Rock-carved wine press in Cappadocia, Turkey 1935 captured on Instagram svya_toy_istoch_nilk
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Archaic Medusa
Got tired of seeing Medusa designed as a generic pretty woman but with snake hair. Also made a little height chart.
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“The Auroch, known for its mighty haunch the size of a shield, which swingeth to and fro as it chargeth upon its predator, is a great cattle of the land…”
From “Compendiæm of Beasts of Our Lande” by William Tawny (1566)
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~ Votive statue of a man.
Culture: Cypriot
Period: Iron Age, Archaic
Date: 550-525 B.C.
Place of origin: Pyla, Cyprus
Medium: Limestone; remains of paint
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Cypriot horse
* archaic period
* Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm
Stockholm, November 2023
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The ancient Mexican androgene or makrokosmos, with the ancient Mexican signs of the Zodiac. from an archaic, aboriginal, Mexican MSS. in the Vatican Library
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Bird Figure
Ohio, Native North American, 1500-1000 BC (late Archaic)
“Bird stones,” are simple animal forms, often of birds but sometimes of other animals, created from hard, visually pleasing stones. They were often carved from materials with variations in them, such as banded shale, sandstone, granite, or others. Bird stones have been found throughout the upper Midwest and all along the east coast of the United States, and into Ontario Province in Canada. Some were found in fields, apparently unconnected to broader towns and settlement, but others have been found associated with Native American altars or graves. The function of these objects is not clear, and there have been many theories. Most examples, like this one, were pierced on the bottom of the form, to allow for tying them to something else. Some scholars believe that they were worn suspended on necklaces or as amulets, or perhaps placed in important locations to indicate clan affiliation. However, the most common theory about their use is that they were counterweights for the atlatl, a spear or dart-thrower. The bird stone would have helped hunters or warriors to throw projectiles much further than they could without the weighted atlatl.
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Braided belts with zoomorphic buckles. Hemp, wood, amber, malachite.
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Machine and hand sewing pockets onto my goddamn pants because women don't have rights or something
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I need everyone to look at him. Oh my god he is beautiful he is perfect
Boeotian rhyton - archaic period 600 BC
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FEMALE HEAD | Archaic-style Protome:
Possibly Demeter [?], Votive, Unknown provenance,
Terracotta,
5 BC
Found in Spina [the Etruscan port city], now the area of Comacchio [near Ferrara and Ravenna], Ferrara province, Emilia Romagna.
Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Ferrara | MANF
[Ground floor, 'Sala delle storie di Giuseppe']
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MANF | Michael Svetbird phs©msp | 21|02|24 6000X4200 600 [I.]
The photographed object is collection item of MANF, photos are copyrighted
[non commercial use | sorry for the watermarks]
📸 Part of the "Small Format Sculpture and Miniature Artefacts" MSP Online Photo-gallery:
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A man and two boys harvest olives from a tree on this vase from 520 BCE. The man beats the tree with a stick while one boy climbs into the branches and another fills a basket with fallen olives.
{WHF} {HTE} {Medium}
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~ Beaker (kalathos) with Athletes and Trainers.
Culture: Attic, Greek
Period: Archaic period
Date: ca. 800–480 B.C.
Medium: Black-figure ceramic
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Ceramic black-figure oinochoe depicting Dionysus. Workshop of the Athena Painter. Late Archaic Period, c.500-490 BC. Museum of Fine Art, Boston
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Duck-shaped vessel (kymbe), single piece of rock crystal (Minoan)
On display at the Museum of the Ancient Agora (Athens, Greece)
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