A reminder that tomorrow is a day for classicists to tweet, discuss, and celebrate the #SuperbOwlpic.twitter.com/9utqyQBNQf
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And we begin our bubo-nic day with a
#SuperbOwl now at the@orientalinst in Chicago. It is a polychromatic owl on limestome from Saqqara, Egypt dating to 664-150 BCE. https://oi-idb.uchicago.edu/id/b03b918c-a614-4ea7-b9c8-eca896278e14 … For more on Egyptian owls, see: https://www.atthemummiesball.com/owls-ancient-egypt/ …pic.twitter.com/LKzhTpdEqS
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Mayans also loved a #SuperbOwl 
& often tied them to the underworld. This relief from 736 CE from Piedras Negras in what is today Guatemala, was likely stolen in the 1960s before later ending up in France within a private collection. Read more here: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2019-09-11/looted-maya-sculpture-millon-auction …pic.twitter.com/xLZtFs9S1L
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A medieval
#SuperbOwlin a brick wall from about 1270 CE. The manuscript is Franco-Flemish and now @GettyMuseum (available via their Open Content program): http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/103562/unknown-maker-an-owl-franco-flemish-about-1270/ …pic.twitter.com/B6pm4EBPgQ
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Athena with her small but
#SuperbOwl from 460 BCE now @metmuseum. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/254648 … The little owl of the goddess was in Greek called a γλαύξ, hence Athena's Homeric epithet, γλαυκῶπις ("owl-eyed"). http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:abo:tlg,0012,002:3 …pic.twitter.com/F2bzmhMsbw
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‘Invidia rumpuntur aves neque noctua curat.’ “The birds are destroyed by (their) jealousy, but the owl does not care.” Floor mosaic from Thysdrus (c. late 3rd c. CE)
#SuperbOwl 
https://sarahemilybond.com/2015/07/21/the-evil-eyes-have-it-welcoming-and-warning-ancient-visitors/ …pic.twitter.com/DifaUe5Oum
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