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May. 4th, 2011 10:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedlamsbardMan, if I ever really want an alien-sounding name, I'm going with Etruscan names, the non-Latinized version. Larth Tetnie and his wife Tanchvil Tarnai, anyone? (Sarcophagus of Larth Tetnie and wife Tanchvil Tarnai, alabaster, Vulci, c. 350 BCE. agh, studying.)
I guess while I'm talking about the sarcophagus, I should link to a picture of it. That's the lid.
Latin test is over, now I've moved on to studying for my Etruscans & Early Rome test at 1:00. Slide ID, baby. (That's actually all there is, which means I need to memorize these slides, ah, fairly quickly.)
Eh, while I'm here, have one more sarcophagus: The Old Couple, an ash urn lid from Volterra, from the 1st century BCE. Lids with couples on them aren't that common; the oldest we have dates from the late sixth century (Sarcophagus of the Married Couple, Banditaccia Necropolis, Caere, 530-510 BCE), and they don't appear again until the mid-4th century, though it could just be that we haven't found any examples from the fifth century. With the sarcophagus of Larth Tetnie and his wife Tanchvil, as well as the Sarcophagus of the Married Couple, note that they're both young and handsome, relatively speaking. The Old Couple isn't; there's a trend towards realistic portrayals, although not always -- with the sarcophagus of Seianti Hanunia Tlesnasa (Sarcophagus of Seianti Hanunia Tlesnasa, Poggio Cantarello, terracotta, c. 150-140 BCE), she's portrayed as young and bridal, but (and this is a rare case) the remains that were found in the sarcophagus are those of a much older woman, so she probably chose her portrayal. But then we have the Old Couple. Maybe it's just the angle they're at, but they look pretty happy, don't they?
Anyway. That bit was kind of like studying, yeah? Since those are all sarcophagi that might be on my final. (You'll notice that I also kept noting the material as well as the location, date, and name. Yes. I kept accidentally typing "tufa and pain" on my notes, instead of "tufa and paint." WELL IT'S PAIN TO ME OKAY.)
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I'm keyed up and stressed out; I'm starting to get into pre-packing stress because I KEEP FINDING STUFF OMG and I have more books than anybody reasonably needs to have -- I'm selling back (hopefully) some of them, taking some to the used bookstore on Maple Street, but the vast majority are going to need to be shipped home and I'm estimating four boxes of just books. Plus all my other stuff. AND MY PANTRY. ARGH.
If I'd gotten enough sleep last night I'd probably be slightly less stressed; right now I'm in one of those moods where food is repugnant, which is less than helpful. And I know I've been more stressed than usual over the past couple weeks because I picked up some kind of jaw-popping tic -- not the one I had all through last year where my jaw kept locking, thank the gods, a different one -- and because I've been picking my lips a lot more recently, which is bad, bad, very bad. (It's a bad habit I've had since middle school -- peeling the skin off my lips, sometimes until they bleed. I've gotten better over the past couple years because of frenzied application of lip balm, but when I'm stressed I go right back to doing it. And then I have to explain to people why my lip is all bloody.)
Anyway, back to the Etruscans.
I guess while I'm talking about the sarcophagus, I should link to a picture of it. That's the lid.
Latin test is over, now I've moved on to studying for my Etruscans & Early Rome test at 1:00. Slide ID, baby. (That's actually all there is, which means I need to memorize these slides, ah, fairly quickly.)
Eh, while I'm here, have one more sarcophagus: The Old Couple, an ash urn lid from Volterra, from the 1st century BCE. Lids with couples on them aren't that common; the oldest we have dates from the late sixth century (Sarcophagus of the Married Couple, Banditaccia Necropolis, Caere, 530-510 BCE), and they don't appear again until the mid-4th century, though it could just be that we haven't found any examples from the fifth century. With the sarcophagus of Larth Tetnie and his wife Tanchvil, as well as the Sarcophagus of the Married Couple, note that they're both young and handsome, relatively speaking. The Old Couple isn't; there's a trend towards realistic portrayals, although not always -- with the sarcophagus of Seianti Hanunia Tlesnasa (Sarcophagus of Seianti Hanunia Tlesnasa, Poggio Cantarello, terracotta, c. 150-140 BCE), she's portrayed as young and bridal, but (and this is a rare case) the remains that were found in the sarcophagus are those of a much older woman, so she probably chose her portrayal. But then we have the Old Couple. Maybe it's just the angle they're at, but they look pretty happy, don't they?
Anyway. That bit was kind of like studying, yeah? Since those are all sarcophagi that might be on my final. (You'll notice that I also kept noting the material as well as the location, date, and name. Yes. I kept accidentally typing "tufa and pain" on my notes, instead of "tufa and paint." WELL IT'S PAIN TO ME OKAY.)
*
I'm keyed up and stressed out; I'm starting to get into pre-packing stress because I KEEP FINDING STUFF OMG and I have more books than anybody reasonably needs to have -- I'm selling back (hopefully) some of them, taking some to the used bookstore on Maple Street, but the vast majority are going to need to be shipped home and I'm estimating four boxes of just books. Plus all my other stuff. AND MY PANTRY. ARGH.
If I'd gotten enough sleep last night I'd probably be slightly less stressed; right now I'm in one of those moods where food is repugnant, which is less than helpful. And I know I've been more stressed than usual over the past couple weeks because I picked up some kind of jaw-popping tic -- not the one I had all through last year where my jaw kept locking, thank the gods, a different one -- and because I've been picking my lips a lot more recently, which is bad, bad, very bad. (It's a bad habit I've had since middle school -- peeling the skin off my lips, sometimes until they bleed. I've gotten better over the past couple years because of frenzied application of lip balm, but when I'm stressed I go right back to doing it. And then I have to explain to people why my lip is all bloody.)
Anyway, back to the Etruscans.
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