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@alisonfisk.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 5:24 PM

Lovely limestone plaque carved with the face of an owl! 🦉❤️

The solemn gaze from across the centuries gives an air of ancient wisdom!

From Egypt, Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 400–30 BC.

Met Museum 📷 by me

#OwlishMonday
#Archaeology

My photo shows a small, roughly square-shaped piece of limestone carved to depict a frontal face of an owl. The owl has large, rounded eyes and a long, pointed beak highlighted with fine diagonal incised lines. The face is outlined by two symmetrical fan-like feather patterns with a raised border around the eyes, cheeks, and beak. Dimensions: Height 10.3 cm x Width 11.1 cm x Depth 2.5 cm This relief represents the ancient Egyptian owl hieroglyph 'm'. The limestone plaque is displayed in a glass case at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

@ninaantonia13.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 4:16 PM

#OwlishMonday Owl with Witch. Henrich Vogeler, 1895. #Gothtober

@wunderkammertales.eurosky.social Oct 12, 2026, 12:00 PM

“The thing with October is, I think, it somehow gets in your very blood. Unapologetically. Almost ruthlessly.”

(Anne Sexton)

🎨 Seth Fitts

#owlishmonday

@21rosa.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 11:27 AM

Gliding into the week on #OwlishMonday
🎨 'Esquiador (Viajero)'/Wandering Skier'. Remedios Varo (1960)
"Remedios laughs, but her laughter echoes in another world" (Mexican poet Octavio Paz, 1966)

A figure in a coat of silver and scarlet stockings elegantly places one foot in front of the other. Its hand rests on the head of one of two downy owls that stand at its side. There is a crystal ball at the figure's throat and what may be a version of its face, or a separate entity altogether, puckishly peeping from its crown. All are carried by a magnificent, flame coloured cloak with a high collar and pointed hood. The cloak-vehicle transports all along, leaving ski tracks in the snow. Varo used the Surrealist decalomania technique to achieve the sense of frost and snow scattered across the canvas. All glide through avenues of dark, leafless trees that both contrast with, and complement, the snow scene. The owls add to the mystery and dreamlike atmosphere of this oil on Masonite piece

@carolineirwin3.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 9:04 AM

#OwlishMonday Spotted in a shop window some years ago in Oxford.

@observethedate.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 7:27 AM

#MemorialMonday
#MermaidMonday
#MistyMonday
#MondayBunting
#MondayLaundry
#Mondaysarebrutal
#MonumentMonday
#MopedMonday
#MosaicMonday
#MotteMonday
#MountainMonday
#MuralMonday
#MuseumMonday
#MushroomMonday
#MythologyMonday
#OwlishMonday
#QuizMonday

@21rosa.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 7:22 PM

Pumpkin-head protector #OwlishMonday

#31DaysOfOctober #Spooktober

Mantling the munchkins. I believe that this is an illustration by the contemporary artist William Joyce

@mariastrutz.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 7:06 PM

'The owl’s head... was made separately and does not directly attach to the backing. Instead, a small copper rod extends from the head into the bird’s body. This would have permitted the head to rotate from side to side when the object was moved.'
#OwlishMonday

gilded and silvered copper disk, featuring a nearly three-dimensional owl at it center, Shades of verdigris and and greeny-goldy-silver

@ninaantonia13.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 12:58 PM

#OwlishMonday Not your usual classic owl but a charming contemporary perspective from Hiromi Nishizaka.

@wunderkammertales.eurosky.social Oct 5, 2026, 10:01 AM

"If an owl comes to those parts,
Where some one sick is lying,
She comes to say without a doubt,
That that sick one is dying"

(Elias Webb "Welsh Folklore", 1887)

#OwlishMonday #Spooktober

🎨 James Montgomery Flagg

@theghostmonk.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 9:25 AM

Jacob Van Campen, 'Still Life With Owl', 1645-50.
#OwlishMonday #owl #17thCentury #art

An owl is perched on a pile of books. Music manuscripts, a cello and a globe can also be seen.

@chartresfi.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 8:01 AM

I'd be hopping mad too if someone put a glazing bar across my face..
#OwlishMonday

@racheldeering.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 7:57 AM

🖼️ Tawny Owl, Harriet Bane. #OwlishMonday

Tawny owl perched in autumn leafed tree, blue background, painting.

@observethedate.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 7:55 AM

#MemorialMonday
#MermaidMonday
#MistyMonday
#MondayBunting
#MondayLaundry
#Mondaysarebrutal
#MonumentMonday
#MopedMonday
#MosaicMonday
#MotteMonday
#MountainMonday
#MuralMonday
#MuseumMonday
#MushroomMonday
#MythologyMonday
#OwlishMonday
#QuizMonday

@stroudstory.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 8:29 AM

Probably my favourite #StFrancis window, by Edward Payne at Didbrook, #Gloucestershire, 1962, showing the saint preaching to a parliament of birds. Lots of loving detail of bird life, including a handsome #OwlishMonday for tomorrow! #StainedGlassSunday