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Bighorn sheep and a buck (or possibly elk bull) along with other drawings are etched into a rock on the "Temani Pesh-wa" trail (also "written on rock" trail) in Columbia Hills State Park on the Washington Side of the Columbia River Gorge. This petroglyph was removed from the famous "Petroglyoh Canyon" along the Columbia River before it was flooded by construction of The Dalles Dam in 1957. The Army Corps Of Engineers stored the rock art until 2004 when Temani Pesh-wa trail was built.
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.
Terracotta bottle with a cone shaped body, short neck and pointed bottom. Ptolemaic. 305-30 BC (9 ½" x 4")
Notable for Greek letters displayed here that make no words. Just filling space--a technique called "Greeking"
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.
This is a 'wise man' or 'sage'. Babylonian tradition says that there were seven Apkallu who lived at the beginning of time before the flood. They were sent by the god Ea to teach wisdom to humans.
They are shown as humans with wings. Some have the head of a bird, while others don't have wings and are dressed in the skin of a fish.
They protected people and sometimes hold a bucket and cone for purifying.
100-200 AD, Newstead Fort and Niedermormter.
National Museum Scotland and Bonn Landesmuseum.
British Museum.
Sátiro en reposo / Satyros anapoumenos. Vaciado en yeso de XVII de una copia romana de un original griego atribuído a Praxíteles.
Exposición "Velázquez. Esculturas para el alcázar."
Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.
520–510 B.C.
An engraved scarab gem is set on a gold swivel made of two wires, one twisted and one straight, which terminate as discs with lion masks. The scene shows the arming of the Greek hero Achilles (Achle in Etruscan), who stoops at right to fasten on a greave over his shin. He wears a crested Corinthian helmet and a bronze corselet. The undergarment is shown by loops over his thighs and buttocks. Facing him in the center is the god of metalworking, Hephaistos (Sethlans), bearded and bare-headed, holding a pair of spears vertically and a shield with a flying bird blazon. He wears a knee-length tunic. Hephaistos' feet and toes are angled backwards, indicating his lameness. Behind him, Achilles’ mother Thetis (Thethis), who commissioned the god to make her son’s extraordinary armor, advances to the right, raising her right hand in a greeting and resting her left hand on her hip. She wears a chiton, himation, and a head scarf. At the bottom the figures stand on a cross-hatched exergue; the engraved scene is framed by a line and dot border.
This gem is attributed to the Master of the Boston Dionysos, named for a gem in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The engraver, who was responsible for a group of eight or so stylistically similar intaglios, is the earliest and most accomplished Etruscan gem-carver. Although none have been found in an archaeological context, stylistically his work dates to the late 6th and early 5th centuries B.C.
Pentelic Marble
Copya after a Hellenistic original of the secondo century BC.
From the Horti Maecenatiani, found in the area near the Auditorium in 1876
Apareció en : Stilus IV- La llamada del oro : es.scribd.com/doc/36252560/Stilus-4-La-llamada-del-oro
Vaciado en yeso de XVII de copia romana de original griego del s. IV a. C.
Atribuido a Lisipo.
Exposición "Velázquez. Esculturas para el alcázar."
Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.
Rolling rock. This boulder has moved at least once and maybe twice. The upside down masks were done first , then the two anthropomorphs and then potentially the horse after the last movement.
"Encantadoramente desfallecida, corno si la noche no le hubiera reportado suficiente descanso" - Goethe
Budapest, 3rd c. AD.
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Aquincum Museum.
Oxford. Ashmolean Museum. Làpida procedent d'Esmirna pertanyent a la tomba del retiarius Martialis. 50-100 dC.
Painting and art have been around for the countless lives of man...Here high in the mountains of Costa Blanca, Spain we climbed in the hot mid-day sun to see 8,000 year old cave paintings....Totally mad...what we found was ancient art that could almost have been painted yesterday. The cave painting where almost modern, abstract or contemporary an not at all what I expected.
Ellie explains the meaning of the Benin plaques in the Sainsbury Galleries during Context Travel's British Museum tour
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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.