Our planet’s beautiful sky looked down a couple thousand years ago when the Dead Sea Scrolls were written, the same sky we would later traverse in planes like the one on display. I wonder what will be happening under our sky a few thousand years from now.
There was no photography allowed inside the Dead Sea Scroll exhibit, but I couldn’t stop myself from taking this one. The is me touching a three-ton stone from Jerusalem’s Western Wall. Not even close to the same as being there of course, but an emotional moment all the same.
Remember when I went to see Pompeii: The Exhibition at the California Science Center? (If not, that post is here.) Well, after the #GoForPayload event the other day I went back to the Pompeii exhibit. I don’t think my pictures are particularly different than the ones I took before, but I was able to go back and look at items I’d wanted to get a better look at which was nice. (And I did manage to get pictures of things that I didn’t post the first time around!)
Four Little Dogs, White Marble, 1st century BC
Statuette of a Deer, White Marble, 2st century AD
Clay Figurine, Clay, 1st century AD
Safe, Wood, Bronze, 1st century BC – 1st century AD
Statue of Ephebe (Young Man), Bronze with Silver Cladding, Glass Paste Eyes, Roman Copy of 5th century BC Statue
Statue of Ephebe (Young Man), Bronze with Silver Cladding, Glass Paste Eyes, Roman Copy of 5th century BC Statue
Labrum, White Marble, 1st Century AD
Statue of a Satyr, Bronze, 1st century AD
Mosiac with Gate Pattern, Mosaic in Black and White Tiles, 1st Century BC
Table, Marble, 1st century AD
Table, Marble, 1st century AD
Sickle, Iron, 1st Century AD
Oscillum of Blacksmith Working, Marble, 1st Century AD
Rake, Iron, 1st Century AD
Gardening Items – Hoe and Axe, Iron, 1st century AD
Hammer, Iron, 1st Century AD
Grill, Iron, 1st century AD
Bronze Jug, Bronze, 1st century AD
Bucket, Bronze, 1st century AD
Frying Pan and Baking Tray, Bronze, 1st century AD
Frying Pan with Two Handles, Bronze, 1st century AD
Samovar, Bronze, 1st Century BC
Silver Ribbed Pastry Mold, Plate, Spoon, and Shell Shaped Cup, all Silver, all 1st century AD
Plate, Silver, 1st century AD
Spoon, Silver, 1st century AD
Lamp Stand, Bronze, 1st Century AD
Bathtub, Bronze, 1st Century AD
Bathtub, Bronze, 1st Century AD
Anchor, Iron, 1st Century AD
Amphoras for Garum, Olive Oil, and Wine, Terracotta, 1st Century AD
Strigil, Silver and Bronze, 1st Century AD
Pitcher, Light Blue Glass, 1st century AD
Bottle, Light Blue Glass, 1st century AD
Three Unguent Jars, Glass, 1st century AD
Gold Necklace with Emeralds, Gold Half Shell Earrings, both 1st Century BC – 1st Century AD
Ring, Jasper Intaglio Ring, Ring with a Pair of Emeralds, all Gold, all 1st century BC – 1st century AD
Gold Necklace, 1st century BC – 1st century AD
White Marble, 1st Century AD
Glass Cup, Green Glass, 1st century AD
Glass Cup, Variegated Blue and White Glass, 1st Century AD
Glass Jug, Blue Glass, 1st Century AD
Bronze, 1st century AD
Bronze, 1st century AD
Painted Terracotta Clay Figurines of a Gladiator, Iron, Gladiator Helmet, both 1st century AD
Pair of Shin Guards, Bronze, 1st century AD
Painted Plaster, 45-79 AD
Terracotta Lamp, 1st century AD
Statuette of a Satyr, Bronze, 1st Century AD
Statuette of a Dancing Satyr, Bronze, 1st Century AD
Bronze Statuette with Lamp (Tintinnabulum), 1st Century AD
Bronze Statuette with Lamp (Tintinnabulum), 1st Century AD
Bronze Statuette with Lamp (Tintinnabulum), 1st Century AD
Cast of Man in Stairs, Resin Copy
Cast of Youth with Sandals
Cast of Man on Stairs, Resin Copy
Cast of a Youth with Sandals
Cast of a Child, Cast Replica
Cast of Youth with Sandals
Cast of a Youth, Resin Copy
Cast of a Pregnant Woman, Chalk
Cast of a Youth, Resin Copy
Cast of Man on Stairs, Resin Copy
Cast of Man from the Garden of the Fugitives, Resin Copy
Social media has been good to me lately. Really good. So you remember that I just got back from a NASA Social at Kennedy Space Center? Still recovering from that trip, I was selected for another social media event, this time to go to the California Science Center. (This one involved significantly less travel!)
