EditorialSatrap Sarcophagus. Detail. Banquet scene. Relief. The oriental Prince or Satrap is lying on a tricline. The servant holds the rython. The prince's wife is sitting. At the right corner, a second servant. Paros marble from the Royal Necropolis of Sidon ...
EditorialThe Siege of Dapur (1269 B.C.). Syrian prisoners by Egyptian princes. 13th century B.C. Nineteenth Dynasty. New Kingdom. Relief. Ramesseum. Necropolis of Thebes. Valley of the Kings. Egypt.
EditorialPersian Art. Achaemenid Period. 6th and 5th century B.C. Tombs of kings Darius I, Xerxes I and Darius II, carved into the rock. Necropolis of Naqsh-e Rustam. Around Persepolis. Iran.
EditorialThe " Sarcophagus of the Satrap", from the Phoenician royal necropolis at Sidon. On the narrow face the satrap reclines during a meal, his wife sits opposite. On the long face servants prepare horse and chariot. Second half 5th BCE, 145 x 286...
EditorialIberian culture. Coffin (larnax). Late 4th century BC. Painted limestone. Necropolis of Tutugi, Zone III, Grave 152. Galera (province of Granada, Andalusia, Spain). National Archaeological Museum. Madrid. Spain.
EditorialLady of Galera. Sculpture of Phoenician production of the beginning of the 8th century BC. Alabaster. It depicts an enthroned goddess (Astarte) flanked by two effigies with the double Egyptian crown. Hold a bowl with both hands. It was conceived as a r...
EditorialPriestess of the Sun necklace, 5th-4th centuries BC. Celtiberian Culture. Clay. From the Necropolis of Navafria, Clares (Maranchon, Guadalajara province, Castile-La Mancha, Spain). National Archaeological Museum. Madrid. Spain.
EditorialIberian culture. Grave goods. Attic lekythos of black figures depicting two satyrs running after a woman, perhaps a nymph; Attic cup (kylix) of red figures, attributed to the painter of Pithos, depicting a naked young man jumping or dancing before a st...
EditorialBronze caetra shield. Iron Age. Ancient Celtiberian culture. 5th-early 6th centuries BC. Necropolis of El Cuarto. Grave 3. Griegos (province of Teruel, Aragon, Spain). National Archaeological Museum. Madrid. Spain.
EditorialIberian Necropolis of Pozo Moro. 525-501 BC. Sandstone tower. Detail. Chinchilla de Monte-Aragon, province of Albacete Castile-La Mancha, Spain. National Archaeological Museum. Madrid. Spain.
EditorialEgypt. Blocks of stone fallen from one of three satellite pyramids of the Great Pyramid of Khufu or Cheops in the Giza Necropolis. 4th Dynasty. 26th century B.C. Old Kingdom.