#near eastern

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Man and woman in loving embrace.

Place of origin: Iraq, Nippur

Period: Achaemenid Period

Date: 450 B.C.

Culture: Near Eastern

Medium: Terracotta

#ancient #ancient art #history #museum #archeology #ancient sculpture #ancient history #archaeology #man and woman in a loving embrace #man #woman #love #hug #embrace #nippur #iraq #near east #near eastern #achaemenid #450 b.c.

[asdaricus]

Here are some other priests and possibly divinities

#AI Art #Midjourney #Midjourney v5 #FRPG #FRPG Art #priest #divinity #Near Eastern

[rudjedet]

NOT EVERYTHING IN EGYPT IS SAND NOT EVERYTHING IN EGYPT ANCIENT OR MODERN IS DESERT EGYPT LITERALLY IS A BIGASS RIVER VALLEY + DELTA THAT IS GREEN AND HAS PLANTS AND SHIT BECAUSE OF THE RIVER NOT. EVERYTHING. IS. FUCKING. SAND.

#egyptology #ancient egypt #obligatory disclaimer: I fucking love the desert and the desert ITSELF has way more life than most people think #this was about the Hollywood image of Egyptian civ/other near Eastern ancient civs being empty barren sandy shit #and the people perpetuating it while talking with unearned authority about things they don't know anything about #and yes by 'people' I do mean 'big blogs on tumblr'

[enfinizatics]

peak of polishness: butter sculpted into a lamb

#sometimes i love being polish #and seeing those silly butter lambs in stores near easter #these ones are nothing in comparison to the ones ppl sculpt on their own tho #polish culture #polish #poland #polska #polski tumblr #polblr #easter #eastern europe

[arthistoryanimalia]

#MetalMonday:

Silver Ram’s Head Rhyton, c. 700-600 BCE, from Ziwiye (Iran)

On display at Penn Museum

Read more about this piece here:

#animals in art #museum visit #ancient art #Iranian art #Middle Eastern art #Near Eastern art #rhyton #drinking vessel #metalwork #silver #ram #Penn Museum #Metal Monday

[geopsych]

Went to a different woods today, not far away, and saw some good birds.

This is a rufus-sided or eastern towhee, a recently returned migrant. They dig in the leaves with both feet. I let the video go on for a few seconds because at the end it makes the sound that got it its name.

#pennsylvania #bird #birb #eastern towhee #pipilo erythrophthalmus #april #springtime #lots of vehicle noise bc it was near a highway

[blueiskewl]

A Large Collection of Near Eastern Cylinder Seals, and other Near Eastern objects Circa 4000-500 B.C.

including Jemdet Nasr, Uruk, Sumerian, Neo-Babylonian, Akkadian, Assyrian and Mitannian, engraved in lapis lazuli, serpentine, hematite, marble, and other stones, comprising a wide variety of subjects, as well as several Bactrian bronze stamp seals.

#Near Eastern Cylinder Seals Circa 4000-500 B.C. #ancient seals #ancient artifacts #archeology #archeolgst #history #history news #anicent history #ancient culture #ancient civilizations

[qiekzart]

my new son.. im naming him Flare

[plz reblog]

#art #my art #plz reblog #furry #furry art #i guess #not yugioh art #dragon #dragon art #dragon oc #eastern dragon #fluffy dragon #furry dragon #dragon furry #dragons #fantasy creatures #being near him feels like lying in a sunbeam

[queenlucythevaliant]

We see him come and know him ours

Russia: "Carol of the Russian Children," traditional // Kenya: The Nativity, Elima Njau // France: "Bring a Torch, Jeanette Isabella," Nicolas Saboly // Haiti: Madonna and Child, Ismael Saincilus // Australia: "The Three Drovers," William James // China: Tryptic by Lu Hongnian // Canadian/Algonquian: "Huron Carol," Jean de Brébeuf

#the visual depictions are lovely #but what really gets me every time are the little cultural details in the music #music that tells the story of the Nativity while placing it in a world that's familiar to the listener #fur robed moujiks on snowboard plateaus in place of middle eastern shepherds #bark lodges instead of stables and rabbit skin in place of swaddling clothes #wandering hunter and chiefs from far off places instead of shepherds and wise men (man i love the Huron Carol) #and little french girls running to gather the village to come see Jesus #it's easy for an excess of historical concern to make Jesus feel distant and far off #/I know/ that Jesus was born in the ancient near east and have had my fill of books and sermons and the like unpacking the implications #I've laughed with my friends and family at the wild inaccuracies of Nativity sets and tellings #the crazy blonde mary in the kids nativity set at Walmart #what is that alpaca doing at the living Nativity don't they know those are south American? #yada yada #and then i look at these carols and think. it's okay not to get mired in the history. good even #yes Jesus entered into time and space in a very specific manner #but he also came for all of us #as another carol says: we see him come and know him ours #i just think this practice is lovely #that the impact of the Incarnation was such that it send little french girls running to their villages #and drew algonquin hunters and russian peasants to the manger to see him #it's the great crowd of witnesses in a way #all of us together preparing him room throughout all the corners of the earth #in Bethlehem that night it was only the shepherds who got to see him #but in spirit it was all of us #because it's just like the angel said: #good news of great joy which will be to all people #to all people #starting with the shepherds and going out to all the earth #unto us a child is born #intertextuality

[davidluongart]

Elysium🪴💐

The last drawing for 2022 have a Happy New Year, y’all! 🌸🌼

For some of the close-ups of the illustration, the hanging carpet was based on Neo-Assyrian sample reliefs of Mesopotamia, where the story of “Aphrodite and Adonis” were inspired by the stories of Tammuz/Dumuzi and Ishtar/Inanna of the early times of Sumer. While the temple ruins laying in the background were inspired by those richly-decorated ones in Palmyra, Syria, & Baalbek, Lebanon- as I interpreted the place as an old former temple of Hades & Persephone themselves; now fallen into ruins and transformed into Persephone’s personal space.

