Librarians are Incredibly Useful

Yes, globetrotting Twilight is fun, but she also provides a very useful service.
A sense of scale:



Can you believe the intricacy and detail on that tiny cylinder seal?

Comments

[Gyro Pony]

What can we say ?
Truly, society employed artisans, having apprenticed for the best part of their lives, for even small things.

Today? Just bung it out of a factory, produced by the lowest paid workers.

[iisaw]

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And get it designed by AI, so you don't need artists at all! What a world.

I would love a hand-sculpted Twilight Sparkle figurine, but I suppose I'd have to do it myself. (In my copious spare time, of course.) Hmn... bas-relief in white limestone would look good, I think.
There's already one of teen-aged Spike:
i.ibb.co/drc3qyS/IMG-1655.jpg

[Frith]

Is that cylinder clear wax or some kind of rock? I misread the inscription behind Twilight as lièvre so I thought Are they blind? That is totally a ram, not a hare!. On third or fourth look, I guess it says chèvre. Good enough. Bouk would have better.

[Spamotron]

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Even in the modern day patience and passion can do incredible things.

[iisaw]

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Yep, I checked the other pictures, and it's chèvre. The Louvre sometimes has funky labelling. They had a broken board of The Royal Game of Ur, or the Game of Twenty Squares, and it was just labeled jeu. Not very helpful.

The seal is made from chalcedony, a quartz / moganite mixture and very hard.

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Those are amazing! Thanks for the link. Still, the guy who carved that seal didn't even have a magnifying glass, let alone a microscope! Damned good artist, astounding eyesight!

[Spamotron]

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You're welcome. On a related tangent. If you're interested in people keeping traditional skills alive I also recomend Business Insider's Still Standing playlist.

[Gyro Pony]

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Amazing work.

I loved the micro reading glasses!
What creature did he commission that from?