Memento Mori - Totem with Skulls - Buffalo bone

€135.00

Memento Mori - Totem with Skulls

Carving on Buffalo bone - Memento Mori

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Memento Mori - Totem with Skulls

Carving on Buffalo bone - Memento Mori

Memento Mori : Latin locution meaning "Remember that you will die".

In order to remind proud and power-hungry men of their common fatal fate: death.

During the triumph of a Roman general, the slave on the chariot holding the laurel wreath said the famous phrase reminding him of his condition of mere mortal: "Memento mori". In order to remind him to keep his feet on the ground...

Another variant: Hominem te esse: You too are only a man.

Material: Carved Buffalo bone - Blackened wood base

Total height: 9.5cm Diameter of the base: 3.8cm

All the memento mori are slightly different in terms of size, shape and colour, because they are made by hand from a natural material

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