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The crypt of Lund's Cathedral. Mostly unchanged for the last 900 years.
This is a pretty commonly photographed subject so I took a few liberties with the presentation, both in Photomatix and Silver Efex.
Criado por Satoshi Kamiya
Dobrado por Arturo Fonseca
Papel: double-tissue (duas folhas de seda coladas com CMC), 48cm
Livro: Works of Satoshi Kamiya
Finally, after 7 years since I discovered this model, I managed to fold it! I had tried to fold it twice in the past but the paper that I used was horrible and I couldn't move forward. That is my first contact with the double-tissue paper. It's really thin but I thought it was a bit "slippy". Anyway, I am very happy with the result! :)
Finalmente, depois de mais ou menos 7 anos desde que eu conheci esse modelo, consegui dobra-lo! Já tinha tentado umas duas vezes no passado mas o papel que eu usava era muito ruim e eu não conseguia avançar. Esse é o meu primeiro contato com double-tissue, ele realmente é muito fino mas um pouco "escorregante" também. Enfim, estou muito feliz com o resultado. :)
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Good lights to all of you, fellows.
Man seems to receive a blessing from an ancient Greek woman from the late 4th century B.C. at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Ancient Kremna.....Thirteen km southeast of Bucak, the remote mountainside site of Kremna was originally settled by the warlike Psidians who also settled nearby Sagalassos and Termessos. Inevitably, though, what you see at the site today dates from after it was absorbed into the Roman Empire in 25BC on the death of the Galatian ruler Amyntas who had made it part of his kingdom. Kremna apparently means "cliff" in Ancient Greek and as soon as you reach the site you will understand why. At the end of a partially tarmacked track you find yourself facing ruins that back straight onto a plug of rock rising straight up from a meadow. It's a glorious location, utterly wild and remote, and from it the Psidians would have had the most fantastic view of anybody. It's easy to think this is a timeless view but in fact the lake you will see from the summit was formed recently by the Karacaören Barajı (Dam). The surviving ruins are actually quite slight. The most obvious surviving structure is an enclosed square with huge niches at the back and a series of plinths with Greek inscriptions that presumably once supported statues. This is believed to have been a library. Other than that there are the standing remains of a monumental gateway and some tiered steps that may once have been a bouleterion (council house). What was presumably the agora is now a mass of fallen grey masonry, much of it carved.
Natural living art, This is the bark from the trunk of a 2000 year old yew tree growing in a church yard at Molash in Kent
Wikipedia: The Yew trees in the churchyard are 2,000 years old.
photo © Jeremy Sage
The Roman Army Barracks were busy crowded places. There was constant bustle and activity on most days, with soldiers training, marching to guard duty, delivering food and equipment or working on maintenance.
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Ancient Nabatean water cistern on Jabal Haroun (Mount Aaron) in Petra, Jordan. Water level is very low due to an exceptionally dry rainy season.
Stereographic projection.
Full 360° view here
Ancient Aspendos......located to the east of Antalya and is famous for its best-preserved ancient amphitheater built in the 2nd century AD during the reign of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius. The theater has a capacity of 15,000 people and is still used today for performances and festivals. Its galleries, stage decorations and acoustics all testify to its architect Xeno's success. Next to the stage there is a small room which is used as a small museum where you can see some of the masks and clay tickets from the ancient times. Just above the theater there is the acropolis with a great view of the river from the top, where you can see a basilica, an agora, a nymphaeum and and a bouleuterion (council), all of them in ruins. About one kilometer north of the town there is one of the largest Roman aqueducts in Anatolia which supplied Aspendos with water. The river passing next to the city is called Köprüçay (ancient Euromydon) and was navigable once upon a time. This was also the place where the Persians used to breed their horses between 6th-4th centuries B.C. during their rule in Asia Minor. According to the legend, Aspendos was first founded by Greek colonists who came to Pamphylia region after the Trojan War. There are also possibilities that the city could be founded by the Hittites. Aspendos was one of the cities in this region to mint silver coins under its own name. Together with their neighbors Perge, Aspendos was also left under the Persian rule between 6th and 5th centuries BC, then became a member of the Attic-Delos Maritime confederation after its liberation by the Athenians. But later in the 5th century BC Persians captured the city again and stayed there until the arrival of Alexander the Great in 333 BC. After the death of Alexander, the city was controlled by the Seleucids, and then the Kingdom of Pergamum until 133 B.C. when the Romans took over Pergamon.
