Basilica of Justinian Sabratha, Libya josé calvo-lópez, flickr flic.kr/s/aHBqjB7HJP #MosaicMonday 1/2

The Sword of Constantine BnF Ethiopien d'Abbadie 105 f.127v Book of Psalms #ManuscriptMonday

Ha-Haggadah Ha-Tzahir Morocco, circa 1870 Rectilinear Solomon Knots abound

Portal to the Synagogue of Trieste en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synagog... #AdoorableThursday

Bibliothèque nationale de France (BNF) Latin 1906 Augustine, Retractationes Cassiodorus, Institutiones Knotty Dragons #ManuscriptMonday

Old Town Church St. Martin (Pforzheim) West Portal commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categor... #AdoorabeThursday

Villa romana Almenara y Puras Three varieties of knot in one shot Round, Rectilinear and Almond commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vi... #MosaicMonday

Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria di Bologna, ms. 2498 Alphabetarium Utriusque Linguae First page of Greek to Latin dictionary 16th century #ManuscriptMonday

Rotunda of San Tomè, Almenno San Bartolomeo Lombardy , Italy Door to the monastery #AdoorableThursday

Ostia Antica Syllogisms and Solomon's Knot Logic and Soul #MosaicMonday

The First Figure of Syllogisms and Solomon's Knot Logic and Soul

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (BAV) Vat. gr. 0243 f. 106r Aristotle, Prior Analytics Book 1, Chapter 4 The First Figure of Syllogisms σχῆμα πρῶτον - schema prōton- first figure Tied with Solomon's Knot and opposing dragons #ManuscriptMonday

Pluriarc Bow Lutes Kuba people Democratic Republic of Congo Round and Rectilinear Solomon Knots British Museum Af1908,Ty.217 & 218 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluriarc

Yoruba Palace Door (ilekun) Olówè of Isè Nigerian, circa 1875–circa 1938, Ẹfọ̀n-Alààyè collection.ncartmuseum.org/objects/8244... www.bonhams.com/auction/1541... #AdoorableThursday

Connect the Dots

Yoruba Calabash Gourd Bowl Nigeria (north), 1890s British Museum Af1952,26.33.a

Yoruba Ifa divination bowls Nigeria

Mayan Knot Alta Verapaz, Guatemala Tauralbus, flickr

Pirámide del Adivino, Uxmal Pyramid of the Magician A cute Solomon's Knot over an adorable door #AdoorableThursday

Bracelet with bicephalic dragon heads Underside of the bezel with two crouching lions has a lozenge filled with the name Ali rotated four times in the shape of Solomon's Knot. Eastern Iran, Khorasan, 12th century The Khalili Collection JLY 1310 khalilicollections.org/collections/...

Buttons from a set of six Southern Spain, 14th–15th century AD The Khalili Collection JLY 1225 www.khalilicollections.org/collections/...

At the Medici Library (Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana) in Florence book plates decorated with the diagonal Solomon's Knot are in abundance. Example here from BML Plut.32.49, Sophocles Tragedies Ajax and Electra #ManuscriptMonday Wednesday

Granada, Spain - Alhambra - Palacios Nazaríes Façade of Palacio de Comares Here in the Hall of Ambassadors Christopher Columbus met with Ferdinand and Isabella to receive their endorsement to fund his westward expedition to America. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categor... #WindowsonWednesday

Collegiate Church of San Cristoforo, Barga Terracotta tile reconstructions en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collegi... recuperando.com/en/terracott... #TilesonTuesday

Roman villa of Parets Delgades (La Selva del Camp, Tarragona) 4th century photo from Deya's blog deya375.wordpress.com #MosaicMonday

The Greek muses from top left to the bottom right: Calliope, Euterpe, Thalia, Melpomene, Terpsichore, Erato, Clio, Urania and Polyhymnia. It was found in Grand Masters Palace in Rhodes, Greece, and it dates to the 1st century BC. #MosaicMonday

