#artefact
“Ranger of Winter”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYKbGN99hB4
Music by Darkenhöld
(This song is called ‘Présence des Orbes’ taken from their forthcoming album named ‘Memoria Sylvarum’ which will be released independently in 2017.
Darkenhöld is an epic black metal with an influences of symphonic black metal, castle, medieval and fantasy themes. It was found in 2008. The band is coming from Nice, France.
Here’s the current lineup:
Aboth [percussion, drums, and keyboards | see also: Continuum, ex-Etheryäletc.],
Aldébaran [guitars, keyboards, bass, and choirs | see also: ex-Artefact, ex-Ysengrinetc.],
Cervantes [vocals].)
Artwork has been taken from www.pinterest.com/mrdungeonmaster/rangers-for-dd.
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The Wine Cup of Emperor Jahangir
Northern India; Mughal, 1607–8 (dated AH 1016)
Jade, H. 5.5cm; W. 7.4cm.
This wine cup is the earliest dated jade artefact that can be linked without doubt to any Mughal emperor. It has three bands of calligraphy – the central band, carved in monumental sols script, has a royal dedication announcing that the cup was made for Jahangir; the upper border, in nasta’liq script, confirms that it was the personal cup of the emperor and was made in the second year of his reign, therefore between April 1607 and March 1608.
Persian verses ornament the cup, including some contemporary 17th-century poetry, and it is suggested that the poet responsible was the maker of the cup itself. The superintendent of the royal goldsmiths at the time was also rewarded by Jahangir for his skills as a poet.
© The Al Thani Collection
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Prehistoric Axeheads, ‘The World Of Stonehenge’ Exhibition, The British Museum
Prehistoric Carved Chalk Drums, ‘The World Of Stonehenge’ Exhibition, The British Museum
Gold Cups and Bronze Amphora from Denmark (1000 to 700BCE), ‘The World Of Stonehenge’ Exhibition, The British Museum
Pictish Stone and Cross Slab Fragments, Tarbat Discovery Centre, Tarbat, nr. Tain, Scotland
Surface smoothed by grinding practice by people that once occupied caverns around the Uluru.
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Gold earring with head of a lion,Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greek and Roman Art
The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Medium: Gold
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TheRosetta Stone
A Ptolemaic era stele with carved text made up of three translations of a single passage: two in Egyptian language scripts (hieroglyphic and Demotic) and one in the classical Greek of the country’s Greek rulers. It was created in 196 BC, discovered by the French in 1799 at Rosetta, and transported to England in 1802. Once in Europe, it contributed greatly to the deciphering of the principles of hieroglyphic writing, through the work of the British scientist Thomas Young and the French scholar Jean-François Champollion. Comparative translation of the stone assisted in understanding many previously undecipherable examples of hieroglyphic writing. The text on the stone is a decree from Ptolemy V, describing the repeal of various taxes and instructions to erect statues in temples.
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