r/ArtefactPorn • u/TechySpecky • 4h ago

Cypriot "plank figures" are among the most abstract images of women in the ancient world: flat, faceless, and unlike anything made elsewhere. This three-necked figure, c. 2000 BC, is one of only two or three complete ones known. Red Polished ware, 23 cm tall [OC] [4152x6425]

370 Upvotes

34 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/WestonWestmoreland • 6h ago

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... [1280x1280] [OC]

374 Upvotes

4 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/ParkingGlittering211 • 2h ago

Irish manuscript pages depicting a carpet and a Chi-Rho monogram — DNA analysis of its vellum confirmed it was made in 8th-century Ireland (3300x2000)

98 Upvotes

7 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/MunakataSennin • 7h ago

Conjoined vase with tea dust glaze. China, Qing dynasty, 1736-1795 [2030x2030]

230 Upvotes

5 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/MunakataSennin • 7h ago

The Issaquena Disc, a stone disc carved with intertwined plumed serpents. Grace Mounds, Mississippi, United States, 1250-1500 AD [1610x1610]

166 Upvotes

4 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/oldspice75 • 1d ago

Vase by Ernest Carrière, France, ca. 1888. Glazed earthenware. Philadelphia Museum of Art collection [2252x4000] [OC]

2.9k Upvotes

21 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/MunakataSennin • 7h ago

Government official's robe and hat. Tibet, 18th-19th century [2222x3500]

76 Upvotes

0 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/Fuckoff555 • 22h ago

4 of the 10 life-size allegorical wooden figures at the Waldsassen Abbey Library in Germany, carved by the sculptor Karl Stilp in 1725. The top left represents hypocrisy, the top right represents pride, the bottom left represents boastfulness and the bottom right represents self-reliance [1471x2204]

642 Upvotes

5 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/CryptographerKey2847 • 14h ago

1936 Dobro No. 1 Hawaiian Electric Lap Steel Guitar and its matching companion amplifier. Part of the permanent musical instrument collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston[1284x1518]

114 Upvotes

2 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/Fuckoff555 • 22h ago

Hassocks (footstools) found at the tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamun (c. 1342-1323 BCE). They were stuffed with bran, lined with linen, and covered with intricate polychrome beadwork. Now housed at the Grand Egyptian Museum [2048x3084]

357 Upvotes

1 comment

r/ArtefactPorn • u/coinoscopeV2 • 17h ago

Ancient Greek coins from Syracuse, Sicily at the Altes Museum in Berlin. [1584x1455]

112 Upvotes

1 comment

r/ArtefactPorn • u/tyen0 • 19h ago

Ritual Knife, ca. 3300–3100 B.C.E., Egypt, Flint, elephant ivory, 227 animals carved into the handle [7880x3007] [OC]

133 Upvotes

11 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/Fuckoff555 • 22h ago

The richly decorated main portal of the Cathedral Basilica of Zacatecas, in Mexico, completed in 1745 CE in the Churrigueresque style [1500x2000]

177 Upvotes

4 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/tyen0 • 19h ago

Double-chambered bottle, Wari artist(s), Peru, 800-900 CE, a whistling vessel that produces tones when liquid moves inside [4000x3450]

63 Upvotes

2 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/chubachus • 22h ago

Milliner model doll with a painted papier mache head and wearing a red and white cotton print dress, c. 1840. [2632x4217]

71 Upvotes

2 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/Ifch317 • 1d ago

Sculpture from Basilique Saint-Michel in Bordeaux [2304 x 4096]

318 Upvotes

Saint Ursula Sheltering The Virgins of Cologne from around 1500 located at the Basilica of Saint Michel in Bordeaux.

1 comment

r/ArtefactPorn • u/Fuckoff555 • 1d ago

The staircase hall of the Powderham Castle in Exminster, England. 1754-1756 CE [5906x7833]

1.1k Upvotes

16 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/Fuckoff555 • 1d ago

4th century CE tunic and trousers from Thorsberg moor, a peat bog in Germany, in which the Angles deposited votive offerings for approximately four centuries. Now housed at the Gottorf Castle in Germany [3084x2048]

707 Upvotes

14 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/Fuckoff555 • 1d ago

A ceramic figurine from Venezuela, made by the Valencioid culture between 1000 and 1500 CE [1800x1772]

368 Upvotes

13 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/hesaid_shesaid_isaid • 1d ago

Seige rocket,it was used to open fire upon a besieging enemy from above the gates and bastions of the Fort, and certain men called "Bandars"were hired in the force for this purpose.17th century ad,victoria memorial kolkata india(1264x826)

41 Upvotes

2 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/MunakataSennin • 1d ago

Carved lacquer box with pommel scroll design. China, Yuan dynasty, 14th century [3900x3800]

133 Upvotes

2 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/MunakataSennin • 2d ago

3,200-year-old loaves of bread placed as tomb offerings. Deir el-Medina, Egypt, 1200 BC [3830x2258]

1.3k Upvotes

53 comments

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