Slightly clearer pic of L4-E5thC gold+garnet 'pushmi-pullyu' (=goats!) from Kerch, Crimea, via http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/ …pic.twitter.com/6uKbfH0dXX
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Slightly clearer pic of L4-E5thC gold+garnet 'pushmi-pullyu' (=goats!) from Kerch, Crimea, via http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/ …pic.twitter.com/6uKbfH0dXX
@caitlinrgreen Haha! I can tell you've watched Dr. Dolittle. Brilliant film. Beautiful item.
@EquineAnn hah! When I saw the item I couldn't help but laugh! :)
@caitlinrgreen That's brilliant. You've got to have fun sometimes or else things really get you down & life isn't worth living.
@EquineAnn this is very true :)
@caitlinrgreen Especially in a world like we live in. Where some people would rather be at each others throats than be civilised & I'm being
@caitlinrgreen I've learned much from your postings,including an appreciation for the astonishing wit and even playfulness of past cultures
@GeorgeRick1 oh, thank you :) and absolutely!
@caitlinrgreen do you have awareness of what it's supposed to represent, with its heads etc in opposition? Symbolic? If so, what?
@CatherineEsse The Hermitage's catalogue entry just has it as 2 goats.... So I'm going with it being proof of a cryptozoological beast ;)
@caitlinrgreen I prefer pushme-pullyu I think :)
@caitlinrgreen @RoundLike Did they have coalitions back then Dr?
Crimea was a cultural mosaic @caitlinrgreen. #Crimea #القرم
@caitlinrgreen Seriously though, they must have really respected their dead.
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