lunes, 29 de febrero de 2016

Bird pattern on a Trefoil

Bird pattern on a Trefoil oinochoe, Black on Red II ware, Cypro-Archaic I period(750-600BC)

soul house




This " soul house" belongs to a category of terracotta objects which have been found in the modest tombs of Rifa and which had the same function as an offering table. The model represents a rectangular house with a portico of three columns and a staircase leading to the first floor. Two openings, a door and a window, lead into the antechamber where one finds two columns and an opening serving as the door. The terrace is divided into three compartments. On the front of the ground floor, there is an indication of offerings and of a bowl. It could be that this model took the form of the large rupestrine tombs of high dignitaries.
Rifa
MIDDLE KINGDOM
Inventary number E.3177
KMKG - MRAH
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White Slip

White Slip II Ware—14th-13th centuries BCE Israeli National Maritime Museum, Haifa

domingo, 28 de febrero de 2016

SHABTI

SHABTI
Inventory number E 410 (n. cat. 130)
3RD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD
MUSEU NACIONAL DE ARQUEOLOGIA
Lisboa
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viernes, 26 de febrero de 2016

Odysseus and the Sirens

Odysseus and the Sirens. Detail from an Attic red-figured stamnos, ca. 480-470 BC. From Vulci.

Moneda de Demetrio III

Moneda de Demetrio III.
Anverso: Cabeza de Demetrio III con diadema.
Reverso: Inscripción en griego: BASILEWS DHMHTRIOU QEOU FILOPATOROS SWTHROS "Rey Demetrio, amante hijo y salvador".
Figura: La deidad siria Atargatis, con velo, portando una flor y tallos de cebada en cada hombro.

sirene

Funerary statue of a siren in Pentelic marble, found in the Necropolis of Ceramics at Athens. The siren laments the dead, wings folded, playing on a tortoiseshell lyre. The right hand, which would have held the plectrum, is missing. The strings, probably made of bronze, would have been attached to the holes which can be seen in the body of the instrument. The plumage and other parts would have been picked out in colour. The statue flanked the stele of the Athenian warrior Dexileo who fell in combat in 394/393 BC (Work of 370BC, National Archeological Museum, Athens).



Wooden mummy label

Wooden mummy label
During the Graeco-Roman Period bodies were regularly transported from the home to the cemetery, and, if the person died away from home, back to their village, and they were usually identified with mummy labels such as this one. The labels were made from wood or stone and often inscribed with a short text in Greek or demotic giving details such as name, age and home-town, for the poor it seems the labels replaced traditional stelae. This label has an ink d...rawing of the god Anubis, seated on a pedestal with a key around his neck and a burning torch before him.
Present location LIVERPOOL MUSEUM [03/061] LIVERPOOL
Inventory number 56.20.486a
Dating GRAECO-ROMAN PERIOD
Archaeological Site UNKNOWN
Category MUMMY LABEL
Material WOOD
Technique INCISED; PAINTED
Height 15.5 cm
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Bibliography•Piotr Bienkowski and Angela Tooley., Gifts of The Nile: Ancient Egyptian Arts and Crafts in Liverpool Museum., 1995., 82; pl.131.

Demeter and Metanira

Demeter and Metanira in a detail on an Apulian red-figure hydria, circa 340 BC (Altes Museum, Berlin).

Dionysus with satyrs.

Dionysus with satyrs. Interior of a cup painted by the Brygos Painter, Cabinet des Médailles.

Cosmetic tray

A steatite cosmetic tray in the form of a slaughtered ibex. Details of the horns and tied legs have been carefully carved. The other side of the body has been hollowed out as a bowl.
Present location LIVERPOOL MUSEUM [03/061] LIVERPOOL
Inventory number 56.20.255
Dating NEW KINGDOM ...
Archaeological Site UNKNOWN
Category COSMETIC AND MEDICAL EQUIPMENT AND IMPLEMENTS
Material STEATITE/SOAP STONE
Technique STONE-TECHNIQUE; POLISHED; SCULPTURED

Bibliography•Piotr Bienkowski and Angela Tooley., Gifts of The Nile: Ancient Egyptian Arts and Crafts in Liverpool Museum., 1995., 51; pl. 69.
•Aylward M. Blackman., The Nugent and Haggard Collections of Egyptian Antiquities., Journal of Egyptian Archaeology., Volume I, Part IV., 1917., 43, pl.XII
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Senet board

