#Medelhavsmuseet

[romegreeceart]

Limestone statues of Cypriot women

* Vouni

* 5th century BCE / 6th century BCE

* Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm

Stockholm, November 2023

[medievalart]

Roman / Late Hellenstic Bracelet

* 1st century BCE - 1st century CE

* Gold

* Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm

Stockholm, November 2023

[dwellerinthelibrary]

There's that glowering "eye with paint" hieroglyph meaning "watch", in the name of the crocodile "He Who Watches What He Would Seize", one of my favourite characters in the Book of the Dead. The designs and hieroglyphs are painted directly onto the mummy linen.

Where: Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm

When: New Kingdom

[archiveofcyp]

Cypriot women in Galini/Ömerli, circa. 1927-1931.

📸: John Lindos as part of the Swedish Cyprus expedition in the early 20th century. Information provided by Medelhavsmuseet’s collection The National Museums of World Culture.

[barbariankingdom]

The 2000-strong Cypriot Terracotta Army from the sacred site of the village of Agia Irini, under the Mediterranean Sea. Approximately two-thirds of the unique archaeological finds were transported to Sweden in 1931 and now form the core of the Cyprus collections of Medelhavsmuseet in StockholmStockholm, Sweden.

[egypt-museum]

Statue of Metri

Metri is known to have had many important religious and political positions, including Administrator of the Nome and Priest of Maat.

Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty, ca. 2345-2181 BC. Wood, from Saqqara necropolis. Now in the Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm. MM 11410

[a-gnosis]

I was in Stockholm yesterday and visited The Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities. One of my favorite museums in Stockholm.

[utividavarlden]

It’s just one of those days. 

[hsundholm]

A Marble Goddess by Henrik Sundholm Via Flickr: A sculpture I saw at the Mediterranean Museum in Stockholm, Sweden.

[roberteklund]

The sun breaking through. #walkbyshooting #walkbyshootings #photography #iphonephotography #instagram #stockholm #sweden #strömbron #lillavärtan #medeltidsmuseet #norrbro #gustavadolfstorg #medelhavsmuseet #museum #museums #bridges #bridge #clouds #sunny #darkclouds #buildings #sea #weather #weatherphotos #weatherphotography #weatherporn #natureinthecity #outdoors #nofilter #hdr (på/i Strömbron)

[romegreeceart]

Greek birds

* Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm

Stockholm, November 2023

[medievalart]

Half-moon-shaped earrings in open filigree work

* 10th-13th century

* Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm

Stockholm, November 2023

[dwellerinthelibrary]

A relief of Tutu depicted as a sphinx, with a sun disc above his front-facing head and a rearing snake for a tail. He stands on another rearing snake, and has weapons in his paws -- knives in his back paws, and in his front left paw, a little double-headed axe. A winged sun-disc with a snake draped over it hovers over him.

When: Ptolemaic Egypt / Roman Egypt

Where: Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm

[archiveofcyp]

The “Cyprus through the Ages” Collection at Medelhavsmuseet in Stockholm. This exhibit covers 7000 years of Cypriot archaeological history, with special focus on excavations at Ayia Irini/Akdeniz.

The Swedish Cyprus Exhibition lasted between 1927 to 1931. The findings of the exhibition were divided between Sweden and the British colonial government of Cyprus. The other part of the collection can now be found at the Cyprus Museum in Nicosia.

Special thanks to @cypriot_music on Instagram for the submission!

The collection at Medelhavsmuseet is still ongoing, and if you have the opportunity to visit Stockholm, consider checking out this exhibit!

Information provided by https://www.medelhavsmuseet.se/utstallningar/cypern-genom-tiderna/.

[milanima]

You can try telling me this is a Roman army officer how much you want. I'm still going to think it's Cher! #Medelhavsmuseet

[egypt-museum]

Jar in the shape of human breasts

Polished red ware double pottery jar in the shape of human breasts: handmade, with a turned rim. There is a dark red slip on the exterior and inside the rim, and it is burnished vertically. The jar is of an unusual shape with two lobes dependent on a single neck.

Badarian Culture, Predynastic Period, ca. 5500-4000 BC. From An Nazlah al Mustajiddah, Asyut. Now in the Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm.

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