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26th Dynasty Egypt
664-525 BC
bronze and wood
Legion of Honor
Lincoln Park, San Francisco
gift of Adolph B. Spreckels Jr.
20181202_135708
Oxford. Ashmolean Museum. Escifos beoci amb Odisseu i Bòreas en una cara i Odisseu i Circe en l'altra. S. IV aC.
Toward the end of paganism and the beginning of the spread of Christianity, funerary stelae in Middle Egypt, particularly in the city of Bahnasa, took the form of a statue of the deceased inside a niche with a semi-dome ceiling.
This stela depicts a woman in a Greek dress, wrapping the mantle around her right arm in the form of an educated and cultured person. She wears a collar, necklace and bracelets indicating her high social status in Bahnasa.
Limestone
Roman Period (275-325 AD)
Provenance Bahnasa (Ancient Oxyrhynchos)
Coptic Art in the Graeco-Roman Museum
Alexandria Egypt
Ancient Roman. Blue mold-blown glass vessel with a neck, flaring lip, six beautiful amphora to the side, some iridescence and encrustation. 50-100 AD (2 ½" x 1 ¼")
The Mandapeshwar caves perhaps have the most tumultuous history of all the Mumbai caves, or so it would seem from the scars the walls still bear. A Hindu temple, it was targeted by the Portuguese, who asserted their religious beliefs over it by literally building a monastery and a church dedicated to Our Lady of Immaculate Conception on top of the cave temple. Fr. Porto founded the monastery and church in 1544.The Mandapeshwar caves were hewn out of a hillock about 1,600 years ago. At one time, the Dahisar river ran in front of it, but over time the course of the river changed and the caves now face a main road.In the 18th century the church was desecrated after the Battle of Bassein in which the Marathas defeated the Portuguese. They uncovered and worshipped the rock-cut sculptures again, but towards the end of the 18th century the British defeated the Marathas and the caves once again functioned as a place of Christian worship. After the end of colonial rule the church fell into disrepair and the caves gradually reverted to the worship of Siva. The church, including its roof, has been destroyed, but older local residents recall playing among the aisles and the nave of the church when they were children.A three-foot-high symbol of the cross, hewn out of a stone panel that once depicted mythical Hindu figures, stands at the entrance. It is the only remaining proof of Mandapeshwar’s historical past.
Asiatic marble
This head, larger than life-size, portrays a middle-aged man with voluminous hair and a full beard. To be dated between the late second and the early third century AD.
From th Esquiline, in the area near the church of S. Vito in (1875)
An exhibit of Tibetan Buddhist art accompanied the Dalai Lama to the Aspen Institute in July 2008. Here's a detail from the Mandala of Buddha Akshobhya from the 'Guhyasamajatantra.' Central Tibet, c. 1375, pigments on cotton. From the Pritzker collection. Taken with Nokia N78 cellphone.
Must have been a rich person buried in here. Click on a larger version and check out the quality of the sculpture on this coffin. Probably first century AD.
Glazed brick animals from the Ishtar Gate, Babylon.
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For Mother's Day 2008, I got a card and a book about ancient arts of jewelry making from my daughter. I just now finished making 4 of them: an ancient Greek brooch; royal Sumerian chaplet; Pompeian necklace; and Pharaoh's pectoral. I haven't done the native American beadwork bracelet yet but I have a cardboard bow loom to weave the bracelet. Seems like the Indian beadwork is time consuming, (that's why I haven't done it yet) but I might get a real small loom one of these days. Don't I wish the jewelry were real gold, lapis lazuli, carnelian, emerald, and feldspar!!!
Created with fd's Flickr Toys.