Senet board
A fragment of a faience game board for Senet, with four pieces, from Abydos. The board has a blue/green glaze and the squares are painted on in black. Board games were very popular and were often depicted on wall paintings and included in funerary furniture. Senet is known from Predynastic times to the late Roman Period, today a similar game is still played in the Sudan.
Present location LIVERPOOL MUSEUM [03/061] LIVERPOOL
Inventory number 55.82.9
Dating NEW KINGDOM
Archaeological Site ABYDOS
Category SENET-GAME/THIRTY SQUARE BOARD
Material FAIENCE
Technique FAYENCE
Bibliography•Piotr Bienkowski and Angela Tooley., Gifts of The Nile: Ancient Egyptian Arts and Crafts in Liverpool Museum., 1995., 48-49; pl.64.
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Wooden Model

Wooden Model
A model depicting brewing, baking and butchery, made from wood and gesso. On the left two women are grinding flour, a bread oven is next to them. A woman originally kneeling beside the oven is now lost. In the centre a man is cutting the throat of an ox with a flint knife; the legs of the ox are bound together and the man kneels with one hand pressing the head to the floor. To the right another man is pressing barley bread through a sieve into a vat where it wil...l ferment when mixed with water and date juice. Beside him are other vats and sealed beer jars, two with net coverings. Models like this one, showing butchery, are from the tombs of nobles, the only Egyptians to eat meat regularly.
Present location LIVERPOOL MUSEUM [03/061] LIVERPOOL
Inventory number 55.82.7
Dating MIDDLE KINGDOM
Archaeological Site BENI HASSAN
Category MODEL
Material WOOD; GESSO
Technique WOOD-TECHNIQUE
Bibliography•Piotr Bienkowski and Angela Tooley., Gifts of The Nile: Ancient Egyptian Arts and Crafts in Liverpool Museum., 1995., 13; pl.17.
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Attic black-figured amphora

Attic black-figured amphora depicting Athena being "reborn" from the head of Zeus, who had swallowed her mother Metis, on the right, Eileithyia, the goddess of childbirth, assists, circa 550–525 BC (Musée du Louvre, Paris).

Cadmus fighting the dragon

Cadmus fighting the dragon. Side A of a black-figured amphora from Euboea, ca. 560–550 BC.

retrto de El Fayum

Ritratto_da_Al_Fayum Museo_archeologico_di_Firenze museo egizio museum in Florence

Jason

Jason being regurgitated by the snake who keeps the Golden Fleece (center, hanging on the tree); Athena stands to the right. Red-figured cup by Douris, c. 480-470 BC. From Cerveteri (Etruria)

mosaico

Mosaico proveniente da Kaulon custodito al Museo Nazionale della Magna Grecia di Reggio Calabria

Chimera. Apulian red-figure dish, ca. 350-340 BC.

Chimera. Apulian red-figure dish, ca. 350-340 BC.

Louvre

La guerra en el Antiguo Egipto: una interpretación simbólica desde los postulados teóricos de Mircea Eliade

La guerra en el Antiguo Egipto: una interpretación simbólica desde los postulados teóricos de Mircea Eliade. En: Anuario de la Escuela de Historia Virtual, 4, pp. 1-20
H. Gerván
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Chimera of Arezzo

Chimera of Arezzo
Firenze Museum

miércoles, 24 de febrero de 2016

Lucio Elio Sejano fue condenado a la damnatio memoriae después de conspirar contra Tiberio en 31; como consecuencia, sus estatuas fueron destruidas y su nombre borrado de todos los registros públicos. Esta moneda de Augusta Bilbilis, acuñada para conmemorar el consulado de Sejano, tiene raspado su nombre.

Head of a hippopotamus





Head of a hippopotamus
This fragment of a figurine in terracotta represents the head of a hippopotamus with the upper part of the body incised by lines forming squares. The piece, which was found in the temple of Osiris at Abydos, dates from the Protodynastic Period. It carries numerous traces of colour.
ABYDOS
EARLY DYNASTIC PERIOD/THINITE PERIOD
A. Behrmann, Das Nilpferd in der Vorstellungswelt der Alten Ägypter, Frankfurt 1989, I, doc. 50k
Inventory number E.0471
KMKG - MRAH
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martes, 23 de febrero de 2016

Tondo from Djemila

Tondo from Djemila (Egypt), probably AD 199 (G. M. A. Hanfmann, Roman Art, 1964, pl. XLVIII), showing the Severan dynasty: Septimius Severus with Julia Domna, Caracalla and Geta, whose face is smeared out, probably because of the damnatio memoriae put against him by Caracalla. Tempera on wood, Staatliche Museum zu Berlin (inv. 31.329). Diam. 30 cm