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arthistoryanimalia · 10 months

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For #WorldCamelDay:

Mosaic Fragment with Grazing Camel Byzantine; Eastern Mediterranean, probably Syria, 5th century Stone in mortar, 143 × 166.5 × 6.5 cm (56 1/4 × 61 1/2 × 2 1/2 in.) On display at Art Institute of Chicago

“This image of a grazing camel probably came from a larger composition with other animals that decorated the floor of a semipublic space within a private home, such as a reception or dining room. This animal is represented against a white ground decorated with florets. A bell hangs from the camel’s neck as it reaches toward an object, perhaps a vessel filled with water, at the lower right. The knobby contours of the camel’s body are accentuated by areas of shading in subtly modulated colors, including black, brown, brick red, and olive green.”

info via https://www.artic.edu/artworks/35355/mosaic-fragment-with-grazing-camel

#camel #ancient art #Byzantine art #5th century art #Art Institute of Chicago #museum visit #mosaic #World Camel Day #animal holiday #animals in art #Near Eastern art

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blueiskewl · 6 months

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Etruscan Bronze Helmet in the Shape of a Wolf’s Head 6th-5th centuries BCE.

#Etruscan Bronze Helmet in the Shape of a Wolf’s Head #6th-5th centuries BCE #Wolf's Head Helmet #Head of a Boar #bronze #bronze helmet #bronze sculpture #ancient artifacts #archeology #archeolgst #history #history news #ancient history #ancient culture #ancient civilizations #etruscan history #etruscan art

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theancientwayoflife · 5 months

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~ Coin, Tetradrachm: A. Head of Athena, three olive leaves on the helmet; B. AΘE

Country/Issuer: Ancient Greece, Attica Athenes

Date: 5th century B.C.

Medium: Silver

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romegreeceart · 4 months

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Terracotta figures and statues from Cyprus

* mostly 5th century BCE

* Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm

Stockholm, November 2023

#Cyprus #5th century BCE #ancient #art #terracotta #statue #figure #Vouni #Medelhavsmuseet #Swedish museums #my photo

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strawberrus0da · 2 years

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This scenario has been playing nonstop in my mind for hours help

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thatshowthingstarted · 6 months

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Byzantine Mosaic, Bureij refugee camp, Gaza Strip, Palestine,

5th to 7th centuries AD,

Salman al-Nabahin, a Palestinian farmer, unearthed the mosaic pavement, thought to date from the fifth to the seventh century AD, while working in his olive orchard in Bureij refugee camp, about half a mile from the border with Israel.

Trying to understand why some trees had not properly taken root, Nabahin said he and his son began digging. Then the son’s axe hit something hard and unfamiliar in appearance.

The Palestinian ministry of tourism and antiquities said the mosaic included several panels depicting animals and other features of social life during the Byzantine era, the continuation of the Roman empire in eastern provinces from the fifth century.

Gaza is rich in antiquities, having been an important trading spot for civilisations dating as far back as the ancient Egyptians and the Philistines depicted in the Bible, to the Roman empire and the Crusades from the 11th to the 13th centuries.

Several discoveries have been made in recent years. Due to a lack of funds and expertise, Gaza has usually invited international groups to help with the process of excavation and preservation.

#art #history #design #style #archeology #palestine #mosaic #gaza #gaza strip #5th century #7th century #refugee camp #byzantine #human history #free palestine #bureij #animals

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gayangstandshakespeare · 7 months

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Day 9: Celtic - Morgan le Fay; I realize that the runes are Germanic, but it’s a Green Knight reference 👀👀

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paganimagevault · 1 year

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Scythian vessel depicting fighting scene 5th C. BCE. From Sengileevskoe-2 kurgan. The vessel also contained black residue that came back positive as opium and cannabis.

"The Man-eaters are the most savage of all men in their way of life; they know no justice and obey no law. They are nomads, wearing a costume like the Scythian, but speaking a language of their own; of all these, they are the only people that eat men."

-Herodotus, The Histories 4.106.1

#scythian #scythian gold #antiquities #artifacts #art #ancient art #history #ancient history #herodotus #literature #5th century bce #cannabis #opium

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empirearchives · 11 months

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This pic makes me sob

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ineffable-inspirations · 2 years

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A silver pepper pot in anthropomorphic form. Roman Britain, buried in the 5th century AD, from Hoxne, Suffolk.

The pepper pot was found in 1992 by a farmer who was using his metal detector to search for a lost hammer. He found his hammer – it is now in the British Museum – but also a hoard of over 15,000 gold and silver coins, gold jewellery and numerous small items of silver tableware. The coins in the hoard establish that its burial took place some time after AD 407/8. Only a very wealthy family could have owned such treasures. We do not know the identity of the person who buried it but several objects are inscribed with the name Aurelius Ursicinus.

The pepper pot is in the shape of a wealthy well-fed woman wearing late Roman fashions. She wears a sleeved undergarment with tight gilded cuffs at the wrists, and a wide-sleeved over tunic with stripes of gilded and engraved decoration over the shoulders representing appliqued bands of embroidered or patterned textile (clavi).

Her golden (gilded) hair is done up in an intricate style that was often represented in late Roman art: the hair is parted in the middle, with rolls at the sides. The back hair is worked into a flat series of twisted locks at the neck that are drawn up over the back of the head, turned under at the front, and held in place with hairpins. Three knobs at the front and another at the crown of the head represent the ungilded hairpins.

Almond-shaped earrings and a necklace of large beads are depicted in relief and gilded, and there is additional gilding on the face, covering not only the eyes but the entire eye sockets, and the mouth, so as the flames from oil lamps flickered, the face would have seemed to come alive.

She holds a gilded scroll in her left hand, to which she points with the index finger of her right hand, probably to symbolise her learning and authority. We do not know if the figure represents a particular woman. ... It's ineffable.

Pepper was just one expensive luxury traded across the Indian Ocean in ancient times, as it did not grow in Britain or any other part of the Roman Empire. It was grown in India and to get to Suffolk, the pepper was transported by sea, river and over land.

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1994-0408-33

http://www.teachinghistory100.org/objects/about_the_object/pepper_pot

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Hoxne_Hoard_28.jpg/800px-Hoxne_Hoard_28.jpg

spotted on Archaeologist Ticia Verveer's facebook page; https://www.facebook.com/100044382881604/posts/pfbid0UGcEJok8i67xeezyj2CLcKMJsbnLKAkWdy7NmP8TKZZ55opE4nU5fdVfqTSm7URXl/