Carolien van Zoest

@cvz.bsky.social

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mostly lurking, occasionally reposting, very few original posts | hobbies include Egyptology & history of ANE studies, Napoleonic and Roman reenactment | involvement highly variable | Wiki fan | cat lover

Reenactors portraying Roman soldiers showing the formation called testudo: walking closely together with shields protecting front, sides, and heads of the group.
Logo of Dutch broadcasting company Teleac
Book of the Dead of Ani, vignette with Spell 87 papyrus in the British Museum)
Ostracon (limestone flake), ca. 16 cm, with sketch in black ink: a scene at a tomb which is shown in section. At the top of the shaft five figures, four mourning women and one male priest. A man is climbing the tomb shaft. In one burial chamber there are two mummiform coffins. Dated to the Ramesside Period or Third Intermediate Period.
“Roman road tube map” by Sacha Trubetskoy mounted on a wall in my home
A field at Gelleper Strasse in Gellep-Stratum (Krefeld), next to GoodMills factory
Oak tree near the Gelduba monument in Gellep-Stratum (Krefeld)
Street name sign “Gelleper Strasse” in Gellep-Stratum (Krefeld) with image of the gilded Spangenhelm which was excavated nearby
Information panel in Gellep-Stratum (Krefeld) on castellum Gelduba, installed in 2024
Kastell Gelduba (map with legenda in German of castellum Gelduba, near Krefeld). Wikimedia Commons, by user Juschki
Photo in newspaper “Rheinische Post”, 14 July 2025: Roman reenactors (portraying Legio X Gemina) shooting bolts with a scorpio and arrows with a bow
Clay tablet in De Liagre Böhl Collection, NINO Leiden (inv. no. LB 1821). Round tablet, school text with a math problem.
Photo of an ashtray in the form of an Egyptian sphinx in art déco style. Its reclining body forms the tray; there are two recesses at the back for cigarettes/cigars. It is made of grey/cream coloured ceramic with semi-glossy glaze; on its front/forelegs “Koninklijke Sphinx” is printed in grey letters.
A post in Facebook group “Egyptomania: Ancient Egypt in Modern Cultures” by Anthony Langley. Text: “Far too expensive ashtrays in a shop selling secondhand articles…” Photo: four differently coloured ceramic ashtrays in the form of a sphinx in a shop, with handwritten price tags indicating €45 each.
“De sterrennacht” (“The Starry Night”) by Vincent van Gogh, 1889. Museum of Modern Art, New York
Group of protesters against budget cuts in Dutch higher education, carrying signs and wearing t-shirts with slogans in Ancient Egyptian (hieroglyphs and other scripts), Coptic, Akkadian, and Sumerian.
“Noviomagus” by Ram Katzir and Rutger Fuchs, art work in a public space in Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Palermo Stone (Royal Annals of Egypt (Old Kingdom). Museo archeologico regionale Antonino Salinas, inv.nr. 1028
Joaquin Phoenix as “Napoleon at Fontainebleau, 31 March 1814” (painting by Delaroche, 1840): sitting on a chair looking disillusioned and unsure what to do next
Obelix, ginger cat, on green blanket.