Friday, February 09, 2007

Not Bad For A Sewer

The Mouth of the Cloaca Maxima. A 19th century painting by Ettore Roesler Franz. Who would think a picture of a sewer could be so pretty?

Taharqa

The Pharoah Taharqa offering vases to the god Hemen. Louvre. (Photo Credit)

Akrotiri Frescoes

Papyrus
Dolphins

Akrotiri Frescoes

A river
Spring

Saffron gatherers


The Bridestones

Near Congleton, Cheshire. (Photo Credit)

An Antonine Prince

Possibly Annius Verus, the eldest son of Marcus Aurelius. c170 CE. Louvre.

Thursday, February 08, 2007

"Colonnade of Medamot at Thebes"

From Picturesque Egypt, volume 2, by G. Ebers. 1878.

Dolmen de Menga

At Antequera, Spain. c2500 BCE. (Photo Credit)

Etruscan Fresco

Tomb of the Leopards, Tarquinia.

Attic Kylix

c510-500 BCE. Found at Vulci. Vatican Museum.

Gold Multiple of Constantine

Minted at Ticinum. 313 CE. Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris

Bronze Bust of Cybele

Gallo-Roman. 1st century BCE. Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris

Silver Medallion of Antinous

From Bithynia. Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris

Cameo of Hadrian

Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris

Funerary Stele

From Rhodes. 1st century BCE. British Museum.

Temple of Castor and Pollux, Girgenti

A drawing from 1915.

Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Nether Largie, Kilmartin, Argyll


(Photo Credit)

Brogar


(Photo Credit)

Messalina and her Children

Sardonyx cameo. Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris.
(Photo Credit)

Caracalla

Amethyst intaglio. Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris
(Photo Credit)

Apollo Lykeios

When this 3rd century CE ivory statuette was found, in a well, it was in two hundred fragments. Agora Museum, Athens.
(Photo Credit)

Hermes

Roman copy of a Greek original of the 4th century BCE. Capitoline Museum, Rome.

Pompeii

The Temple of Venus in c1870.

Denderah

An illustration from William H. Seward's Travels Around the World. 1873.

David Roberts

Denderah. Both paintings are from 1841.
Baalbek