LaurieAnnie's photos with the keyword: Dacian mythology

Beaker with Birds and Animals Silver Thrace, lower Danube region Thraco-Getian, 4th century BC Accession # 47.100.88 The scene depicts a row of stags, a goat, a bird, and a bird of prey attacking a fish and a hare. On the base is a beast eating the leg of an animal while holding another in its claws. A vessel almost identical in form and representation to this example was excavated at Agighiol in Romania. The extraordinary and exotic stylization- for example birds' heads projecting from antlers- is foreign to Western concepts and powerfully reflects Central Asian sensibilities and ideology. Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

Title: Lead votive plaque Medium; Technique: Lead Culture: Roman Period: Imperial Date: probably 3rd century A.D. Dimensions: H.: 3 3/4 x 3 1/16 in. (9.5 x 7.8 cm) Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1921 Accession Number: 21.88.175 On View Description: The plaque contains a complex iconography of divine figures and symbols, probably to be associated with Thracian or Dacian beliefs of the Lower Danube region. Presiding over the whole scene is Sol Invictus (the invicible sun-god) in a quadriga (four-horse chariot). His cult originated in the Near East and gained increasing influence under imperial patronage during the third century A.D. The state worship of Sol was only supplanted by Constantine's adoption of Christianity in A.D. 312. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/greek_...