Ocular Horticulture

My four-part ‘Floral Artefact’ series from last summer! Etruscan boar vessel with laurel, Roman fascinus with silphium, Egyptian faience hippo with water lily, and Assyrian lamassu head with lilies.

~ Ring with snake's head and twisted tail.

Period: Roman Period

Date: A.D. 1st century

Place of origin: Egypt

The Quimbaya artifacts are several dozen golden objects, found in Colombia, made by the Quimbaya culture, dated around 1000 CE, a few of which (the so-called Quimbaya airplanes, one of them shown here) are supposed by ancient astronaut theorists to represent modern airplanes [400×272].

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A great man who is sin-ridden can only be a great sinner. The wealthy man is not generous will be a miserly beggar. The owner of wealth is not made happy by owning it, but by spending it, and not spending it capriciously, but by knowing how to spend it well.