LaurieAnnie's photos with the keyword: camel

Incense burner with scene of man riding camel 3rd century Object Details Title: Incense burner with scene of man riding camel Date: 3rd century Geography: Southwestern Arabia, Shabwa Medium: Calcite alabaster Dimensions: H. 12 5/8 × W. 5 7/8 × D. 3 1/8 in. (32 × 15 × 8 cm) Classification: Stone-Sculpture Credit Line: The Trustees of the British Museum, Department of the Middle East, London, ME 125682 Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/757627

Incense burner with scene of man riding camel 3rd century Object Details Title: Incense burner with scene of man riding camel Date: 3rd century Geography: Southwestern Arabia, Shabwa Medium: Calcite alabaster Dimensions: H. 12 5/8 × W. 5 7/8 × D. 3 1/8 in. (32 × 15 × 8 cm) Classification: Stone-Sculpture Credit Line: The Trustees of the British Museum, Department of the Middle East, London, ME 125682 Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/757627

Incense burner with scene of man riding camel 3rd century Object Details Title: Incense burner with scene of man riding camel Date: 3rd century Geography: Southwestern Arabia, Shabwa Medium: Calcite alabaster Dimensions: H. 12 5/8 × W. 5 7/8 × D. 3 1/8 in. (32 × 15 × 8 cm) Classification: Stone-Sculpture Credit Line: The Trustees of the British Museum, Department of the Middle East, London, ME 125682 Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/757627

Rhyton in the form of a camel with four amphorae 2nd century B.C. Object Details Date: 2nd century B.C. Geography: Jordan, Gerasa (modern Jerash) Medium: Terracotta Dimensions: H. 9 13/16 × W. 9 13/16 × L. 13 3/4 in. (25 × 25 × 35 cm) Classification: Ceramics-Vessels Credit Line: Department of Antiquities, Amman, G. 1626 Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/771907

Rhyton in the form of a camel with four amphorae 2nd century B.C. Object Details Date: 2nd century B.C. Geography: Jordan, Gerasa (modern Jerash) Medium: Terracotta Dimensions: H. 9 13/16 × W. 9 13/16 × L. 13 3/4 in. (25 × 25 × 35 cm) Classification: Ceramics-Vessels Credit Line: Department of Antiquities, Amman, G. 1626 Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/771907

Rhyton in the form of a camel with four amphorae 2nd century B.C. Object Details Date: 2nd century B.C. Geography: Jordan, Gerasa (modern Jerash) Medium: Terracotta Dimensions: H. 9 13/16 × W. 9 13/16 × L. 13 3/4 in. (25 × 25 × 35 cm) Classification: Ceramics-Vessels Credit Line: Department of Antiquities, Amman, G. 1626 Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/771907

Rhyton in the form of a camel with four amphorae 2nd century B.C. Object Details Date: 2nd century B.C. Geography: Jordan, Gerasa (modern Jerash) Medium: Terracotta Dimensions: H. 9 13/16 × W. 9 13/16 × L. 13 3/4 in. (25 × 25 × 35 cm) Classification: Ceramics-Vessels Credit Line: Department of Antiquities, Amman, G. 1626 Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/771907

Relief with Arsu Riding a Camel, ca. 2nd century Object Details Date: ca. 2nd century Geography: Syria, Dura-Europos Medium: Gypsum Dimensions: H. 17 1/2 × W. 52 3/8 × D. 2 3/4 in. (44.5 × 133 × 7 cm) Classification: Stone-Sculpture Credit Line: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 1935.44 Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/759545

Relief with Arsu Riding a Camel, ca. 2nd century Object Details Date: ca. 2nd century Geography: Syria, Dura-Europos Medium: Gypsum Dimensions: H. 17 1/2 × W. 52 3/8 × D. 2 3/4 in. (44.5 × 133 × 7 cm) Classification: Stone-Sculpture Credit Line: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 1935.44 Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/759545

Relief with Arsu Riding a Camel, ca. 2nd century Object Details Date: ca. 2nd century Geography: Syria, Dura-Europos Medium: Gypsum Dimensions: H. 17 1/2 × W. 52 3/8 × D. 2 3/4 in. (44.5 × 133 × 7 cm) Classification: Stone-Sculpture Credit Line: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 1935.44 Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/759545

Relief with Arsu Riding a Camel, ca. 2nd century Object Details Date: ca. 2nd century Geography: Syria, Dura-Europos Medium: Gypsum Dimensions: H. 17 1/2 × W. 52 3/8 × D. 2 3/4 in. (44.5 × 133 × 7 cm) Classification: Stone-Sculpture Credit Line: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 1935.44 Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/759545

