Image: Bronze Statuette of a Hound Gnawing a Bone, 3rd–2nd century BC, Bronze, 3 in. (7.6 cm), Fletcher Fund, 1936, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/253516
Statuette of a Hound Gnawing a Bone, Greek, 3rd-2nd century BC, Bronze
It’s the second century BC in Greece: Eratosthenes accurately calculates the Earth’s circumference. Ctesibius designs the hydraulis, an early version of a pipe organ. And this statuette is made. But doesn’t it feel like it could have been made last week? Just a blissed-out dog gnawing on a bone. Timeless.