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grandegyptianmuseum: Hellenized Isis and Serapis Its discoverer dated it to the 2nd-century BCE, which makes it the oldest of the known Isis aretalogies. Though it is also the most different of the aretalogies, and aims to interpret Isis to Greeks
electronicgallery: Burial chamber in the Tomb of Seti I on the West Bank of Luxor, circa 1279 BCE. Photo by porcupine_merchant.
lionofchaeronea:Two Amazons in Scythian dress, one with an axe and shield, the other with two spears. Attic red-figure pelike, attributed to the Phiale Painter; ca. 440-435 BCE. Found in southern Italy; now in the Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich.
blondebrainpower: An Amethyst Cat amulet, Egyptian, Late to Ptolemaic Period, 664-30 BCE
fromthedust:The Green Stone - A massive green cubic rock located in the ruins of Hattusa, capital of the Hittite empire. Hattusa is near modern Boğazkale, Turkey - 6th millennium BCE.
bemusedlybespectacled: jewishzevran: keetongu: did-you-kno: Ancient Egyptians were using 20-sided die as early as 200 BCE. Source i cant believe ancient egyptians were FUCKING NERDS imagine ancient egyptian d&d tho “You have crossed into
gardenoffish: calamitouserebus: writing-prompt-s: You’re teleported to 44 BCE Rome in your everyday street clothes. You’re brought before Caesar and he believes you might be from the future, hoping to bring him fortune. One day he questions you,
fakehistory: First known attempt at making a Caesar salad, circa 43 BCE
lionofchaeronea: Doris, minor sea goddess and mother of Amphitrite, rides a hippocamp and carries two torches to light the wedding procession for her daughter and Poseidon/Neptune. From the “Altar of Domitius Ahenobarbus,” late 2nd cent. BCE, found
lionofchaeronea: Alexander the Great as Helios. Roman copy after a Hellenistic Greek original (3rd/2nd cent. BCE). Now in the Capitoline Museum.
iafeh: Achilles Vasileiou - Memorial to the fighters at the Battle of Salamis, 480 bce
thecrankyprofessor: New Acropolis Museum, Bernard Tschumi. Opened 2009.I guess the scatter of statues is trying to capture the way the Acropolis would have looked before the Persian sack in 480 BCE - other than the height of the pedestals?
meninfinearts: Kroisos Kouros from Anavysos. c.525 BCE by arthistory390
hismarmorealcalm:Torso of a youth Marble. Roman period (First—Second century CE) copy from a Greek original from the 4th century BCE
ganymedesrocks: A 1st century CE Roman copy of a 5th century BCE Statue of an Ephebe (Young Man) Greek original, found in the Augustus Felix surbanus, Pompeii, Italy bronze with silver cladding and glass paste eyes
hadrian6: Marble Satyr with Cymbals and Kroupezion. Roman Copy after a Greek Original 1st.century BCE. http://hadrian6.tumblr.com
hadrian6: Head of Ares. Marble. After the Greek original by Alkamenes ca. 420s BCE.Saint Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum.http://hadrian6.tumblr.com
ourphanta5: lionofchaeronea: An athlete prepares for the long jump. Attic red-figure lekythos, attributed to the Bowdoin Painter; ca. 470-460 BCE. Found at Selinunte, Sicily; now in the Regional Archaeological Museum “Antonio Salinas,” Palermo.
boysnmenart: Herakles carrying the golden apples Etruscan 3rd - 1st century BCE Bronze Walter Museum
boysnmenart: Torso of a youth. Marble. Roman period (1st—2nd C.. CE) based on a Greek original from the 4th century BCE.
ganymedesrocks: coolartefact: Etruscan warriors pediment decoration at Pyrgi, the port of Cervetery. ca. 550 BCE National Etruscan Museum, Rome Source: https://imgur.com/YFlySBW I feel in an Etruscan kind of mood…
boysnmenart: Dancing Satyr, bronze statue - circa 1st c. BCE, Roman period
boysnmenart: Bronze Diskos Thrower - Circa 480 – 460 BCE
boysnmenart: Bronze statuette of a satyr Greek mid-3rd-mid-2nd century BCE | Photographed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
iafeh: Hercules - Etruscan 3rd c bce - Florence
boysnmenart: Penthesilea Painter (fl. c. 470 - 450 BCE), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Red-figure kylix.
inmemoriaaeterna: Wrestlers in Bas-relief, from Base of Funerary Kouros, 510 BCE. Athens.
theancientwayoflife: ~Ptolemy Apion. Bronze. 49 BCE - 25 CE. Naples, National Archaeological Museum (Museo archeologico nazionale di Napoli)
theancientwayoflife: ~Sleeping Hermaphrodite. Microasiatic marble. Roman copy of the mid-2nd cent. CE after a bronze original of the Asia Minor of the mid-2nd cent. BCE. Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme.
lionofchaeronea: Mesopotamian statuette of a bearded man, perhaps a king-priest. Artist unknown; ca. 3300 BCE (Uruk period). Now in the Louvre.
drakontomalloi: Screen Slab of King Nectanebo I (originally from the temple of Atum at Heliopolis). 30th Dynasty, 380-362 BCE
hellas-inhabitants: Head of an Amazon. Roman copy after a bronze Greek original of 440—430 BCE. Greek marble. Κεφάλι μιας Αμαζόνας. Ρωμαϊκό αντίγραφο χάλκινου Ελληνικού του 440-430 π.Χ.. Ελληνικό
hadrian6: Discophoros. 400-390 BCE. Roman copy of a Greek original. marble. Vatican Museums. http://hadrian6.tumblr.co
theancientwayoflife:~Dying Gaul (also known as “Galata Capitolino”). Medium: Marble Roman copy of the lost Hellenistic original of the 3rd century BCE. Provenance: Rome, Capitoline Museums, Palazzo Nuovo, Hall of the Gaul (Musei capitolini, Palazzo
theancientwayoflife:~Gaul killing himself and his wife (also known as “Ludovisi Gaul” or “The Galatian Suicide”). Phrygian marble (marmor Docimenum). Roman copy of the early 2nd cent. CE after a bronze Ellinistic original of ca. 230—220 BCE.
theancientwayoflife: ~Gaul killing himself and his wife (also known as “Ludovisi Gaul” or “The Galatian Suicide”). Phrygian marble (marmor Docimenum). Roman copy of the early 2nd cent. CE after a bronze Ellinistic original of ca. 230—220 BCE.
ganymedesrocks: Reassembling my thoughts, a my mind feels a bit shatteredThis Bust, of Policleto’s – an ancient Greek sculptor of the 5th century BCE
theancientwayoflife: ~Youth playing flute. Medium: Marble Roman copy after a Greek original of the 5th—4th cent. BCE. Provenance: Saint Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum
fabionardini: Drawing (1827) of Etruscan frescoe from Tomb of the Chariots (Tomba delle Bighe) (BCE), Necropolis of Monterozzi, near Tarquinia, Italy. (via William Kimber) britishmuseum.org
romegreeceart: A bust depicting Drusus the Younger a.k.a Castor (13 BCE-23 CE) A son of Tiberius and Vipsania Agripina and heir apparent to the Roman throne. Tacitus and other Roman historians claim that Drusus was poisoned to death by his wide Livilla
marmarinos: Roman bust of a youth, 1st or 2nd century CE. Marble.Roman copy of a Greek original, which dated to c. 4th century BCE.
marmarinos: Detail of the Farnese Hermes, 1st century CE. Roman copy of a Greek original by Praxiteles or his school, dated to the 4th century BCE.
marmarinos: Roman statue of a youth, known as the “Dresdner Knabe,” c. early 1st century CE. Marble.Roman copy of (likely) a Greek original, which dated to c. 420 BCE.
artschoolglasses: Barberini Faun, 220 BCE Glyptothek, Munich
marmarinos: Greek or Roman statue of Alexander the Great, dated to the 2nd century BCE. Marble. Currently located in the Istanbul Archaeological Museum.
marmarinos:Busts of Kleopatra VII and Julius Caesar, dated to the 1st century BCE. The bust of Kleopatra is made of marble, and the bust of Julius Caesar is of green basalt. Both are currently located in the Atles Museum in Berlin.
antonio-m: disturbthebookmites: “Bust of Odysseus’ Companion,” Roman, c. 200 BCE.
marmarinos: Detail of the Barberini Faun, either a Hellenistic statue dating to the 3rd to 2nd centuries BCE, or a later Roman copy. Marble. Currently located in the Glyptothek in Munich, Germany. Photo taken by F. Tronchin.
buzz-o-graph: Kouros at Anavyssos, circa 530 BCE
static-people: Bronze Statue of a Man. ca. mid 2nd-1st century BCE. Greek
stonemen: Cadmus. The figure tells the story of Cadmus, founder and first king of Thebes, who killed a serpent; the water dragon protected by the war god Ares. Greece, Hellenistic Period, found in Centuripae, Sicily, ca. 3rd to 2nd century BCE.
ganymedesrocks: Time to Rise…and Shine! The Sleep of Endymion Fragment of the group of Selene and Endymion Roman Marble, after a Greek original of the 2nd century BCE.
2seeitall: Statue of a discobolus throwing the discus2nd cent. A.D.Musei Vaticani, Museo Pio-Clementino (Room of the Biga) Origin: From Hadrian’s Villa. A Roman copy after a bronze original by Myron of about 460 BCE Sculpture | Museums
marmarinos: Detail of the Apollo Belvedere, an ancient Roman marble copy of an original Greek bronze of Leochares, who lived during the 4th century BCE. The Roman copy dates to 120-140 CE, and is currently located in the Vatican Museums. Source: Wikimedia
art4gays: marmarinos: Ancient Roman marble torso, perhaps a copy of Polykleitos’s Doryphoros, dated to the 1st century CE. The potential Greek original dates to the 5th century BCE. Source: Christie’s. (via TumbleOn)
marmarinos: Ancient Greek marble relief of a lyre-player, dated to c. 450-440 BCE. Currently located in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Source: MFA Boston.
hadrian6: Ares. marble. After the Greek original by Alkamenes ca. 420s BCE. Hermitage Museum. St.Petersburg. Russia. collage Hadrian6. http://hadrian6.tumblr.com
