大英博物館さんのインスタグラム写真 - (大英博物館Instagram)「🐙 The many-armed octopus has been mesmerizing us for millennia! 🐙 We’re marking #WorldOctopusDay with this 3000-year-old Greek wine jar. It was created by the Mycenaeans, a late-Bronze age culture who thrived around the Greek Aegean from 1600 to 1100 BC . The Myceaneans adopted the octopus motif from Minoan Crete, where it was used on prestigious items, decorating everything from ceramic coffins to large pottery vessels similar to this one 🏺 Such sea-creatures were no doubt as familiar to the ancient inhabitants of the Greek islands as they are to their modern counterparts today 🐙 🏛 See this outstanding octopus in Room 12 of the Museum on your next visit. The Arthur I Fleishman Gallery of Greece: Minoans and Mycenaeans. 🔎 Krater with an octopus. Ceramic, from Ialysus in Greece, 1375–1300 BC. #BritishMuseum #AncientGreece #Octopus」10月9日 18時45分