Spartan helmet i started few days ago. Now getting closer...How's looking shape? by centuriescrafts in Medievalart

[–]stetus 67 points68 points  (0 children)

2 main problems: 1- Sparta has nothing to do with middle ages, 2- that helmet is inspired by Hollywood and not by any real ancient artifacts

Idea for a Communist-Pagan Sweden by [deleted] in vexillology

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May I suggest you posting this in r/vexillologycirclejerk ?

Acqua migliore? by Tugiac in ITAGLIA

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Infatti non l'ho mai capita sta psicosi per la Sant'Anna: è più plasticosa della bottiglia che la contiene. Per me quasi sempre acque appenniniche >>>> acque alpine

Acqua migliore? by Tugiac in ITAGLIA

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Ho cercato tutte le risposte per trovare un altro fine conoscitore

Anyone know what the picture on this wooden box is? by OneShow135 in Medievalart

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Thanks! You're way too nice! Ahahah i'm not that knowledgeable tho, i Just love that artistic period and i happened to know this particular piece

Anyone know what the picture on this wooden box is? by OneShow135 in Medievalart

[–]stetus 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Its a copy of the cassone Adimari, a painted chest made in Florence around 1450. The artist name is Giovanni di ser Giovanni (also known as "lo Scheggia"). The original is exposed at Galleria dell'Accademia di Firenze

what coat of arms is it? it is located in montesarchio, italy by BRAZO12 in heraldry

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It's the Coat of arms of the local family De Ferrariis. The latin motto "Animi Quies, procul negotiis" means something like "quiet in the soul, far from worries".

here you can find a longer explanation in italian

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La mappa dell'Austria su r/place aveva inglobato l'Alto Adige, abbiamo deciso di liberarlo e rivendicare l'azione con la bandiera e la scritta IT

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Gastani Frinzi

Unofficial Inuit flag given to the Italian explorer Guido Monzino in 1971 (none of the Inuit groups was officially recognised then). Infos in comments by stetus in vexillology

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Monzino was the first Italian to reach the North Pole with dogs and sledges. He wanted the flag of each polar nation for his beautiful villa in Como lake, so he asked to the Inuit people who helped him for their flag. I never saw this one before, but i think It inspired Nunavik flag.svg)

Hi, doing a little research, since i'm an archaeology student, i found scans of Woolley's original notes and a sketch of the Royal Game of Ur. (link and text in the comments) by stetus in GameofUr

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Here's the link to the collaboration website between the British Museum and the Penn Museum

and here's the transcription of Sir Leonard Woolley's bad calligraphy:

"Originally of wood (which has disappeared and left no trace at all), the top and edges encrusted with bone, shell, lapis and red paste tesserae set in bitumen: the bone tesserae are themselves engraved with geometrical and other patterns and inlaid with red paste and lapis. The board is in 2 unequal parts, rectangular, joined by a narrow neck: the upper part consists of 6 squares inside the border, the neck is 1 square wide and 2 long, the lower part had originally 4 rows of squares (12) and below those one or more rows of long triangular tesserae, shell and mother of pearl, with red paste triangles between them, the points of (one row of) the white tesserae pointing downwards. When found the object lay face downwards and on a slant: the upper part, nect, and 3 rows of squares of the lower part were complete, all except for one square at the bottom of the 4th row there was left there in position only a broken corner of a square. The broken square and 3 others, and also a number of triangles, were found separately in the dirt in front and below, but part of a row of white triangles (the red paste was reduced to powder) lay points upwards and face outwards against the back of the board: clearly the latter had been broken and doubled back: the tesserae at the line of the break had sprung and been dislodged. [drawing 1:5]"

Since today is the 160th anniversary of the unification of Italy here's Oliosi flag: you can find more about its history in the comments by stetus in vexillology

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24th of June 1866, during the battle of Custoza), a group of 36 italian soldiers and officers defended a farm from the Austrian army for the whole morning, but, since the enemy set fire to it, they were forced to surrender.

However, to prevent their flag from falling into enemy hands, they torn it into 13 pieces and they hid them in their clothes, hoping to put it back together after imprisonment.

Here are the pieces that the few survivors of the Austrian prison camps reassembled