Reposted by Kirsten Mosher
Ursa Major in the northern sky over the Brigach valley
9:27
half-second exposure
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![The Cleveland Museum photo shows a long, narrow, rectangular, ancient Egyptian paint box carved from boxwood with five oval wells containing original paint pigment. The paint box is viewed vertically from above. From top to bottom the colours of the preserved cake pigments are: red (red ochre), blue (Egyptian blue), green (a mixture of Egyptian blue, yellow ochre, and orpiment) and two of black (carbon black from charcoal). The paints looked used with colour pigment dried around the edge of the pigment wells. Dimensions 2.2 cm x 21 cm x 3.6 cm.
At the top of the front of the box there’s an inscription inlaid in Egyptian blue with the name Amenemope. He was Vizier during the reign of Amenhotep II, Dynasty 18. It translates as ‘The overseer of the city and vizier Amenemope. Master of secrets of the west bank [of Thebes]’. A red inscription on the back reads ‘Amen-Ra, Lord of the Thrones of the Two Lands’. Dated c. 1427-1401 BC.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j56ydp325adovobhwpkzc6sp/bafkreigvidd76sey3nnj3q2zqydkps4ftgzhi6hqt3w4iaixrxcm2ib2pa)
