#ancient art

[memories-of-ancients]

Bronze helmet, Greek Southern Italy, 525-500 BC

from The St. Louis Museum of Art

[squeegin]

Guau!!!!

DOG MOSAICS (From Italy and Greece ××)

[bronzeageecho]

details of a statue of a girl, perhaps artemis | c. 530 BCE | athenian, archaic period

in the acropolis museum collection

[1five1two]

Huaca de la Luna, or Temple of the Moon, was part of the ancient Moche capital built of millions of adobe blocks between the first and eighth centuries AD in northern Peru.

[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!

[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

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Crab Vessel with Double Spout.

Place of origin: Colombia, Calima Region

Period: Ilama Period

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

Medium: Ceramics

[twirld]

Artist's Sketch of a Sparrow (ca. 1479–1458 B.C.)

Reign: Joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III - The Met

[jbbartram-illu]

Did I ever post the finished Lascaux (& etc) horses here?!

This first batch of them will be available in my next shop update, but there are more getting bisque-fired tomorrow that should be going into the shop in mid-April alongside a couple more cave painting mugs :)

[memories-of-ancients]

Silver didrachm minted in Velia, Greek Southern Italy (Magna Graecia), 335-330 BC

from The Walters Art Museum

[toyastales]

Gold, emerald, diamond, and enamel signet ring with clock, crafted by Johannes Butz of Augsburg, Germany, 2nd quarter of the 17th Century AD.

[bronzeageecho]

boar pendant | c. 3800 - 3100 CE | susa (modern day shush), iran

in the louvre collection

[hanssloane]

Eastern greek fluorite carved idol: Owl.

4th - 3rd century BC.

Private Collection.

[uncleclaudius]

The mosaic floor of a dining room in a Roman villa in Antandros in Anatolia, which was occupied between the 3rd and 6th centuries AD.