A large fountain-spout in the form of a camel's head, preserved in the Hall of Animals in the Pio Clementino Museum, Vatican City: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Camel%27s_Head.jpg …pic.twitter.com/fdHgRcCRpr
History, archaeology, place-names & early lit. Main research on post-Roman Britain & Anglo-Saxon England; also long-distance trade, migration & contact.
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A large fountain-spout in the form of a camel's head, preserved in the Hall of Animals in the Pio Clementino Museum, Vatican City: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Camel%27s_Head.jpg …pic.twitter.com/fdHgRcCRpr
Pack-camels in the Late Antique 'Tours Pentateuch', BnF MS NAL 2334, f. 30r: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b53019392c/f69.item …pic.twitter.com/n7wgfNZnMT
The Adoration of the Magi featuring three rather happy camels, from a fourth-century AD sarcophagus at Rome: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adoration_magi_Pio_Christiano_Inv31459.jpg …pic.twitter.com/zA9AOYrJd0
For interest, a good discussion of a 4thC AD hybrid camel skeleton from the Viminacium amphitheatre, Serbia: https://www.academia.edu/5679594/A_camel_skeleton_from_the_Viminacium_amphitheatre …pic.twitter.com/v847UsI95G
A group of dromedaries depicted in the Late Antique (6thC) Vienna Genesis: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Meister_der_Wiener_Genesis_002.jpg …pic.twitter.com/h5ErJkLQ6r
A Roman statuette of a dromedary in Budapest Museum of Fine Arts: http://www.livius.org/pictures/a/roman-art/dromedary/ …pic.twitter.com/GBu0lPIDjK
'Recent camel finds from Hungary', including Roman-era Bactrian camels:https://www.academia.edu/12065950/Recent_camel_finds_from_Hungary …
Roman oil lamp featuring a camel, in Worms City Museum, Germany: http://www.livius.org/pictures/germany/worms-borbetomagus/oil-lamp-with-camel/ …pic.twitter.com/yhFgFkdwfL
Unloading camels in the Late Antique (sixth-century?) 'Ashburnham Pentateuch', possibly made in Rome; BnF NAL 2334, f. 21r: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b53019392c/f51.item …pic.twitter.com/XzmRfJLh1N
Indeed! I'm pondering a blog post on another type of exotic animal in pre-Modern Europe (barbary apes!) and ended up going back to read what I'd written about my favourite camels :)
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