#ancient olympia

[2seeitall]

The Ruins of Olympia. Elis, Greece

[kararadaygum]

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[gemsofgreece]

I don't know if here in Greece we do the same with our own artifacts and marbles, but for the British museum to own 100.000 plus artifacts and only displaying 6.000?? Yeah doesn't make any sense then not to give them back what is ours.

If fact not only it would be a smart choice but the museum could show to the world the other artifacts they have not yet shown to the world. That means people would come expecting nee stuff to see and we get our marbles.

Side note but the british museum also has The Nereid Monument, finest of the Lykian tombs found at Xanthos, in what is now SW Turkey, which is huge aside from many ancient Greek vases, small statues, plates etc.

Typically all large museums have big store rooms where they keep a lot of artifacts. Some are in maintenace, some are used for loans, some for seasonal exhibitions etc

In the museum of Ancient Olympia they have like 100 Corinthian helmets in good condition that are not exhibited at all, probably because there are, well, dozens of them, and only a handful are in the proper exhibits. Joke's on them though, I am still waiting for them to make an extra room / hall where they will exhibit all those helmets with mystical placement and lighting. Wouldn't that be cool? Besides, these helmets were offerings of ancient soldiers to the place they held sacred (Olympia), it's a pity for these helmets to be locked in store rooms for nobody to see.

But for a FOREIGN museum to do it, that's insane. And let's just say they are keeping an extra collection for the aforementioned reasons. 100 thousand artifacts?????????????? Like this can not be explained or justified no matter how hard one tries. This is some inexcusable insufferably entitled shit right there.

[epestrefe]

Olympie. Entrée du Stade (front) by Frédéric Boissonnas

View of an arch that is part of a ruined stone building.

Date:1910

Heliogravure/Photolithograph

[elladastinkardiamou]

Workshop of Pheidias in Ancient Olympia Restored

Greece’s Central Archaeological Council (KAS) has approved the restoration of the workshop of iconic ancient sculptor Pheidias in Ancient Olympia.

Pheidias, who lived from approximately 480 to 430 BC, who was also a painter and architect, is the creator of the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

The brilliant polymath also designed the statues of the goddess Athena Parthenos inside the Parthenon on the Acropolis, and the Athena Promachos, a colossal bronze at the Propylaea.

The restoration of the workshop of Pheidias, which later was transformed into the Early Christian Basilica of Olympia, was approved by the KAS as part of the program to highlight the Roman phase of the archaeological site of Ancient Olympia.

[anticbrvtalist]

The torch lighting ceremony of the Summer Olympics in the ruins of Ancient Olympia, 2004. Photographed by Lutz Bongarts.

[equines-in-antiquity]

Bronze horse statue (right). Dates to the transition period from the Geometric period to the Archaic period, roughly the late 8th century to early 7th century BCE. It currently resides in the Archaeological Museum at Olympia in Greece.

This bronze statue is unusual in that, unlike this one, or this one, it is very large. The bronze metalwork of the Geometric period was usually small, as can be seen on the left. This bronze horse reveals the period of transition to the larger Archaic style. At the moment, it stands at 45.5 cm high and 47 cm long, though it would be taller if the lower legs were still in tact. 

It was excavated in 1939 at Olympia. This was the site of the ancient Olympic games. This statue may have been meant as a commemoration of a victory at these Olympic games.

[firebettercallnct]

lockscreens from my photography pt.5

i miss my trip 🥺

also someone said they liked the lockscreens from my photography so uh...this is for u 👉👈