#4th century bce

tammuz:

Sliver Tetradrachm of Alexander the Great wearing a lion skin helmet. The coin was minted in Babylon around 324 BCE. The city was the capital of the Macedonian king’s vast empire and where he died in 323 BCE. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA.

Photo by Babylon Chronicle

michael-svetbird:

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Etruscan, Sanctuary of the Carraccio dell’Osteria, Vulci
Terracotta, Late 4th BC.
[The excavations of 1985]
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ancientpeoples:

Pottery: red-figured calyx-krater (wine-bowl).
Designs red on black ground, with white accessories; Etruscan style. Below the designs, palmettos. 
(a) Suicide of Ajax (Aivas): Ajax, nude and bearded, wearing a wreath, is fallen on his knees to left over his sword, which comes out through his body by his left shoulder; blood is visible round the wound and the handle of the sword. On the left is his shield; above, a garment with border of dots suspended on two pegs. On the right are a large sheath suspended by a white band, a tree-stump, and a garment suspended on two pegs. The scene takes place in Ajax’s tent; the ground is indicated below. Above Ajax is painted a retrograde inscription in white.

Etruscan

c 400-350 BC

Source:British Museum

artschoolglasses:

The Louvre

Paris, France

fishstickmonkey:

Head (Berber) (300 BCE), Greek bronze & bone (courtesy the Trustees of the British Museum)

hellenismo:

A winged Eros presenting a goose to a seated, draped, Aphrodite holding a fan in the right hand.
(Apulian krater, circa 370-360 BCE. Now in a private collection…)

lionofchaeronea:

Ancient Egyptian ring (gold and green jasper) with an image of the god Ptah.  Artist unknown; ca. 664-322 BCE (Late Period).  Now in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.  Photo credit: Walters Art Museum.

Ancient Greek gold and glass necklace, dated to around the 4th century BCE. Source: Sotheby’s.

via-appia:

Gold laurel wreath from the Kerameikos Archaeological Museum

Greek, Hellenistic Period

historyarchaeologyartefacts:

The golden diadem of the Scythian princess Meda, found in the tomb of Philip II of Macedon. Aigai, Macedonia, Greece. 4th century BC [960x700]

Hellenistic gold and garnet ring, dated to the 4th to 3rd centuries BCE. The garnet is an intaglio inscribed with the image of a hero. Source: Timeline Auctions.

ancient-serpent:

Etruscan Gold Centaur Earrings, c. Late 4th - Early 3rd Century BC

ancientorigins:

Egyptian Faience collar Necklace. Late Period 664-332 BC

archaeheart:

Persepolis, Iran // August 2018

jeannereames:

For Christine

thevoicewithoutaface:

Temple of Apollo Smintheos, Bassae: 430-390 BC

2seeitall:

in Delphi