Museum of Classical Archaeology, Peterhouse, Cambridge 1977.
archaeography
Etruscan
Burial urn. Etruscan 7th or 6th century BCE. Glyptotek, Copenhagen.
Palmyra in the (archaeological) north
More legacies of antiquity, reworkings of what remains. Displacements. Funerary portraits. Loss and the burden of interpretation. I have been posting some photographs of statues from the extraordinary collections in the Glyptotek in Copenhagen. The museum also holds a large collection of funerary reliefs from ancient Palmyra, the oasis city in Syria that once served as…
museum piece
Museum basement. Archaeological theatre.
The Admiral’s House — re-staging power
Seaton Delaval Hall, Northumberland. Built for Admiral George Delaval in 1720. Darkroom reprint of my photo of 2012. A story of land, inheritance, entrepreneurial opportunity, the roots of local power in global interconnections – and quirky radical taste transformed into an archetype of architectural style. [Link] to a previous post. The Delaval family had owned…
Ovidiana — archaeological theatre
Becoming stone [Link] [Link]