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Tendrils with human figure on shoulder of Attic white-ground lekythos, 5th century BC

According to Alois Riegl, this is an early example of tendril ornamentation including a human figure: "Shoulder ornament of a fifth-century Attic lekythos: a branch circles around, while a flying Eros who is playfully included among the tendrils grasps them in his hands. The motif does not come into maturity or widespread use until the Hellenistic period, as, for example on the silver krater from Hildesheim. However, we have been able to trace its first impulses back to the Archaic period and also to disclose the motivating tendencies behind its development, tendencies whose basis lies in the nature of Greek decorative art going back to the Mycenaean times." Problems of Style, 186.

Image credit: Riegl, Problems of Style, 186.

Rome, 2nd c. AD.

He was an architect and a ship builder and it was deciated by his parents. A river boat is depicted below.

D(is) M(anibus) / C(aio) POMPONIO / HERACONTI / DULCISSIMO / M(arcus) ULPIUS HERA / ET VALERIA SA/TORNINA PA/RENTES HARCHI/TECTO EABRO /NABALI OPTUMO / VIXIT ANNOS XXV

Capitoline Museum.

Vichten Roman Villa, 2nd-3rd c. AD.

Luxembourg City History Museum.

Milet. Flora

1st c. BC - 1st c. AD, The Louvre.

Grand Palais.

This is an ancient Greek ivy #wreath dating from the Late Classical or the Early Hellenistic period, most probably the second half of the 4th century BC. The artefact is part of the #VassilBojkovCollection

Bhimbetka Rock Shelter, Madhya Pradesh

c. 30 BC, from the House of Livia, Naples Nationl Archaeology Museum.

Grand Palais.

242-244 AD, Niederbieber.

Bonn Landesmuseum

"Winter"

Milet. Monument del port

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

2nd c. AD, Rome.

Vatican Museum.

Area of Thutmose III, Akhmenu

Willowford Bridge, Hadrian's Wall.

Tullie House Museum.

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An ancient carving of a skull on display at the Coba Mayan Ruins near Tulum, Mexico

One of the oldest caves at Ajanta. This stupa symbolizes Buddha rather than depicting him as an icon in human form. This is a marked difference between Thereveda and Mahayana Buddhism.

Part of the Buddhist group of caves, the earliest.

British Museum

Beige glass standing horse statue with festooning patterns on the surface. 400-500 AD (3 ¾” x 4”)

200-300 AD, Mithraeum of the Circus Maximus, Rome.

Deo Soli Invicto Mithrae Ti(berius) Cl(audius) Hermes / ob votum dei typum d(onum) d(edit)

Memnon,Rear of Colossi

The west pediment depicted the Centauromachy, the fight at the wedding of Peirithoos between the Lapiths and the centaurs, who had violated xenia, the sacred rules of hospitality that support the social norms. Olympia, Greece P5291936