Crown of Sancho IV the Brave, king of Castile and Leon. Early 13th c.
The crown consists of eight rectangular metalwork plates or links joined by hinges and bordered by a simple molding. Each segment is surmounted by a castle.
It is completed with four sapphires and four cameos, two Roman and two Staufen.
📸 Displayed at Toledo Cathedral, Spain
The crown consists of eight rectangular metalwork plates or links joined by hinges and bordered by a simple molding. Each segment is surmounted by a castle.
It is completed with four sapphires and four cameos, two Roman and two Staufen.
📸 Displayed at Toledo Cathedral, Spain
Negau helmet, 474 B.C.
Bronze Etruscan helmet of the Negau type with an inscribed text in the Syracusan Greek alphabet; domed body made of hammered sheet bronze, lower part concave, with a small lip around the bottom edge; the inscription translates 'Hieron, son of Deinomenes, and the Syracusans, [dedicated] to Zeus Etruscan [spoils] from Cumae'
The object is believed to have been captured at the battle of Cumae in 474 BC and deposited in the Sanctuary of Zeus at Olympia as a dedication to the god.
📸 The British Museum
Bronze Etruscan helmet of the Negau type with an inscribed text in the Syracusan Greek alphabet; domed body made of hammered sheet bronze, lower part concave, with a small lip around the bottom edge; the inscription translates 'Hieron, son of Deinomenes, and the Syracusans, [dedicated] to Zeus Etruscan [spoils] from Cumae'
The object is believed to have been captured at the battle of Cumae in 474 BC and deposited in the Sanctuary of Zeus at Olympia as a dedication to the god.
📸 The British Museum
“To exist is to defy all that threatens you. To be a rebel is not to accumulate a library of subversive books or to dream of fantastic conspiracies or of taking to the hills. It is to make yourself your own law. To find in yourself what counts. To make sure that you’re never “cured” of your youth. To prefer to put everyone up against the wall rather than to remain supine. To pillage whatever can be converted to your law, without concern for appearance.”
― Dominique Venner, Un samouraï d'Occident: Le Bréviaire des insoumis
― Dominique Venner, Un samouraï d'Occident: Le Bréviaire des insoumis