From the press release:
“Go for Payload” is a delicate operation that will install a flown SpaceHab and other equipment into Endeavour’s Payload Bay. The installation of the SpaceHab will take place on the day of the news conference.
The payload being installed is a similar configuration to the load carried on the STS-118 mission. Former NASA astronaut Barbara Morgan, who served as STS-118 Mission Specialist, will be present at the news conference. The operation takes place from now to October 25, 2014. This will be the first time the payload bay doors of an operational orbiter have been opened anywhere except at the Kennedy Space Center or the Palmdale assembly facility. The doors are made of very lightweight composite material and were not designed to be operated on Earth under its gravitational influence. As a result, it requires specific equipment and procedures to operate safely. This will also be the last time a payload is installed in a space shuttle.
Walking in, Endeavour was as awe-inspiring as she always is but there was a little more ‘oomph’ to her this time as she was all open and ready for the SpaceHab to be installed.
Endeavour with her payload bay doors open (click for full size)
Brief clip of Astronaut Barbara Morgan during her Q&A
In front of Endeavour
In front of SpaceHab
Also really cool: Allen Chen was at the event as a social media participant. You might remember him from the night Curiosity landed on Mars. Yup, he lands things on other planets for a living. If not the coolest job ever, definitely in the top 5! It took a little bit of effort not to follow him around and pester him with a zillion questions about what he does, thankfully there were other things happening to distract me. 😉
The hashtag for the event was #GoForPayload if you want to search social media and see other people’s photos and video. The California Science Center can be found on twitter here and Facebook here.
When you’re at the California Science Center you can’t not go visit your favorite exhibits.
(Okay clearly I’m mostly interested in the pictures where you can see me, but can you blame me? I’m in the same photo as a space shuttle, that’s never getting old!) 😉
A great picture of SpaceHab’s final location, inside Endeavour
When Endeavour’s permanent home is built she’ll be displayed vertically with a fuel tank and boosters, as though on the launch pad ready for take off. I can’t wait!
I feel like I’ve been hit by lightning. Twice. Well, that sounds like a bad thing has happened to me, and it’s pretty much the opposite of that. A really awesome thing happened to me. Twice. Let me explain… Remember when I went to that event called a “NASA Social” at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory? And it was kind of an ‘opportunity-of-a-lifetime’ thing? I went to my second NASA Social, this time at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. I don’t know what the actual chances are mathematically, but I know that I’ve been throwing my hat into the ring (so to speak) nearly every NASA Social for years and years and was never selected. And then I was, twice in less than a year!
This NASA Social was built around the Space X CRS 4 resupply mission to the International Space Station. There is a really good “overview and highlights” summary here and the press kit is here if you want to know more about the mission and what was going to the International Space Station. (It’s really fascinating stuff!)
Over the course of two days we were “press” in the NASA TV briefing room for five different panels.
SpaceX CRS-4 Earth Science Cargo Previewed; Steve Cole, NASA Office of Communications; Steve Volz, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters; Ernesto Rodriguez, ISS-RapidScat Project Scientist, NASA JPL; Howard Eisen, ISS-RapidScat Project Manager, NASA JPL
Setting up the 3D printer
3D printer
SpaceX CRS-4 Technology Cargo Previewed; Mike Curie, NASA Public Affairs; Duane Ratliffe, Chief Operating Officer, CASIS; Mike Yagley, Director of Research and Testing, COBRA PUMA Golf; Dr. Eugene Boland, Chief Scientist, Techshot; Jason Gilbert, Scientific Associate, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research; Niki Werkheiser, Projet Manager, 3D Printing in Zero G
We all know if there is a Star Trek connection anywhere I’ll find it! (“Made in Space” is the name of the company, this wasn’t actually made in space. Yet.)
“Made in Space” patch
SpaceX CRS-4 Model Organisms Cargo Previewed; Stephanie Schierholz, NASA Office of Communications; Marshall Porterfield, Division Director, Space Life and Physical Sciences, NASA HQ; Sheila Neilson, Principal Investigator, Micro 8; Sharmila Bhattacharya, Principal Investigator, Ames Student Fruit Fly Experiment; Ruth Globus, Project Scientist, Rodent Habitat/Rodent Research, NASA Ames
ISS ‘View from the Top’ Briefing; Stephanie Schierholz, NASA Office of Communications; Sam Scimemi, International Space Station Division Director, NASA HQ; Jeff Sheehy, Senior Technologist, Space Technology, NASA HQ; Ellen Stofan, NASA Chief Scientist
Next SpaceX mission to ISS previewed; Mike Curie, NASA Public Affairs; Hans Koenigsmann, VP of Mission Assurance, Space X; Kathy Winters, Launch Weather Officer, 45th Weather Squadron
Next SpaceX mission to ISS previewed; Mike Curie, NASA Public Affairs; Hans Koenigsmann, VP of Mission Assurance, Space X; Kathy Winters, Launch Weather Officer, 45th Weather Squadron
Mission logo
The @nasa wifi password is out of control difficult. Seems appropriate. 😉 #NASASocial
(Techshot couldn’t give us shot glasses at a NASA sponsored event, so they gave us “paper clip holders” and can’t be held accountable if we use them for other things. Like delicious beverages.)
The Kennedy Space Center Visitor’s Center is the tourist attraction, a space theme park if you will. I had one free day in Florida and I am so glad I spent it here. The sheer amount of history on display is overwhelming, and if you’re a space nerd like me, one day is not enough. (Some of these photos are horrible and for that I apologize. I’ll never understand why, when setting up items for museum display, those in charge choose dim lighting and reflective surfaces. There were so many impressive items that aren’t pictured here, these are just the best photos from a bad lot.) If you ever get the chance to go to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor’s Center, GO! You won’t regret it.
Mercury 12B – This capsule served as the backup spacecraft for Wally Schirra’s Mercury 8 flight. It is one of five Mercury capsules produced that never flew in space.
Mercury 12B – This capsule served as the backup spacecraft for Wally Schirra’s Mercury 8 flight. It is one of five Mercury capsules produced that never flew in space.
Gemini capsule flown by Thomas Stafford and Gene Cernan, launched on June 3, 1966.
Gemini capsule flown by Thomas Stafford and Gene Cernan, launched on June 3, 1966.
Gemini capsule flown by Thomas Stafford and Gene Cernan, launched on June 3, 1966.
Heat Shield of the Gemini capsule flown by Thomas Stafford and Gene Cernan, launched on June 3, 1966.
Gemini spacesuit
Apollo spacesuit
1/50 scale Apollo Command and Service modules mated with Lunar module.
1/50 scale Apollo Command and Service modules mated with Lunar module.
Apollo era Astronaut Van – used to transport fully suited crews from the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building to the launch pad approximately eight miles away.
Apollo era Astronaut Van – used to transport fully suited crews from the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building to the launch pad approximately eight miles away.
Skylab Multiple Docking Adapter
On loan from Capt. James Lovell. (Note the Apollo 13 patch.)
Inside of a Lunar Module
Lunar Rover
Lunar Sample
In appreciation “for a job well done” the Apollo 13 crew presented this plaque to Kennedy Space Center personnel in 1970. It features a piece of the armrest of Lunar Module Aquarius.
This manual, signed by Mission Commander James Lovell, was used as a reference throughout the Apollo 13 crisis.
