One side of a 10C grave marker, on display at Lindisfarne Priory Museum, Northumberland. Possibly depicting Viking warriors, weapons aloft? #ReliefWednesday
Around 4,300 years ago, an Egyptian artisan carved a little frog, a grasshopper, and a dragonfly.
Lovely details from nature depicted on a wall relief in the Tomb of Kagemni at Saqqara, Egypt. Old Kingdom, Dynasty 6, c. 2345-2323 BC. Photo my own.
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Owl of Athena! 🦉❤️ Silver coin (tetradrachm) minted in Athens c. 475-465 BC.
Photo Getty Museum getty.edu/art/collection…
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Patera with head of Medusa-C1st AD
When this patera was excavated from a Roman grave in Faversham in 1881, only the central roundel, rim and handle had survived. The head of Medusa with her intense gaze was..(1/3)
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The slaughter of Niobe’s children.
These horrific scenes on this sarcophagus tell a story of the vengeful nature of the gods, should they be affronted by mortals. In revenge for Niobe boasting to Leto that she has more..(1/5)
c. 150 AD
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#ReliefWednesday - The 'Story of Joseph': Discovery of the Golden Cup by Lorenzo Ghiberti. (Panel Detail of the East Doors ('The Gates of Paradise') of the Florence Baptistery. The 'Story of Joseph' is made of gilded bronze and measures 79 x 79 cm.
This antefix shows the Roman goddess Victoria, the personification of victory, alighting a globe in a blown back chiton holding aloft a trophy with captured weapons and armour.
Capricorns feature at each side of the..(1/2)
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Ancient Greek gold hair net with relief bust of the goddess Athena. Late 3rd-2nd century BC.
Benaki Museum, Athens. 📷 my own. More: e.issuu.com/issuu-reader3-…
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For #ReliefWednesday the Medea Sarcophagus in the Altes Museum in Berlin. Found near Porta San Lorenzo in Rome and dated to the mid 2nd Century AD.
Showing 4 scenes from the Medea myth.
For #ReliefWednesday the so-called Jupiter Cameo, carved in a sardonyx, showing Jupiter and Juno. They were identified as Marcus Aurelius and his wife. The cameo was made during they reign of the emperor. The depiction does not imply that he and Faustina Minor ...1/2
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El castillo de Barcience es un castillo situado en el municipio de Barcience, en la provincia de Toledo.
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Stela of retiarius Skyrtos ' the Dacian', a free man who became a gladiator and won six fights before his fatal defeat.
You can see it until April 21st at the Baths of Diocletian for the Dacia exhibition.
Tomis (Constanța),
Romania, 2nd/3rd century AD.
A wonderful Roman sculpture of three water nymphs from Chesters fort on Hadrian's Wall #ReliefWednesday
On the feast day of St Nicholas it's inevitable that I'll post the Winchester Font, one of the most precious examples of mid-12th century stonework I've seen
It's just a delight to see in the late afternoon when the descending sun hits the black Tournai marble
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Relief with a City Scene, showing two noble Roman ladies arriving in a city by a carriage.
Information panel in second photo
#ReliefWednesday A small marble relief which depicts a corbita, one of the merchant ships of imperial Rome that plied routes from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea and India.
From Carthage, province of Africa Proconsularis (roughly, Tunisia), ca. 200 CE.
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Relief with a dedication to Palmyerene gods Aglibol and Malakbél.
235-236 AD, Capitoline Museums, Rome.
Donated by Pope Benedict XIV in the 18th century.
