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ancientart:

Standing-striding figure of Nefertiti, made of limestone, Amarna; New Kingdom, 18th dynasty; c. 1345 BC.

Courtesy & currently located at the Egyptian Museum, Berlin. Photo taken by Andreas Praefcke

tammuz:

Parthian bone figurines from Mesopotamia. The Parthian Empire (247 BCE – 224 CE) is the offspring of the combined Greek, Persian and Babylonian cultures in the Near East. The Hellenistic city of Seleucia, near modern-day Baghdad, was the capital of Parthian Empire. The Oriental Institute Museum of the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

Photo by Babylon Chronicle

centuriespast:

Female Figure

Representations of female figures with highly abstracted forms occur throughout most of the Predynastic Period. On statuettes of this period, the legs are usually not articulated and the faces are beaklike. This rare undamaged example, one of the oldest works in the Brooklyn Museum, was found in a burial excavated by the Museum’s first archaeological expedition in Egypt. The symbolism, function, and identity of the figure are not certain. However, similar female figures painted on Predynastic vessels appear to begoddesses, because they are always larger than the male “priests” shown with them.

• Medium: Terracotta, painted
• Reportedly From: Ma’mariya, Egypt
• Dates: ca. 3500-3400 B.C.E.
• Period: Predynastic Period, Naqada IIa Period
• Brooklyn Museum

huldrapress:

Karasuk culture carved “rain stones”  

ancientart:

One of the four Stora Hammars image stones, Viking Age, located in Gotland, Sweden.

Photo courtesy & taken by Berig

centuriespast:

Amulet

• Medium: Faience
• Place Collected: Egypt
• Dates: ca. 945-718 B.C.E. or later
• Period: Third Intermediate Period
• Brooklyn Museum

romkids:

Jade from the ancient Maya city Altun Ha.

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