Former tech drone, living in L.A. I now create digital reconstructions of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture. No, really. 🏳️🌈
Flickr account (museum photos, mainly, free to use and high res): https://www.flickr.com/photos/125386285@N02/
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🏺As promised, I've finally written up a little blog post looking at the archaeology of all of those 'little guys' we all seem to love so much online. 📜
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What is a ‘little guy’? It’s a descriptor often thrown around in Internet parlance, usually as part of a copypasta, like ‘I’m Just a Silly Little Guy”, or used i…
One of the Alexandrian style frescoes in the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor of Boscoreale (in the #MetMuseum) features an enthroned woman holding a kithara. Given the affinity to Ptolemaic art, it’s thought that this might represent Queen Berenike II. 🏺 3/
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Bluesky is still munching my multi-photo threads, which makes me want to scream. So no review of the new LACMA yet ... 😡
In the meantime, enjoy this exceptional *tiny* garnet bust of a Ptolemaic woman, probably Queen Berenike II. 🏺 1/
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This is an early example of mold-blown glass, probably made in Syria. Several examples are recorded from ancient cemetery sites in Armenia, Georgia, and the Crimea, whereas the type is not known in the western half of the empire.
Flavian, 2nd half of 1st c. CE.
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The garnet portrait is identified as Ptolemaic queen because she wears a fillet (ribbon) which denoted royalty in Macedonian kingdoms and seems to match the coin portraits of Berenike II. 🏺 2/
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Paging Mr. Tiffany! This spectacularly iridescent ‘melon-shaped’ glass juglet type was only produced in the eastern portion of the Roman empire and is relatively rare. Tiffany Studios started producing iridescent Favrile Glass in 1896, based on ancient Roman glass. 🏺 1/
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Closeup of the large wall painting of a seated woman playing a kithara, from Room H of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor, Boscoreale (buried in the Vesuvian eruption that destroyed Pompeii). The room w...
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Translucent cobalt blue, with colorless handle. Everted rim, folded over and in; uneven cylindrical neck; globular but slightly lentoid body; circular low base with rounded edge; uneven, flat bottom; ...
Garnet carved as a miniature relief bust of the head of a woman. Her hair is rolled and bound in a fillet, drawn back to a bun, and largely covered by a veil. The subject is probably Berenike II of Eg...
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Almost like the evil queen’s magic mirror in ‘Snow White’, this #Roman amethyst sealstone appears to come alive in natural light, making Medusa’s sad face visible.
This images was considered apotropaic - protective against the evil eye. 🏺
2nd c. CE. #BritishMuseum
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