Ancient Greek Bronze Vessels - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In ancient Greece, vessels were made in great quantities and in diverse materials, including terracotta, glass, ivory, stone, wood, leather, bronze, silver, and gold. The vases of precious metals have largely vanished because they were melted down and reused, but ancient literature and inscriptions testify to their existence.
List of ship types - Wikipedia
This is a list of historical ship types, which includes any classification of ship that has ever been used, excluding smaller vessels considered to be boats. The classifications are not all mutually exclusive; a vessel may be both a full-rigged ship by description, and a …
emulating luxury in the ancient Greek world - British Museum
2023年8月1日 · On one red-figured lekythos (an ancient Greek vessel for storing oil), a figure of Athena clearly echoes the gold and ivory statue of the goddess who stood in the Parthenon and was the masterpiece of the sculptor Pheidias.
Ancient Greek Pottery - World History Encyclopedia
2018年3月16日 · Pottery vessels were made for everyday use such as the two-handled amphora for storage, the single-stem kylix cup for drinking wine, and the three-handled hydra for holding water. Greek pottery was often decorated with geometric designs or …
Exceptional Vessels | Index Magazine | Harvard Art Museums
2018年11月15日 · Each of the elaborate vessels in our special exhibition Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings tells an interesting story. Take, for instance, a bull head rhyton (“flowing vessel”) from the Bronze Age. It was found in a tomb on the Greek island of Karpathos, among pottery imported from nearby ...
Ancient maritime history - Wikipedia
In ancient maritime history, [1] evidence of maritime trade between civilizations dates back at least two millennia. [2] The first prehistoric boats are presumed to have been dugout canoes which were developed independently by various Stone Age populations. In ancient history, various vessels were used for coastal fishing and travel.
Look inside Greek life in the golden age of Attic pottery - Christie's
2024年3月21日 · The Zimmermann collection traverses nearly every known type of vessel from the golden age of Attic pottery. Exhibited throughout Europe and included in numerous scholarly publications, these works, much like Homer’s famous verses, form a lively portrait of the cultural and social life of Ancient Greece.
In the lap of luxury: decadence in the ancient Persian and ... - The …
2023年4月20日 · In 1949, three brothers were digging for clay near the town of Panagyurishte in Bulgaria when they made a spectacular discovery: an ornate gold rhyton, an ancient drinking vessel, buried some 2 metres down.
Glass gold-band mosaic scyphus (drinking cup)
This example is highly unusual in that it is made from fused canes of polychrome mosaic glass, which include bands of gold leaf between two layers of colorless glass. The cup, despite its fragmentary condition, is probably the largest surviving example of an ancient vessel made using gold-band glass.
Achaemenid - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This silver vessel is called a ‘rhyton’ (from the Greek rheo, meaning ‘flow through’) by scholars because it has a spout at the bottom. Like many rhyta, it consists of a horn-shaped beaker and a hollow sculptural element, in this case in the form of the foreparts of a kneeling ram or ibex.