Earth & Anthro

A place to document pages of old books, art and artifacts from museums, & my travels

[hildegardavon]

Venus Genetrix

Roman Relief, 8-26 A.D., marble, 76×65×9 cm. Excavated in 1957 in the Villa of Tiberius near Sperlonga

Sperlonga, Museo Archeologico

[memories-of-ancients]

Gold applique of an Ibex head, Achaemenid Iran, 5th century BC

from Christies

[tridentandtales]

Roman mosaic depicting Triton, a dolphin, and a fish, found in the Sanctuary of Artemis (Ephesus)

ca. 200 CE

British Museum 1872,0803.72

[lionofchaeronea]

Mosaic depicting Poseidon/Neptune and Amphitrite in a wedding chariot pulled by Tritons.  From building IX.2.27, Pompeii; now in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples.

[harminuya]

An Urartian Broze recumbent Bull, 8th-7th cent. BC, Armenia. Private collection of Mr K.A. 

[met-medieval-art]

Coffret, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Medieval Art

Rogers Fund,1925 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Walnut, carved & lined with glass (some colored)

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/466625

[historical-nonfiction]

Florentines rescuing a painting, as David watches over the Piazza della Signoria. 

Over the night of November 4th to 5th, 1966, Florence flooded. The river Arno rose as high as 6.7 meters (about 22 feet) in some places, over 100 people were killed, and many paintings and documents were destroyed by the floodwaters.  Young people, arriving from across the Continent, immediately began showing up to help. They became known to the Florentines as ‘gli angeli del fango,’ or ‘the Mud Angels’. The Mud Angels were not recruited, and they were not organized, but over the winter they cleaned mud out of the Basilica di Santa Croce, carried priceless paintings out of the Uffizi galleries and brought food and fresh water to the elderly Florentines trapped in their upper-floor apartments.

[cafeleningrad]

@museenkuss

[didoofcarthage]

Didrachm with head of Hercules (obverse) and she-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus (reverse)

Roman, Republican Period, 269-266 B.C.

silver

British Museum

[miamaimania]

Statues of Mt Nemrut ~ Turkey by Stephanie Borcard & Nicolas Metraux ⧗ Decapitated by earthquakes, reassembled by archaeologists

[academicfieldnotebook]

From last year

[tridentandtales]

Greek bronze helmet with a ram's head, due to its size, probably used for ceremonial purposes

525 - 500 BCE

St. Louis Art Museum 282:1949.1

[theinternetarchive]

segmentum, egypt, umayyad period c. 700s-900s.

[tridentandtales]

Etruscan votive offering in form of upper part of human face

Late Etruscan period

British Museum 1974,1204.31

[theinternetarchive]

silver gilt and jade buckle and brass buckle, overall: 7.4 cm; china c. 1900s.

[memories-of-ancients]

Silver brooch, part of the Galloway hoard, a Viking age treasure hoard uncovered in Scotland, dated circa 900 AD

from The National Museum of Scotland

[memories-of-ancients]

Gold geese earrings, Greece, 3rd-1st century AD

from The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

[lionofchaeronea]

Mosaic depicting Poseidon/Neptune and Amphitrite in a wedding chariot pulled by Tritons.  From building IX.2.27, Pompeii; now in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples.