A votive gift ("tessera hospitalis") offered by an aristocratic Etruscan resident in Rome in the period of Tarquinius Priscus (616-578 B.C.)

Marble

Probably Claudian period, ca. AD 41- 51

Copy of a Greek bronze statue of ca. 450 BC, attributed to Polykleitos

It was fun and informative to see the original; I have a quite good reproduction of this, marketed by the museum's store, in my home.

1984-09 Stonehenge Roger Maria and Nobby Clark at Stonehenge

Carved black steatite stamp seal in the shape of a beetle: Four birds. Holes for wearability. 1000 BC (¾")

These columns are just gorgeous! This is a page from my travel Journal of my 2006 Europe trip - the layout of the Erechtheum/Karyitid porch

Bronze duck bill shaped digging tool with the shaft missing. Green patina. 1200 BC (4" x 2")

1st c. BC - 1st c. AD, from the House of Julia Felix, Pompeii, Naples National Archaeology Museum.

Grand Palais.

Angeblich entstand alles in einer unbedeutenden Mittagspause, in der ein winziges Ereignis eine gewaltige Kette von Gedanken in Gang setzte, die die Welt verändern sollten und im Zentrum steht, wie schon öfter in der Geschichte der Menschheit, ein APFEL! Ein Apfel! Das kann doch alles kein Zufall sein.

-----DER MYTHOS VOM APFEL-----Um es gleich vorneweg zu sagen von Newtons selbst stammt die Geschichte nicht, doch noch zu Lebzeiten soll der sie ausgerechnet im Garten nacherzählt haben, ein Jahr vor seinem Tod.

Richtig populär wurde der APFEL aber erst einige Jahre später durch Voltaire und seine Geliebte, eine französische Mathematikerin und Naturforscherin, die Marquise du Châtelet, mit solch einem Namen hätte sie sicher nicht nur Voltaire den Kopf verdreht. Beide hatten sie sich der Philosophie der Aufklärung verschrieben und glaubten an den Siegeszug der Newtonschen neuen Physik: DAS MUSTERBEISPIEL EINES NEUEN WELTBILDES. Die Marquise übersetzte das Newtonsche Opus, unter anderem hatte in diesem Werk Newton das Gesetz der Schwerkraft formuliert.

– Jedes Stück Materie verfügt über eine sogenannte schwere Masse, der Ursache für ihre Anziehungskraft.

– Die Schwerkraft zwischen zwei Körpern verhält sich proportional zum Produkt ihrer Massen.

– Die Änderung der Schwerkraft verhält sich invers proportional dem Quadrat ihres Abstandes.

1st c. AD, Arles.

He was a freedman and Sevir Augustalis.

C(aius) FABIUS C(ai) LIB(ertus) HERMES

IiiiiIVIR C(olonia) I(ulia) P(aterna) AREL(ate)

ET L(ucio) FABIO L(uci) F(ilio) PRIMO FRATRI

EIUS

H(oc) M(onumentum) H(eredes) M(eos) N(on) S(equetur)

Arles Archaeology Museum.

"The God Anubis. From Anzio. Roman Imperial Period 1st-2nd century A.D. Anubis bears the attribution of Hermes, guide of the dead souls to the underworld."

Taken in the Vatican Museum in Vatican City, Italy.

Guardian of the West. His canopic jar was used for the intestines.

"....I have brought thy heart and I have placed it upon its throne within thy body...."

A lateral view of the of the east pediment sculptures of the Parthenon in the British Museum

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Hollow bronze Buddha seated on a base. Serene expression on the face. 1700's AD (8 ½" x 5")

From the Roman Villa at Baccano, the middle of the 1st century to the middle of the 2nd.

A zoo of mythological sea creatures, including hippocampi and this half bull, half fish critter.

Taken in the Palazzo Massimo Alle Terme, a National Museum of Rome.

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The Mojave Desert

Northern Greece, 1st-2nd c. AD.

Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek.

My collection

A look inside the surfboard shaping bay of Ancient Art Surfboards.

Taken at the National Archeological Museum, Florence.

This snake has a human-like head and a feather.

The creatures depicted are bulls and Mushhushshu, a combination snake (head, body), lion (front legs), bird (rear legs) and scorpion (tail)

Cinerary urn with a pair of winged hippocampus. Taken at the National Archeological Museum, Florence.

Bhimbetka Rock Shelter, Madhya Pradesh

The wing of Nekhbet goddess

To the left, Hatshepsut. to the right, Thutmose I

From the Akhmenu

This is a Roman reproduction of a Greek bust of Plato, minus nose.

4th c. AD.

Dumbarton Oaks Museum.

Thutmose III, Akhmenu

"The basin had the function of a fountain and decorated the garden of a luxurious residence. The frieze represents a procession (thiasos) of sea Centaurs with Nereids who are transporting the weapons of Achilles. The overflow of water spilling over the brim made the sea procession more natural. The theme and the style are inspired by models from the late Hellenic period.

The work can be dated to the first decades of the first century B.C."

Taken in the Palazzo Massimo Alle Terme, a National Museum of Rome.

Carved black steatite pendant in the shape of a bearded a king. 1000 BC (1 ½")

More pits and commas, highlighted by the low light angle.

Closer view of Number 61 showing detail of the head of the Mimbres/Jornada-Mogollon figure.

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All in white, the head floats above the body. It is hard to tell how much of the other coloring on the rock around the figure is painting and how much is natural rock pigment.

Carved marble lion, the head turned to the side, the mouth opened in a ferocious roar. 200 AD (22” x 12” x 7 ½”)

"11. Sarcophagus with Nereids.

A group of Nereids are shown riding dolphins. One of the Nereids was Thetis, mother of Achilles, and the figures are shown bearing the weapons which would make him the most fearsome warrior below the walls of Troy. Dated to 140-159 A.D."

Taken in the Vatican Museum in Vatican City, Italy.

Persian. Carnelian stamp seal: A side portrait of a bearded king. Hole for wearability. Sassanian. 600 AD (½")

Oxford. Ashmolean Museum. Figureta femenina ciclàdica. Naxos, 2800-2300 aC.