Aaron Gallery http://aarongallery.com Just another WordPress site Wed, 24 Nov 2010 23:02:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Roman Marble Torso http://aarongallery.com/roman-marble-torso http://aarongallery.com/roman-marble-torso#comments Wed, 24 Nov 2010 22:58:57 +0000 Aaron Gallery http://aarongallery.com/?p=263 Depicted male, his musculature well defined, including pronounced iliac crests and pectorals, a deep groove sculpted vertically along the centre of the back, the right arm originally lowered and attached to the right hip by a strut, partially preserved, an iron pin emerging from the strut and the underside of the break in the right arm, the left leg originally slightly advanced, the naval deeply drilled, fillets falling along the shoulders, hollowed between the shoulders with a central mortise for attachment of the separately-made neck and head.

]]> http://aarongallery.com/roman-marble-torso/feed 0 A Roman Marble Head of a God http://aarongallery.com/a-roman-marble-head-of-a-god http://aarongallery.com/a-roman-marble-head-of-a-god#comments Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:08:39 +0000 Aaron Gallery http://aarongallery.com/?p=233 A Roman marble head of a god.  Probably Zeus or Hermes, shown with a full curling beard and moustache, his hair bound with a fillet, tied at the back of the neck,

]]> http://aarongallery.com/a-roman-marble-head-of-a-god/feed 0 A bronze, wood and lapis Egyptian Ibis http://aarongallery.com/a-bronze-wood-and-lapis-egyptian-ibis http://aarongallery.com/a-bronze-wood-and-lapis-egyptian-ibis#comments Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:04:14 +0000 Aaron Gallery http://aarongallery.com/?p=230 £12,500

]]> http://aarongallery.com/a-bronze-wood-and-lapis-egyptian-ibis/feed 0 Core Formed Glass Aryballos http://aarongallery.com/core-formed-glass-aryballos http://aarongallery.com/core-formed-glass-aryballos#comments Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:02:14 +0000 Aaron Gallery http://aarongallery.com/?p=227 A core formed blue glass Aryballos, the globular body decorated with opaque yellow and turquoise marvered trails with yellow spiral threads above and a yellow and turquoise band below. The everted rim and one of the ‘duck-headed’ handles wound with a yellow thread. Eastern Mediterranean.

Condition: Intact.

]]> http://aarongallery.com/core-formed-glass-aryballos/feed 0 An Egyptian Turquoise-Blue glazed composition Shabti of the Devine Adoratrice Henutaui http://aarongallery.com/an-egyptian-turquoise-blue-glazed-composition-shabti-of-the-devine-adoratrice-henutaui http://aarongallery.com/an-egyptian-turquoise-blue-glazed-composition-shabti-of-the-devine-adoratrice-henutaui#comments Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:57:42 +0000 Aaron Gallery http://aarongallery.com/?p=224 Her title and name contained within a cartouche bearing six lines of text from chapter 6 of the ‘Book of the Dead.

]]> http://aarongallery.com/an-egyptian-turquoise-blue-glazed-composition-shabti-of-the-devine-adoratrice-henutaui/feed 0 An Egyptian Green Stone Heart Scarab for Nesptah http://aarongallery.com/egyptian-green-stone-heart-scara http://aarongallery.com/egyptian-green-stone-heart-scara#comments Fri, 08 Oct 2010 14:40:43 +0000 Aaron Gallery http://aarongallery.com/?p=56 An Egyptian green stone heart scarab of the priest of Bastet, scribe of ‘The Great House’ (Per-AA) of Bastet, Nesptah.

Bearing 12 lines of the Heart formula from Chapter XXXB of the Book of the Dead.

]]> http://aarongallery.com/egyptian-green-stone-heart-scara/feed 0 A Marble Sarcophagus Fragment with Carousing Erotes and Psychai http://aarongallery.com/a-marble-sarcophagus-fragment-with-carousing-erotes-and-psychai http://aarongallery.com/a-marble-sarcophagus-fragment-with-carousing-erotes-and-psychai#comments Fri, 08 Oct 2010 02:23:55 +0000 Aaron Gallery http://aarongallery.com/?p=20 Carved in high relief with a scene from a Dionysiac procession, led by a Psyche holding a cymbal, her drapery windblown, followed by an Erote clad in a chlamys and holding a lantern, and followed in turn by an Erote collapsed in the arms of his companions and holding a wreath.

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