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…
Glyptotek
Roman
A Roman. 300 CE? No provenance, no context. Glyptotek, Copenhagen.
From Meroë
From Meroë. 2nd Century CE? Glyptotek, Copenhagen.
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.