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historyarchaeologyartefacts:

The Lady of Elche, a limestone bust from the 5th-4th century BC found near Elche, Spain. It is believed to be a high-born Iberian woman deified by her descendants, though its exact identity and purpose is unknown. [2210x3000]

grandegyptianmuseum:

The preparation of lily perfume

Relief depicting women squeezing oil from lily flowers in a press for use in perfume. Fragment from the decoration of a tomb (limestone). Ptolemaic Period, ca. 305-30 BC. Now in the Louvre.

(Source: grandegyptianmuseum)

magictransistor:

Muhammad Mahdi al-Khadim al-Yazdi. Safavid astrolabe, c. 1675.

oyuvo:

Terracotta figure of Aphrodite within a cockle-shell, 2nd Century BC

(Source: mini-girlz)

grandegyptianmuseum:

Relief plaque with ram’s head from a god’s figure, probably Amun (limestone). Late Period to Ptolemaic Period, ca. 664-30 BC. Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

(Source: grandegyptianmuseum)

the-cinder-fields:

Sphinx in Ivory from Nimrud, Iraq. Neo-Assyrian period, 911-612 BCE

(Source: ancient.eu)

armthearmour:

An interesting Kulah Khud and Sipar, Persian, ca. 19th century, from Czerny’s International Auction House.

grandegyptianmuseum:

Statue of the god Amun and his consort goddess Mut (schist). New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, ca. 1292-1189 BC. Now in the Louvre.

(Source: grandegyptianmuseum)

newguineatribalart:

Marquesan Sculpture Polynesia