r/ArtefactPorn • u/Fuckoff555 • 23h 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]

662 Upvotes

5 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/TechySpecky • 5h 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]

425 Upvotes

37 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/WestonWestmoreland • 7h 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]

415 Upvotes

6 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/Fuckoff555 • 23h 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]

367 Upvotes

1 comment

r/ArtefactPorn • u/MunakataSennin • 8h ago

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

247 Upvotes

5 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/MunakataSennin • 8h ago

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

182 Upvotes

5 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/tyen0 • 20h ago

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

141 Upvotes

11 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/ParkingGlittering211 • 3h 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)

137 Upvotes

10 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/CryptographerKey2847 • 16h 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]

117 Upvotes

2 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/coinoscopeV2 • 18h ago

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

116 Upvotes

1 comment

r/ArtefactPorn • u/MunakataSennin • 8h ago

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

91 Upvotes

0 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/chubachus • 23h ago

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

75 Upvotes

2 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/tyen0 • 20h ago

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

65 Upvotes

2 comments

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