#late antique period

[vulturesouls]

Bone plaque with the god Apollo leaning on his lyre, Coptic artist, Egypt, 3rd-4th century (Late Antique).

Walters Art Museum 71.43

#byzantine #late antique period #coptic egypt #apollo #greek gods

[luxus-aeterna]

Belle époque mood in Café Amelie of New Orleans || IG

#antique aesthetic #poc dark academia #antique academia #historical costuming #historical costume #black people in period clothing #black people in historical costume #1890s #1890s dress #late victorian fashion #late Victorian #victorian aesthetic #mignonne #2023 #green #walking suit

[entropyvoid]

Golden Hour (+ lineart below cut)

I took a picture of the lines for once and did some basic crappy photo editing on my phone, so you could probably print this out and use it as a coloring page or something if you so wish lol. Do with it what you will.

#honkai star rail #dr ratio #veritas ratio #aventurine #aventurine hsr #cherallart #as you can see i forgor i wanted to draw his glasses til like. last second #i can’t believe it’s been like 2 whole months since I last did a whole like. watercolor illustration #part of that’s been bc I’ve been having a bit of a rough semester bc adhd med issues (which are resolved now) #but I really wanted to draw aventurine and ratio. my boys #i’ve been LOVING penacony so far so I needed to get something nice out #anyway I did this while my s/o and I alternated between reading a 500 pg long history book out lout to each other #it’s called ‘the inheritance of rome’ and kinda covers what happened after the collapse of the western roman empire #and tries to identify and explain all the cultural echoes and reverberations and transformations that rose from its ashes #throughout europe north africa and the middle east. anyway it’s super interesting and I highly recommend it #the late antique period is not something often covered/talked abt in public ed hist classes. at least not when I was goin through em #or the transitory period between it and the early medieval period at least #i still got 150 pages left and a final paper due on it in like 4 days but it’s only a 5 pg minimum and I’m a wordy bitch so #i think i can make it #anyway back to that I go

[lionofchaeronea]

The Favorites of the Emperor Honorius, John William Waterhouse, 1883

#art #art history #John William Waterhouse #historical painting #ancient history #Ancient Rome #Roman Empire #Roman history #Late Roman Empire #late antiquity #Honorius #Emperor Honorius #genre painting #Pre-Raphaelite #Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood #pre-raphaelism #British art #English art #19th century art #Victorian period #Victorian art #oil on canvas #Art Gallery of South Australia

[thatshowthingstarted]

Head of a lion, Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 400–300 B.C.

Gypsum plaster,

H. 42.5 x W. 40 cm (16 3/4 x 15 3/4 in.)

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue

#art #history #design #style #archeology #sculpture #antiquity #head #lion #egypt #late period #ptolemaic #gypsum #plaster #the met

[blueiskewl]

Looted Ancient Green Sarcophagus Returned to Egypt from US

An ancient wooden sarcophagus that was featured at the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences was returned to Egypt after U.S. authorities determined it was looted years ago, Egyptian officials said Monday.

The repatriation is part of Egyptian government efforts to stop the trafficking of its stolen antiquities. In 2021, authorities in Cairo succeeded in getting 5,300 stolen artifacts returned to Egypt from across the world.

Mostafa Waziri, the top official at the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said the sarcophagus dates back to the Late Dynastic Period of ancient Egypt, an era that spanned the last of the Pharaonic rulers from 664 B.C. until Alexander the Great's campaign in 332 B.C.

The sarcophagus, almost 3 meters (9.5 feet) tall with a brightly painted top surface, may have belonged to an ancient priest named Ankhenmaat, though some of the inscription on it has been erased, Waziri said.

It was symbolically handed over at a ceremony Monday in Cairo by Daniel Rubinstein, the U.S. chargé d'affaires in Egypt.

The handover came more than three months after the Manhattan District Attorney's Office determined the sarcophagus was looted from Abu Sir Necropolis, north of Cairo. It was smuggled through Germany into the United States in 2008, according to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg.

"This stunning coffin was trafficked by a well-organized network that has looted countless antiquities from the region," Bragg said at the time. "We are pleased that this object will be returned to Egypt, where it rightfully belongs."

Bragg said the same network had smuggled a gilded coffin out of Egypt that was featured at New York's Metropolitan Museum. Met bought the piece from a Paris art dealer in 2017 for about $4 million. It was returned to Egypt in 2019.

#Looted Ancient Sarcophagus Returned to Egypt from US #stolen antiquities #stolen artifacts #Abu Sir Necropolis #Late Dynastic Period #ancient artifacts #archeology #archeolgst #history #history news #ancient history #ancient culture #ancient civilizations #ancient egypt #egyptian history

[barbucomedie]

Spangenhelm Helmet thought to be from Istanbul, Turkey dated to around 500 CE on display at the Weltmuseum in Vienna, Austria

Spangenhelms, made up of an iron rim, clasp connections and individual plates, were primarily worn by Germanic high nobility and were sent from the Eastern Roman Empire as gifts to honour these nobles, primarily Frankish Princes. However these helmets can also be found in Vandal occupied North Africa, in the Balkans and Gotland, Sweden. The strangely complicated type of the helmet goes back to ancient Pontic and Iranian models and were brought to Europe by the migration of numerous Germanic tribes and trade with the Iranian nomadic peoples.

