To stay cool I have returned for while this afternoon to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The American Tobacco Company issue of the legendary Honus Wagner in the “White Borders” series (1909-10)
A crozier head of ivory from Lombardy c. 1350-1375.
Fit for a S. African Bishop!
Some German glass from 1444:
A lovely young woman who died c. AD 120-140 in Egypt.
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on ADVENTCAzT 2020 05: “Dissipation is the mark of the worldly and the mediocre”Entschuldigung . I see it right next to the comment box on the side bar. on ADVENTCAzT 2020 05: “Dissipation is the mark of the worldly and the mediocre”Thank you. Is that prayer for priests written out somewhere on your website? 
on ASK FATHER: A priest asks, can we use the English translations in Weller’s 3 volumes to bless things, etc., in the Extraordinary Form? Here comes the BAD NEWS, Fathers.I'd like to mention a few points which hopefully contribute to the discussion. 1. The laws regarding the validity and...
on ASK FATHER: A priest asks, can we use the English translations in Weller’s 3 volumes to bless things, etc., in the Extraordinary Form? Here comes the BAD NEWS, Fathers.Thanks Father! i am in a Secret Santa to get a gift for a cleric and this looks to fit...
on ASK FATHER: A priest asks, can we use the English translations in Weller’s 3 volumes to bless things, etc., in the Extraordinary Form? Here comes the BAD NEWS, Fathers.Also father I believe the original question was asking if Weller could be used in Latin. He doesn't mention saying... on ASK FATHER: A priest asks, can we use the English translations in Weller’s 3 volumes to bless things, etc., in the Extraordinary Form? Here comes the BAD NEWS, Fathers.Would using the English translation to bless Holy Water, for example, be illicit but still valid? That is would the...
on ASK FATHER: A priest asks, can we use the English translations in Weller’s 3 volumes to bless things, etc., in the Extraordinary Form? Here comes the BAD NEWS, Fathers.Father is right: the 1961 Collectio is almost impossible to find. I think I may have seen a copy, once....
on ASK FATHER: A priest asks, can we use the English translations in Weller’s 3 volumes to bless things, etc., in the Extraordinary Form? Here comes the BAD NEWS, Fathers.I wonder what the feasibility is of a new edition of Weller, edited and in conformity with the ‘59 or...
on USS Bonhomme Richard to be decommissioned and scrapped. Link to some history, including priest martyrs of the French Terror.Thanks Fr. Z for post and links. ocsousn: Ah, morning nautical twilight in the Indian Ocean, the ship engines thrumming...
on ASK FATHER: A priest asks, can we use the English translations in Weller’s 3 volumes to bless things, etc., in the Extraordinary Form? Here comes the BAD NEWS, Fathers.Playing devil's advocate, given that blessings nowadays are usually of the "wing-it" variety anyway, what's wrong with using English translations...
on ASK FATHER: A priest asks, can we use the English translations in Weller’s 3 volumes to bless things, etc., in the Extraordinary Form? Here comes the BAD NEWS, Fathers.Is the Latin side OK to use, or does the Latin not accord with the (Latin) texts in force in...
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on USS Bonhomme Richard to be decommissioned and scrapped. Link to some history, including priest martyrs of the French Terror.Ah, sad news. I have an old friend who's a Navy chaplain who once served on that vessel. I'll take... on ADVENTCAzT 2020 04: “Do Thou in Thy clemency withdraw the scourge of Thy wrath!”"Welcome Thy people's return to Thee." Amen. 
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on USS Bonhomme Richard to be decommissioned and scrapped. Link to some history, including priest martyrs of the French Terror.I just read it, Fr. Z -- and it is fascinating. Thank you. A trope on the Navy Hymn: O...
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The Honus Wagner card brings back great memories from the baseball card craze of the early 1990s. Many a night, I hoped to discover a long forgotten hoard of cards in a wall panel.
The Crosier reminds me of one shown in Fr Collin’s “The Vatican” It belonged to Cardinal Karl August von Reisach. It has a total ivory crook with inlayed with sapphires and rubies. Around the knob of the staff are carved ivory figures of Saints Benno, Sebastian, Rupert and Corbinian.
Who is the young lady?
Jack,
Probably nobody knows her name or who she was.
The Fayum mummy portraits (so called because most of them were discovered in the necropolis at Fayum, south of Cairo) were highly collectible and were discovered long before the advent of scientific archaeology. As a result, the overwhelming majority were separated from their context (as well as the mummy itself and any inscription thereon) and sold on the art market many, many years ago.
Unless she was one of the 70-odd mummies excavated right around the turn of the century by British archaeologist Flinders Petrie, in which case the Met may have her name. But Petrie donated most of those to British museums and colleges. It really is a shame because the original inscriptions not only gave the names of the deceased, but in many cases their family and their rank and occupation. Most of them were well-to-do government officials, merchants, bankers, etc. of the Graeco-Roman community at Fayum.
It’s interesting that contemporary literature reflects a strong tradition of panel portraiture that tracked the Roman custom of portrait busts, but very few have survived except the Fayum panels, which were perfectly preserved in the desert climate.
What cool art objects you found, Father Z!
I’d love to get to the Met someday!