Sometimes, one is just out of place.
We’ve all been there.
Square peg in a round hole, we stick out like a sore thumb; and our whole demeanour shouts awkward. The song puts it so well.
So there I was, strolling through the Ashmolean, looking at the history of mankind with undisguised awe, when I happened upon a glass case with a range of objects in it from Very Ancient Cyprus. I’m talking second millenmium BC here.
Jugs and juglets, bowls with wishbone handles, ancient red and grey clay arranged there for us all to goggle at.
And there she was, in the centre of the display:
They don’t even know who she was, poor soul. They hazard Astarte, the Cypriot Aphrodite. But she could be called Mavis for all they really know.
To her chagrin, they may not know her name but they know her age. She was born between 1450 and 1200 BC. That’s a lot of face cream, let me tell you.
My days are busy, my wordage low, but I feel we should honour her with a caption today. I wonder what she is saying?
Kate Shrewsday 
Well my boobs are still perky, see if you can be this good at my age!
😀 Sidey, we must ask her what her secret is….
definitely. after all gravity had been invented back then
Made me laugh like I haven’t in weeks, Kate! Poor dear 🙂
I know. there’s always someone worse off, isn’t there, Wanderlust?
Years, I’ve been here, millennia in the public view. In my pants. No it doesn’t get easier. You try being number 41 in her pants.
I laughed out loud, Fiona 😀 Number 41 in her pants. The beginning of an epic, as far as I’m concerned.
She has the look of someone who suffered unusually bad facio maxillary surgery. She should have asked the guy, who did her jugs, to finish the job on her eyes and cheekbones. It looks like the guy who made the jugs, between which she has been placed, thought he could do surgery as well as make pots. His ancestors live on – I saw some of their work on TV last night:)
I think prehistoric potter was better at jugs than faces, Roger. As you say: it was ever thus, and still is today…
‘get me the hell outer here Kate’ 🙂
I think that one is very close to the truth, Gabrielle. If one is going to stand in a glass case under the gaze of academics and tourists alike, one should be permitted to find a decent frock first.
Does standing on this platform make me look fat?
Hi Dawn 😀 If I were standing there, that would be what I’d be saying….
She looks pensive and is holding flowers. Is she waiting for someone ? Then she’s thinking ‘will he come?’.
Oh, Karen, the thought had never occurred to me, and you’re right. Her red pot bloke is about two millennia late. No wonder her face is the way it is 😀
All this wine in vases all around me and my darn arms are just too short, dang.
Ha! So near and yet so far, Lou….and all that time to spare….
I still need to pee.
This is when I really, really want to use that awful ROFL…. but I’ll restrain myself…poor old Mavis.
OMG! Bill Murray modeled his facial expressions in Caddyshack after her!
I LOVE, and have always loved, Bill Murray in this film. Him and the gophers. Perhaps that’s why I like Mavis so much…
Absolutely lovely Kate. Thank you.
Best regards,
Micheline
Hi Micheline! Thanks, as always, for coming along to read!
“Ow. I have a 3,000+ year wedgie.”
Ouch! 😀
Curses! Same idea, but you put it better!
Haha. I’m not sure what that says about our minds!
Fertile Myrtle looks pensive as she helps another young couple create a life together.
Aw, that made me laugh, Steven. The happy juglet couple….
The Bronze Age Bully – was Jim Bowen in the next case?
😀 I’ll check my records, Jim. I expect he was.
Super smashin’ great!
Picasso why didn’t you take me with you in the time machine?
Alice, you’re right! Thank you! Here she is in happier times….http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-k03ftjd6uAQ/Ts0ahjrmw_I/AAAAAAAAAUg/_raGNJBXAQg/s1600/Pablo-Picasso-Woman-at-a-Window-7608.jpg
Excuse me sir, where is the nearest ladies’ room?
😀 Two thousand years is a very long tme to wait….
“I’m more than just a pretty face.”
I’d need some convincing…
“Ow! More than 3000 years with too-tight bikini pants!’
The kids wuvved the wonewy wittle petunia!
Those pants do look a little restrictive, Col! Glad the kids loved the song.
“I had to be born millennia before the underwire was invented! My back is killing me!”
😀 Poor soul, Debra….now I really do feel sorry for her…
Mavis? Bwahahaha. I had a good chuckle as you can tell!
😀 She looks just like a Mavis to me, Tandy!
They gave me underpants and no bra?
Ha! The very idea….it answers the question ‘which came first, the pants or the bra…’
“Does this pose make my butt look fat?”
😀 That made me chuckle, Penny…
Knew I shouldn’t have eaten that last piece of pie
She looks like I so often feel, Elspeth!
“You stole my hair!!!!”
Fun post Kate. Cracking up at all the clever comments 😀
It’s been a lively post, for sure, Madhu 🙂 Someone get that woman some hair!
“41? Forty ONE? Clearly, I should have been 42.”