#MosaicMonday - Mosaic panel of the Three Graces from Narlıkuyu in Mersin, southern Turkey: ca. 4th Century AD. The panel originally graced (see what I did there?) a Roman bath complex, which the inscription indicates was established by one Poimenios. #Myth #Archaeology 🏺

A beautifully intricate geometric mosaic from Silchester, Hampshire ( #Roman Calleva Atrebatum). The materials used were mainly local: limestone (yellow), Purbeck chalk (white), Kimmeridge shale (black) & crushed tile (red). Later C.2, now in @readingmuseum.bsky.social #RomanBritain #MosaicMonday

Discovering the Roman mosaic hidden under an old tarp in Spoonley Wood nr Winchcombe … Very fun indeed #MosaicMonday

Saint-Omer. Agglomeration Library, Ms. 220 f.101v Ordinary Gloss on Daniel and the minor prophets Initial to the Onus of the prophet Habakkuk Looks like the opus of Master of Zacharie of Besançon 👀 #ManuscriptMonday

Reliquary of St. Helena, in sandalwood and gems, ca. 1150 "Medieval Rome, the Lost Face of the City" (2022-2023 exhibition) commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Re...

Basilica of Santa Maria and San Donato in Murano, Venice 12th-century Byzantine mosaic pavement made of precious stones like porphyry and serpentine, mixed with glass paste. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categor... #MosaicMonday

Baptismal font with Solomon's Knots and lions Matthias church, Budapest #FontsonFriday

Hungarian Royal Scepter Egyptian rock crystal head with 3 lions and a Solomon's Knot Square in gold. Maybe 10th century hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magyar_kir%C3%A1lyi_jogar #FridayFinds

Palazzo Salomoni Alberteschi doors 81 and 84 Via dei Pettinari, Rome pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palazzo... #AdoorableThursday

Church of Santa María de Castrelos in Vigo, Galicia. 13th century Solomon's Knot at the window on the west face. #WindowsonWednesday

Reconstruction of Viking era bone belt buckle from York. 10th-11th century sagy.vikingove.cz/en/organic-b...

Lewis chessmen 12th Century en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_c...

Cocharelli Codex Treatise on the Vices (late 14th C) - BL Add MS 27695 Banking and drinking and lots of knots #ManuscriptMonday

Daedalus & Pasiphaë with the hollow cow... 😐 commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:An... #MosaicMonday

Canon nel nodo di Salomone 96-voice canon composed by Pier Francesco Valentini 1st half of the 17th century www.conservatoiredeparis.fr/fr/variation...

Solomon's Knot in the initial word מֶלֶךְ Melek "king" British Library Add MS 11830 Maḥzor fol. 22r Origin unknown, dated between 1375 and 1384

Solomon's Knot in the initial word to the piyyut “Iti mi-Lvanon Kallah,” an allegory for the covenantal union of God and Israel Mahzor of Worms, 1272

Late Roman Emona, Slovenia Font from Insula XXXII where Knots of Solomon abound. www.researchgate.net/publication/... #FontsonFriday #MosaicMonday

Filigree rings from the grave goods of a young girl buried under Frankfurt's St. Bartholomäus Cathedral. 8th Century inpress.lib.uiowa.edu/feminae/Deta...

Ašuḫani, Good Woman of Kurunta Hittite stamp seal from The Met ca. 14th–13th century BCE www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

Solomon's Knot over Mary The Annunciation, Chartres Cathedral 13th Century commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ch... #WindowsonWednesday

Solomon's Knot introducing The Enneads of Plotinus San Lorenzo de El Escorial Real Biblioteca Mss. Σ. I. 19 (Revilla 079) Benito Arias Montano, possessor pinakes.irht.cnrs.fr/notices/cote... #ManuscriptMonday

Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki #MosaicMonday

Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Shernborne, Norfolk. Solomon's Knot on the "barbaric but mighty" Norman font. #FontsonFriday