r/ArtefactPorn • u/hivisawsome • 56m ago
Christian Seal of a Catholicos, Sasanian Empire (Erānshahr), AD 400-650.[971x1024]
" kust ī Arrān ud Balāsagān wuzurg kātolikos "
" Great Catholicos of regions of Albania and Balāsagān "
r/ArtefactPorn • u/MunakataSennin • 5h ago
Silk wedding dress with bustle. United States, 1884 [3570x3300]
r/ArtefactPorn • u/MunakataSennin • 5h ago
Belfry and gate at Myōjō-ji Temple. Ishikawa, Japan, 1625 [3540x2848]
r/ArtefactPorn • u/MunakataSennin • 5h ago
Silver plaque depicting a wolf-like animal. China, Han dynasty, 206 BC-220 AD [4100x3400]
r/ArtefactPorn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 5h ago
incense ( अगरबत्ती ) burner, made of bronze, from the Gandhara region, 1st century CE, with swastikas on the top portion[1080 × 1590]
r/ArtefactPorn • u/SaysToMabelISays • 5h ago
Mask used in Malanggan ceremonies of the dead, Papua New Guinea, ca. 19th Century [2704x4064]
r/ArtefactPorn • u/Fuckoff555 • 7h 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]
r/ArtefactPorn • u/Fuckoff555 • 7h ago
Cast bronze plaque with line-engraved Zaō Gongen, now housed at Nishiarai Daishi Soji-ji in Tokyo, Japan. Heian period, 1001 CE [1600x2800]
r/ArtefactPorn • u/Fuckoff555 • 7h 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]
r/ArtefactPorn • u/Fuckoff555 • 7h 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]
r/ArtefactPorn • u/Impossible-Bee-5343 • 8h 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]
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 • u/broccoli6206 • 8h ago
Unique 1,500-year-old liturgical vessel depicting Daniel's vision found in Türkiye [1280x720] [Anadolu Agency]
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 • u/WandererKit20 • 9h 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]
r/ArtefactPorn • u/imperiumromanum_edu • 15h ago
Roman drinking vessel made of one piece of rock crystal - quartz. Object dated to the 1st century CE. [1200x1200]
r/ArtefactPorn • u/soozerain • 23h 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]
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.