The name Delphi comes from the same root as δελφύς delphys, "womb" and may indicate archaic veneration of Gaia at the site. Apollo is connected with the site by his epithet Δελφίνιος Delphinios, "the Delphinian". The epithet is connected with dolphins (Greek δελφίς,-ῖνος) in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo (line 400), recounting the legend of how Apollo first came to Delphi in the shape of a dolphin, carrying Cretan priests on his back. (Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi)
Lens shift
This Buddha image is inside of a stupa dated back to the 13th century in a town called Indein, close to Inle Lake in Myanmar.
This particular stupa had a large entry way and the area that the Buddha image was placed was open to the sky, letting in some beautiful light. Plants and roots grew down into the room, enhancing the feeling of an ancient civilization.
Here I visualized the sand dunes with the La Sal Mountains in the background. I wanted to capture the shear vastness of the area and add the mountains to show it as the backdrop.
The Ancient Lakes area is a series of lakes that visually transcend a person back in time to the Ice age and the formation of Lake Bonneville cataclysmic events of the earth shifting over hot spots like Yellowstone Park hundreds of miles to the south east. Colossal Basalt columnar rock line the entire area in spectacular heated exchanges of wild geological formations that are visual and easily photographed. Some Jaw dropping events took place in this area including the culmination of the Last Horse Roundup of 1906-1912... where over 5,000 wild horses were stashed in wait for shipment to North Dakota as Remounts... for War efforts.
Ancient Healing Structures.. Each structure had its own unique frequency encoded in the rose windows, now closed by glass and deactivated. These ancient structures could have been created by sound.. Sound is the substance of Creation... "And God said, Let there be light: and there was light."
Genesis 1:3
Inspiration from InTheLoveitsnofear on tg
Ancient Roman temples are among the most visible archaeological remains of Roman culture, and are a significant source for Roman architecture. Their construction and maintenance was a major part of ancient Roman religion.
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Ancient Myra.... was a leading city of the Lycian Union and surpassed Xanthos in early Byzantine times to become the capital city of Lycia. Its remains are situated about 1.5 km north of today's Demre, on the Kaş-Finike road. Most of the ancient city is now covered by Demre and alluvial silts, for it is located on the river Demre Cay in a fertile alluvial plain. Today this large plain is almost covered with greenhouses stuffed full of tomatoes. In ancient times this area was probably farmed extensively, for export and trade with the interior of Lycia. The date of Myra's foundation is unknown. There is no literary mention of it before the 1st century BC, when it is said to be one of the six leading cities of the Lycian Union (the other five were Xanthos, Tlos, Pinara, Patara and Olympos). It is believed to date back much further however, as an outer defensive wall has been dated to the 5th century BC. The city is well known for its amphitheatre (the largest in Lycia) and the plethora of rock-cut tombs carved in the cliff above the theatre. The origin of Myra's name is uncertain and may be a modified form of a Lycian name, like Tlos and Patara. The name was popularly associated with the Greek name for myrrh and the emperor Constantine Porphrogenitus describled the city as "Thrice blessed, myrrh-breathing city of the Lycians, where the mighty Nicolaus, servant of God, spouts forth myrrh in accordance with the city's name." However, Myra does not seem to be known for its production of myrrh, the only product actually recorded is rue. Myra once had a great temple of the goddess Artemis Eleuthera (a distinctive form of Cybele, the ancient mother goddess of Anatolia), said to be Lycia's largest and most splendid building. It was built on large grounds with beautiful gardens and had an inner court defined by columns, an altar and a statue of the goddess. Not a trace of it remains today, however, since St. Nicholas (the bishop of Myra in the 4th century AD) in his zeal to stamp out paganism in the region, had the temple of Artemis, along with many other temples, completely destroyed. See more about St. Nicholas below. In Roman times the emperor Germanicus and his wife Agrippina paid Myra a visit in 18 AD and were honoured with statues of themselves erected in Myra's harbour (Andriace, located 5 km southwest of Myra). St. Paul changed ships at Myra's port on his way to his trial in Rome, in about 60 AD, after he had been arrested in Jerusalem after being charged with inciting to riot. Andriace was a chief port for Egyptian vessels passing through the area; Egypt was the breadbasket of the Roman Empire and the imperial government had a fleet of grain ships that carried grain to Rome and other parts of the Empire. Andriace was a major trans-shipment point for grain from Alexandria - grain came from the plain near Myra, and was also possibly brought in by boats, to be shipped onwards from Lycia. It is likely that Paul made the trip to Rome on a grain ship, these were often used to transport passengers as well. Emperor Hadrian visited Myra in 131 AD and built a huge granary at Andriace composed of seven rooms and decorated with portraits of himself and his wife who accompanied him on his visit. You can still see the granary as you drive along the main Kaş-Finike highway into Demre (the western part of Demre). The Eastern Roman emperor Theodosius II made Myra the capital of the Byzantine Eparchy Lycia until the city fell to the caliph Harun ar-Rashid in 808 AD after a seige and quickly went into decline. Then, early in the reign of Alexius I Comnenus (1081-1118 AD), Myra was overtaken by Seljuk invaders. Because of the terrible plague that swept through Anatolia (Myra lost one-third of its population to it in 542-3 AD), Muslim raids, flooding and earthquakes, Myra was mostly abandoned by the 11th century. What remains is very impressive - a large theatre with the backdrop of Myra’s famous rock-cut tombs. The sight of these is quite striking.
