EditorialThe famous Pharos, built by the Egyptian King Ptolomeo Philadelphia at the entrance of the Alexandrian port, is a ..., Illustration of the seventh wonder of the world, the Pharos of Alexandria, from the 18th century, signed: I. B. F. v. Chr., E. del, T...
EditorialAlexandrian senna, Senna alexandrina, Cassia acutifolia, Sene a feuilles aigues. Handcoloured steel engraving by Debray after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr. Gerard and Francois Herincqs La Regne Veg...
Editorialbowl, property of the Stiftung Hamburger Kunstsammlungen, glass, blown into shape, glass, Total: Height: 9 cm; Diameter: 16.3 cm, High Hellenistic, Greek antiquity, This bowl is a masterpiece of antique glass processing: two yellow spiral threads with ...
EditorialHead of an African boy, basalt, greywacke, chiseled, painted, basalt, chiseled and painted, Total: Height: 19.7 cm; Width: 17.2 cm; Depth: 20 cm, sculptures, African, child, head, face, late Hellenistic, head of a child with open mouth and large, expre...
EditorialBust of the god Sarapis, Marble, chiseled, Marble, chiseled, Total: Height: 48,50 cm; Width: 34,50 cm; Depth: 20,00 cm, Three-dimensional sculptures, Serapis, Egyptian gods, demigods, heroes, Middle Empire, Roman copy after a Greek original. Originally...
EditorialRussia, Saint Petersburg. The Alexander Column or Alexandrian Column in the Palace Square. It was designed by the architect Auguste de Montferrand and built between 1830 and 1834, to commemorate the Russian military victory in the war with Napoleon's F...
EditorialGlass mosaic bead, Early Imperial, 1st century A.D., Roman, Egyptian, Alexandrian, Glass; rod-formed, 1 1/16 ? 1 3/16 in. (2.6 ? 2.9 cm), Glass, Translucent deep blue ground, appearing black; decoration in opaque white and red., Spherical; vertical hol...
EditorialAn Islamic Prophet Appearing in the Courtyard of a Prison in Alexandria, 1706 or shortly before, Pen and black ink, gray wash, over a sketch in red chalk, incised for transfer; double framing line in pen and brown ink, probably by the artist, sheet: 5 ...
EditorialYoung woman with a Bacchic ferrule and a large trumpet, identifying her as Aglais, the daughter of Megacles, who played the trumpet in the first grand Alexandrian procession. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (...
EditorialAlexandrian senna, Senna alexandrina, Cassia acutifolia, Sene a feuilles aigues. Handcoloured steel engraving by Debray after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr. Gerard and Francois Herincqs La Regne Veg...
EditorialThe famous Pharos, built by the Egyptian King Ptolomeo Philadelphia at the entrance of the Alexandrian port, is a ..., Illustration of the seventh wonder of the world, the Pharos of Alexandria, from the 18th century, signed: I. B. F. v. Chr., E. del, T...
EditorialClay ground 'Hadra' hydria (water-jar), Greek, probably from Egypt, c200 BC. This vase is decorated in the black-figure technique, with a bull's head flanked by swans in a panel between the handles. The plunging dolphins on the shoulder are a popular H...
EditorialAlexandrian senna, Senna alexandrina (Senna, Cassia senna). Handcoloured woodblock engravings from James Main's Popular Botany, Orr and Smith, London, 1835. James Main (1775-1846) was a Scottish gardener, botanist and writer.
EditorialYoung woman with a Bacchic ferrule and a large trumpet, identifying her as Aglais, the daughter of Megacles, who played the trumpet in the first grand Alexandrian procession. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (...
EditorialClay ground 'Hadra' hydria (water-jar), Greek, probably from Egypt, c200 BC. This vase is decorated in the black-figure technique, with a bull's head flanked by swans in a panel between the handles. The plunging dolphins on the shoulder are a popular H...
EditorialGlass mosaic bead, Early Imperial, 1st century A.D., Roman, Egyptian, Alexandrian, Glass; rod-formed, 1 1/16 ? 1 3/16 in. (2.6 ? 2.9 cm), Glass, Translucent deep blue ground, appearing black; decoration in opaque white and red., Spherical; vertical hol...
EditorialAn Islamic Prophet Appearing in the Courtyard of a Prison in Alexandria, 1706 or shortly before, Pen and black ink, gray wash, over a sketch in red chalk, incised for transfer; double framing line in pen and brown ink, probably by the artist, sheet: 5 ...
EditorialAlexandrian senna, Senna alexandrina (Senna, Cassia senna). Handcoloured woodblock engravings from James Main's Popular Botany, Orr and Smith, London, 1835. James Main (1775-1846) was a Scottish gardener, botanist and writer.
EditorialAlexandrian senna, Senna alexandrina (Cassia acutifolia). Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimen's Medicinal Plants, London, 1880.
EditorialAlexandrian senna, Senna alexandrina (Arabian senna or tinnivelly senna, Cassia angustifolia). Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimen's Medicinal Plants, London, 1880.
EditorialAlexandrian senna, Senna alexandrina 1, and amargo, Quassia amara 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1802.
EditorialYoung woman with a Bacchic ferrule and a large trumpet, identifying her as Aglais, the daughter of Megacles, who played the trumpet in the first grand Alexandrian procession. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (...
EditorialAlexandrian senna, Senna aledandrina, with flower, leaf, stalk and seed. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret and Chamberet's "La Flore Medicale," Paris, Panck...
EditorialLimestone ossuary, Roman-Jewish, 1st BCE-1st CE. The bones were collected after burial in the soil, when the flesh had decomposed. The chests were then placed in a burial chamber. Greek inscription says this chest contains the bones of the family of &q...