The Women’s toilet. Ancient Greek cosmetics, beauty products, hair care, mirrors and jewelry boxes. The fragrances, the dyeing of hair.
The Women’s toilet of ancient Greece. Cosmetics, beauty products.
Category: Ancient
The Chlamys, the Petasos, the Himation, the Chiton. Helmets.
Greece. Various garments and helmets. The Chlamys, the travel and war coat, the Petasos, the broad-brimmed Thessalian hat, the coat Himation.
Greece women’s costumes. The chiton, strophion, make-up.
Greece women’s costumes. The chitons, strophion, make-up. Garments of the Greek women. Rubbing the hands and feet with Egyptian perfume. The bust band was called Strophion. The chitons were designed differently.
Greece. Women after the figures from Tanagra and Asia Minor.
The small terracotta figures from Tanagra almost without exception represent noble women who corresponded to the ideal of beauty and the fashion of that time.
Greco-Roman Antiquities. Pompeian style. Decorative Architecture.
THE purely decorative architecture, which we find represented on the inner walls of the apartments in Herculaneum and Pompeii, seems to belong less to the domain of reality than to that of fancy.
Etruscan Art. Jewels. Polychromatic ornament by Auguste Racinet.
Civilization of ancient Italy. The Etruscans, also obsolete Etrurians, were an ancient people in Etruria who lived in the northern central Italy in the area of today’s regions Tuscany, Umbria and Lazio and called themselves Rasenna according to Dionysios of Halikarnassos.
Roman clothes. The Togatus and the Roman ladies of the imperial period.
The citizens’ costume of the Romans. The Togatus. The Roman toga of the imperial period. The different types. The drapery. The stola, the pallium or the palla of the women.
Pontifex Maximus. Roman high priest of antiquity. Collegium Pontificum.
In ancient Rome, Pontifex Maximus was the title given to the high priest or chief priest at the head of the Pontifical College of Priests.
Buddhist charm for ending drought. Chinese superstition.
The annexed is a Buddhist prayer-charm.
When the country has suffered from prolonged drought, Buddhist priests offer prayer, and perform the ceremony
Taoist protective formulas against house fires in ancient China.
These charms are employed by Taoist priests, Tao-shi, who use them for the purpose of informing “Yen-li” the God of Fire, that such a family has suffered from a conflagration.