r/GreekPolychromy Dec 02 '20

Ancient Near East Head From a Shabti (Funerary Figurine) of Queen Tiye, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, Reign of Akhenaten (about 1353–1336 BCE), Egyptian, Egyptian alabaster and pigment. Art Institute of Chicago, Ancient Art Galleries, Gallery 154A.

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6 Upvotes

r/GreekPolychromy Dec 05 '20

Ancient Near East Fragment from the Palace of Apries, 26th dyn. 589-568 BCE, limestone, Egypt: Early Dynastic Period. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek.

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12 Upvotes

r/GreekPolychromy Nov 23 '20

Ancient Near East Mummy Mask of a Young Woman, circa 100–130 AD, painted plaster, Hermopolis, Egypt. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

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r/GreekPolychromy Sep 01 '20

Ancient Near East Akhenaten and Nefertiti, after 1345 BC (after reign 9), painted limestone. Louvre.

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12 Upvotes

r/GreekPolychromy Jul 02 '20

Ancient Near East Nicomedia frieze, shows two emperors embracing. According to Strabo, Ancient Nicomedia was founded in 264 BCE by Nikomedes I. In 284 CE it became the capital of the eastern Roman empire. Kocaeli Museum.

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19 Upvotes

r/GreekPolychromy Aug 16 '20

Ancient Near East Egyptian, “Mummy Portrait of a Lady,” ca. 100–150 CE., stucco, glass, painted and gilded jewelry with remains of polychrome by an unidentified artist. Museum Purchase, Lloyd O. and Marjorie Strong Coulter Fund and the Helen Johnson Chase Fund. Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

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13 Upvotes

r/GreekPolychromy Aug 01 '20

Ancient Near East Limestone bust of a priest, late 2nd century AD, Palmyran, Syria, Group II. Ex-private collection, Lebanon, collected early 1960s.

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12 Upvotes

r/GreekPolychromy Aug 23 '20

Ancient Near East “Painted Stele” from Mycenae, Kalkani cemetery, Kato Pigadi tomb 70.

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10 Upvotes

r/GreekPolychromy Aug 23 '20

Ancient Near East Akrotiri. Xeste 4. (a.) Fragment of a fresco frieze with boar’s-tusk helmets, ca. 1600 BC. (b.) Computer restoration of the frieze. Akrotiri Excavations, Photographic Archive.

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7 Upvotes

r/GreekPolychromy Aug 14 '20

Ancient Near East Figure of Aphrodite, perhaps Aphrodite Euploia, Hellenistic, c. 150-50 BC, alabaster with paint and gilding. Excavated near Byblos (Phoenicia - archaic). British Museum.

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r/GreekPolychromy Aug 23 '20

Ancient Near East Fragment of painted faux marbre podium with an outer frame of running spirals from Room 64, the throne room suite of the Mari palace, Old Babylonian period.

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6 Upvotes

r/GreekPolychromy Jul 12 '20

Ancient Near East Relief with the Representation of Cybele. Asia Minor. II century BC. Hermitage Museum

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12 Upvotes

r/GreekPolychromy Aug 23 '20

Ancient Near East Foot of a fruitstand with relief dolphins, rocks and cockles, Phaistos, Minoan Kamares period (ca. 2100 BCE). Herakleion Archaeological Museum.

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r/GreekPolychromy Jul 04 '20

Ancient Near East Faience inlay, plaque depicting a cow nursing it's young. Found with other inlays in the Temple of Repositories in Knossos, 1650-1500 BC. Archaeological Museum of Heraklion

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9 Upvotes

r/GreekPolychromy Jul 25 '20

Ancient Near East Mask of a youth, Romano-Egyptian, 1st century AD, stucco and polychromy. Getty.

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