#ancient

Faience vase in the shape of a duck

Egypt, 3rd-2nd century BCE (Ptolemaic)

The Walters Art Museum

Necklace with Butterfly Pendant

Hellenistic, ca. late 2nd-1st century BC

Walters Art Museum: Baltimore

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Yayoi Period

The Yayoi period in Japan is most commonly understood to have lasted from 300 BC-300 AD, and is known as the Japanese Iron Age.

This period was marked with a blooming of land ownership, agriculture, and introduction of class systems due to the introduction of wet rice farming from southern China. 

didanawisgi:

“In a near-sighted world we might learn much from the ancient Greek philosophers.

Asked why he lived, Pythagoras replied: “To look at heaven and nature.” Accused of caring nothing for his kin and his own city, Anaxagoras pointed at the sky and said: “There is my country.“”

Check out my new blog, “Art of the Crusades”, where I’ll curate an online collection of artifacts and buildings from the Middle East and Europe in the Medieval period following the one covered in my old blog!

A lead bulla seal inscribed with a horseback knight on the obverse and a five-towered gated fortress on the reverse.

Made in in the early thirteenth century for Lord Bohemond of Batroun.

Currently held in a private collection in Montreal, Quebec.

Random character design of two sisters (kind of witches) Sibilla and Tyche (Τύχη)  with sardinian folk dresses.

I fell in love with these patterns and it was very hard to choose only 2 of them, because of the variety of sardinian folk clothes

Some of them: