A Fretful Porpentine

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DNI: (1) Shepherds of wool-bearing sheep who pay taxes in silver rather than supplying a white sheep, as is the proper custom; (2) temple administrators who take, in lieu of corvée duty, garments of the type known as "Ear of the Mongoose," outer woolen garments, naked flax, flax tied in bundles, bronze helmets, arrows, burnished leather, wing-feathers of a yellow raven, or goats with full fleece; (3) undertakers who take seven jugs of beer, four hundred and twenty loaves of bread, seventy-two liters of barley, one woolen garment, one bed, and one chair when they bring corpses to the grave; (4) governors who use the oxen of the gods to plow their own garlic and cucumber plots; (5) livestock officials who appropriate asses; (6) livestock managers who appropriate sheep; and (7) fisheries inspectors who appropriate taxes.

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Cuneiform tablet: record of the account of Bamu. ca. 2048 BCE. Credit line: Purchase, by exchange, 1911 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/322451

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(MoMA | Henri Matisse: In the Studioから)

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sorry man im new to fleeting moments of clarity

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everyone play this game, it's art history wordle. I did surprisingly poorly on account of two way-off guesses. only top 59% 🙄

A daily game. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank.

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I’m quite pleased with myself. Also whoever designs these is very clever — one of these questions, when i saw the right answer, had me going “oh come on that’s practically cheating”.

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Mercury, Detail of Parnassus, Andrea Mantegna, c. 1497

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Margaret Clarke (Irish, 1888-1961) - Ann with Cat (ca. 1924)

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Edvard Munch, Drawing for The Kiss, 1895

René Magritte

The Dream of the Androgyne (1945)

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Pacific Banana Slug (Ariolimax columbianus), family Ariolimacidae, Redwoods National Park, northern CA, USA

* This individual was about 6 1/2 inches long

Photographs by Paxon Kale CC

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Egyptian statue of a woman holding a basket and a duck

Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12, ca. 1981 - 1975 BCE

Metropolitan Museum of Art 20.3.7

Palace facade with the central doors decorated with the Two Eyes. Detail from the limestone sarcophagus of Queen Kawit, wife of King Montuhotep II (ca. 2051-2000 BCE). Now in the Cairo Museum

School of Fontainebleau

The Birth of Venus, n/d, oil on panel, 137x187 cm

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Cylinder seal with cultic scene. ca. 7th century BCE. Credit line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/322390

Settles down on your dashboard gingerly and with a big heaving sigh

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Trots onto your dash with youthful curiosity and zest for life

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View of interior of Aquarium on Belle Isle; visitors look at fish tanks along corridor walls. Potted ferns hang from tiled and barrel-vaulted ceilings. Printed on front: "Aquarium, Belle Isle, Detroit, Mich." Printed on back: "1577, the Aquarium on Belle Isle is one of the most popular attractions on the island. In it will be found all kinds of fresh and salt water fish. The Commission brings the water direct from the ocean for the latter. This card shows the interior view." Miller Art Co. and Metropolitan Metrocraft publisher trademarks on verso.

Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

St. Agnes.

South English Legendary: Lives of Saints, and Temporale (Passion of Christ), beginning/middle 15th century

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