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tridentandtales

Egyptian statue of the pharaoh Taharqa offering wine to the god Hemen

Third Intermediate Period, 690 - 664 BCE

Louvre E 25276

petrarchesco

A detail from a roman mosaic (late 2nd - early 1st century BC) I saw yesterday.

tridentandtales

Greek marble shell, used as grave offerings for the dead

400 BCE

Metropolitan Museum of Art 1995.19

gwennkoi

ltwilliammowett

Chalcedony scaraboid gem engraved of a ship (trireme) with steersman, oarsmen and warriors, Greek, ca. 525–500 BC

theinternetarchive

etruscan ring of gilded silver decorated with a winged lion, a siren, and a flying scarab beetle, italy c. 500s-400s b.c.

memories-of-ancients

A mural depicting ancient Egyptian grappling techniques, found in the tomb of Baquet III, an Egyptian high official who lived around 2000 BC and must have really liked wrastlin'

pwlanier

Lion Griffin (Fragment of a Rhyton), Black Sea region, 5th - 4th century B.C. Gilded silver.

Courtesy Alain Truong

uncleclaudius

Snakes in various ancient Roman frescoes and mosaics.

cparti-mkiki

"hephaistion made this" in a beautiful trompe-l'oeil piece of paper half unstuck by the wind still some of the rawest stuff ever put in a mosaic (2nd century bc, pergamon)