Apollo 14 Capsule “Kitty Hawk”
January 31 – February 9, 1971
Lunar Sample
Moon Rock Containment Vessels
Apollo 7 Flight Plan
October 11-22, 1968
Apollo 17 Go/No Go Cue Card
December 7-19, 1972
This printed card is covered with lunar dust.
Test Supervisor’s Log Book
Fire Extinguisher, Apollo 14, January 31 – February 9, 1971 (With the Apollo 14 capsule in the background)
Lunar Sample Bag Dispenser
Lunar Module Systems Activation Checklist
Apollo 10 May 18-26, 1969
AiResearch Advanced Extra-Vehicular Suit, 1967
Litton B1-A Advanced Extra-Vehicular Suit, 1969
Roger Chaffee’s watch
Hand Casts of the Apollo 11 Astronauts
Space Shuttle Engine
Space Shuttle Engine
This is what the inside of a Space Shuttle looks like.
Space Shuttle tool box
Space wrench
Space Shuttle era AstroVan
If you lived on the International Space Station this is what your ‘bedroom’ might look like.
International Space Station toilet
“For the eyes of the world now look into space, to the moon and to the planets beyond, and we have vowed that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag of conquest, but by a banner of freedom and peace.” – John F. Kennedy
The Space Shuttle Atlantis is on display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor’s Center, but I separated out these pictures from the others because, well, there’s a lot of them. I’m a little obsessed, you should see how many pictures I took of her and didn’t post! To me every single photo of Atlantis is a special snowflake showing details that aren’t shown as well as in the twenty other identical photos taken at the same angle, but your mileage may vary. 😉
I know I have been all about Endeavour these past few years but that’s because she’s here in LA and I can see her as often as I can convince someone to take me to the California Science Center, but if you’d asked me as a child which was my favorite Space Shuttle I’d have said Atlantis. If you know me really well, you probably know why. Anyone want to guess? (Hey, I never said it was a good reason!)
No really, I’m sitting underneath the Space Shuttle Atlantis right now. Freaking out a little.
Does anybody who follows me on twitter remember when I sat, just kickin’ it, underneath Space Shuttle Endeavour? (8 year old me would NEVER believe it!) Well, I’ve done that under two Space Shuttles now, and it never gets less cool.
And like any good theme park, they are more than happy to take your picture and your money.
The Astronaut Hall of Fame was really impressive, lots of displays and artifacts that deserved way more time than I had to give them. Once again, poor lighting and reflective surfaces, apologies. It is separate from the Kennedy Space Center, but a general admission ticket to KSC gets you in free to the Hall of Fame. If you’re visiting KSC make time to stop here.
America’s first man in orbit, John Glenn, wore this jumpsuit after completing his 3-orbit flight aboard Friendship 7.
Items used aboard various Mercury flights
Mercury Spacecraft “Sigma 7” – 6 orbit flight on October 3, 1962 – Astronaut Walter M. Schirra, Jr.
Mercury Spacecraft “Sigma 7” – 6 orbit flight on October 3, 1962 – Astronaut Walter M. Schirra, Jr.
Does this count as a “selfie?”
Mercury Spacecraft “Sigma 7” – 6 orbit flight on October 3, 1962 – Astronaut Walter M. Schirra, Jr.
The Mercury 7 astronauts signed this baseball used in the first Houston Astros game in the new Astrodome.
Items used by Mercury’s Faith 7 pilot Gordon Cooper
Cameras used in space
This 16mm Maurer camera was a backup for the one used by Jim McDivitt on Gemini 4 to photograph Ed White as he pinwheeled over the Earth.
Eating and drinking in space
Space music
John Young’s jacket
Mission patches
Alan Shepard’s training spacesuit, Apollo 14, January 31 – February 5, 1971
Pete Conrad used this scoop to collect rocks and soil at Apollo 12’s Oceanus Procellarum landing site.
This metal mid-deck chair flew on early Challenger and Columbia missions and was later replaced by a more lightweight chair.
Space food
This Coca-Cola machine (a mockup) was the prototype for the actual Coca-Cola dispensing device flown on STS-77 in 1996 which managed to serve a drinkable cola. It controlled the temperature of the beverage during mixing and dispensing with computer accuracy, and minimized agitation.
Experiment Control and Monitoring Module (ECMM)
Empty space tool box
Astronaut Passports are stamped by designated landing site countries in the event of an emergency space shuttle landing.
Com Units
During the flight of Apollo 12 to and from the Moon, mission commander Pete Conrad wore this constant wear garment.
Deke Slayton’s personal items
Helmets
Wally Schirra’s jacket and Fellowship award
Deke Slayton’s ID badges
Actual console from the Mission Control Center in Houston, TX. This console and others like it controlled the six Apollo Moon landings, Skylab, Apollo-Soyuz, and Shuttle flights through 1996.
The giant vehicles were used to carry spacecraft from the Vehicle Assembly Building to the launch pad. The pair of crawlers were originally built in 1965 to transport the Saturn V rockets, and transported orbiters ready to launch during the length of the space shuttle program. Each crawler is the size of a baseball infield, and is powered by locomotive and large electrical power generator engines. Hydraulics keep the crawler surface flat even when it is going up an incline. In the future, one is expected to take commercially operated rockets and spacecraft to the launch pad. The other is being strengthened to handle the Space Launch System (SLS), a rocket and launch tower combination heavier than even the Saturn V moon rockets the crawlers were designed for. (I stole that info from a NASA document here, which you should all go read, because it’s kind of fascinating. Some more history about the crawlers is here.)
ULA is United Launch Alliance, the love child of Lockheed Martin and Boeing. (Their marketing people probably don’t want me to describe it that way, sorry!) The floor is the Horizontal Integration Facility is the flattest in the country. That is a Delta IV rocket you see there, getting ready for a planned December launch. This will be the rocket that takes Orion on its first test flight. Historic!
Duct tape spotted at @nasa proving once and for all, it fixes EVERYTHING! 🙂 #NASASocial
Here I am standing in front of a Delta IV rocket. Or part of one anyway, one of us was too wide to fit in the photo!
Whoever does social media for ULA made my day. Almost no one I encounter knows what my online ‘name’ is a reference to, @ULAlaunch not only got it, but told me they loved it.
There is a cool video here of the roll out and lift of this Delta IV rocket.
Is it possible to have romantic feelings for a building? I think if it is, I have a massive crush on NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building. The photos show that the VAB is big, but what they don’t show you is just how big. No really, the VAB is even more impressive in person.
NASA’s VAB was constructed using 65,000 cubic yards of concrete, 45,000 steel beams, 1 million steel bolts, and 98,590 tons of steel.
It would take 250 billion ping pong balls to fill the VAB. (That is 791 times the population of the United States.)
13 Saturn V rockets were processed for Apollo and the Skylab space station.
The American Flag on the front of the VAB is 209 feet high and 110 feet wide. The blue field is the size of an NBA regulation basketball court. Each star is 6 feet across. Each stripe is 9 feet wide.
The VAB high bay doors are the largest doors in the world at 456 feet high, and take about 45 minutes to completely open or close.
It took 6,000 gallons of paint to originally paint the American flag and bicentennial logo on the VAB.
The VAB’s 325 ton crane can lift 47 full grown African Elephants.
Space shuttles were prepared in the VAB for 135 missions.
By volume the VAB = 3 1/2 Empire State Buildings.
(Facts totally stolen from a handout on the VAB we were given.)
The NASA News Center Annex was out home-away-from-home while we were at the Kennedy Space Center.
(Hi Andres!)
A quick peek inside the Vehicle Assembly Building
If you’ve ever seen pictures of rockets ready to take humans to the moon or of a space shuttle ready to launch, you’ve seen NASA’s Launch Complex 39, made up of launch pads 39A and 39B. Launch pad 39A has been leased to Space X who are modifying it to launch various Falcon rockets. Launch pad 39B will be modified for SLS and other commercial launches. I really can’t say enough about the history these launch pads have seen.
We were driven out to launch pad 39B. It was one of the most amazing things I’ve ever been privileged enough to do, and I got a bit emotional.
