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Silver Medusa Medal Found at Vindolanda
The snake-covered head of Medusa was found on a silver military decoration at a Roman auxiliary fort in England.
A nearly 1,800-year-old silver military medal featuring the snake-covered head of Medusa has been unearthed in what was once the northern edge of the Roman Empire.
Excavators discovered the winged gorgon on June 6 at the English archaeological site of Vindolanda, a Roman auxiliary fort that was built in the late first century, a few decades before Hadrian's Wall was constructed in A.D. 122 to defend the empire against the Picts and the Scots.
The "special find" is a "silver phalera (military decoration) depicting the head of Medusa," according to a Facebook post from The Vindolanda Trust, the organization leading the excavations. "The phalera was uncovered from a barrack floor, dating to the Hadrianic period of occupation."
Medusa — who is known for having snakes for hair and the ability to turn people into stone with a mere glance — is mentioned in multiple Greek myths. In the most famous story, the Greek hero Perseus beheads Medusa as she sleeps, pulling off the feat by using Athena's polished shield to indirectly look at the mortal gorgon so that he wouldn't be petrified, according to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Roman culture drew on Greek myths, including Medusa's story. During the Roman age, Medusa was seen as apotropaic, meaning her likeness was thought to repel evil, John Pollini, a professor of art history who specializes in Greek and Roman art and archaeology at the University of Southern California, told Live Science. Pollini was not involved in the find at Vindolanda.
"From Greek times on, this is a potent apotropaic to ward off bad things, to keep bad things from happening to you," Pollini said. Medusa's serpent-surrounded head is also seen on Roman-era tombs, mosaics in posh villas and battle armor. For instance, in the famous first-century mosaic of Alexander the Great from Pompeii, Alexander is depicted with the face of Medusa on his breastplate, Pollini noted.
Medusa is also featured on other Roman-era phalerae, but the details vary. For instance, the Vindolanda Medusa has wings on her head. "Sometimes you see her with wings, sometimes without," Pollini said. "It probably indicates she has the ability to fly, sort of like [the Roman god] Mercury has little wings on his helmet."
Because phalerae were awarded for "valor in battle," military men would attach them to straps and wear them during local parades, Pollini said, noting that the discovery of the Vindolanda phalera is rare.
"There aren't very many of them, obviously, because they were a precious metal," he said. "Eventually, most of them were probably melted down."
Many phalerae are found in burials, but the Vindolanda one appears to be lost. "This isn't something you would toss away," Pollini said.
The silver artifact is now undergoing conservation at the Vindolanda lab. It will form part of the 2024 exhibition of finds from the site.
By Laura Geggel.
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Pixie just home now after whole weekend in mission ridge for the Special Olympics state winter games . Pixie, so surprised, get a silver medal ! first time Pixie ski in the advanced races! everybody so proud of Pixie ! Pixie too ! is proud of skiing do so good for ski with migraine headache .
pixie so tired now . but for good reason !
#original photography#actually disabled#special olympics#state level games#alpine skiing#ski racing#silver medal
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Never lose hope!! 😍🥹❤️
THANK YOU SO MUCH @ellsey and @lizzieiceprincessworld for recording and uploading the Ice Dance Madal Ceremony at the #PrevagenUSChamps
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SHARDS won the silver medal for the categories of Classical and Composer in the December 2023 Global Music Awards!! 🥳
#classical#composer#women composers#neurodivergent composers#global music awards#silver medal#chamber music#symphony orchestra#album#Spotify
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María Forero 🇪🇸
2023 European Championships U23 (Espoo)
#maría forero#team spain#silver medal#spanish#female athletes#happy girls#athletics#running#atletismo#track and field#espoo 2023
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FIFA Women's World Cup 2023 - Silver Medal - England Women's National Team
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#OTD in 1881 – Birth of Martin John Sheridan. He was 'one of the greatest athletes [the United States] has ever known' according to his obituary in the New York Times.
