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The body of the bulla has roughly vertical sides before making a semi-circle or inverted pointed arch at the bottom. The gold is incised with geometrical decoration. Whether they were purely for adornment or had an amuletic or other function is unclear. Despite the small weight of gold used they would have been available only for elite groups.
The Yoruba culture holds that the god Obatala, likewise, created the human race from clay. [34] The Efé people have a creation story in which the first man was made of clay and skin. [28] According to Malagasy mythology, the sky deity Zanahary and the earth deity Ratovantany created the Malagasy people by breathing life into clay dolls. [28]
Small clay figures of people and animals are found at many sites across the Near East from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, and represent the start of a more-or-less continuous tradition in the region. Löwenmensch , from Hohlenstein-Stadel , now in Ulmer Museum, Ulm , Germany , the oldest known anthropomorphic animal-human statuette, Aurignacian era ...
Colombian gold was combined with copper in an alloy called tumbaga, a Malay word meaning ‘copper’, and the composition of the alloy was especially chosen by the Muisca craftsperson for each votive offering piece. [52] The depletion gilding process works on the principle that gold is resistant to oxidation whereas other metals are not. [51]
Gold and fire-blackened ivory fragments of a burnt Archaic chryselephantine statue (Delphi Archaeological Museum) Chryselephantine sculpture (from Ancient Greek χρυσός (khrusós) 'gold' and ελεφάντινος (elephántinos) 'ivory') is a sculpture made with gold and ivory. Chryselephantine cult statues enjoyed high status in Ancient ...
Gwyneth Paltrow posted a nude IG photo celebrating her 50th birthday. The actress posed only in gold body paint to commemorate the milestone.
A bulla (or clay envelope) and its contents on display at the Louvre. Uruk period (4000–3100 BC).. A bulla (Medieval Latin for "a round seal", from Classical Latin bulla, "bubble, blob"; plural bullae) is an inscribed clay, soft metal (lead or tin), bitumen, or wax token used in commercial and legal documentation as a form of authentication and for tamper-proofing whatever is attached to it ...
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