A Cycladic idol, 2500-2000BC. During the Early Bronze Age figurines were made from marble on the Cyclades, islands in the Aegean Sea. The most common are female figurines with folded arms. Most of them were found in graves.The intended purpose of these figurines remains unknown. 🏺 AncientBluesky
Looking through the C12th Norman chancel arch of the ruined church at Knowlton, through the nave, to the doorway and window of the C15th tower. The church, situated within a #Neolithic#AdoorableThursday AncientBlueSky 🏺
A 1st century Roman Lar with cornucopia from Axatiana now in the National Archaeological Museum of Spain. 📸 Luis García #Ancientbluesky
Local stamped tile from Apollonia Pontica, 3rd c. BC, kept in Sozopol museum, Bulgaria, along Black Sea shore ClassicsBluesky AncientBluesky Antiquités
Online book Animal style Scythian art in Eastern Europe ClassicsBluesky AncientBluesky Antiquités spartokos.wordpress.com/2022/10/13/a...
Kantorovitch A.R. (2022) : Искусство скифского звериного стиля Восточной Европы (классификация, типология, хронология, эволюция): в двух томах / Iskusstvo skifskogo zverinogo stilja Vostochnoj Evro…
Pseudo-Josephus is a solo artist, not a stray part of the "Sacra Parallela" mega-group! #AncientBlueskywww.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2024/...
In my last post, I mentioned that this Pseudo-Josephus text is transmitted to us in a range of manuscripts, but is also transmitted in the “Sacra Parallela.” The Sacra is an immense anthology of …
This sounds even worse than its exact contemporary, "Hercules Against the Moon Men", and I think I need to see it #AncientBluesky
