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Girl buried with a crown of ceramic flowers, 300-400 B.C

Photograph of a skull of a young girl. It's stored in a glass cage. It looks very weathered and brownish. Around the  head is a wreath of pink and yellow painted ceramic flowers.
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Photograph of a skull of a young girl. It's stored in a glass cage. It looks very weathered and brownish. Around the head is a wreath of pink and yellow painted ceramic flowers.
Girl buried with a crown of ceramic flowers. c. 300-400 B.C. Museum of Patras, Greece.

The skull bears a wreath of fruits and myrtle flowers. The flowers are earthen, some gilded and others in a variety of colours.
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joost 14 hours ago
Oww.
There's so much here. The contrast between the earthy decayed skull and the amazingly fresh pink flower crown after millennia.
Looking at the teeth it's as if she's still growing into her adult teeth. Which gives an idea of her very young age when she died.
The lovingly made delicate flower petals. Carefully enameled and placed on her head by people who obviously cared a lot.
Very moving
gwint pro 13 hours ago
Extraordinary.
MackReed pro 12 hours ago
o_O

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