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platosfire · 1 year

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from the museum to your wardrobe

hello!

i’m natasha and i design and make jewellery inspired by the ancient mediterranean world at plato’s fire. i studied classics at the university of st andrews and have been making jewellery since 2016!

my aim is to combine ancient aesthetics with modern materials. my first collections have been inspired by greek vases, mediterranean goldsmiths, and minoan frescoes. each piece is cut out using laser-cutting technology, then painstakingly glued, assembled, and polished by me in my home studio in scotland!

please feel free to send me asks about my work, about the ancient mediterranean, or just scream at me in my inbox about your favourite ancient greek! ✨💛

#tagamemnon #ancient greece #classics #classical reception #ancient greece aesthetic #greek vase #minoan fresco #ancient aegean #minoan octopus #greek art #greek mythology #handmade jewellery #lasercut jewellery

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arthistoryfeed · 2 years

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A larnax, or chest, made to contain human remains, from Crete, Date/Culture: Mycenaean, c. 1400 BC.

Our t-shirt designs inspired by Mycenaean/Minoan Octopus are available on Amazon and Redbubble. Click: archaeostore.com

#mycenaean #minoan #mycenaeancivilization #mycenaean civilization #ancient greece #octopus #minoan octopus #mycenaean octopus

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kebriones · 8 months

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Minoan-inspired woven art by cretan artist Florentini Skouloudi

#greece #babe wake up new minoan octopus just dropped

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kpceramics · 7 months

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I had the immense privilege of going to Greece earlier this summer. I took 400 pictures of ancient pottery and came home inspired to put octopodes on everything.

1. My octopodes on some tiny vases and a cup

2. My reference photo of a Mycenean amphora with an octopus in the Minoan Marine Style, 1500s BCE. (National Arcaelogical Museum, Athens)

3. My bird jug with printed reference photo

4. Bird-shaped vessel from Crete, 2700 - 1900 BCE (Heraklion Archaelogical Museum, Heraklion)

#ceramics #pottery #octopus #octopodes #minoan art #mycenaean #greece #ancient greece

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kurj · 7 months

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baby's first octopus jar

#minoan #watercolors #tagamemnon #ancient greece #octopus pottery #crete #testing new paper and i hate the texture but im posting cuz im creating lore here #kurjdraws #my minoan art

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katarinanavane · 1 year

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A few more Greek vases painted onto rocks with posca markers. Hand for scale.

If you like these and want to see my others (there are lots), search my blog for "Greek" (or other relevant tags but I'm not sure I got them all under any in particular). Also there are a few in my Etsy (link in bio).

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vegetable-soup-wizard · 3 months

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I was making a boring regular vase in my ceramics class today but the autistic 10 year old girl in my brain whispered Hey. Don’t you wanna make an amphora? Wouldn’t that be the coolest shit ever?

And you know what? She was right

#proud owner of an unfinished amphora #im thinking about painting my son the Minoan octopus on it.#because hell yeah #thanks Ancient Greece and Greek mythology special interest #and also thanks to Megan Whaler Turner for putting a Greek mythology worm right back in my brain #it’s inevitable really

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perelka-l · 10 months

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a very tiny hammer for very tiny confused fleshies

#watch me and my fail art #uuhhhhhhhhh help im dying of heat #i didnt reference the minoan octopus if its wrong pls forgive its from memory #is this pajama or what idk #robert bumaro #*sighs* i gotta keep tags in check huh #anyway #im tired and 0 energy pls forgive i wanted to draw shuraitas but uh #slempy #will try tomorrow

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bulbwizard · 11 months

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Piece I made in a ceramics workshop, inspired by the Minoan octopus vase 🦑

#ceramics #pottery #my artwork #original #octopus vase #octopus flask #minoan #history of art #ancient greece

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theprocraftinator · 9 months

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by nightingalelib

#embroidery #nightingalelib #magpiemakesstuff #marine life #octopus #decorated hoop #minoan

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carveus · 1 year

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Found in Castle Douglas, Scotland. Mural with Minoan Octopus Vase's twin.

#minoan octopus vase #funky lil greek restaurant #i was enchanted the entire evening by that lil dude

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platosfire · 11 months

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on the workbench today: lots of octopuses!

hoping to do a big restock in the next week or so ✨

#platos fire #minoan octopus #ancient greece #tagamemnon #greek mythology #greek vase #ancient greece aesthetic

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indierokkerss · 2 years

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thanks for tagging meeee @fiisheyes

relationship status: single ✌️😔

favourite colour: blue or like a really dark greeney blue

favourite food: okay gun to my head, spaghetti carbonara

song stuck in my head: bela lugosi’s dead

last thing I googled: fun fact I’ve filled up all the tabs on the normal browser so I have do everything on incognito mode so I don’t actually know, but I think the last tab I had open was the wikipedia page for kallisto

time: 9:27 pm

dream trip: I really want to go to seville just because I miss spain but if it was for touristy purposes then crete because I want to go to knossos and the heraklion museum because they have this octopus vase there

tagging @loiteringdiligently and @eggspress if you want to do it :)

#right now I want you all to go and google minoan octopus vase it is the best thing I’ve ever seen #he is just a little boy

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larnax · 2 years

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^ a larnax, in case any of you were wondering

#c.paradisi #usually they have lids but i liked the octopus on this one #theyre little minoan boxes for keeping peoples' ashes in

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vulnerasti-cor-meum · 7 months

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i wish I had paid attention in my intro to greek civilization course as a college senior bc I'm reading rené girard's violence and the sacred and much of his theory is based on greek tragedy (who knew that so much modern philosophy is based on greek tragedy??? [I probably would've known that if I had paid attention in class]) and I do not understand all the references

#all I took away from that class was:#the ocean is the maternal womb #and also my prof showing us minoan pottery and how they demonstrated #Masculine Rigidity and Feminine Fluidity.#like. Okay. That is an octopus.#oh and also Herms. I remember the herms.

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kurj · 24 days

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doodle dump: minoan edition

#you can definitely see i have adhd and no patience lol #minoan #tagamemnon #kurjdraws #the octopus vase is back #i really want to make beautiful illustrations but i work full time and i cant put a few hours into one picture sadly #ancient greece #first one is my two ocs the second is random and the last is from the parisienne fresco

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