Arsu Riding a Camel ca. 2nd century A.D. Limestone 133 x 44.5 x 7 cm (13 x 17 1/2 x 2 3/4 in.) Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos 1935.44 The worship of Arsu, an Arab god, was probably introduced at Dura-Europos during the Parthian era by caravans and nomads. In the earlier of the two Arsu reliefs in the Yale University Art Gallery’s collection (see also 1938.5311), the god rides a camel and approaches an altar. A crescent perhaps symbolizes his association with the evening star; the rose may signal divinity. After Dura became a Roman military garrison, worship of Arsu emphasized his military characteristics. The later relief above depicts a standing Arsu with weapons of the desert: a small round shield, a spear, and a sword. Culture: Dura-Europos (Syria) Period: Parthian or Roman, 2nd century A.D. Classification: Sculpture Bibliography: Michael I. Rostovtzeff, Dura-Europos and Its Art, 1st (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1938), 65, pl. 12, ill. Dorothy E. Miner, ed., Early Christian and Byzantine Art, exh. cat. (Baltimore: The Walters Art Museum, 1947), 35, no. 76, fig. Pl. X. Ann Perkins, The Art of Dura-Europos, 1st ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1973), 98100, pl. 40, ill. Susan B. Downey, The Excavations at Dura-Europos, Final Report III (Los Angeles: Insititue of Archaeology, University of California Los Angeles, 1977), 556, 195199, no. 43, pl. 11, fig. 43. Christa Bauchenss-Thüriedl, Erika Simon, and Ingrid Krauskopf, Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, 8 vols. (Zurich: Artemis, 198197), vol. 2, p. 615, no. 3, pl. 440. Lisa R. Brody and Gail Hoffman, eds., Dura-Europos: Crossroads of Antiquity (Boston: McMullen Museum of Art, 2011), 353, no. 46, pl. 46. Jennifer Chi and Sebastian Heath, eds., Edge of Empires: Pagans, Jews, and Christians at Roman Dura-Europos, exh. cat. (New York: Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, 2011), 53, no. 39, fig. 223. Text from: artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/6832

Camel Northern Wei (386-534)- Northern Qi (550-577) dynasty, mid to late 6th century Earthenware with traces of pigment Accession # 28.121 Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

Camel with packboards and baggage, 6th–7th century Western China or Central Asia Earthenware with pigment H. 11 in. (27.9 cm) Rogers Fund, 2000 (2000.8) This pottery model of a Bactrian camel may be a rare example of a Chinese-style tomb figure produced in Central Asia. The camel carries packboards that are loaded on either side with raised decorations of three figures under an arch supported by fluted columns with acanthus leaves above the capitals. The central figure wears a halo and full beard but no headgear. He is naked except for a loincloth. His bent knees suggest that he is in a weakened or inebriate state and requires support on either side by two women; the woman at the left wears a short coat over a long skirt and carries a Persian-type ewer. At the lower edge of the bags are a rhyton and another ewer. The identity of the central figure is uncertain. He may represent Kubera, king of the Yakshas, who is portrayed in the Gandharan art of northwest India as nearly naked and potbellied in drinking scenes, in which he is waited on by women. Such scenes were to some degree inspired by Dionysiac imagery from the Mediterranean world. In this version, the rhyton and ewers imply drinking; however, the full beard and absence of headgear is atypical of Gandharan representations of Kubera, suggesting other interpretations. One remote prospect is that the three figures in the main scene were somehow inspired by representations of the Descent from the Cross, an important theme in early Christian iconography. Although rare, Nestorian beliefs were known in China by the seventh century, and it is not impossible that images derived from this religious system had been transported to the East as well. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/toah/ho/06/nc/ho_2000.8.htm

Figure of a Camel Tang Dynasty, late 7th- first half of the 8th century Earthenware with three-color (sancai) glaze Accession # 1991.253.13 Although the camel is not native to China, representations of the two-humped Central Asian camel are frequently found in Chinese ceramic tomb sculpture. This pack animal was an indispensible carrier of goods on the Silk Road that linked China with the regions to her west. In all likelihood, the demonic masks that dominate the load of the camel here were intended to ward off evil. Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

Plaque with a Bactrian Camel North China 2nd-1st century BC Gilded bronze Accession # 2002.201.115 Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.