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.

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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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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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