Burial urn. Etruscan 7th or 6th century BCE. Glyptotek, Copenhagen.
Glyptotek
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…
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.