{"id":25669,"date":"2019-08-24T10:33:05","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T15:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=25669"},"modified":"2019-08-24T10:33:05","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T15:33:05","slug":"beauty-from-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/08\/24\/beauty-from-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Beauty From The Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Archaeology Magazine<\/strong><\/em> has an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archaeology.org\/issues\/352-1909\/features\/7900-greece-pylos-mycenaean-warrior-grave\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article<\/a> on the tomb of the <em>Griffin Warrior<\/em>, which is dated to the period in which the Mycenean and Minoan civilizations were intermixing. It includes several fascinating images, including this one:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_25670\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Pylos-Combat-Agate-Seal-Stone.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25670\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25670\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Pylos-Combat-Agate-Seal-Stone.jpg?resize=710%2C448&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"710\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Pylos-Combat-Agate-Seal-Stone.jpg?w=710&amp;ssl=1 710w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Pylos-Combat-Agate-Seal-Stone.jpg?resize=300%2C189&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Pylos-Combat-Agate-Seal-Stone.jpg?resize=238%2C150&amp;ssl=1 238w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Pylos-Combat-Agate-Seal-Stone.jpg?resize=150%2C95&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 710px) 100vw, 710px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25670\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>(griffinwarrior.org, Jeff Vanderpool\/Courtesy of the Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati)The Pylos Combat Agate, found in the Griffin Warrior\u2019s grave, is an extraordinarily fine seal stone measuring only 1.4 inches wide. It depicts the final moments of a battle among three warriors.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>And, yes, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/GriffinWarrior.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GriffinWarrior.org<\/a><\/em> does exist and is about the tomb. An amazing image, above. It fills me with wonder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archaeology Magazine has an article on the tomb of the Griffin Warrior, which is dated to the period in which the Mycenean and Minoan civilizations were intermixing. It includes several fascinating images, including this one: And, yes, GriffinWarrior.org does exist and is about the tomb. An amazing image, above. It \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/08\/24\/beauty-from-the-past\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25671,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25669\/revisions\/25671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}