Burial urn. Etruscan 7th or 6th century BCE. Glyptotek, Copenhagen.
figuration
museum piece
Museum basement. Archaeological theatre.
Museum of Classical Archaeology
Plaster casts. Basement, Museum of Classical Archaeology, Peterhouse, Cambridge. 1976. Reprinted 2026. A precocious teenager, student of Classics, I was visiting Cambridge to talk with archaeologist David Clarke. With extraordinary generosity he gave a couple of hours to me to discuss not antiquity, but prehistory, how the field was a corrective and antidote to the…
Ovidiana — archaeological theatre
Becoming stone [Link] [Link]
Roman
A Roman. 300 CE? No provenance, no context. Glyptotek, Copenhagen.
Classical figuration
National Museum Athens. 1992.