#sometimes i make things pixel art edition
The Pixel Dailies theme was ‚trash‘, so I did a fragment from the Oxyrhynchus Papyri: UC 32068. It‘s Pixel Daily theme was trash, so here’s Oxyrhynchus Papyri UC. 32068. It’s contents are „Seven lines lines from an invitation to dine at a festival of Anubis; 1-2 letters are missing from the left margin and 7-8 letters from the right margin.”
The Oxyrhynchus papyri are innumerable papyri fragments found in the ancient rubbish heaps of Oxyrhynchus. This is what one of our cats is named after. We call him Plox for short (a combination of Oxyrhynchus and ‚plort‘ because the first time we saw him he did a really sloppy poo and trod in it, and i was playing Farm Rancher at the time.
The fragments from Oxyrhynchus Are still being pieces together, translated, and published, and probably will be for at least another century. They were discovered around the start of the 20th Century.
The night draws close; the tower looms; a frantic voice whispers: “but why are there no windows?”
For Pixel Daily’s “tower” theme. Restriction: the tower has to be 20x60 pixels.
A cylinder seal from the ancient Dynastic Period (2600-2350 BCE), found in Khafajeh, Iraq. For the pixel daily theme ‚seal‘. 100x100px.
A votive gold labrys from the Arkalochori cave, Crete. Circa 1700-1450 BCE. Currently in the Heraklion museum. For the pixel daily theme ‘gold’.
[img ID: pixel art of heavily stylised dolphin in profile. It is green and has a huge eye. The beak of the dolphin is in red and extends upwards like a crest. The same red is also used for the fins and part of the tail. The red part of the tail looks has three prongs and looks almost more like something attached to the dolphin than part of the dolphin itself. /End ID]
For the Pixel Daily ‘dolphin’ theme. Based on a Roman mosaic currently housed in the British Museum from Halicarnassus, 4th century AD.
Y’all should check out all the mosaics in that collection, bc they’re cool as shit.
Pixel daily theme was ‘prize’: yet another theme that gives me an excuse to pixel ancient vases. This one is based off this vase. It’s a prize from the Panathenaic games. Made circa 500-490 BCE and attributed to the Eucharides Painter. This side shows Athena. 100x100 px.
The real prize wasn’t the jar itself so much as it’s contents: olive oil. Why? Well, there’s a whole article here about the usages and value of oil in Ancient Greece, but here’s part specifically about it as a prize: “The winner of the boy’s 200-meter sprint, for example, was awarded 500 gallons of olive oil and the men’s winner 1,000 gallons. This oil was usually re-sold by the winners for roughly 12 drachmas per 10-gallon vessel. To get a sense of the value: if a carpenter collected approximately 1 drachma per day, (a figure drawn from inscriptions excavated on the Acropolis in Athens), that means that an athlete could potentially earn up to three years’ worth of wages in a single competition.”
Portrait of one of our cats: Skylax. Original 100x100 pixels. He a floofy quiet voidbear. If you have to turn up your screen brightness to see anything other than black + green eyes then like, honestly: same irl except our eyes don’t have adjustable brightness settings.
