#ancient art

[baconmancr]

The animals are to-scale with the hunters, so I'm loving the implication that Miku is 50 feet tall

even our ancestors sang Popipo

[memories-of-ancients]

Statuette of Ptah-Sokar-Osiris, Ptolemaic Egypt, 332-30 BC

from The Art Institute of Chicago

[1five1two]

[arthistoryanimalia]

In love with this little guy and its toot-toot snoot 🥰

Peccary-form Ocarina Greater Nicoya, Guanacaste, Costa Rica, 300 BCE - 500 CE Marbella incised modeled clay with slip H 4 5/8 in, 11.75 cm; W: 2 3/4 in, 6.99 cm; D: 6 in, 15.24 cm Denver Art Museum 1995.787

UPDATE:

It has a cousin at Harvard Peabody Museum!

“Ceramic ocarina, zoomorphic, quadruped w/ tail, incised & engraved body, 4 playing holes”

(It’s another peccary)

10.8x12.5x6.1 cm (4 1/4 x 4 15/16 x 2 3/8 in)

Nicoya, Guanacaste, Costa Rica

17-3-20/C8064

BTW, it’s interesting that they’re both oriented towards the player…these animal ocarinas were usually oriented to face outwards when played so that it looked like the animal was singing…but with these peccaries you had to blow into their snoots to make them toot 😂

[roguehaunt]

my heart

We have always loved and we will continue to love. Oh, the beauty of human connection!

[blueiscoool]

AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE CAT LATE PERIOD, 26TH-30TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 664-343 B.C.

[2seeitall]

Egyptian wall in Karnak Temple, Egypt

[arcticarthropod]

Exquisitely carved Aztec snake and jaguar from the national museum of anthropology , Mexico City.

[batri-jopa]

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Lioness Devouring a Man, Phoenician Ivory Panel, c. 9th-8th century BCE. From the palace of Ashurnasirpal II, Nimrud, northern Mesopotamia, Iraq.

[theantonian]

Pair of Gold Earrings

Hellenistic period, 2nd century BC

Gold, plasma, pearl

H: 6.70 centimetres (each)

W: 303 grains

Although missing some of their pendants, these earrings are intricately made, with careful attention to detail. They follow the common disc and amphora type of the middle and late Hellenistic period, but the use of a large emerald is unusual: emeralds became more popular during the Roman period.

These earrings have a highly decorated disc, above which is a large stylized floral motif, either a palmette or an acanthus leaf. This is soldered on to the main disc, which has a central motif in the form of a double rosette, with berries formed of tiny granules, some now missing, between each leaf. Small flowers further decorate the design, originally filled with blue-green enamel, the colour perhaps emulating the emerald, some of which survives. Below the disc hangs a large amphora, with dolphins forming its handles and an emerald for the body. The casing for the stone is decorated in a design familiar from vase painting and metal vessels. The foot of the amphora is in the form of a square box formed of sheet gold. Originally, on either side of the amphora hung pendants, and on one of the earrings the chains and two of the pearl beads survive.

A hook is soldered to the back of each disc.

from The Metropolitan Museum of Fine Arts, New York

[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]

[anteregem]

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

[lersley]

look at this guys tiny ass penis

Hermes and infant Dionysus 🪽🍇

📍Museum of Olympia, Greece

[kimiko24]

DOG MOSAICS (From Italy and Greece ××)

[memories-of-ancients]

Wood figurine of an ox, Egypt, 2000 - 1800 BC

from The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts