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This silver drinking vessel is shaped in the form of a bull. The animal is in a kneeling posture and is fashioned from two pieces of silver joined by a grooved collar. The head, with its short neck, is massive and strong; the nose and the oval eyes and brows that once held inlays were all sculpted with great sensitivity. The bull's cheeks and jowls are formed from petal-like ridges while further repoussé musculature decorates the body above the legs and shoulders. The chest has a prominent dewlap with horizontal undulations, which suggests folds of skin. These characteristics of modeling and decoration can be seen in representations of other Hittite bulls dating from around 1300 B.C. Because Hittite texts describe their gods as being given their own drinking vessels made in the form of their animal counterparts, it is plausible to assume that this vessel was the property of the Hittite storm god Teshub with whom the bull was associated.

(Image description copied from the item's MET collection page. There is also further reading on the page for this one)

However, shifting human settlement and land use patterns in the broader northwest have put tremendous pressure on the regional lion population, and contributed to many of the remnants being driven into new territories with unconventional prey sources (doubly so with the contemporary drought slashing wild ungulate numbers). A small but seemingly stable lion population has emerged on Hamacabe's coasts over the past few decades as shoreline specialists. These lions still range inland in their foraging, but largely sustain themselves by scavenging beached marine life, hunting shorebirds, and capitalizing on the seasonal congregations of awitet. Awitet have been a particular boon to the lions (if only a brief, seasonal one), as they are much easier to kill than deer/gazelle/aurochs, are a calorie-dense treat, and after a couple months their unguarded eggs hatch en masse and provide a few more days worth of easy meals. The colony's numbers could already be noted as dwindling (mostly due to surplus killing of the chicks, who already faced unfavorable odds of surviving their first few hours without the addition of new predators to the mix), and this prey source may not last for much longer before it collapses or relocates to safer shores.

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The Coffeyville Daily Journal, Kansas, April 30, 1896

"3D render of a heinous monitor setup, with a lazy wireframe look. I don't know how a person could describe these monitors and their arrangement. The best I've got is this: One normal sized monitor, two smaller monitors, one monitor with a phone aspect ratio, and one monitor with a 1:4 aspect ratio. Monitors are arranged in a very disjointed displeasing way, not matching the alignment of any neighboring monitor. The long thin 1:4 monitor is just kinda hanging down from the middle, taunting the world by leaving a large gap between three neighboring monitors."

Old art with new program, hello PicoCAD 2!

and here's a closeup of the legend himself banging out the tunes <3