Alison Fisk (@alisonfisk.bsky.social)

@ninedragons99.eurosky.social Oct 10, 2026, 8:09 PMReposted by @alisonfisk.bsky.social

This one is from the Archaelogical Museum in Nafplio.

A pottery jug decorated with a goofy looking octopus.

@ninedragons99.eurosky.social Oct 10, 2026, 8:05 PMReposted by @alisonfisk.bsky.social

There are more! This one is from the National Archaeological Museum in Athens.

@alisonfisk.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 9:13 PM

My pleasure as always! 🥰

@alisonfisk.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 8:01 PM

WOW! 🤩

@alisonfisk.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 8:00 PM

🤣🤣🤣

@alisonfisk.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 7:58 PM

Cheers! 🍻

@linusd.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 7:00 PMReposted by @alisonfisk.bsky.social

Not only but also

@alisonfisk.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 6:15 PM

Good idea Tom! And bowls with human feet too! (See examples in the comments!)

@alisonfisk.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 5:23 PMReposted by @alisonfisk.bsky.social

Yes, very similar to a predynastic Egyptian bowl with feet (a few toes missing) which I saw at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo! 😍

@farleypkatz.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 2:04 PMReposted by @alisonfisk.bsky.social

Yes, this one is at the Met, but a number of other examples survive - it was popular! This one from Royal Ontario Museum, similar dating. www.reddit.com/r/OutoftheTo...

@alisonfisk.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 9:30 AMReposted by @alisonfisk.bsky.social

Happy weekend!

Here’s a 3,500 year-old Minoan clay flask decorated with a wide-eyed octopus! 🐙❤️

From Palaikastro, Crete.

Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology

My photo shows a frontal view of a clay flask with warm-yellow coloured slip with black hand painted decoration depicting an octopus. The octopus is swimming diagonally with eight writhing, sucker-lined arms covering the surface of the flask. It stares out at the viewer with wide, almost cartoon-like eyes. Additional black painted motifs include sea urchins, tritons, small rocks and seaweed. Minoan decoration depicting sea motifs is known by scholars as the 'Marine Style'. The flask measures 27 cm (about 10.5 inches) in height. It has a short spout at the top with a small loop handle at either side and a small base so that it can stand upright.

“Its shape is somewhat unusual, constructed by slipping together, while still leather hard (clay that is not quite dry), two shallow plates which had been made on a fast spinning potter’s wheel and with highly refined clay. The circular bases of these shallow plates are still visible in the center of both sides of the flask” (Smart History article “Octopus Vase” by Dr Senta German https://smarthistory.org/octopus-vase/)

The flask was excavated in 1903 at a Bronze Age settlement site at Palaikastro. The excavations between 1902 and 1906, were run by R. Bosanquet and R.M. Dawkins from the British School of Athens. The flask is part of the collections at Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Heraklion, Crete.

@abyssangler.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 1:06 PMReposted by @alisonfisk.bsky.social

So cool!! 😍

@alisonfisk.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 5:23 PM

Yes, very similar to a predynastic Egyptian bowl with feet (a few toes missing) which I saw at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo! 😍

@nancyterhune.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 9:52 PMReposted by @alisonfisk.bsky.social

‘You know what this needs? A leg!’ Love it!

@alisonfisk.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 12:48 PM

It’s one of my all time favourite museums! This summer we visited the Malia Palace archaeological site which has a Minoan pottery workshop where they made gorgeous vessels like this! 🤩

@alisonfisk.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 10:35 AM

Read about Bronze Age Minoan ceramics for the wealthy, traded and emulated around the eastern Mediterranean:
smarthistory.org/octopus-vase/

@drnwillburger.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 6:55 AMReposted by @alisonfisk.bsky.social

A very stylish #Roman woman's shoe with a decorative pattern punched into the leather.
Found in 1907 in a well in the civilian settlement of the Saalburg fort, dating first half of the 2nd century AD.

Photo: Römerkastell Saalburg

The picture shows a single leather shoe with a decorative pattern of holes of different sizes and shapes (e.g circles, triangles).

@alisonfisk.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 9:39 AM

I may have missed #WorldOctopusDay last Thursday, but every day is a good day to celebrate these eight-armed wonders of the sea! 🐙 🌊

This flask is one of the most iconic Minoan ‘Marine Style’ vessels. Read more on this link: ca.heraklionmuseum.gr/ca/pawtucket...

@alisonfisk.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 9:30 AM

Happy weekend!

Here’s a 3,500 year-old Minoan clay flask decorated with a wide-eyed octopus! 🐙❤️

From Palaikastro, Crete.

Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology

@alisonfisk.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 9:29 AM

😂😂😂