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Historical Artifacts

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Just a community for everyone to share artifacts, reconstructions, or replicas for the historically-inclined to admire!

Generally, an artifact should be 100+ years old, but this is a flexible requirement if you find something rare and suitably linked to an era of history, not a strict rule. Anything over 100 is fair game regardless of rarity.

Generally speaking, ruins should go to !historyruins@lemmy.world

Illustrations of the past should go to !historyillustrations@lemmy.world

Photos of the past should go to !HistoryPorn@lemmy.world

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[–] semisimian@startrek.website 14 points 1 month ago

In Gallo-Roman religion, Epona was a protector of horses, ponies, donkeys, and mules. She was particularly a goddess of fertility, as shown by her attributes of a patera, cornucopia, ears of grain, and the presence of foals in some sculptures.

The worship of Epona, "the sole Celtic divinity ultimately worshipped in Rome itself", as the patroness of cavalry, was widespread in the Roman Empire between the first and third centuries AD.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epona

[–] zaphodb2002@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

I can still hear this.

[–] philycheeze@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Common misconception but Epona is actually the horse, the girl’s name is Link

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago