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IAN: Curator's Corner at the British Museum [1]

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Date: 2023-08-13

One of the fun things about YouTube is its seeming randomness. I watch history videos, so it turns up more history from channels I never heard of. One such is Curator’s Corner presented by the British Museum.

So today, I bring you some curators talking about favorite objects, and what makes them so distinctive.

A visit to a museum is a search for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives. Go to museums as often as you can.

– Maira Kalman

Wild Bottles of the Middle Ages [11:36]

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x One of these objects you have to share immediately after seeing it: an asksos in the shape of a #duck. The pottery vessel was used to hold oil or perfume.

From Vulci, dating 325BC-275BC



Photo: British Museum pic.twitter.com/DfW5AEq2V2 — Nina Willburger (@DrNWillburger) July 29, 2023

It’s Knot Accounting [8:34]

x A gold posy ring decorated with sixteen stars. The inscription on the inner face reads ‘Many are thee starrs I see yet in my eye no starr like thee’. 17th-18th century CE, now housed at the British Museum [2048x1461] pic.twitter.com/P7hvOkXPt1 — Historyland (@HistoryIand) August 3, 2023

The Hokusai Book That Wasn’t. A must-watch. [15:25]

x The oldest known world map, the Babylonian Imago Mundi, c. 9th-6th century BC. Clay tablet, written in Akkadian, excavated by Hormuzd Rassam in Sippar, Iraq. Shows the then known world in Babylon. Acquired by the British Museum in 1882 (BM 92687). The text was translated in 1889. pic.twitter.com/ny15vjgcis — Carl L. Thunberg (@carl_thunberg) August 3, 2023

Ajax and Achilles Playing Dice on an Urn Amphora [10:27]

x Detail of a late #Roman floor from Withington #Gloucestershire depicting a happy, dancing, flower sniffing leopard



The full design was lost in 1812 during an unsuccessful attempt at lifting



© The Trustees of the British British Museum#MosaicMonday #MondayMotivation pic.twitter.com/a7hkV8szE5 — Durotriges Project (@Durotrigesdig) July 31, 2023

If you enjoy videos like these, check out the Curator’s Corner playlist

Have a wonderful day!

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