Off in the distance all the way to the left is launch pad 39A, in the picture to the right is launch pad 39B. Yay for cameras that have ‘panorama’ features 😉
“Tour @nasa and see things big enough to need the panorama function on your camera.” – NASA’s new ad campaign, probably. #NASASocial
Space X was very busy getting the Falcon 9 rocket ready to launch at another launch pad, and we were allowed to go to the launch pad and watch. The Falcon 9 is horizontal until just a few hours before launch, so it might not look the way you’re expecting it to.
“Rocket Rd.” with a rocket in the background!
Cameras set up to photograph the launch.
This is also where the story takes a horrifying turn. (Dun, dun, DUN!) On the bus before getting out to see the rocket we were warned that a giant rattlesnake had been spotted around there in the last few days and to watch our step. There’s pretty much nothing that will make me freak out more. I got out of the bus, snapped as many pictures as I could in a very short amount of time, and climbed back on the bus to sit and wait for everyone else. (Assuming everyone wasn’t taken out by the snake and I was in fact the last living human who would ever board that particular bus.) So what did we learn from this experience? My fear of snakes is actually greater than my love of space awesomeness, and when push comes to shove I’m not ‘team player.’ Alien invasion or zombie apocalypse? I’ll fight (and die if necessary) shoulder-to-shoulder by your side, comrades in arms. But snakes? I’m outta here, it’s everyone for themselves!
Shuttle ran into a buzzard on launch once. NASA started leaving an animal carcass far away to attract the buzzards during launch #NASASocial
M113 Armored Escape Vehicle – Three were on hand on shuttle launch day. Two stood by less than a mile from the launch pad, each with a crew of firefighters on board. The other M113 sat empty with its back ramp open facing the door of an emergency bunker near the pad.
And then it was time for the launch… It was the middle of the night. These things rarely stick to schedule. The weather was bad and getting worse. Everyone was trying to stay positive, the bus ride to out viewing site was actually really fun, but I think we all knew… And then the launch was scrubbed. For a number of reasons I couldn’t change my travel plans to stay for the launch attempt 24 hours later. (And there was no guarantee that one wouldn’t get scrubbed too.) So there ended the NASA Social for me. I was a little bummed not to see a launch, sure, but overall the experience was so overwhelmingly amazing and full of bucket list moments that I really can’t be sad. Kind of like getting sprinkles on the icing on your cake, you can’t really be sad if there isn’t confetti while you eat it. (Did that even make any sense? It makes sense in my head, I swear!)
Thank you to NASA for having this event and inviting me. Thank you to Jason and everyone on the social media team for all their hard work. Especially thank you to Andres who I know I made extra work for, and who never once seemed anything less than delighted to accommodate me. Last but not least, huge thanks go to a very special friend without whom I wouldn’t have been able to attend in the first place. This really was a highlight in my life and something I will never forget!
Thanks to a very sweet friend I was able to see Pompeii: The Exhibition at the California Science Center. Now I’ll be honest, I didn’t know much about Pompeii and most of what I know came from TV and movies, so most of it is probably wrong. There is a brief summary of what happened in Pompeii here if, like me, you need to refresh your memory. (Or just verify what is fact and what is “Hollywood.”) In the grand tradition of museum exhibits, the room was not well-lit and almost everything was behind a reflective surface so please don’t judge the photos too harshly.
At first some of the artifacts seemed almost… underwhelming until I realized why. Without knowing I was doing it, I was expecting things that looked really old. Like, really, really old. But the items on display have been so well-preserved that it’s almost hard to believe they are as old as they are. Once I figured out that my expectations were flawed each and every piece overwhelmed me for how perfect it looked.
Just a small warning, there was some erotic art on display and a few pictures of it below. I’m pretty sure there are five of you who read this website and I know you all by name and how old you are so it’s nothing inappropriate for you, but if I’m wrong and human bodies or expressions of sexuality offend you, well… consider this your warning.
The casts of the victims were more emotional than I was expecting. (I’m not sure what I was expecting to be honest.) If you don’t know anything about them there is a good explanation here of what they are and how they are made.
