• kamenLady.
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    2 months ago

    I wanted to use this as an icon, here’s a clean cut out, for anyone interested

  • @VelvetStorm
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    132 months ago

    It’s interesting that they decided to carve it with missing teeth.

    • @[email protected]
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      162 months ago

      I don’t really see how you could get the snake to fit so well with a real skull. It’s tail even goes through some kind of hole at the jaw hinge. So I guess it must all be made of ivory even though it looks super real

      • Dharma Curious (he/him)
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        82 months ago

        What’s wild to me is the sutures. That’s a detail I didn’t expect on a carving of a skull, and it makes me wonder how many real skulls the artist held in his hand to compare. I’m 99% sure it’s all ivory, the area above the teeth looks just a little too smooth for it to be a actual skull, but good GOD is that detailed and amazing

        • @Valmond
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          62 months ago

          When you were out partying, I studied the skull.

      • @[email protected]
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        42 months ago

        It’s worth Google Lensing this picture to see how many more there are of this type of memento mori, in various sizes, usually smaller than a real skull.

    • @PugJesusOPM
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      42 months ago

      Ivory, I believe.

    • @daddy32
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      22 months ago

      The skull is real ivory.

  • pelya
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    42 months ago

    19-th century is, like, the age of most of buildings in old European cities like Vienna.

    • @Numenor
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      22 months ago

      this means nothing to me – oh Vienna.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 months ago
      1. century is just a few generations ago. You find houses twice as old in every village here.