static decline

none shall guard indefinitly

[soniasmundanelife]

“Read a book instead” Written on the TV

~The book store inside the Time museum of Tehran

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Pin in the form of a lion. Period: Iron Age II Date: ca. 9th century B.C. Geography: Iran, Hasanlu Culture: Iran Medium: Bronze, iron

[seper]

In the confines of her mind belligerent with this hotel room So cupid...the light is bound Ventral being, bare, lustful and torn Like us all

Her skin Eroding the senseless totem pole Eroding like none Bent on self Bent on future Contorted by will Hanging in harmony her hands calmly disappear in the distance

Soft outlines mark her erection Devours these cool straight lines All grey but not of darkness This room; yields her Like Freedom yields tyranny Her limbs timid...yet confessing astride Leaning. Brimming. Radiating. She stands but she lies

Stillness, Still Rammed into mirrors Contemplation or exercise Vulnerable or palpable Fogging againts her tongue Dreaming or fantasizing Her wings glow elegance Her thighs compressed Awaiting lips Nip, knead, pulp, wring, screw

[theancientwayoflife]

~Plate with a King and Queen. Date: A.D. 6th-7th century Period: Late Antique Place of Origin: Iran Medium: Silver

[ghostsofthewoods]

Atelier Manassé

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Head of a Royal Guard from Persepolis. Place of origin: Southern Iran Date: 500-450 B.C. Medium: Limestone

[archaicwonder]

Egyptian Faience Hippo, Late Period (Persian Period) 6th-4th Century BC

7 in (18 cm) long

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[enrique262]

Art Deco architectural style, one of the first truly international movements, popular between the 1910′s to the 1930′s.

El estilo arquitectónico Art Déco, uno de los primeros movimientos realmente internacionales, el cual fue popular entre los años 10 y 30. 

[coisasdetere]

“Woman Reading Book With Orange” → Georgy Kurasov (Russian, b.1958).

[themarinevampireshop]

‘Pushkin in the Crimea at Gurzuf Rocks’ - Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky {1817-1900}

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Textile. Date: A.D. 1000-1050 Place of origin: Iran Medium: silk

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[leserpente]

George Frederic Watts

Tempest with Solitary Figure, 1832-1904. 

[archaicwonder]

Rare Egyptian Bronze Cat Nursing Kittens, Late Dynastic, C. 712-343 BC

A cast bronze fragment of a piece that was perhaps a cuff or applique.

The ancient Egyptians, rather uniquely among the world’s civilizations, had an obsession with cats, both tame and fierce, large and small. Cats were domesticated to help protect crops from pests in Cyprus or possibly Mesopotamia (it is difficult to interpret the archaeological record on this matter for a variety of reasons), but the Egyptian’s love of cats seems to have gone above and beyond that of their contemporaries. The cemetery at Hierakonpolis includes a cat skeleton in a pre-Dynastic tomb (c. 3700 BC) that had a broken left humerus and right femur that seem to have been set by a human and allowed to heal before that cat’s ultimate death.

The first illustration of a cat with a collar comes from a 5th Dynasty (c. 2500 to 2350 BC) Egyptian tomb at Saqqara. Cats were the most frequently mummified animal in Egypt and there were multiple feline goddesses, including the domesticated cat-form Bastet. Bronze statues like this one may have been direct offerings or appeals to Bastet.

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[radstudies]

Maxfield Parrish (American, 1870-1966)

Garden of Allah

[didoofcarthage]

Breastplate fragment from Northern Iran

Iron Age III, 800-500 B.C.E. 

gold

Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

[didoofcarthage]

Silver and gilt plate and bowl with image of hunting king. Iran, Sasanian Period, 4th to 5th century A.D. Freer Gallery of Art. x x 

From the Freer:

One of the earliest and most enduring of the royal images created during the Sasanian period (ca. 224–651) shows the king on horseback hunting select quarry: boar, lion, antelope (or gazelle). This image, often embellished with gilding, was depicted on the interior of silver plates, about thirty of which have been found in Iran and neighboring countries. Produced in imperial workshops, these plates were given as official gifts from the king to high-ranking individuals within or beyond the empire’s frontiers. In the early centuries of Sasanian rule, silver production was controlled by a royal monopoly and could be minted into coins or fashioned into objects only on the king’s authority.

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Dish: Eagle Bearing a Woman. Place of creation: Iran Date: First half of the 7th century Period: Sassanid Dynasty Medium: silver