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Details from a fresco showing ancient women - A mother, two daughters and an ancilla (servant/slave girl).

This piece lives behind glass in the museum at Herculaneum; so I do apologise for the reflections visible.

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The ancient city of Pompeii, Italy

On the first photo is the house of Paquius Proculus. On the last photo is the fullonica of Stephanus, a laundry worker who used the house as his workshop.

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~ Bracelet.

Culture: Egyptian

Period: Middle Kingdom; 12th Dynasty

Date: ca. 1900 B.C.

Place of origin: El-Kubanija North, grave 15 l 1, (Grave of a girl)

Medium: Faience, blue-green

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Ceiling and imagery of the Tomb of the Vineyards, burial of Sennefer, Mayor of the Southern City, Thebes, during the 18th dynasty of Egypt.

Photos taken by me, August 2023

It’s hard to tell which way is up and down when walking through the tunnel leading from the surface into the tomb. Before entering the main chamber there is a small antechamber whose ceiling is quite low, and then a shallow arch which leads to the main room depicted in the above photographs. Both chambers contain a good deal of paintings, however the main chamber holds the most numerous and well preserved paintings, of course. Besides the ceiling, everything is encased in glass.

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~ Stela of a Man.

Period: Middle Kingdom, 11th Dynasty

Date: ca. 2030–1981 B.C.

Place oforigin: Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Deir el-Bahri, Cemetery 100, Tomb TT 114, MMA excavations, 1926–27

Medium: Limestone, paint

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The famous colossal black granite statue of Horus as a falcon, wearing the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt. Temple of Horus, Edfu, Egypt.

Photography and text: Dennis Jarvis (CC)

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The Demna Baptistry - 6th century AD - in the Bardo Museum. This early Christian baptismal font is richly decorated with mosaics discovered in Demna. It is one of the finest Christian mosaics to have been found in Africa, and even throughout the Roman world.

Photography and text by Dennis Jarvis (CC)

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Red figure calyx-krater depicting the abductions of Europa, crafted in Paestra, Greek Southern Italy (Magna Graecia), circa 380 BC

from The Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University

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stone vessel, rhyton in the form of a bulls head Crete, neopalatial period, late minoan IB or II-IIIA1, ca. 1550-1500 BC material: serpentine / black steatite tip of muzzle to top of head (without horns): 20 cm findspot: Knossos, little palace

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Door from the Tomb of Sennedjem

Sennedjem, followed by his wife Iyneferti, is playing the Senet game. They sit on chairs with lion paws, in front of a big offering.

New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, ca. 1292-1189 BC. Painted wood lined with stucco. From the Tomb of Sennedjem (TT1), Deir el-Medina, West Thebes. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 27303

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Gladiator- original

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~ Ariadne and Dionysus.

Period: Late Roman/Late Antiquity

Date: A.D. 3rd-5th century

Place of origin: Achmim, Egypt

Medium: Wool on linen, colored knitting

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Amethyst intaglio of Minerva, Roman, 1st-2nd century AD

from Phoenix Ancient Art

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Terracotta loutrophoros (ceremonial vase for water). Woman with attendant in naiskos (shrine) flanked by youth and women & woman in naiskos flanked by youths and women.

Attributed to the Metope Painter, Greek, Apulian, 3rd quarter of the 4th century B.C.

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Egyptian goddess Bastet, 600 a.C.

Neues Museum-Berlín.

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