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Multicolored mummy beads redesigned on a modern setting with a faience amulet of Ptah, the creator-God of Memphis (1¼”). 305-30 BC (23”)
Glazed brick animals from the Ishtar Gate, Babylon.
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Carved alabaster statue of a standing bearded worshipper with wavy hair, upper body bare, wearing a skirt with a tufted border on a base, the hands clasped together in an attitude of devotion. Incised cuneiform on the back. 2500 BC (9" x 3")
Macedonian. Silver Philip II drachm coin, the obverse with the portrait, the reverse with a horse-drawn chariot. 359-336 BC (½")
Centaure marin portant un silène
Oeuvre romaine d'époque impériale (Ier - IIe siècle après J.-C.)
Découverte sur le mont Esquilin, Rome (Italie)
Marbre
H. : 1,15 m. ; l. : 1,37 m. ; L. : 1,25 m.
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An aficionado of history as I am, I instantly recognized this man as Caracalla, the Roman Emperor whose reign marked the beginning of the end of the stability of the pre-Christian Empire. Perhaps his most notable act was to grant Roman citizenship to every free inhabitant of the Empire.
Top viewed photograph of Dec 15, 2010.
"Affresco parietale con Ulisse e le Sirene, Rome.
Among the few preserved examples of 1st century B.C. wall paintings that decorated Roman houses and villas, these frescoes depicting scenes from the Odyssey represent a truly unique masterpiece. The frescoes were found during the excavation of a domus on the Esquiline.
The painting, dated to the end of the Republican period, was divided into a series of panels by architectural partitions.
The scene presents the famous story of Odysseus and the mermaids [sirens] in which the Greek hero had his companions tie him to the main mast of his ship to resist the enchanted song with which the mermaids [sirens] attracted sailors to wreck their ships.
The scene is set in a vast landscape that derives from known Hellenistic models of the second century B.C. The landscape has stylistic affinities with the frescoes from the House of Livia on the Palatine, dating to ca. 300 B.C.
Some contemporary frescoes of a lesser quality found in Roman towns in the area around Naples and Vesuvius compare with the painting on display."
Inv. 261833
The info comes from the museum, except that the painting has sirens, who are half bird, not mermaids, who are half fish.
Taken in the Palazzo Massimo Alle Terme, a National Museum of Rome.
Glazed brick animals from the Ishtar Gate, Babylon.
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Oxford. Ashmolean Museum. Fiale àtic de figures negres. Apol·lo i Hèracles es barallen mentre Àrtemis intenta separa-los.
is pure art.
I love it. I'm proud to be a Chinese because of that.
During a school field trip to the Shanghai Theatre Academy.
The Siren (Sirenen). By French painter Paul Albert Besnard, 1849-1934.
Taken at the Glyptoteket in Copenhagen, Denmark.
1st c. AD, Capua.
He was a teacher.
Qui cum dum haberet clausam in castello anim[u]/lam mortalem ad superos licitum est [f]initam ad diem p[a]rce / pudensque vixit omni tempore / Auruncus era[t] Fu[r]ius erat nomine / magister ludi litterari Philocalus summa quom castitate in / discipulos suos idemque testamenta scripsit cum fide nec / quoiquam pernegavit laesit neminem ita [de]cucurrit vitam / fidus sine metu eius ossa nunc hic sita sunt posita a centuri(i)s
Now in Naples National Archaeological Museum.
Museum of Roman Civilisation.
Scylla Group. Cast reconstruction of the Archaeologist Bernard Andrea. Haus der Kunst Munich. By www.ontravelwriting.com
A Clear Overview of an Ancient Art Form
An amazing array of ancient glass, both decorative and functional, is presented from the outstanding collection at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh. A short introduction gives an overview of the museum's vast vitreous holdings. The pieces are arranged by method of manufacture and cover a vast geographic area encompassing the Near East, North Africa, and Europe. Chapters cover colored glass from the 7th through the 1st century B.C., cast glass from the 2nd century B.C. through the 1st century A.D., early blown glass of the 1st century A.D., mold-blown glass through the 2nd century A.D., free-blown glass of the first two centuries, flasks from the 1st through 3rd century, Syro-Palestinian cups and dishes of the 4th century, pitchers and cups (and a few other forms) from the 3rd through 5th centuries, mold-blown glass from the 3rd through 6th centuries, Sassanian and post-Sassanian glass of the 4th through 8th centuries, and Islamic glass from the 7th through 11th centuries.
Freestanding double-headed terracotta votive statue with birdlike features, beak-like pinched nose, expressive button-hole eyes,wearing high crowns, wide shoulders and the hands to the chest. 3000 BC (5" x 2 ¼" )
The famous ancient indian rock art known as "Tsagaglalal" or "She Who Watches" located in the Columbia Hills State Park in Washington as part of the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area. There are several legends of "Tsagaglalal"
Quoted from Wikipedia 6/6/08 "There are several versions of the legend, but the one told by the Wishram people is as follows:
A woman had a house where the village of Nixluidix was later built. She was chief of all who lived in the region. That was a long time before Coyote came up the river and changed things and people were not yet real people. After a time Coyote in his travels came to this place and asked the inhabitants if they were living well or ill. They sent him to their chief who lived up on the rocks, where she could look down on the village and know what was going on.
Coyote climbed up to the house on the rocks and asked "What kind of living do you give these people? Do you treat them well or are you one of those evil women?" "I am teaching them to live well and build good houses," she said.
"Soon the world will change," said Coyote, "and women will no longer be chiefs." Then he changed her into a rock with the command, "You shall stay here and watch over the people who live here."
All the people know that Tsagaglalae sees all things, for whenever they are looking at her those large eyes are watching them."