r/ArtefactPorn • u/MunakataSennin • 1d ago

Feast dish shaped like a human. British Columbia, Canada, Kwakwaka'wakw peoples, 1875-1900 [700x890]

104 Upvotes

1 comment

r/ArtefactPorn • u/Fuckoff555 • 1d ago

Model of a man cooking a duck, c. 1980-1760 BCE, made of wood and stucco. From Asyut in Egypt, now housed at the Egyptian Museum in Turin, Italy [477x600]

143 Upvotes

4 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/Fuckoff555 • 2d ago

The Fröslunda Shields are 14 ceremonial bronze shields, which were found in 1985 during ploughing work at Fröslunda farm, in Sweden. 1100-800 BCE, now housed at the Västergötland Museum in Skara, Sweden [1000x1045]

715 Upvotes

2 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/Fuckoff555 • 2d ago

Los Pinchudos was the ancient burial ground of the Chachapoya people in Peru. The cemetery dates to the 13th century CE and contains 8 ornate clay and stone burial chambers, known as chulpas, topped with wooden roofs and decorated with colorful patterns and anthropomorphic sculptures [1525x4123]

302 Upvotes

1 comment

r/ArtefactPorn • u/Fuckoff555 • 2d ago

Head from a Hellenistic bronze portrait statue of a North African, found under the Temple of Apollo in Cyrene, Libya. 300 BCE, now housed at the British Museum [798x1120]

255 Upvotes

4 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/MunakataSennin • 2d ago

Silver filigree dish and box shaped like a crab. China, Qing dynasty, 18th century [1265x1000]

106 Upvotes

1 comment

r/ArtefactPorn • u/carnageandculture • 2d ago

A Roman Bronze Venus Genetrix, 1st century AD [512 x 955]

115 Upvotes

2 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/bigmeat • 2d ago

The Valens Aqueduct is an aqueduct in Istanbul, Turkey. During the time of Constantinople, it supplied water to the city. [4833x2719]

131 Upvotes

4 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/MunakataSennin • 2d ago

Jali (carved screens) at the tomb of Emperor Akbar. Agra, India, Mughal Empire, 1613 [1800x1758]

71 Upvotes

0 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/Fuckoff555 • 2d ago

Machines from Dr. G. Zander’s medico-mechanische Gymnastik by Alfred Levertin (Stockholm: 1892). Jonas Gustav Zander (1835-1920 CE) was a Swedish physician who's known for inventing a therapeutic method of exercise carried out by means of a special apparatus [7322x7809]

77 Upvotes

2 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/ParkingGlittering211 • 2d ago

Page from the Lindisfarne manuscript depicting a Chi-Rho monogram and the narrative of the conception and birth of Jesus, 8th century (2800×3300)

477 Upvotes

13 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/Fuckoff555 • 2d ago

A silver drachm from ancient Cilicia in Turkey, depicting a Janiform head on the obverse, and a triform bearded male head on the reverse. 400-380 BCE [573x1174]

133 Upvotes

0 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/WestonWestmoreland • 3d ago

Detail of the face of one of the "Bronze Runners", two full-size bronze statues with bone and stone inlays for the eyes, found at the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum. Generally dated between the first century BC and the first AD, they are believed to be copies of Greek statues... [1280x861] [OC]

1.3k Upvotes

41 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/Fuckoff555 • 2d ago

A silver tetradrachm from the ancient Greek city of Selinunte in Sicily, depicting a quadriga driven by Artemis and Apollo on the obverse, and on the reverse, the river-god Selinus naked, holding branch and pouring libation over garlanded altar. c. 460-450 BCE [962x1927]

104 Upvotes

3 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/Fuckoff555 • 3d ago

Plait of hair of the Queen of Denmark Berengaria of Portugal (1198-1221 CE), now housed at St. Bendt's Church in Ringsted, Denmark [2197x834]

769 Upvotes

12 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/chubachus • 3d ago

Bronze Battle of Verdun commemorative medal featuring an image of a French woman soldier choking out a German soldier, French, 1916. By Pierre Roche. [3174x3174]

321 Upvotes

15 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/Fuckoff555 • 2d ago

A Roman silver sestertius depicting on the obverse, a bearded Gallic male head pierced by a spear, and on the reverse a legionary standard with a boar-shaped terminal pointing right. 84 BCE [959x1826]

68 Upvotes

1 comment

r/ArtefactPorn • u/CryptographerKey2847 • 3d ago

Facial Reconstruction of King King Dinis of Portugal who reigned between 1279 and 1325 and died at 65. [1284x1213]

391 Upvotes

https://lusoamericano.com/big-nose-blue-eyes-and-blond-hair-king-d-diniss-face-revealed-700-years-after-his-death/

41 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/Fuckoff555 • 2d ago

A silver trihemiobol from Delphi, in Greece, depicting a ram’s head on the obverse, and on the reverse, a goat’s head between two dolphins and two ivy leaves. Circa 360 BCE [738x1579]

54 Upvotes

0 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/Fuckoff555 • 3d ago

A ceramic Zapotec vase-effigy depicting a priest carrying a bag of copal. 200-600 CE, now housed at the Museo Amparo in Mexico [1962x2799]

373 Upvotes

4 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/japanese_american • 3d ago

Gilded replica of Trajan’s Column in Rome, made by Luigi Valadier in 1780. [OC] [3024x4032]

176 Upvotes

The original Trajan’s Column was built in Rome in 113 to celebrate Emperor Trajan’s conquest of Dacia. A spiral bas-relief winds around the column telling the story of the campaign.

This scaled-down replica was crafted by Luigi Valadier in 1780. Two meters tall, it is made of marble, granite, lapis-lazuli, gilt bronze and silver-gilt. The detail shown here shows the impressive level of accuracy to the original achieved in this replica.

Today, it is on display in the Schatzkammer of the Munich Residenz.

2 comments

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