#caucuses

The museum notes: "This is a very unusual amulet created with the niello technique, including the inscription. The technique and the decorative forms indicate the origin in the Caucuses. In the inscription the name of the woman for whom the amulet was made is clear, but the abbreviations for the amuletic inscription itself are not readily given to interpretation. Amulets from this area and niello amulets in general are quite rare. Inscription: Yaffa bat Rachel, May the Lord Protect and Sustain Her."

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This included the eight tubes, each over a meter long, some with bull figurines on the stem. Earlier research identified them as scepters or perhaps poles for a canopy. They are now on display in the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, but their purpose remained unknown. Read more.

Caucuses exist to suppress the primary vote.  All of this is designed to suppress the vote in elections in general.

Very long and very old, used for communal drinking from a vat, or maybe a cauldron. For drinking beer in Mesopotamia, anyway.

Vittorio Sella, Svaneti, Georgia, late 19th century

  I don't know which is more disheartening; her attitude once she found out, or the fact that she went there to caucus for a candidate on whom she, obviously, didn't do six seconds worth of research.