The Benty Grange hanging bowl is a fragmentary Anglo-Saxon artefact from
the seventh century CE. All that remains are parts of two escutcheons:
bronze frames that are usually circular and elaborately decorated, and
that sit along the outside of the rim or at the interior base of a
hanging bowl. A third disintegrated soon after excavation. The
escutcheons were found in 1848 by an antiquary, Thomas Bateman, in a
tumulus in north-western Derbyshire. The grave also contained the boar-
crested Benty Grange helmet. The surviving escutcheons are made of
enamelled bronze and are 40 mm (1.6 in) in diameter. They show three
dolphin-like creatures arranged in a circle, each biting the tail of the
one ahead of it (design shown). Their bodies and the background are made
of enamel, likely all yellow, with the creatures' outlines and eyes
tinned or silvered, as are the borders of the escutcheons. The third
escutcheon was of a different size and style and it may have originally
been placed at the bottom of the bowl.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benty_Grange_hanging_bowl>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1933:
USS Ranger, the United States Navy's first purpose-built
aircraft carrier, was launched.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Ranger_%28CV-4%29>
1951:
After being postponed due to World War II, the inaugural Pan
American Games opened in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_American_Games>
1994:
Israeli physician Baruch Goldstein opened fire on Muslim Arabs
praying at the mosque in Hebron's Cave of the Patriarchs, killing 29
people and wounding 125 others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_of_the_Patriarchs_massacre>
2009:
At their headquarters in Pilkhana, members of the Bangladesh
Rifles began a mutiny that resulted in 82 deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Rifles_revolt>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
simulacrum:
1. A physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing.
2. A thing which has the appearance or form of another thing, but not
its true qualities; a thing which simulates another thing; an imitation,
a semblance.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/simulacrum>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Give me love, give me peace on earth, Give me light, give me
life, keep me free from birth, Give me hope, help me cope, with this
heavy load, Trying to, touch and reach you with, heart and soul.
--George Harrison
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Harrison>