大英博物館さんのインスタグラム写真 - (大英博物館Instagram)「Carefully carved over 11,000 years ago, this is the oldest known sculpture of two lovers 💕 Made of sparkling calcite, it shows the lovers face to face. One person has their arms around the shoulders of the other, whose legs are drawn up around the waist of the first. The figures are positioned together so intimately in this tender sexual embrace that it is impossible to make out their genders. It is made more explicit because the sculpture is ingeniously phallic whichever way you look at it. The sculpture dates to the early Natufian period when people in the western Middle East still lived by hunting gazelle but had begun to domesticate sheep and cattle. Regardless of who or what this couple may represent, the Ain Sakhri lovers have a tenderness which still moves us millennia after their creation. 🏛 See the sculpture on display in Room 51 of the Museum. 🔎 The Ain Sakhri lovers. Calcite, from the Levant, around 9000 BC. #BritishMuseum #Pride #LGBTQHistory」6月29日 18時56分