Martin John Sheridan was ‘one of the greatest athletes the United States has ever known’ according to his obituary in the New York Times. He was born in Bohola, Co Mayo, and died in St Vincent’s Hospital in Manhattan, New York, the day before his 37th birthday, a very early casualty of the 1918 flu pandemic. He is buried in Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York. He was part of a group of…
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#Athlete#Bohola#Bronze medal#Calvary Cemetery#Co. Mayo#Discus Throw#Gold medal#Ireland#Martin John Sheridan#New York#New York Police Department#Olympic Games#patriot#Queens#Silver medal#United States
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Fought an Olympian silver medal boxer today. Was all for fun. I'm fine.
Nevertheless, my shit got fucked up big time lol. Totally worth it. Haven't felt this alive in years.
Should I post the bruises?
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“Anna Haifischs' and Anja Kaisers' highly original and distinct visual languages are merging in a closely intertwined collaboration where the books' content and form are in concordance. Opening the book feels like entering a captivating universe presented through radical colours, typography and complex compositions in perfect synergy.
However, the slender page block wrapped in mouse-grey synthetic leather, which appears rather modest at first glance, is strong in every aspect: whether its materiality, printing quality of most vibrant colours, entertaining content, originality as well as sensitivity.
It´s a statement, an unusual approach in which those involved, graphic designer and illustrator, seem to have set no mutual limit.
The graphic design does not only exist to present the numerous illustrations appropriately within the folio-format, much more than setting up the framework, rather the typographic treatment interferes with the image worlds. This, however, in the most positive sense. The graphic shapes and the illustrated sections become one and display their full power together. Very few succeed in doing this and it testifies to the close cooperation between the two authors involved.
By merging their unique visual languages, an extremely contemporary narrative form is created. This language fills up the catalogue for the exhibition “Chez Schnabel” at the Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig which was published in conjunction with the 2021 LVZ Art Prize award. This is the first publication by artist Anna Haifisch to give an insight into her approach to making comics.”
(from the jury’s statement)
I also appreciate the fact that I reviewed comics shown in the last drawing; so here’s Arséne Schrauwen for Der Tagesspiegel and Bad Gateway for The Comics Journal.
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Jessica Ennis-Hill 🇬🇧
Rio 2016 Olympics
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BRAZIL BRAZIL BRAZIL BRAZIL BRAZIL!!!!!!!!!!!
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Amy Purdy in snowboard cross, during 2018 Paralympics in PyeongChang, South Korea .
#Amy Purdy#Amputee#Prosthetics#2018 Paralympics#Team USA#Paralympian#PyeongChang#South Korea#PyeongChang 2018#Silver Medal#Bronze Medal
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Lusia Harris. 1st woman in the NBA. Picked 137th to the New Orleans Jazz 1977. 25.9 ppg. Won 3 championship with the Delta State. 🏀🏀🏀🏀💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾☝🏾☝🏾☝🏾
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Starting really really well guys 😍
You are amazing and we do know and appreciate it 🫶🏻
#mine#italy#fukuoka#world championship swimming#4x100#silver medal#lorenzo zazzeri#alessandro miressi#manuel frigo#thomas ceccon
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Silver medal awarded to George S. Grant, seaman, in 1811 by the captain and crew of HMS Diana.
The Diana was a 38-gun frigate, launched in 1794 and in service during the Napoleonic Wars. She served in the West Indies from 1804 to 1806, in Ireland from 1806 to 1809 and then patrolled the English Channel and the French coast. On 30 November 1811, she captured an abandoned French brig and a prize crew was selected to bring her into port. Five members of the crew of the "Diana" then mutinied with the intention of taking the ship to a French port and escaping, and subsequently murdered Midshipman Andrews, a quartermaster and the captain's steward. However, the mutineers were overpowered with the help of Mr Grant and "brought before a court martial in heavy irons".
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Luz Long, German Long Disrancs Jump Silver Medal Winner - 1936
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