria as an anonymous Jubilee present.
This photo was officially cataloged as "Three of the four Arnold children, Michigan Hill". It features three of the four Arnold family's children: Hazel, Irving, Norma, and Charles, along with their pet cat. They resided in Michigan Hill, Thurston County, Washington. Like many of her Farm Security Administration (FSA) works, this image was intended to document rural living conditions. The original negatives and archival prints are preserved and accessible through the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.
Latin 1393 is a famous late 15th-century or early 16th-century Book of Hours. Kept at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), this manuscript is a remarkable example of private devotional texts favored by the wealthy laity during the Middle Ages. Beyond its traditional religious texts, Latin 1393 is famous for its playful, eccentric, and occasionally bizarre marginal illustrations.
Folio 31v features a man in a red robe with a hood resembling cat ears, pointing to an open page for a cat sitting before him.
This issue featured notable cat photography captured by the studio Leombruno-Bodi.
Resort news: black and white shoes
Puss in slippers, very clever cats, these, picking the news in resort shoes to step into...
This travertine sarcophagus lid dates to the second half of the 4th century BCE (ca. 350–300 BCE) and originates from the Ponte Rotto necropolis in Vulci, Italy. It is housed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Carved inscriptions identify Larth Tetnies (husband) and Thanchvil Tarnai (wife), alongside naming his parents, Arnth Tetnies and Ramtha Vishnai, whose own companion sarcophagus was found nearby.
Gelatin silver print, MoMA, Floor 4, the David Geffen Galleries
Textile fragment with a woven feline figure. Culture/period: possibly Chimú or Chancay, Pre-Columbian Peru, 900-1430 AD. Materials: cotton and camelid wool. Collection: British Museum
Rubber soles known as ‘sneakers’ designed by Special Operations Executives (SOE) to be worn under agents’ boots to disguise footprints when landing on beaches
Star Trek: The Original Series
Season 2, Episode 26 Assignment: Earth; March 1968
A 2,100-year-old Roman shipwreck carrying about 500 amphorae has been discovered 3 miles off the coast of Mazara del Vallo in Sicily.
Italy’s Carabinieri cultural heritage protection squad investigated the wreck with the help of divers and underwater cameras after receiving a tip-off from fishers. The vessel was found at a depth of about 46 metres (151ft) and was carrying hundreds of amphorae – ancient two-handled ceramic jars with a narrow neck – thought to have been used mainly to transport wine.
The wreck, measuring about 21 metres long and 6 metres wide, was described by Italy’s culture minister, Alessandro Giuli, as “one of the most important underwater archaeological discoveries of recent years”.
A pendant carved from transparent rock crystal in the form of a stylised fish, with incised fins, lateral grooves along the body, and a notched tail. A gold fitting is inserted through the open mouth, and additional perforations at the fins secure the attachment to a plaited gold chain. 60 mm x 25 mm, can hold 2 - 3 mL liquid.
A pendant carved from transparent rock crystal in the form of a stylised fish, with incised fins, lateral grooves along the body, and a notched tail. A gold fitting is inserted through the open mouth, and additional perforations at the fins secure the attachment to a plaited gold chain. 60 mm x 25 mm, can hold 2 - 3 mL liquid.
Snowy the five week old kitten belonging to Mr and Mrs A Markey of Manchester tries his paw at mixing some music; June 1962. © Mirrorpix
Science Museum Group Collection, UK
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The Nautilus shell is divided into about 30 chambers, which can be adjusted to control buoyancy, enabling vertical ascent and descent through the water column during what scientists call diurnal migration. During daytime, when the sun’s light makes it hard to hide in the upper layers of the Ocean, nautilus linger in the depths, migrating toward the surface at night to feed and returning to the dark depths before sunrise.