A #Roman terracotta oil lamp decorated with an image of two gladiators squaring off against each other; one is a left-hander (left-handed fighters were known, although it might also be for the symmetry). A piece of ancient fan merchandise, perhaps? #Archaeology #ReliefWednesday
Rooted in Ancient Greece and Rome, wedding traditions demanded that the bride's head be covered with a veil. 👰
It was dome to hide the bride's face from demons and witches, to fend off any curses aimed at her. Only the groom could lift it.
#WyrdWednesday #ReliefWednesday
For #ReliefWednesday the Lansdowne Relief from Hadrian’s Villa, AD 128-130, now in the Fitzwilliam Museum. Between the niches, from left to right, are various mythological scenes - Odysseus and the sirens, Dionysos and the pirates, and the Argonauts and the Stymphalian birds.
#ReliefWednesday
Refined relief of boxer in stucco from the thermal baths complex forming a wing of Villa Petraro in Stabiae.
New decorative work just being finished in 79 AD when Vesuvius.....
Now in new Museo Archeologico di Castellammare di Stabia.
Funerary stele for Xanthos son of Dimitrios and Amadika
Young Xanthos has a toy wheel, a bird in his hand with his dog by his side.
This is one of the earliest sculptures discovered in Pella.
Late C5th-early C4th BC
#Archaeology Museum of Pella
📷May
#ReliefWednesday #Greece
#ReliefWednesday An exhibition in the Temple of Romulus in the Roman Forum “Lacus Iuturnae: the sacred fountain of the Roman Forum” with a relief depicting Castor and Pollux (12/2015). The twins watered their horses here & announced victory at the Battle of Lake Regillus, 495 BC
For #ReliefWednesday , a 1st c. CE bronze fragment of a relief, depicting two upper-class Roman men wearing togas. The older man carries a scroll and wears the shoes of a senator, marking him as a magistrate (chief priest). The younger man wears the shoes of an eques (knight). 1/
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Antinous as Dionysos or Silvanus. 130–138 AD.
Museo Nazionale Romano di Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome
( 📸 my own from last year, hopefully watchable.)
For #ReliefWednesday , a puzzle. Ten leafy spirals, all the same? maybe flipped? Not quite. You think you see patterns in rows and pairs, but something's not exactly right.
The beauty of early #medieval #ornament .
9th c, SS Apostoli, Spoleto, now Museo Nazionale
#sculpture
Ancient Greek Word of the Day:
αίξ, αίγός c. (aix) = goat
Greek Relief, c. 340-320 BC, Depicting Men and Boys Taking Part in a Sacrifice of a Goat.
The Louvre.
#AncientGreek #Vocab #Learning #ReliefWednesday
#ReliefWednesday - Fragment of relief sculpture from a Roman sarcophagus, ca. 2nd Century AD, showing the Labours of Hercules. He is depicted drawing back his bow, suggesting the Labour of the Stymphalian Birds. #Art
Image: Honolulu Museum (26276). Link - honolulumuseum.org/collections/26…
A personal favourite for #ReliefWednesday - a touching marble grave stele of a young girl holding doves (made c.450 BCE).
The careful carving of her loose peplos shows her small frame whilst her hair is beautifully depicted in curls.
🏛️The Metropolitan Museum of Art
#Classics #Greek #Art #History
#ReliefWednesday
This relief captures a moment from Hercules' 10th labour - facing the three-headed Geryon in order to steal Geryon's cattle. To be honest, we feel for Geryon who was simply minding his own business!
📍Roman villa, Chiragan
📸 Following Hadrian
#ReliefWednesday
Fragment of a Greek funerary stele with a riding youth and a banquet; second half of the 5th century BC; G. D. Weber collection, on display in room 5.
#museoarcheologicovenezia #Greece #collection #Archaeology #museum #Venice
#ReliefWednesday - A relief from a Greek colony in Calabria, Persephone opening a case probably with clothes, on a pinax ('board'). The art dated to 490-450 BC. National Museum of Reggio Calabria, Italy.
