LaurieAnnie's photos with the keyword: Phoenician

Title: Woven strap with a pendant Period: Iron Age Date: ca. 5th–4th century B.C. Geography: Iberian Peninsula Medium: Gold, amber Dimensions: 1 1/8 x 15 1/2 in. (2.9 x 39.4 cm) Classification: Metalwork-Ornament Credit Line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1995 Accession Number: 1995.403.2 Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/ancien...

Pair of Gold Earrings with Four Relief Faces Phoenician, late 4th-3rd century BC Accession # 1999.289.6a,b Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

Attachments with the Mistress of Animals and Waterbirds Bronze Western Phoenicia 7th-6th Century BC Accession # 1999.80 a,b The female figure with Hathor-like curls and a lotiform necklace holds waterbirds with large, curving wings. Their outline creates a form suggestive of ship imagery appropriate to both the Levant and the Celtic world (where it was often combined with a solar disc.) The double loops at the back of these objects suggest that they were horse trappings. Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

Attachments with the Mistress of Animals and Waterbirds Bronze Western Phoenicia 7th-6th Century BC Accession # 1999.80 a,b The female figure with Hathor-like curls and a lotiform necklace holds waterbirds with large, curving wings. Their outline creates a form suggestive of ship imagery appropriate to both the Levant and the Celtic world (where it was often combined with a solar disc.) The double loops at the back of these objects suggest that they were horse trappings. Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

Title: Glass eye beads Medium; Technique: Glass Culture: Phoenician Period: Hellenistic Date: ca. 330–70 B.C. Dimensions: Average diameter: 1-1.3 cm Classification: Glass Credit Line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76 Accession Number: 74.51.316 On View Provenance: From Cyprus Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/greek_... The beads formed a necklace that probably had an apotropaic as well as decorative purpose. Text excerpted from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

Anthropoid sarcophagus, last quarter of 5th century B.C.; Classical Greco-Phoenician; From a tomb at Amathus Marble; L. 87 3/4 in. (222.90 cm) The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874-76 (74.51.2452) The lid of this sarcophagus shows an unarticulated, downward tapering body and the head of a woman framed by flowing hair with traces of red paint. At the foot of the box and on the lid appears the Phoenician letter shin. According to recent investigations, anthropoid sarcophagi of marble were quarried on the Greek island of Paros, where they were prepared up to a certain point and then finished at their destinations, in this case, at Amathus. The inscribed letters on this sarcophagus strongly suggest that the sculptor was Phoenician, which would be entirely plausible at Amathus and at Kition, two centers of Phoenician occupation on Cyprus during the fifth century B.C. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/ccyp/hod_74.51.2452.htm

Anthropoid sarcophagus, last quarter of 5th century B.C.; Classical Greco-Phoenician; From a tomb at Amathus Marble; L. 87 3/4 in. (222.90 cm) The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874-76 (74.51.2452) The lid of this sarcophagus shows an unarticulated, downward tapering body and the head of a woman framed by flowing hair with traces of red paint. At the foot of the box and on the lid appears the Phoenician letter shin. According to recent investigations, anthropoid sarcophagi of marble were quarried on the Greek island of Paros, where they were prepared up to a certain point and then finished at their destinations, in this case, at Amathus. The inscribed letters on this sarcophagus strongly suggest that the sculptor was Phoenician, which would be entirely plausible at Amathus and at Kition, two centers of Phoenician occupation on Cyprus during the fifth century B.C. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/ccyp/hod_74.51.2452.htm

Title: Terracotta lentoid flask Medium; Technique: Terracotta Culture: Levantine Period: Iron Age Date: 11th century B.C. Dimensions: H. 11 in. (27.9 cm) thickness 4 15/16 in. (12.5 cm) Classification: Vases Credit Line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76 Accession Number: 74.51.431 On View Description: Both sides of the flask are decorated with goats, birds, and rudimentary foliage. The skeletal character of the birds' wings provides a noteworthy antecedent to the renderings on Cypro-Archaic vases. The origin of this piece has been much discussed. The shape, clay, burnishing, and other technical features have stronger parallels in Levantine than in Cypriot pottery. Indeed, it is probably one of the earliest Phoenician vases imported into Cyprus. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/greek_...

Model shrine with nude goddess Eastern Mediterranean, 6th–3rd century B.C. Dimensions: Height x width: 26 x 14.3 cm (10 1/4 x 5 5/8 in.) Medium or Technique: Terracotta Classification: Sculpture Accession Number: 1990.605 The plaque is a mixture of Mediterranean/Near Eastern styles that characterize Phoenician art. It represents the ancient Canaanite goddess Astarte, shown nude like the Mesopotamian Ishtar, but with an Egyptian face and wig. She stands within a shrine protected by typically Near Eastern snarling lions that support Egyptian columns surmounted by heads of the Egyptian god Bes. Text from: www.mfa.org/collections/object/model-shrine-with-nude-god...

Deep bowl Near Eastern, Levantine, Phoenician, Neo-Assyrian Period, 883–612 B.C. Dimensions: Height: 11.4 cm (4 1/2 in.) Medium or Technique: Gilded silver Classification: Vessels Accession Number: 27.170 Design in two friezes. In the top register soldiers march among date palms accompanied by a mounted rider and two chariots. One chariot is Assyrian in style and carries a bearded man with a conical hat who appears to be Assyrian. The other chariot appears Egyptian and carries a clean-shaven man who also seems to be Egyptian, as do the troops themselves. Below, the "Egyptian" soldiers hunt a lion in a landscape of hills, trees, and plants. The bowl perfectly illustrates the mixture of styles that characterizes Phoenician art of the eastern Mediterranean region. Text from: www.mfa.org/collections/object/deep-bowl-242466