Some of you may be interested to learn that my Facebook account has been suspended on account of the inclusion of this picture in an album on masculinity.
Some of you may be interested to learn that my Facebook account...
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2headedsnake: marinni.livejournal.com Jan (Jean) Mandyn...
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Is there any other source for http://defterisk.tumblr.com/post/6212690416/the-ancient-egyptians-were-aware-of-the other than http://www.fromcairo.com/calendar.htm ? I can't find any genuine sources that mention that the Ancient Egyptians used our contemporary day/hour/minute/second system for time.
I am afraid I am a very much of a newcomer to the topic, so nothing that I know of, but I will post anything that I find that seems to be relevant.
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The Denial of Saint Peter exemplifies the works painted in...
The Denial of Saint Peter exemplifies the works painted in Naples by the Lombard master and typifies the kind of psychological intensity common in his late paintings.
Source:Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in Naples | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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eus and Ganymede Zeus (represented as an eagle) and...
eus and Ganymede
Zeus (represented as an eagle) and Ganymede.
Marble, 1st c. BCE Roman copy after Greek original; Archeological Museum, Naples
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mediumaevum: St Laurence’s Church, Bradford on...
St Laurence’s Church, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, is one of relatively few surviving Saxon churches in England that does not show later medieval alteration or rebuilding.
The church is dedicated to St Laurence and may have been founded by Saint Aldhelm around 700, although the architectural style suggests a 10th or 11th century date. It could have been a temporary burial site for King Edward the Martyr.
more on wikipedia (and a photo with better coloring, but I chose this one because it’s more…personal, inviting…)
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mediumaevum: Master Mateo (active 1161-1217)Portico de la...
Master Mateo (active 1161-1217)
Portico de la Gloria
1168-88
Stone
Cathedral, Santiago de Compostela
Source and brief info about Romanesque art on a great blog, on of my favorites , Idle Speculations (blogspot not tumblr)
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The town of Edfu is located on the west back of the Nile River,...
The town of Edfu is located on the west back of the Nile River, some sixty miles south of Luxor, with Aswan further south. Its ancient name was Wetjeset-Hrw, or “The Place Where Horus is Extolled.” The modern Arabic name of Edfu is derived from the ancient Egyptian name Djeba, or Etbo in Coptic. Djeba meant “Retribution Town”, since the enemies of the god were brought to justice therein. The site of ancient Djeba was the traditional location of the mythological battle between the gods of Horus and Set, and its sandstone Ptolemaic temple, dedicated to Horus, is the most complete and best preserved of all the temples of Egypt. It was built on the site of a New Kingdom temple, which was oriented east to west, the Ptolemaic structure follows instead a north-south axis. In Graeco-Roman times Edfu was called Apollinopolis Magna, the Egyptian god Horus by then being identified with the Greek god Apollo. Edfu was the capital of the second nome of Upper Egypt, an important regional center from the Old Kingdom, partly due to the large area of fertile land belonging to the town, partly to the fact that Edfu was situated near the frontier between Egypt and Nubia, though not as close as was Philae. Edfu was probably a starting point for desert routes leading to the Kharga Oasis in the west, and to the mines of the Eastern Desert and the Red Sea coast in the east. Although there is no incontrovertible evidence of Early Dynastic occupation at Edfu, a number of oval graves, completely plundered, have been found. Edfu had an attractive geographic location, elevated within the floodplain in Upper Egypt, so logically it would have attracted settlers at that time. Confirming this, pottery dated from the Old Kingdom has been found within the town enclosure, perhaps as early as the Third Dynasty. There is a tradition that Imhotep, the vizier and architect who designed the Step Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara, designed the first stone temple at Edfu. Little is known of this temple today, and none of its remains have been found, but it was dedicated to Horus, Hathor of Dendera, and their son, Herumatawy, or Harsomtus in Greek. No larger remains dating earlier than the 5th Dynasty have been found at Edfu. Its most ancient cemetery comprised the mastabas of the Old Kingdom as well as later tombs, and covers the area southwest of the precinct of the great temple of Horus. Before the beginning of the New Kingdom, the necropolis was transferred to Hager Edfu, to the west, and then in the Late period to the south at Nag’ el-Hassaya. The entire area was called Behedet. The god Horus was herein worshipped as Horus Behedet. One of these mastabas belonged to a man named Isi, who was the “great chief of the Nome of Edfu” in the 6th Dynasty. Isi lived during the reign of King Djedkare Isesi of the Fifth and into the reign of Pepi I of the Sixth Dynasties. He was an administrator, judge, chief of the royal archives and a “Great One among the Tens of the South. Isi later became a living god and was so worshipped during the Middle Kingdom. As the Sixth Dynasty and the Old Kingdom drew to a close, local regional governors and administrative nobles took on a larger power in their areas, away from the royal central authority.
