Remember our discussion of Ruoppolo’s grapes? You know, the ones with the weirdly shaped berries and the confused synonymy? Well, something looking remarkably similar has just turned up in a tweet featuring a photo of a carving from Palmyra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site under threat in Syria.
The grapes of wrath – beautiful stone carving in #Palmyra #Syria – @UNESCO World Heritage Site under threat pic.twitter.com/Nnaq6lFtHO
— Matthew Ward Hunter (@HistoryNeedsYou) May 15, 2015
Strangely-shaped grapes obviously go back a long way.