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Pictures and descriptions of prehistoric images and effigies of owls from the Upper Paleolithic to the recent past.

An 8,000-year-old marble figurine of a voluptuous woman was unearthed in 2016 in the Neolithic urban settlement of Çatalhöyük in central Turkey. The figurine is 17 centimeters long, 11 centimeters wide and weighs one kilo.

Samurai helmet(Kabuto) adorned with a removable octopus figurine, late 16th century, japan, from the Japanese armory section of the Stibbert Museum in Florence, Italy.

Medium: Animal hide, gesso, wooden slats, pigment.

https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/174/

𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖓𝖘𝖕𝖆𝖗𝖊𝖓𝖙 𝖋𝖗𝖚𝖎𝖙 𝖎𝖎 • tip jar

bats • tip jar

This decorative glass plaque at the Miho Museum depicts the Apis bull. I love these things’ combination of precise detail and liquid wobbliness. From Ptolemaic or Roman Egypt, First Century BCE to First Century CE.

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

from The J. Paul Getty Museum

• Translation from the source: May Anubis, give life, health, long life and great and good old age to Wdja-Hor-resnet, son of Ankh-pa-khered, whose mother is Ta-gemiw(t), who is born (made) of the Mistress of the house, Hy-inty for Pen-pa-djew. May Anubis give life to Wdje-hor-resnet, son of Ankh-pa-khered. May Anubis, who is before the place of the divine booth, give life, health, strength, a long life, and a great old age and happiness to the son of Ankh-pa-khered, whose mother is Ta-gemiw(t), who is Mistress of the House, Hy-inty for Pen-pa-djew.

from The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

from The J. Paul Getty Museum

from The Museo Larco, Peru

from The Museo Larco, Peru