Short but interesting history of the tattoo by Cate Lineberry in Smithsonian Magazine. Shown here is a quite lovely Egyptian bowl (c. 1300 B.C.), housed in the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden, Amsterdam, which features a musician tattooed with an image of the household deity Bes on her thigh.
Friday, May 25, 2007
History of the Tattoo
Short but interesting history of the tattoo by Cate Lineberry in Smithsonian Magazine. Shown here is a quite lovely Egyptian bowl (c. 1300 B.C.), housed in the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden, Amsterdam, which features a musician tattooed with an image of the household deity Bes on her thigh.
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