Smapdragon

I didn't ask to be born an archaeologist

[once-a-polecat]

This is badass: Medieval Nubian Fashion Brought to Life. Click through to the link because there’s more replica clothing and it is all stunning!

[fashionsfromhistory]

Denim Jacket

c.1850

United States

​This jacket would have been worn over a woman’s work dress or blouse, most likely while she labored outdoors. Its construction mimics the fashionable hourglass silhouette of the period, with tucks that cinch at the wrists and natural waistline. Denim is typically thought of as a menswear textile, but it was also common in women’s workwear during the 19th century.

Museum at FIT (Object number: P87.43.3)

[smapdragon]

[catullus101]

The so-called Leningrad Painter gave us the only example of a woman working in a vase studio in Attic art on this mid-fifth-century BC hydria, the Caputi Hydria

[smapdragon]

Finally got out my good camera and figured out how to use lightroom so I could take forest pictures without them turning radioactive green haha.

[en-theos]

but ALSO more people should be losing their nuts over the mycenaean ivory triad from the national archaeological museum in athens. is this mic on hello

[en-theos]

them!!!!

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Man and woman in loving embrace.

Place of origin: Iraq, Nippur

Period: Achaemenid Period

Date: 450 B.C.

Culture: Near Eastern

Medium: Terracotta

[beelur]

all of my clay figures so far!

[beesmygod]

every squad has the:

the smasher

the smasher

asbestos

the smasher

the wild card

[thoodleoo]

extremely dedicated scholar hunched over a desk studying scrolls by the light cast by an ancient roman lesbian oil lamp

[smapdragon]

[smapdragon]

[perplexingly]

Old woman yuri? In my silly Polish tv show?? 👀

[kebriones]

Some pottery art from Eleusis:

THEY ARE HOLDING HANDS!

I just love the singular little twig

GIRLS!

The blinding of Polyphemus, on a massive clay vessel that held the remains of a ten year old kid.

A boar that looks like it has a rhino horn, from the same piece.

Absolutely amazing gorgons, from the same piece

Odysseus' men, who have what i can only describe as cutie marks on their thighs, and also appear to be wearing full body diving suits or something.

[allmesopotamia]

“

Model is wearing replicas of a variety of ancient Sumerian jewelry offered for sale by New York’s Metropolitan Museum, photo by Nina Leen, 1952”

[alatismeni-theitsa]

Atelier de Tanagra, Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1893.

I rarely post art depicting ancient Greece by Western painters because they tend to sterilize and, at the same time, orientalise the environments and people. But this is one of the few ones that, for some reason, made me feel like my ancestors were... real. I don't know how to better explain it. It makes me feel they had lives and problems just like me, and that here I'm glimpsing a part of their busy life. The shop and interactions within it feel very realistic to me.

Tanagra (Greek: Τανάγρα) is a town and a municipality in Boeotia, Greece. Close to Thebes, it was noted in antiquity for the figurines named after it. The Tanagra figurines were a mass-produced, mold-cast, and fired type of Greek terracotta figurine produced in the later fourth century BC, primarily in Tanagra.

[starweaverblog]

I like this painting because it shows ancient Greek women doing normal things other than being an object of desire, hetaira, oracle or only showed on festives etc.

It shows women living normal lives going on a shop, some in the distance observes an object and my favourite is the woman on the front painting. Women like these existed and it's the simple depiction of their normal lives that makes it more relatable.

[jessebloom]

what never fails to make me cry are ancient toys

[jessebloom]

someone made these for a child so they could have fun. that’s its only purpose.