Salvete Omnes,
dog days of the summer (but there are wars and conflicts all over the Planet: Ukraine vs Rus. Federation and their respective allies, Horn of Africa, Syria, Palestine etc) - so let us continue with the petasos, their wide brimmed horseman hat.
From Xenophon's Art of Horsemanship comes this description to this pottery painting -
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Salvete Omnes,
dog days of the summer - and hence to enliven them a bit - more images of the petasos hat from the ancient Hellenic world
Wiki Commons - various museum collections
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Salvete Omnes,
In this post we will yet again canter to Magna Graecia, where Greek colonists from the ancient Greece proper, between the XI through V century BC, migrated and established city states all over southern Italy and Sicily, in process of settling, expanding, conquering the native population and/ or merging with the indigenous people (the best example might be the kingdom of Bosporus in Crimea) and creating great civilization and plenty of great art.
Allegedly from the beautiful island of Sicily comes one of the extraordinary late VI century BC sculptures - a hunter on horseback with a dog, Sculpted in terracotta, a bit restored, and still beautiful.
Boston Museum of Fine Arts is the owner of this figure. On the linked page there is a bit of information about this piece and its peculiarities.
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