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"La Parisienne", aka the Minoan Lady, is a fresco fragment from the Palace of Knossos in Crete, dated around 1400 BC. It depicts a young woman in profile with large, black-outlined eyes, bright red lips, fair skin and black hair, often interpreted as a priestess due to her attire...
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Detail of one long side of Hagia Triada Sarcophagus, a Minoan limestone sarcophagus from c. 1400 BC, 54" long, excavated from a tomb at Hagia Triada, Crete. Coated in plaster and painted in fresco on all faces, It is the only limestone sarcophagus of its era discovered to date...
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Pompeian fresco depicting Theseus after killing the Minotaur. The fresco is not large. In the past, it was the central panel of a larger painting. It was like a painting hung in the middle of the wall and the attention of the person entering the room was supposed to focus on it.
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The Olmec Stela 2 at the Parque-Museo La Venta, in Mexico, is a 3.66 m tall low-relief basalt sculpture, dating back to 900-400 BCE. The front of the stele depicts a central, highly adorned figure, surrounded by other stylized individuals, and wearing an elaborate, tall headdress
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Knossos Griffin fresco, Knossos Palace Throne Room, Crete. One of the accurate reproductions at the restored room. The surviving original, the remains of which served to make the frescoes now at Knossos, dates from c.1600 BCE, and can be seen at the Heraklion Archaeological Museum
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"Restored" and original of a Theran Woman, Adorants Fresco, Akrotiri. The clothes amaze me: a translucent blouse with saffron stamens, a 3-4-layered skirt with 6 different patterns in black, yellow, red and blue, Hair tied with a ribbon, necklaces, earrings, bracelets... 3600 y.o...
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A Minoan ivory scepter discovered in 2024 Knossos, Crete, holds the longest Linear A inscription ever found, totaling about 119 signs. Linear A, an undeciphered script of the Minoan civilization, is a syllabic and ideographic writing system that was used from around 1800 to 1450 BCE
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The "Sappho" fresco, or Portrait of a Young Woman with Stylus, Pompeii, 1st century AD. It depicts a finely dressed young woman with a writing tablet and stylus, used in Roman paintings to indicate literacy and education. She was identified as the Greek poet Sappho without proof...
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Right edge of the crater of Las Médulas, Spain, 1st c. AD. The largest open-pit gold mine in the Roman Empire, the Romans applied "Ruina Montium" here, a mining technique that destroyed the mountain with pressurized water. The whole mountain between the pow and the crater is gone...
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The Vix Krater is an imported Greek wine-mixing vessel found in the Celtic grave of the "Lady of Vix" in northern Burgundy, France. Made of bronze and dating back to ca. 500 BC, the Vix krater is the largest known metal vessel from Western classical antiquity, being 1.63 m in height
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The epitaph of Licinia Eucharis, an ancient Roman stage actress who died at the age of 14. She is one of the few ancient actresses known to have achieved fame and respect in her profession during the Roman Republic. The 1st century BCE epitaph on her tomb was written by her father
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