apophenia

the personal website of Dash Wieland

a fork in the road, what will you do?

1. see what I've been thinking →

An object pulled at random from the Met Museum's collection, a window to the past. Changes by the day.

Sakhmet Amulet
an imagined voice

“I was the third owner. I don't know what happened to the first two.”

Egyptian Art

Sakhmet Amulet

Unknown artist

period664–30 B.C. (Late Period–Ptolemaic Period)
mediumFaience
countryEgypt
dimensionsH. 5.9 × W. 1.9 × D. 3.5 cm (2 5/16 × 3/4 × 1 3/8 in.)
coordinates26°N 30°E
palette
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A pound of Norse flesh? Tracking down a rare motif.

A Norse trickster god and a Venetian merchant walk into a courtroom. Both are facing death and both escape their sentence on the same, hyperspecific technicality. Surely these cases are related? While reading the Merchant of Venice recently I noticed a similarity to a Norse… →