#ancient art

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Crab Vessel with Double Spout.

Place of origin: Colombia, Calima Region

Period: Ilama Period

Date: 1500 B.C.-A.D. 100

Medium: Ceramics

[memories-of-ancients]

Gold, carnelian, lapis lazuli, and turquoise pectoral from the Tomb of Ramses II, Egypt, 1279-1213 BC

from The Louvre

[kimiko24]

DOG MOSAICS (From Italy and Greece ××)

[skf-fineart]

Mayan plate with monkey tail in spiral

Date: c. 300-850 AD

Collection: Museo Nacional de Antropología, México

[twirld]

The Saffron Goddess (1600 B.C.) detail - Minoan fresco depicting a saffron harvest, Akrotiri, Santorini island, Greece

[bronzeageecho]

kneeling bull holding a spouted vessel | ca. 3100–2900 BCE | proto-elamite

in the met museum collection

[along-the-silkroad]

Moses being saved from the river, fresco from the Synagogue of Dura Europos, 244–255 CE.

[ilookattextile]

1. 19th century sealskin thong, Greenland

2. Pazyryk swan made of felted reindeer wool, circa 400 BCE, Siberia

3. Child’s hat with bird, nalbound cotton and wool, 1000–1476 CE, Chancay culture, Peru

4. Knitted cotton sock from Egypt, 1000-1200 CE

5. Sidonian flask shaped like a date, 1st-2nd century CE, Syria or Palestine

6. World’s oldest surviving pants, woven wool, circa 1300-1000 BCE, China

[arthistoryanimalia]

#FrogFriday 🐸:

“A rare and exceptional archaic marble sculpture of a recumbent frog”

China, Shang dynasty (c. 1600-1046 BCE)

Length 25 cm (9⅞ in.)

[anteregem]

Some fanart of this ancient figurine! Also got commissioned to draw her hanging out with a friend!

[lionofchaeronea]

Terracotta jar from Roman Britain in the shape of a woman's head. Now in the Spurlock Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

[kirbyateringostarr]

Lobster Vessel

Ceramic vessel formed as a spiny lobster. Nazca culture.

Penguin Vessel

Painted ceramic vessel in the shape of a Humboldt penguin. Nazca culture.

Orca Vessel

Ceramic vessel depicting an orca. Nazca culture.

[memories-of-ancients]

Gold pendant, Roman Britain, 1st-2nd century AD

from The Norfolk Museums Collection

[sharksandjays]

I know this isn't ninjago guys but I finished this 17 hour painting for my art class and I was proud of it so...enjoy.

I love Egypt fun fact about me. :) [ID: a detailed, realistic painting of the hathor columns at the dendera temple complex in dendera, egypt. /end ID]

[skf-fineart]

Ethiopian's head and female Greek head, with a kalos inscription. Attic janiform red-figure aryballos, ca. 520–510 BC. From Greece.