Tad Thoughts

Golden Ancient Greek Jewellery

Golden diadem from the Thessaly / Karpenisi Treasure, 3rd-2nd century BC. Benaki Museum

Necklace with semi-precious gemstones and the head of a lynx on one side, Athens, 1st century BC. Benaki Museum

Ring with the depiction of a young man about to throw a fishing net, Rhodes island, 350 - 325 BC. Archaeological Museum of Rhodes

Attic red-figure pelike depicting the gift giving custom to the embellished bride the day after the wedding. It is attributed to the painter hired for the wedding, 330 - 315 BC, Athens. National Archaeological Museum

Heavy golden diadem with a Heracles knot, Thessaly / Karpenisi Treasure, 3rd-2nd century BC. Benaki Museum

Earring with bull heads and acorns, Ancient Lete (Derveni) of Thessaloniki, 330 - 300 BC. Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki

Earrings with God Eros, Athens, late 4th century BC. Benaki Museum

1. Mosaic from the House of Neptune and Amphitrite in Herculaneum, Italy (1st Century A.D.)

2. Zliten mosaic from Libya (2nd Century A.D.)

3. Drinking Contest of Herakles and Dionysos (3rd Century A.D.)

Roman Military Diploma (discharge papers) for a soldier named Dassius, dated 88 AD

"The Emperor Caesar Domitian Augustus Germanicus, son of the deified Vespasian, pontifex maximus, holding the tribunician power for the eighth year, acclaimed "Imperator" seventeen times, having been consul fourteen times, censor for life, father of his country, has granted to the infantrymen and cavalry who are serving in five cavalry and two infantry companies, namely, the select Praetorian, the steadfast Gallic and Thracian, the Phrygian, the Sebastean, the Antian of Gauls and Thracians; the First Gaetulian cohort and the First Augustan Thracian cohort (which are in Syria serving under Publius Valerius Patruinus) and likewise to the men honorably discharged from these companies and cohorts who have served twenty-five years (their names are listed below), and to their children and descendants [to these the Emperor has granted] citizenship and the right of Roman marriage with the wives whom they had when citizenship was granted to them or, if any are unmarried, with those women whom they might marry later, with only one wife for each man. Dated on November 7 in the consulship of Manius Otacilius Catulus and Sextus Julius Sparsus [AD 88]. To the soldier Dassius, the son of Dasens, a Pannonian of the company of Phrygians commanded by Marcus Helenius Priscus. This copy has been checked against the bronze tablet posted at Rome on the Capitol on the left side wall of the Public Record Office."

so what happens is that i place jesus in our living room, and my grandma smiles and asks me if i don’t want to decorate my room with him instead. i ask her in return if she thinks my jesus figure is ugly (which he is), but she reassures me that this is not the case. however, a couple of days later jesus mysteriously disappears from our living room, and appear in my room instead

now, the real jesus christ might have been able to perform a miracle like this, but please remember that the jesus in our story is only a figure made out of wood. he can not move on his own, so i think we can safely say that my grandma is the prime suspect here

the first year i would often confront my grandma about this, but she would always make up an excuse and never straight up tell me she moved him because he’s so ugly it’s an embarrassment to the family