#Ptolemaic art
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lionofchaeronea · 2 years ago
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Ancient Egyptian faience inlay depicting a falcon with spread wings. Artist unknown; 4th cent. BCE (Late Period or early Ptolemaic). Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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theancientwayoflife · 16 days ago
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~ Vignette from funerary papyrus (Book of the Dead) from papyrus N 3149.
Period: Ptolemaic Period
Medium: Papyrus
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blueiscoool · 1 month ago
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Head of a cat Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, c. 664–30 B.C. The Met.
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memories-of-ancients · 2 years ago
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Gold diadem with herakles knot, crafted in Alexandria, Egypt, 220-100 BC
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didoofcarthage · 24 days ago
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Fragment of an oinochoe (wine jug) depicting Queen Berenike II. Hellenistic Period, Ptolemaic Egypt, 246-221 B.C. Faience. In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Description from the Met:
Ptolemaic oinochoai (wine-jugs) with portraits of the queens were libation vessels associated with the royal cult, and surely also emphasized the identification of Ptolemaic queens with the Egyptian goddess Isis... Queen Berenike II (246-221 B.C.) is almost certainly represented on this fragment. Her relatively long reign accounts for the different styles that have been attributed to her early, middle, and mature reign. This fragment depicts the queen in what has been termed the mature style, wearing the stephane that the Ptolemaic queens adopted from Greek goddesses... The queen holds the cornucopia adopted by Ptolemies as their insignia, its contents consisting of sheaves of wheat, rather indistinct cakes, and a bunch of grapes that spilled from the mouth of the horn to which only a break edge testifies.
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atomic-chronoscaph · 9 months ago
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Antony and Cleopatra - art by J. C. Leyendecker (1910)
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homerstroystory · 2 years ago
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Vase in the shape of a duck, Ptolemaic Egypt (c. 3rd-2nd century BCE; crafted in Alexandria), faience wit a polychrome glaze
Currently in the collection of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. accession no. 48.421
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blondebrainpowered · 15 days ago
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Ptolemaic Bronze Head of an Ethiopian. 4th-1st century BCE.
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thatshowthingstarted · 9 months ago
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Head of a lion, Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 400–300 B.C.
Gypsum plaster,
H. 42.5 x W. 40 cm (16 3/4 x 15 3/4 in.)
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue
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sepdet · 2 years ago
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just ran across this perfect 2000-year-old portrait of a pet who knows what he did.
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"Dog Mosaic," Ptolemaic period, 2nd century BCE, floor of a house in Alexandria, Egypt. 3.25x3.25m. (Pitcher is probably gold.)
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romegreeceart · 1 year ago
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Isis-Aphrodite
* 2nd century BCE - 1st century CE
* terracotta
* Turin Egyptian museum
Turin, June 2023
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lionofchaeronea · 1 year ago
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Ancient Egyptian depiction (gold with stone inlay) of the ba. One of the components of the multipartite soul in Egyptian thought, the ba, normally depicted as a human-headed bird, represented an individual's distinct personality. Artist unknown; early 3rd century BCE (=beginning of the Ptolemaic period). Now in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. Photo credit: Walters Art Museum.
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theancientwayoflife · 2 years ago
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~ Statue of a Crocodile with the Head of a Falcon.
Culture: Egyptian
Date: ca. 380-250 B.C.
Period: Late Period-early Ptolemaic Period; 30th Dynasty
Medium: Steatite
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blueiscoool · 2 days ago
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Mummies with Golden Tongues Found in 2,500-Year-Old Egyptian Tomb
More than a dozen ancient gold tongues have been discovered in a cemetery at the site of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt.
Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered 13 ancient mummies with gold tongues and nails in a cemetery at the site of Oxyrhynchus.
The team made the finds when they dug down to the bottom of a burial shaft, revealing a hall with three chambers that held dozens of mummies. The human remains date to the Ptolemaic period (circa 304 to 30 B.C.), a time when a dynasty descended from one of Alexander the Great's generals ruled Egypt, according to two statements released by the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.
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Archaeologists had previously unearthed 16 gold tongues at Oxyrhynchus. The ancient Egyptians put gold tongues in mummies with the intention of helping the deceased speak in the afterlife, and because they believed that gold was "the flesh of the gods," Esther Pons Mellado and Maite Mascort, co-directors of the Spanish-Egyptian archaeological mission at Oxyrhynchus, said earlier this year. The same team made the new finds.
"The number of gold tongues here is high, which is interesting," Salima Ikram, an Egyptology professor at the American University in Cairo who was not involved with the latest excavation, said in an email. "Possibly the bodies belong to higher elites that were associated with the temple and animal cults that proliferated in the area," Ikram said, noting it's possible that gold tongues "might have been the vogue for the embalming house in the area."
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During the latest dig, the archaeologists also found 29 amulets with the mummies. Some amulets are in the shape of scarab beetles, as the ancient Egyptians associated scarabs with the movement of the sun across the sky. Other amulets are in the shape of Egyptian deities, including Horus, Thoth and Isis. Some of them have forms that combine multiple deities together.
The excavation also revealed wall paintings, including one that depicts a tomb owner named "Wen-Nefer," who is shown being accompanied by several Egyptian deities. Another painting on the ceiling depicts the sky goddess Nut surrounded by the stars. There is also a painting of a boat that has multiple deities depicted on it.
"As for the paintings, the quality is really excellent and the freshness of colors is simply amazing," Francesco Tiradritti, an Egyptologist at D'Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara in Italy who was not involved in the dig, said in an email.
By Owen Jarus.
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memories-of-ancients · 1 year ago
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Bronze statuette intended to hold a mummified cat, Ptolemaic Egypt, 330-30 BC
from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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uncleclaudius · 7 months ago
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Sardonyx cameo of Cleopatra VII depicted as Isis and Mark Antony as Osiris.
The image and description comes from the book called Engraved Gems which can be read for free here.
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