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relief with sacred barque The temple was begun in 237 BC by...
relief with sacred barque
The temple was begun in 237 BC by Ptolomaios III Euergetes and completed in 57 BC
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Even the smaller figures around the kings legs are more than...
Even the smaller figures around the kings legs are more than twice life size. These figures represent some of the more than 100 children of Ramesses II. Princess Beketmut stands between his legs while Prince Ri’amsese stands to the right.
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Princess Beketmut, I am guessing.
Princess Beketmut, I am guessing.
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.In the wonderfully decorated burial chamber of Ramses I, we...
.In the wonderfully decorated burial chamber of Ramses I, we see the seated gods Osiris and Khepri. Osiris was the king of the dead. Legend has it he was the first king in Egypt to be mummified. This mummification was performed by his grieving wife, Isis. Osiris embodies the idea of rebirth in the afterlife. He is shown as a mummy wrapped in white cloth. His green skin represents the rebirth of vegetation after the annual Nile flood. Khepri is the scarab-headed god. It was Khepri who would push the barque of the sun on its daily journey across the sky. He was also associated with rebirth in the afterlife.
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relief panel of baboons honoring the god Khepri Limestone Egypt...
relief panel of baboons honoring the god Khepri
Limestone
Egypt
Ptolemaic period
1st century B.C.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
NYC
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centuriespast: Trial PieceOIM E19477H: 12.5; W: 12.7 cmDynasty...
Trial Piece
OIM E19477
H: 12.5; W: 12.7 cm
Dynasty 18, ca. 1352 BCThe Oriental Institute of The University of Chicago
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Trial piece with a birth scene From EgyptGraeco-Roman Period,...
Trial piece with a birth scene
From Egypt
Graeco-Roman Period, 332 BC - AD 305
A woman giving birth while kneeling on two bricks
Small stone objects of this type are generally regarded as sculptor’s test pieces, but they may also have had a ritual significance, since many examples seem to have been donated to temples.
Here, a woman is shown giving birth. It was very important in ancient Egypt for married couples to have children, especially a son. This was not only to continue the family line, but to perform the rituals of burial and ensure that offerings were maintained for the spirits of his parents in the Afterlife. A woman having difficulty conceiving a child would appeal to the gods for help, leaving small offerings at a local shrine of Hathor. This goddess, often shown as a cow, or woman with the ears of a cow, was particularly associated with fertility and birth.
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Ptolemaic stela, possibly Hathor.
Ptolemaic stela, possibly Hathor.
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Khepri…
Khepri…
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artemisdreaming: Lamenting Women, from the tomb (TT55) of...
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Anahita is an ancient Persian water goddess, fertility goddess,...
Anahita is an ancient Persian water goddess, fertility goddess, and patroness of women, as well as a goddess of war. Her name means “the immaculate one”. She is portrayed as a virgin, dressed in a golden cloak, and wearing a diamond tiara (sometimes also carrying a water pitcher). The dove and the peacock are her sacred animals.
Anahita was very popular and is one of the forms of the ‘Great Goddess’ which appears in many ancient eastern religions (such as the Syrian/Phoenician goddess Anath). She is associated with rivers and lakes, as the waters of birth. Anahita is sometimes regarded as the consort of Mithra.
When Persia conquered Babylonia (in the 6th century BCE), Anahita began to show some similarities with the goddess Ishtar. Since then her cult included the practice of temple prostitution. During the reign of king Artaxerxes (436-358 BCE) many temples were erected in her honor. Locations included Soesa, Ecbatana, and Babylon.
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Hand of Akhenaten making an offering to Aten Ancient Egypt, from...
Hand of Akhenaten making an offering to Aten
Ancient Egypt, from Ashmunein
Dynasty 18
Sandstone
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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