EditorialFugitives cross a moat swimming with goat skins or bladders Detail from Ashurnazirpal's siege of a city. Stone bas-relief (9th BCE) from the palace of Ashurnazirpal II in Nimrud, Mesopotamia.
EditorialSwimmers with pig's bladders to keep them afloat. Door covering the Palace at Imgur-Enlil (Balawat) of King Shalmaneser III (858-824 BCE) of Assur. Bronze relief. Height: 11 cm AO 22286.
EditorialBasin with Saint Sebastian, In the plane of the basin, which has the center point in the center, punched with the help of stamp forms: a representation of Saint Sebastian and two archers, as well as the shaded ones background applied inscription DER IN...
EditorialFugitives cross a moat swimming with goat skins or bladders Detail from Ashurnazirpal's siege of a city. Stone bas-relief (9th BCE) from the palace of Ashurnazirpal II in Nimrud, Mesopotamia.
EditorialMedieval men inflating pig bladders (for bagpipes?), playing mandolins and pipes. Lithograph from Henry Rene Allemagne's Sports and Games of Skill (Sports et Jeux d'Adresse), Librairie Hachette, Paris, 1903.
EditorialBasin with Renaissance vase and vegetative ornament, In the plate of the saucer, which has the center point in the center, shapes are punched using stamps: a Renaissance vase with lid decorated with a grunt and a stylized vegetative ornament ( repeated...
EditorialDish with fish bladders, leaf vines and crucifixes, The plate of the dish, which has the center point in the center, punched with the help of a stamp shape: an umbo surrounded by a rim made up of fish bladders and an om a branch of wounded vine on shad...
EditorialBasin with Saint Sebastian, In the plane of the basin, which has the center point in the center, punched with the help of stamp forms: a representation of Saint Sebastian and two archers, as well as the shaded ones background applied inscription DER IN...
EditorialPommellum decorated with fish blisters and banderoles, The copper-driven object is composed of the following parts: two hemispheres, the part that holds them together, the two rosettes on the opening and the tube, that connects them. Each hemisphere ha...
EditorialSaucer with Saint Christoffel measures the Child, In the plate of the saucer, which has the center point in the center, punch marks are punched with the help of stamp forms: a depiction of Saint Christoffel derived from the Legenda Aurea with the Child...
EditorialBasin with Samson and the lion, In the plane of the basin, which has the center point in the center, a representation of the battle of Samson with the lion has been punched with the help of a stamp form (Judges 14, 5-6). This is surrounded by a border ...
EditorialSwimmers with pig's bladders to keep them afloat. Door covering the Palace at Imgur-Enlil (Balawat) of King Shalmaneser III (858-824 BCE) of Assur. Bronze relief. Height: 11 cm AO 22286.
EditorialMedieval men inflating pig bladders (for bagpipes?), playing mandolins and pipes. Lithograph from Henry Rene Allemagne's Sports and Games of Skill (Sports et Jeux d'Adresse), Librairie Hachette, Paris, 1903.
EditorialFugitives cross a moat swimming with goat skins or bladders Detail from Ashurnazirpal's siege of a city. Stone bas-relief (9th BCE) from the palace of Ashurnazirpal II in Nimrud, Mesopotamia.
EditorialSwimmers with pig's bladders to keep them afloat. Door covering the Palace at Imgur-Enlil (Balawat) of King Shalmaneser III (858-824 BCE) of Assur. Bronze relief. Height: 11 cm AO 22286.