Photographs taken by myself 2022

#armour #archaeology #late antiquity #migration period #fashion #art #military history #easter roman empire #byzantine empire #turkey #turkish #6th century #weltmuseum #vienna #barbucomedie

[thiswaycomessomethingwicked]

Noreen (1922: 40) effectively summarised the nuanced meanings of ergi, and the stats of argr and ragr when used of men: 

‘morally useless’ in a general sense

‘unmanly,’ with strong connotations of perversity and taking the female role in sexual acts

‘one who employs sorcery, and specifically seidr’ 

‘cowardly’

These meanings are brought out fully in the law codes, especially against insults in relation to insinuations of feminine behaviour. In Frostatingslagen, for example, full compensation (fullretti) must be paid if a man is said to have given birth, or compared to a female animal using appropriate terms such as marr (’mare’) and hyndla (’bitch’). The same penalty applies if a man has been called skoka (’whore’), or said to have acted as a woman every ninth night, or performed sorcery. 

--Neil Price, The Viking Way: Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia 

#always a fascinating time with gender and sexuality and magic in the late antiquity early medieval period #history #queer history #vikings #medieval europe #late iron age #seidr

[precambria]

“In the Meteorologica, Aristotle discusses the colours and the characteristics of the rainbow over several pages. He states that the three rainbow colours are foinikoun, prasinon and halourgon, roughly translated to red, green and bluish violet.“

Photographs from “Chromatic Variation in Late Antique Rainbows” in CLARA - Classical Art and Archaeology, vol. 7, 2021, 1-25

1. San Vitale, Ravenna. Segmented rainbow. Photograph: Bente Kiilerich. 2 & 3. Rotunda, Thessaloniki. Stars, floral wreath and rainbow border. Photograph: Bente Kiilerich. 4. Rainbow over Mykonos, late morning October 2010. Photograph: Bente Kiilerich.

#late antiquity #byzantine art #hellenistic period #my uploads

[merelygifted]

Egypt recovers 'Green Sarcophagus' from United States | CNN Travel

Egyptian authorities announced the recovery of a heavy sarcophagus lid from the United States on Monday at a ceremony in Cairo.

The sarcophagus, which at 500 kilograms (about 1,100 pounds) is one of the biggest, dates back to the Late Period of Ancient Egypt (747-332 BC), said Mostafa Waziri, the secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities at Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.

Ahmed Issa, Egypt's minister of tourism and antiquities, said the lid "was looted and smuggled from Egypt to the United States a few years ago."

The recovery came as a result of the collaboration with US authorities and an investigation spanning over two years, Issa added.  ...

#Repatriation of Antiquities #Ancient Egypt #Ancient Egyptian Art #Late Period

[jhara-ivez]

I don’t know yet what to do with the left page. I kinda like it white, but there could also be a dog trotting behind them or something else entirely.

#visigoths #magazine #illustration #donkey #mother and child #cooking utensils #late antiquity #early middleages #migration period

[vulturesouls]

Byzantine fish-shaped lamp, from Egypt, 5th century. Cast bronze.

Walters Art Museum

#byzantine #fish #lamp #egypt #late antique period

[luxus-aeterna]

oh, to be a ghost roaming those halls… || IG

#dark academia #antique aesthetic #40s does late baroque #black dark academia #vintage aesthetic #poc dark academia #1940s style #antique academia #vampirecore #vampire academia #baroque aesthetic #baroque academia #black women in luxury #black people in period clothing #mignonne #2023 #red

[dionysus-complex]

if you make it through a humanities PhD still thinking that the methodologies in your field have any sort of epistemic validity then you should get an award

#like. i'm a classical lit person who thinks that most ancient texts are essentially useless for reconstructing any sort of lived experience #which is not to say that i don't believe in the value of studying them as literature! but i've read so many articles that are like #'what can we learn about society in [x ancient time period and place] from [y text]' and my answer is almost always 'basically nothing' #if you want to try to understand any sort of non-elite lived experience in antiquity i think you have to go do archaeology #this particularly applies when dealing with imperial/late antique literature which i'm convinced is utterly inextricable from declamation #it's all rhetorical exercise and elite fantasy all the way down and that can be interesting but only when read on its own terms

[chaoticintellectual]

being in a history grad-class and talking about your research with other students is wild because one person will be like "so I'm trying to study this incredibly specific topic in the 1920s in this specific city, but idk, I think it might be a little bit too much" and another one will be like "yeah I'm covering religious practice on this 500 year period of antiquity but I don't know if I have enough sources I might add a century or two just to be sure"

#i would be the first one #though im doing late 19th century #ive done so little antiquity #i may be a historian but i know like 2 things about ancient rome #but it always baffles me because it's like literally how do we know anything about ancient mesopotamia #theres like 2 sources and 3 clay pots #i have daily daily news coverage in my period

[diamondstuddedflunkies]

"Splendor without comfort, glitter and sparkle suggestive of death and decay"

Al Rose, Storyville, New Orleans, Being an Authentic, Illustrated Account of the Notorious Red-Light District

#I thought this quote was interesting #Book quotes #book quotations #storyville #Al rose #literature #books and reading #books & libraries #reading #quotes #quotation #book quote #Historical #new orleans #victorian period #victorian era #19th century #victorian #antique #late 1800s #1860s #circa 1800s #circa 1870 #1800s #writing #tw death