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not a radically different shot from my previous visit here, but i do love it up there. so ancient and mysterious.
Home to at least 120,000 items of ancient Egyptian antiquities, the Egyptian Museum is one of Cairo’s top attraction. It consists of artifacts from the final two dynasties of Ancient Egypt and also many artifacts taken from the Valley of the Kings. Highlights include the objects from the Tomb of Tutankhamen and the Royal Mummy Room containing 27 royal mummies from pharaonic times. www.ask-aladdin.com/
6th Millennium B.C.E., H. 6.3 cm.
Carved from a small stone block of yellow/ochre base color spotted with black, the statuette represents a seated woman with rounded and generous shapes, like those of the so-called “steatopygic” Neolithic figures : the prominent belly, the full breasts and the rounded buttocks could indicate that the woman is pregnant. The figurine is whole, but the head was glued and small fragments are restored.
The folded legs of the woman form a sort of square and thick base that supports the straight, squat chest. The arms, slightly bent, are placed on the belly and on the left knee ; only small triangular stumps mark the hands. The low and massive neck is surmounted by a head with an elongated face, covered with a short hair held in place by a headband on the skull and by a thick chignon on the crown. Several anatomical details referring to the senses are indicated on the face : the long and triangular nose, the almond-shaped eyes and the small ear bumps. The navel is slightly engraved.
Disregarding the differences in the style and in the selected stone, our example belongs to a class of seated statuettes of reduced size, attested by a few other pieces (see, for example, the Menil collection, the Levy-White collection, the Schimmel collection, the Borowski collection).
One of the theories most commonly accepted places steatopygic statuettes in context with the religious sphere : they would be closely related to (or would represent) the Mother Goddess who, during the Prehistoric period, would have been a major mythological figure protecting human fecundity as well as fields and herds fertility ; this figure would have been worshipped in a very wide and varied area, ranging from Near East to Western Central Europe. The exaggeration of sexual characteristics and the generous shapes of the figurines are the best arguments in favor of this hypothesis, which has yet shortcomings : on the one hand, no concrete archaeological evidence does support the existence of this goddess and on the other, the fact that broken figurines were thrown rather than repaired makes it difficult to believe that these statuettes could represent a divinity.
Mostly modeled of terracotta (stone examples are rare), the figures of steatopygic women probably originated from Anatolia (Catal Hüyük, Hacilar), but they were largely spread over a vast area extending from northern Syria (Tell Bouqras) to the Aegean world.
Bibliography
MUSCARELLA O.W. (ed.), Ancient Art, The N. Schimmel Collection, Mainz on Rhine, 1974, n. 120.
The Menil Collection, Newly Updated Edition, New York, p. 17, n. 4.
VON BOTHMER D., Glories of the Past, Ancient Art from the S. White and L. Levy Collection, New York, 1990, p. 7, n. 3.
Kunst und Kultur der Kykladen, Karlsruhe, 1975, p. 560, n. 553-554 (coll. Borowski).
On the “Mother Goddess” :
LIGABUE G. (ed.), Dea Madre, Milan, 2006 (see especially pp. 112-113 and 132-133).
