EditorialSampler, Elizabeth Muns, English, Medium: silk and metal-wrapped silk embroidery on wool foundation Technique: embroidered in cross, satin, back, tent, half cross, and double running stitches on plain weave foundation, Vertical rectangle with alphabet,...
EditorialFollis Iustinus II, G bronze, embossed, bronze, Total: Diameter: 2.8 cm, Inscription: X, coins, portrait of ruler, state portrait, emperor, late antiquity, The obverse of the follis shows the enthroned imperial couple with an inwardly directed inscript...
EditorialStamp seal (duck-shaped) with divine symbols, Assyrian, Neo-Assyrian, Date 7th century B.C., From Mesopotamia, Ctesiphon, Assyrian, Banded neutral Chalcedony (Quartz), Seal Face: 1.81 x 0.95 cm, Height: 1.47 cm, String Hole: 0.21 cm, Stone-Stamp Seals.
EditorialTerracotta Nolan neck-amphora (jar), Classical, ca. 460?450 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; red-figure, H. 13 5/8 in. (34.6 cm), Vases, Obverse, woman pouring libation for Athena, Reverse, youth. It is impossible to determine whether the woman pouring ...
EditorialTerracotta neck-amphora (jar), Archaic, ca. 500 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; black-figure, Height: 8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm), Vases, Obverse, Hera sending out Iris with the Nemean lion, Reverse, Herakles wrestling the Nemean lion. The very rare representa...
EditorialAegis of Sakhmet or Bastet, Late Period?Ptolemaic Period, 664?30 B.C., From Egypt, Faience, l. 4 cm (1 9/16 in.) ? w. 4 cm (1 9/16 in.), An aegis is a collarlike necklace (often called a broad-collar) bearing a divine head as symbol of protection and f...
EditorialAegis of Sakhmet or Bastet, Late Period?Ptolemaic Period, 664?30 B.C., From Egypt, Faience, l. 4 cm (1 9/16 in.) ? w. 4 cm (1 9/16 in.), An aegis is a collarlike necklace (often called a broad-collar) bearing a divine head as symbol of protection and f...
EditorialAegis of Sakhmet or Bastet, Late Period?Ptolemaic Period, 664?30 B.C., From Egypt, Faience, l. 4 cm (1 9/16 in.) ? w. 4 cm (1 9/16 in.), An aegis is a collarlike necklace (often called a broad-collar) bearing a divine head as symbol of protection and f...
EditorialPersonification of Divine Wisdom Numismata virorum illustrium ex Barbadica gente (series title), A console with the female personification of Divine Wisdom. The woman is kneeling on a square stone. She is wearing a breast piece and a helmet with a roos...
EditorialDish with a man and a woman, Dish on foot with portrait of a man and a woman with the inscription: PANNTASILEA DIVA MIA BELLA, Dish on foot of multi-colored majolica. Painted on blue ground with the busts of a young woman and a bearded man. Both are we...
EditorialAegis of Sakhmet or Bastet, Late Period?Ptolemaic Period, 664?30 B.C., From Egypt, Faience, l. 4 cm (1 9/16 in.) ? w. 4 cm (1 9/16 in.), An aegis is a collarlike necklace (often called a broad-collar) bearing a divine head as symbol of protection and f...
EditorialTerracotta Nolan neck-amphora (jar), Classical, ca. 460?450 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; red-figure, H. 13 5/8 in. (34.6 cm), Vases, Obverse, woman pouring libation for Athena, Reverse, youth. It is impossible to determine whether the woman pouring ...
EditorialTerracotta neck-amphora (jar), Archaic, ca. 500 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; black-figure, Height: 8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm), Vases, Obverse, Hera sending out Iris with the Nemean lion, Reverse, Herakles wrestling the Nemean lion. The very rare representa...
EditorialAegis of Sakhmet or Bastet, Late Period?Ptolemaic Period, 664?30 B.C., From Egypt, Faience, l. 4 cm (1 9/16 in.) ? w. 4 cm (1 9/16 in.), An aegis is a collarlike necklace (often called a broad-collar) bearing a divine head as symbol of protection and f...
EditorialTerracotta Nolan neck-amphora (jar), Classical, ca. 460?450 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; red-figure, H. 13 5/8 in. (34.6 cm), Vases, Obverse, woman pouring libation for Athena, Reverse, youth. It is impossible to determine whether the woman pouring ...
EditorialTerracotta neck-amphora (jar), Archaic, ca. 500 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; black-figure, Height: 8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm), Vases, Obverse, Hera sending out Iris with the Nemean lion, Reverse, Herakles wrestling the Nemean lion. The very rare representa...