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Gilded silver reliquary casket, England, early 14th century
from The British Museum

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The Ancient Roman House of the Birds, named for its mosaic with 33 different bird species.
Italica, Spain
Dec. 2019
Shell, limestone, and lapis lazuli game board, city of Ur, Sumer, circa 2450 BC
from The Penn Museum
Masked Figure. 7thā9th century. Credit line: Gift of Albert J. Grant and Monique Grant Joint Revocable Trust, 2014 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/318468
Silver buckle, Sweden, 1100-1500 AD
from The Historiska Museum, Sweden

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Dino people, I am abusing my blogging power to ask a critical question. The image below is a reconstruction of Sue, the T-Rex skeleton at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. This replica is considered to be accurate based on what we know thus far.
My question is this: How do we know this is the correct size of her eyes? Is it based on the size of her skull or something else?
They can see how big the eye sockets are from the skull. Also, most dinosaurs had bones called scleral rings, which are bones inside the eyeball. I don't know if we have any examples of T. rex that preserved them, but we do have other therapods.
(The info page is by @alithographica )
I'm reblogging again to add that this means that we know how big their pupils are, since the hole in the scleral ring is only a little bigger than the pupil.
It's also how we know that most dinosaurs had round pupils. It's pretty common for people to depict dinosaurs with slit pupils, probably because of Jurassic Park, mostly because it looks really cool, but nope, they were round. There are very few, if any, birds with slit pupils, which is further evidence for round pupils. And most extant animals with slit pupils are on the small side. Many people think of cats having slit pupils, and they do, but it's the little ones. Lions and tigers have round pupils, because slit pupils are most useful closest to the ground and they actually sacrifice some of their visually acuity for the sake of being better at judging distances in low-light conditions, and most animals with them are ambush predators that jump out at their prey. You ever seen a video where someone throws or bounces a ball towards a cat and it bops them on the head and they seem surprised? That's why; they struggle to track where the ball is going, especially horizontally. So for anything over a certain size, slit pupils are a detriment, especially if they chase down prey.
And yeah, if you've ever seen a scientific source say that a certain species of dinosaur hunted at night and wondered how the hell we could possibly know that, this is how. Their eyeball bones.
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Roman marble (1st cent. CE) candelabrum base with decorative reliefs and crouching sphinxes at the corners.
Silver buckle, Sweden, 1100-1500 AD
from The Historiska Museum, Sweden
Roman mosaicĀ from the House of the Faun inĀ Pompeii,Ā Italy. In the upper register, a cat clutches a quail. In the lower register, two ducks one of which is holding a lotus flower feed next to an assortment of seafood. ca. 2nd century BCE.
Now housed at National Archaeological Museum of Naples.
Onyx cameo of Ariadne, in a modern gold ring. Greek, Hellenistic Period, 3rd-2nd centuries B.C. In the Royal Collection.Ā
Description from the Royal Collection Trust:
Cameo with a head of Ariadne, consort of Dionysos, facing to the right with her gaze slightly lifted. She wears a wreath of ivy leaves and berries. Her hair is gathered in a roll at the back and ringlets cascade down her neck with a stray lock before the neck. A trace of her dress becomes visible along the neckline. The rather fleshy features and short nose recall portraits of Ptolemaic queens and the resemblance may be deliberate since such assimilation to deities was common practice.

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Dress
c. 1878-1880
maker unknown
Jacquard-woven silk, ruched silk trimmed with machine-lace
Victoria & Albert Museum
Scythian Warrior covered in Solar Symbols
Found in Orvieto - Italy
550 BC
Roman Dagger Scabbard Inlaid With Silver, Mid 1st Century CE, National Roman Legion Museum, Caerleon, Wales
RepoussĆ© plaque with a winged goddess holding lions Greek, East Greek Orientalizing Period 660ā620 B.C.
MFA Boston
Evening Dress
c. 1902
American
Kent State University Museum

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RenƩ Lalique Serpent Pectoral Pendant designed around 1899.
Fascinating!
Egyptian statuette depicting Isis-Aphrodite
Hellenistic Period
Museo Egizio 7217/01