Ancient Kremna......Thirteen km southeast of Bucak, the remote mountainside site of Kremna was originally settled by the warlike Psidians who also settled nearby Sagalassos and Termessos. Inevitably, though, what you see at the site today dates from after it was absorbed into the Roman Empire in 25BC on the death of the Galatian ruler Amyntas who had made it part of his kingdom. Kremna apparently means "cliff" in Ancient Greek and as soon as you reach the site you will understand why. At the end of a partially tarmacked track you find yourself facing ruins that back straight onto a plug of rock rising straight up from a meadow. It's a glorious location, utterly wild and remote, and from it the Psidians would have had the most fantastic view of anybody. It's easy to think this is a timeless view but in fact the lake you will see from the summit was formed recently by the Karacaören Barajı (Dam). The surviving ruins are actually quite slight. The most obvious surviving structure is an enclosed square with huge niches at the back and a series of plinths with Greek inscriptions that presumably once supported statues. This is believed to have been a library. Other than that there are the standing remains of a monumental gateway and some tiered steps that may once have been a bouleterion (council house). What was presumably the agora is now a mass of fallen grey masonry, much of it carved.
I never tired or got used to seeing all the ancient structures in Rome.
This is probably from the Foro Romano (Roman Forum) which was originally an Etruscan burial ground. The Forum was developed in 7th century BC expanding over centuries to become the center of the Roman Republic. In the Middle Ages it became pasture land , Campo Vaccino and was plundered for its marble. The area was systematically excavated in the 18th and 19th centuries and work continues to this day.
Stylobate and peristyle of The Temple of Aphaia on Aegina.
c. 500 BCE.
Note the stone drainage channel.
If you go to Greece, visit this temple.
Photo: 22 Oct 1985.
There are many ancient olive trees here.
Teos (Ancient Greek: Τέως) or Teo was an ancient Greek city on the coast of Ionia, on a peninsula between Chytrium and Myonnesus. It was founded by Minyans from Orchomenus, Ionians and Boeotians, but the date of its foundation is unknown. Teos was one of the twelve cities which formed the Ionian League. The city was situated on a low hilly isthmus. Its ruins are located to the south of the modern town Sığacık in the Seferihisar district of Izmir Province, Turkey.
Teos, the important commercial harbour on the Ionian coast, was one of the most powerful cities of the region until the Hellenistic period. The remains of the city lie very close to the present Siğacik, within about 30 km from Smyrna. The name is Greek but its etymology remains unknown.1
Teos was founded during the Ionian colonisation, which must have started towards the 10th century BC at the latest. According to tradition,2 the first settler of the city was Athamas with his Minyans from the ancient Boeotian city of Orchomenus. The next settlers were the Ionians under Apoecus and shortly later a third group of immigrants from Athens under Damasus and Nauclus, the sons of Codrus, and from Boeotia under Geres settled there.
The city was one of the earliest members of the Ionian Dodecapolis, as indicated by the fact that colonists from Teos and Erythrae settled in Phokea, whose first inhabitants were Aeolians. Tradition says that the fall of Phokea to the Ionians from Teos and Erythrae was considered a submission of Phokea to the kings of the two above cities so that Teos could become a member of the Ionian union.3 Around 600 BC Thales of Miletus suggested that a political union of the Ionian cities should be based in Teos thanks to the ideal location of the city exactly in the middle of Ionia.
History
Pausanias writes that the city was founded by Minyans from Orchomenus under the leadership of Athamas, a descendant of Athamas the son of Aeolus. Later on they were joined by Ionians and more colonists from Athens and Boeotia.[1]
Teos was a flourishing seaport with two fine harbours until Cyrus the Great invaded Lydia and Ionia (c. 540 BC). The Teans found it prudent to retire overseas, to the newly founded colonies of Abdera in Thrace and Phanagoria on the Asian side of the Cimmerian Bosporus. The port was revived by Antigonus Cyclops. During the times of the Roman emperors, the town was noted for its wine, a theatre and Temple of Dionysus. These are positioned near the acropolis, which is situated on a low hill and had fortifications by the 6th century. A shipwreck near Tektaş, a small rock outcrop near Teos harbour, dates from the Classical period (around the 6th to the 4th centuries BC) and implies trading connections by sea with eastern Aegean Islands.
It was a member of the Lydian group of the Ionian League, one of the four groups defined by Herodotus, based on the particular dialects of the cities. It was the birthplace of Anacreon the poet, Hecateus the historian, Protagoras the sophist, Scythinus the poet, Andron the geographer, Antimachus the epic poet and Apellicon, the preserver of the works of Aristotle. Epicurus reportedly grew up in Teos and studied there under Nausiphanes, a disciple of Democritus.[2][3] Vitruvius notes Hermogenes of Priene as the architect of the monopteral temple of Dionysus at Teos.
An interesting rental agreement chiseled into stone was uncovered in 2016 in the ruins of Teos