I was describing them to a friend later over the phone and her reaction was “how creepy!” It was creepy on one level, yes. But it was also really personal in a way I wasn’t prepared for, and almost heart-warming in a strange way. 25,000 people dead heartwarming, you say?! Yeah, I know it sounds really bad/weird. When I was standing in the room with the casts I just kept thinking that everyone who died there probably died along with everyone they’d ever known. We were told earlier in the exhibit was that within a few years of the loss of Pompeii no one remembered where it had been. These people were basically erased, completely erased. It may have taken 2,000 years but now I was standing in front someone, looking at his face in surprisingly good detail. I may not know what his name was or if he were kind, if the kid liked sports or music better, if the pregnant woman was hoping for a boy or girl, but in that moment I was seeing them and grieving them and by extension all 25,000 victims. I think every human being deserves to be mourned no matter who they are at least for a moment. It took a really long time but these people are not erased anymore. So yes, it was creepy and sad and felt good all at once.
White Marble, 1st Century AD
Safe, Wood & Bronze, 1st Century BC – 1st Century AD
Signet Ring, Bronze, 1st Century BC
Landscape, Painted Plaster, 45-79 AD
Satyr and Maenad, Painted Plaster, 45-79 AD
Clay Figurine, 1st Century AD
Marble Table, 27 BC – 14 AD
White Marble, 1st Century BC
Bronze, 1st Century AD
Labrum, White Marble, 1st Century AD
Bronze Statue with Silver Cladding, Glass Paste Eyes, Roman Copy of 5th Century BC Statue
Bronze, 1st Century AD
Leg of a Couch, Bronze, 1st Century AD
Headrest, Bronze, 1st Century AD
Mosaic in Black and White Tiles, 1st Century BC
Spoon and Cups, 1st Century AD
Samovar, Bronze, 1st Century BC
Iron, 1st Century AD
Oscillum of Blacksmith Working, Marble, 1st Century AD
Iron, 1st Century AD
Iron, 1st Century AD
Cooking tools, Bronze, 1st Century AD
Weights in Black and Dark Grey Marble, Iron, 1st Century AD
Terracotta Jug, 1st Century AD
Terracotta Jug, 1st Century AD
Anchor, Iron, 1st Century AD
Lamp, Bronze, 2nd half of 1st Century AD
Oil Lamp, Bronze, 1st Century BC – 1st Century AD
Lamp Stand, Bronze, 1st Century AD
Terracotta, 1st Century AD
Bathtub, Bronze, 1st Century AD
White Marble, 1st Century AD
Bronze, 50-25 BC
Gold and Emerald Jewelry, 1st Century BC – 1st Century AD
Marble, 1st Century AD
Silver Mirror and Silver and Bronze Strigil, 1st Century AD
Blue Glass, 1st Century AD
Blue and White Glass, 1st Century AD
Hydraulic Valves, Bronze, 1st Century AD
Bronze, 1st Century AD
Gladiator Shin Guard, Bronze, 1st Century AD
Bronze, 1st Century AD
Bronze, 1st Century AD
Gladiator Helmet, Bronze, 1st Century AD
Painted Plaster, 45-79 AD
Bronze, 1st Century AD
Bronze, 1st Century AD
Bronze, 1st Century AD
Resin Cast of Man
Resin Cast of Youth
Resin Cast of Child
Resin Cast of Youth with Sandals
Chalk Cast of a Pregnant Woman
And of course we had to visit the shuttle while we were there. (Because, ya know, I don’t have enough photos of Endeavour here and here, to say nothing of the hundreds I have that aren’t on this site!)
Hello, long time no talk huh? Things I don’t love in life have been getting in the way of things I do, which is really no excuse but is the truth. I literally have a list of things I want to write about, as well as a ton of photos I’ve taken and need to sort through. Instead of trying to explain (or make more excuses) why don’t you just read this article, which will explain a lot: 6 Things about Chronic Pain You Didn’t Know You Knew. (That last one on the list is so, so true!)
Jennifer Kaplan 