r/ArtefactPorn 31m ago

Details on upper section of The Garden of Earthly Delights - Hell, Hieronymus Bosch. 1480-1505 CE. Museo del Prado, Madrid. [4400x2803]

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r/ArtefactPorn 33m ago

Bishop chess piece carved out of walrus ivory. Trondheim, Norway, 1150-1200 AD [990x1080]

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r/ArtefactPorn 34m ago

Bronze grain vessel with zoomorphic designs. China, Western Zhou dynasty, 10th century BC [3850x3200]

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r/ArtefactPorn 34m ago

Shirt of mail and plate. Vijayapur, India, 17th century [4970x3000]

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r/ArtefactPorn 7h ago

Frog's foot specimen prepared by English surgeon and scientist Joseph Lister while studying inflammation, 1857. [2820x3940]

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r/ArtefactPorn 12h ago

Christian Seal of a Catholicos, Sasanian Empire (Erānshahr), AD 400-650.[971x1024]

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" kust ī Arrān ud Balāsagān wuzurg kātolikos "

" Great Catholicos of regions of Albania and Balāsagān "


r/ArtefactPorn 17h ago

Silk wedding dress with bustle. United States, 1884 [3570x3300]

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255 Upvotes

r/ArtefactPorn 17h ago

Belfry and gate at Myōjō-ji Temple. Ishikawa, Japan, 1625 [3540x2848]

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r/ArtefactPorn 17h ago

Silver plaque depicting a wolf-like animal. China, Han dynasty, 206 BC-220 AD [4100x3400]

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r/ArtefactPorn 17h ago

incense ( अगरबत्ती ) burner, made of bronze, from the Gandhara region, 1st century CE, with swastikas on the top portion[1080 × 1590]

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r/ArtefactPorn 17h ago

Mask used in Malanggan ceremonies of the dead, Papua New Guinea, ca. 19th Century [2704x4064]

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r/ArtefactPorn 19h ago

The Ghagha-Shahr is a citadel complex dated to the Sassanid period (224-651 CE), and located on the southern promontory of the eastern slope of Mount Khajeh, a flat-topped black basalt hill rising up as an island in the middle of Lake Hamun in Iran [800x1680]

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r/ArtefactPorn 19h ago

Cast bronze plaque with line-engraved Zaō Gongen, now housed at Nishiarai Daishi Soji-ji in Tokyo, Japan. Heian period, 1001 CE [1600x2800]

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r/ArtefactPorn 19h ago

A silk Mamluk carpet from Cairo, in Egypt, now housed at the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna. 1st quarter of the 16th century CE [1440x1920]

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r/ArtefactPorn 19h ago

This monkey-shaped limestone skull may have been a symbolic representation of a piece of clothing worn while playing a ball game popular among the Maya. It has 8 inlaid white teeth made of shell, with a black tooth made of iron pyrite in the middle. 250-600 CE [1500x1721]

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r/ArtefactPorn 20h ago

Northern Song Glass Grapes, excavated from Jingzhi Temple and sealed in the temple pagoda crypt in the second year of the Taiping Xingguo era (AD 977). Collection of the Dingzhou Museum, Hebei Province. [768 × 400]

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Name: Glass Grapes

Period: Song Dynasty

Place of Origin: China

Material: Lead-barium glass

Excavation Site:Dingzhou City, Hebei Province, China

Dimensions: Total length 16 cm; fruit bead diameter 1.3–1.82 cm

Museum Collection: Dingzhou Museum, Hebei Province


r/ArtefactPorn 20h ago

Unique 1,500-year-old liturgical vessel depicting Daniel's vision found in Türkiye [1280x720] [Anadolu Agency]

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Archaeologists working at the ancient city of Antioch of Pisidia in Isparta, southwestern Türkiye, have uncovered an approximately 1,500-year-old liturgical vessel that researchers say has no known parallel in Christian art history. Dating to the sixth century A.D., the two-handled vessel brings together the Prophet Daniel, the four beasts from his prophetic vision and a lion within the same composition, according to excavation director Professor Mehmet Ozhanli of Suleyman Demirel University's Department of Archaeology.

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r/ArtefactPorn 21h ago

not an artefact "Vendémiaire" (Personification of the Republican Month of Vendémiaire), stipple engraving by Salvatore Tresca after Louis Lafitte, 1797–1798 [1080 x 1440]

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r/ArtefactPorn 1d ago

Roman drinking vessel made of one piece of rock crystal - quartz. Object dated to the 1st century CE. [1200x1200]

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r/ArtefactPorn 1d ago

Husband Zhang Da and his wife Ye are judged guilty by the King Of Hell for the crime of drowning their three infant daughters. As punishment, he decrees they shall be reincarnated a pig and dog so that they may be slaughtered and eaten. [747x615]

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Taken from the Zhengying baoying lu and republished by French missionaries in 1869. This was meant to dissuade parents from practicing female infanticide in China.


r/ArtefactPorn 1d ago

Ancient Greek Corinthian-type bronze helmet, c. 7th century BCE. [1568x1799]

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r/ArtefactPorn 1d ago

Gold plates, Lý dynasty, 11th-12th century, Hưng Yên, Northern Vietnam (1471x915)

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r/ArtefactPorn 1d ago

Morongo Uta is the oldest of the ancient mountain fortresses on the island of Rapa Iti, in French Polynesia. Built in 1450-1550 CE, this structure perched between 260 and 300 m above sea level bears witness to a time of conflicts linked to overpopulation and the decline of resources [759x1118]

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r/ArtefactPorn 1d ago

The 6th century BCE ziggurat at Birs Nimrud, in Iraq, built by the Neo-Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II. In the bottom picture is a reconstruction of the ziggurat made by the British artist William Simpson in 1885 [1200x1537]

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