PugJesus
Cripple. History Major. Vaguely Left-Wing.
Alt of PugJesus for ensuring Fediverse compatibility and shit
Not well informed myself on the subject, but the artist describes it as:
Cutaway of a Zapotec burial tomb, located under a house, with the entrance opening up to a courtyard. This is how they did it far back in the day, about 2500 years ago, in Central America. Tombs were filled with lots of offerings, and previous remains of bodies were pushed further back in to make room for the newly departed.
Assignment for my Intro to Scientific Illustration class. Had to be crazy accurate, and was scrutinized by a Zapotec expert Archaeologist. This final configuration was my fifth attempt.
Supposedly, a scientific visualization of this type of Zapotec tomb/burial, had never been done before.
Pencil drawing colored in Photoshop.
https://www.deviantart.com/aaronjohngregory/art/Zapotec-Burial-Tomb-369618901
Explanation: Elagabalus was a teenaged Emperor of the 3rd century AD who became infamous for their (as their gender identity is an object of perpetual debate)… outrageous abuses of autocratic power in pursuit of personal gratification. How much of this is true and how much is sensationalism is up for debate, but it’s pretty accepted that Elagabalus did anything except wield power with wisdom or caution. Such is what happens when you put a goddamn teenager in charge of a continents-spanning empire.
Also, funny enough, the Roman Emperor Nero (also became Emperor while a teen and infamous for his abuses of power - seeing a pattern?) supposedly liked to dress up and protoyiff.
He so prostituted his own chastity that after defiling almost every part of his body, he at last devised a kind of game, in which, covered with the skin of some wild animal, he was let loose from a cage and attacked the private parts of men and women, who were bound to stakes, and when he had sated his mad lust, was dispatched by his freedman Doryphorus;
Better, I believe, though it also had problems with sprawl from growth. Back when it was Byzantium it got razed to the ground and rebuilt by Emperor Septimius Severus, so they had a clean slate to start from. I’m not real well informed on the topic of Byzantium/Constantinople/Istanbul, though.
