Animasyros

Special thanks for this discovery go to fellow archaeologist, prof. Despina Katapoti. 

This is the logo from the International Animation Festival and Forum which is held annually in the Greek island of Syros. 

This is the festival's webpage. 



The logo is evidently inspired by a Cycladic marble figurine, very cleverly and tastefully used.  

Watch this great video advertising this year's festival. 

Beastly strength

*I picked up this ad in the print edition of the Greek free-press newspaper Lifo (28.2.2013) 

The Mycenaean pictorial pottery shower curtain

This could very well be the last post on this blog (fear not, it's not). I honestly don't think I'll ever get to see a strangest find than this -though I know life is full of surprises... 

I have studied long and hard many aspects of Mycenaean pictorial vase-painting, but I never thought I'd ever see this shower curtain decorated with a Mycenaean pictorial pottery motif of a hedgehog. 

The curtain is inspired by the fragment of a deep bowl found in Mycenae, decorated with a hedgehog under the handle. 

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The item is for sale HERE

The Greek element in the Bowie-Iman wedding

Special thanks for this discovery are due to my close friend, antiquities conservator, Mania Kostopoulou. 

While reading an article on Iman and David Bowie, Mania noticed a beautiful photograph of the lovely couple behind a wedding cake. And what a wedding-cake that was! Four-storied, each story supported by well-made white doric fluted columns. The whole thing rather recalls a multi-storied tholos -minus the roof of course. 

On top of the cake is a rather strange couple performing acrobatics -hmm can't think of why. 

There's actually no way, a normal person could have ever noticed this detail, which is probably why I couldn't find anything on the web regarding this cake -Iman and Bowie are so radiant-, so Mania, thanks again for this! 

Demeter Fertiliser

Fellow archaeologist and great photographer Fotis Yfantidis shared a very interesting photograph on CGA's Facebook page: the emblem of the Greek Phosphoric Fertiliser Industry showing Demeter holding a torch and shallow bowl. 

I'm reproducing it here along with some more photographs found on the net. 

Nafplion doorknob

Strangest Discobolus ever?

Strangest Discobolus ever?

Well, you may judge for yourselves. This is a clip from the BabyTV channel. 

Makes you think a lot about all the cliches regarding Greek identity.