Historical Artifacts

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Just a community for everyone to share artifacts, reconstructions, or replicas for the historically-inclined to admire!

Generally, an artifact should be 100+ years old, but this is a flexible requirement if you find something rare and suitably linked to an era of history, not a strict rule. Anything over 100 is fair game regardless of rarity.

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Golden fish vessel, used for storing oil or perfume, Iran, 5th century BCE (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by PugJesus to c/historyartifacts

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[–] PugJesus 3 points 6 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxus_Treasure

[–] Missmuffet 2 points 6 months ago

Thats a fish smh my head

[–] MataVatnik 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Seems that pimped out trinkets for banal use have been a thing since time immemorial

[–] PugJesus 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There's something comforting about the longevity of it. There are some really kitschy Roman perfume bottles shaped like sandals out there too, just in case anyone wanted to think that the past had better taste than the present, lmao.

[–] MataVatnik 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Lol, amused by the idea of gaudy Romans.

Thanks for the posts PugJesus

[–] PugJesus 2 points 6 months ago

Always! I love sharing these things.

Also, dug up the perfume bottles