Tuesday, March 30, 2010 A
"Cute Monkey Jar"
6:29am
"two splendid gold-and-faience headdresses, one decorated with antelope heads of great vivacity; three broad collars fashioned in gold; seven gold bracelets, including one with small reclining cats carved in feldspar; eight rings; six large gold pectorals in the form of vultures and hawks; thirty solid gold toe-stalls; three solid-gold sandals; dozens of gold rings; heart scarabs; amulets; alabaster jars banded in gold (and made for cold cream!); two gold-handled silver mirrors of exceptional beauty; a half-dozen cups and small jugs in gold; and vessels and goblets in silver, amethyst, serpentine and feldspar." (Pages 128-129)
I remember seeing SOME of those treasures when I was at the Met museum, and included a sampling of them in my photo gallery. Seven rings, two pectorals and a belt with fishes are among them. I remembered the "two gold-handled silver mirrors of exceptional beauty". But I couldn't recall any gold jugs, nor a bracelet with 'reclining cats', nor a headress with antelope heads.
I checked my camera raw photo files. No, I'd sent up all that I'd photographed. I checked Flicker photos. Hans Ollermann gives an overview of the treasures. I'd missed the jeweled wig, the bracelets, a lovely silver jug, I'd missed quite a lot.
But returning to my own photo files I found a couple of pieces I'd not included in my own gallery. This cute monkey is irresistable:
Cosmetic Vessel in the Shape of a Squatting Monkey
Dynasty 13-17 (ca. 1800-1550 BCE), From Girga (near Abydos)
Anhydrite (blue marble), eyes originally inlaid with copper
Rogers Fund, 1910 (10.176.54a,b)
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(From the info card) "The head is removable and was closed on top with a small lid (now missing). The animal wears a shell amulet around its neck, and the small bucket between its hands served as a container for the applicator. Conifer resin has been determined as an admixture to the ointment in this vessel." |
He's there, now. I have also a huge offering table, possibly found in the room with all the reliefs of Amenemhat, so it is likely from the 12th Dynasty.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 B
Thursday, April 1, 2010
"Playful Sketch"
10:13pm
"Tramp - O'Lean"
"Orchid - 'Best of Class'"
9:44pm
info card under this link
Orchidaceae phalaenopsis "Raymond Burr" grown by Dalene Kelly
"Raymond Burr and Robert Benevides ... were responsible for the hybridization of over 2,000 new orchids."
Friday, April 2, 2010
"More Lovely Flowers"
9:29pm
Phalaenopsis orchid "Magenta stripe with white spots", second place, grown by Judith Vine
Viola (Pansy), second place, grown by Shanna Register
Dendrobium Nobile orchid "Angel Smile 'Kibi'", first place, grown by Judith Vine
I didn't photograph the info, but websearch indicates this is likely a 'morning glory'
The flame of thought, of one thought leading to the next, flame to candle, igniting (like neurons flashing?), is the consciousness that is the all of our beingness.
We cannot experience anything unless we THINK about it. The most extreme of emotions, the depth of grief, the sublimity of extreme joy, we know them in our mind, turn them around (for examination) with our mind. Otherwise, we are savages, raw in some jungle-plain of existence. To be conscious of being conscious is the first step of willed conscious evolution.
