From Meroë. 2nd Century CE? Glyptotek, Copenhagen.
archaeography
From Gitte and Poul’s garden
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Becoming stone
Figuration. Statue. Flint pebble rolled by the Storebaelt, Nyborg, Fyn. Titan Kronos, fearful of the prophecy that his children would overthrow him, ate them whole upon their birth. Until Rhea, his partner, gave Kronos a stone that he mistook for the infant god Zeus. Having returned from Mount Ida where he grew to maturity, Zeus…
Statue – figuration – physiognomy
Roman, 3rd Century CE. Glyptotek, Copenhagen.
Intestinal figuration
Vitrine with canopic jars – intestinal containers. Middle Kingdom Egypt, 12th dynasty. Glyptotek, Copenhagen.
Statue – at prayer
“Man at prayer”. Egypt. 13th dynasty c1700 BCE. Glyptotek, Copenhagen.