The cup-bearer, a rare exemplar of the ancient-modern Cycladic style: "The outstretched right arm, with the slightly flexed elbow, profters a small beaker. The freely extended hand is an extremely rare feature in Cycladic sculpting". 2800-2300 BCE #AncientArt #Art #sculpture #AncientGreek #Cyclades #Aegean #Greece #Ganymede #mythology #archaeology

Origin of the dollar sign. This 1 shekel weight was found in Jerusalem and dates to between 700 and 600 BCE. This number 8 looking "S" letter sign is not Israelite but derives from the #Aegean Island and #Etruscan traditions. This letter seems to represent the #Akkadian word "sakalu" meaning "a hoard" and "to acquire." From that comes the #Biblical Hebrew word "shekel." It weights 11.38 grams.

This Alphabetic Akkadian letter is the source of the dollar sign ($) via the Spanish. When Spain underwent a coinage reform in 1497 CE, the dollar was introduced as Spain’s new unit of currency being valued at 8 reales. Its full name was "peso de ocho reales" or "weight of 8 reales" or just "pieces (pesos) of 8." This shekel/dollar weighed 27 grams. This was the main coin of the British colonies which later became the United States.

#archaeology #finance #history #ancienthistory #etymology #linguistics

Ooh a new hashtag for me to follow and post to.
#meermittwoch

Here's some pics of my family looking out wistfully to an #Aegean #sunset taken in #Santorini

#travel #holidays #photography

#Midgut Bacterial #Microbiota of 12 #Fish Species from a Marine Protected Area in the #Aegean Sea (#Greece)

https://tinyurl.com/ykfee37m

@jess_rieder #gutmicrobes #hostmicrobiota #hostmicrobe #microbialecology #microbeinteractions #Symbionauts #symbiosis #MicrobialInteractions #MicrobialLife #MicrobialDiversity #aquaculture #aquacultureeurope #aquaculturenutrition #CIRCLESEU #microbiome

I never did a proper #introduction!

I studied #archaeology and am specialized in #warfare (and more generally #violence) in the pre-Classical #Aegean. I studied and completed my #PhD at the VU Amsterdam (2010) and then did a two-year #postdoc at the University of Thessaly in Volos, #Greece (2009-2011). Shortly after, I entered the world of #publishing and have worked mostly as #editor and #writer since. I still write on the #ancient world and am currently preparing two #books for Brill.

RT @CopernicusEMS: According to our European Forest Fire Information System #EFFIS Fire Danger Forecast for 6 October

🔥Very Extreme & Extreme Danger is foreseen in the area around #Athens, over most of Southeastern #Greece🇬🇷 and in the #Aegean Sea islands, as well as on Turkish🇹🇷 coastal areas

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/CopernicusEU/status/1578100657747202049

RT @CopernicusEMS: According to our European Forest Fire Information System #EFFIS Fire Danger Forecast for 6 October

🔥Very Extreme & Extreme Danger is foreseen in the area around #Athens, over most of Southeastern #Greece🇬🇷 and in the #Aegean Sea islands, as well as on Turkish🇹🇷 coastal areas

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EEAthina/status/1577938328355307521

Militariser une frontière pour empêcher des exilé.e.s d'accéder au droit d'asile, cela s'appelle une violation de la Convention de Genève et les institutions européennes non seulement ne disent rien mais financent ces équipements permettant de mieux "contrôler" les frontières
RT @ecre: NEW EVIDENCE on 🇬🇷 violations from @ForensicArchi mapping +1000 ‘Drift-backs’ in the #Aegean "a new mode of expulsion at the edge of the EU that weapo…

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/MCVergiat/status/1547882189194346497

RT @AnastasiadesCY: Agreed #EUCO Conclusions on Turkey. PM @kmitsotakis and I briefed colleagues about Turkish aggressive behavior and continued illegal actions in 🇨🇾 #Varosha / other fait accomplis / inadmissible insistence on a two-state solution & 🇬🇷 #Aegean.

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/LefChristoforou/status/1540047371836559365

RT @YanniKouts: A long-form podcast @ellada24 with #Greece’s former foreign minister George Katrougalos [@gkatr] on all matters Greek foreign policy.
#Aegean #MDCA #Ukraine #Russia #Turkey #EU #CoFoE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX1Sqh-Yc6U

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/gkatr/status/1532762054800592898