The florals and the trees surrounding the figures were also associated with them, too -roses, myrtles & date palms for Aphrodite, Adonis, and the Graces; while Hades & Persephone were associated with roses, pomegranates, crocuses, lilies, asphodels, larkspurs, irises & daffodils. 🌹🌷

The colorful wool threads behind them were inspired by the fact that many civilizations in the past often use tons of trees/plants + rocks/minerals to create organic colors pigments to paint the sculptures/temples as well as to dye their clothes, too.

#my art #ancient greek #greek mythology #near eastern mythology #aphrodite #venus #adonis #dumuzi and inanna #hades and persephone #pluto and proserpina #the charites #the three graces

[lionofchaeronea]

Gold coin of Shapur (Šābuhr) II "the Great," king of Sassanid Persia from 309 to 379 CE. On the obverse, the bust of Shapur, wearing a mural crown topped with the jewel-studded globe known as a korymbos; on the reverse, a fire altar, reflecting Shapur's aggressive promotion of Zoroastrianism within his realm. Artist unknown; minted ca. 320 CE and found in the present-day nation of Georgia. Photo credit: Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. http://www.cngcoins.com

#history #ancient history #Near East #Ancient Near East #Persia #Ancient Persia #Persian Empire #Sassanids #Sassanid Persia #Shapur II #art #art history #ancient art #Near Eastern art #Ancient Near Eastern art #Persian art #coins #ancient coins #numismatics #ancient numismatics #gold #goldwork #Zoroastrianism

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Mountain goat.

Place of origin: Near Eastern, Iranian

Period: Elamite, Proto-Elamite

Date: 3500–2700 B.C.

Medium: Silver and sheet gold.

#ancient #history #ancient art #museum #archeology #ancient sculpture #ancient history #archaeology #iran #iranian #near east #near eastern #elamite #3500 b.c. #2700 b.c #silver #goat #mountain goat

[xnoctifers-eveningx]

𒀭𒈹, The Queen of Heaven

"She stirs confusion and chaos against those who are disobedient to her, speeding carnage and inciting the devastating flood, clothed in terrifying radiance. It is her game to speed conflict and battle, untiring, strapping on her sandals."

#𒀭𒈹 #Ishtar #Inanna #mesopotamian #altarboard #Astarte #devotional #near eastern religion

[gms-incorporated]

Welcome to the Omninet blog of General Massive Systems! Feel free to ask any questions, complaints, or concerns about our line of the two most modular mechs in the entire galaxy, the Everest and the Sagarmartha! No two GMS suits are the same, and just as a mountain changes with the ages, so too does our marketing! As such, you won’t find any “standardized” chassis here—individuality is the core of GMS.

#lancer rpg #lancer #lancerrpg #gms #general massive systems #ips n #ssc #harrison armory #horus #intern: This desk job is a lot nicer than the MONIST uprisings near the Eastern Sector.

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #WorldGiraffeDay:

Giraffe from a 15th c. Syrian illuminated manuscript of Kitāb al-ḥayawān (Book of the Animals) by the 9th c. naturalist Al-Ǧāḥiẓ/Jahiz. Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Ms. Arab. B 54, f. 36

#arabic art #Islamic art #15th century #Middle Eastern art #Near Eastern art #giraffe #animal holiday #World Giraffe Day #illuminated manuscript #book art #book illustration #miniature art

[whumpy-wyrms]

i have a confession everyone. i am actually scared of caterpillars

#this came out of absolute nowhere but i just saw a video of caterpillars and got jump scared #i’m shaking in my boots #🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛 #AHHHH #THEY’RE SO…. #BIG AND ROUND AND HAVE GUTS THAT GO EVERYWHERE IF THEY’RE ACCIDENTALLY STEPPED ON OR EATEN BY A REPTILE #AND THEY’RE WIGGLE AROUND AND WRINKLY AND HAVE SO MANY LEGS #AND THEY HAVE WEIRD TEXTURESSS #AND THEIR EYEBALLS WIGGLE #OR SKMETHING #I SAW A SPECIFIC CATERPILLAR ONCE AS A KID AND IT FUCKING SCARRED ME #just looked up brown caterpillar with eyes and got jumpscared again oh shit oh fuck it’s so fucking gross and scary #anyway it’s called eastern tiger swallowtail caterpillars #specifically the brown ones because that’s the one i saw as a kid #and they do this weird defense mechanism by trying to mimic snakes by sticking out a disgusting orange thing from their face and wiggling #their head back and forth and it’s fucking scary it genuinely scares the shit out of me #so i guess their defense works LOLL #BUT EWWW SORRY FOR BEING HATEFUL TOWARDS CATERPILLARS BUT THEY ARE THE ONE (1) INSECT I CANNOT BE ANYWHERE NEAR #I LIKE SPIDERS! I LOVE TARANCHULAS AND OTHER BUGS #but caterpillars… it sounds like a shitpost but i’m being serious. i literally have no other fears besides needles and caterpillars #just had to get this out there