Sculpture; Ceremonial objects; Boxes; Containers; Storytelling; War; Warfare; Campaigns & battles; Military maneuvers; Military mobilizations; Military life; Homicides; Men; Soldiers; Military personnel; People associated with military...
From Tomb 779, Royal Cemetery, Ur (modern Tell Muqayyar), Iraq.
From the "Elements of Architecture: Mastaba to Pyramid" section of the "Art of Ancient Egypt" chapter (Chapter 3). Components highlighted are: mastaba (chapel, offering table, serdab with statue of ka, underground burial...
Sculpture; Architectural sculpture; Memorial works; Tombs & sepulchral monuments; Bas-reliefs; Portraits; Families; Men; Women; Couples; Spouses; Fathers; Mothers; Children; Boys; Youth; Slaves; Servants; Women domestics; Working class;...
"The father (pater in the epitaph) was the libertus of Quintus Servilius (Q.L.) and took his patron’s name upon manumission (gaining freedom). His wife (uxor) was formerly a slave of a woman named Sempronia. She too assumed her patron’s...
"[...] it was originally intended as a free-standing tomb. Above the allegorical figures of Justice and Wisdom is a bronze statue of the pope [...]." (caption, p.432)
Sculpture; Urns; Death & burial; Containers; Soldiers; Military personnel; People associated with military activities; Death & burial; Friezes (Ornamental bands); Cartouches; Pediments; Tympana; Architectural elements; Inscriptions; Names;...
"The front of this rectangular urn is decorated with two friezes of hearts and darts. Smooth strips frame the decoration along the top and bottom rims and emphasize the container's shape. The central surface of such objects was inscribed. This...
"Just inside the Lion Gate, [Heinrich] Schliemann uncovered what archaeologists now designate as Grave Circle A. It predates the Lion Gate and the walls of Mycenae by some three centuries. Grave Circle A encloses six deep shafts that had...
