Greek Art. Examples of the flora of Magna Græcia. Painted antefixæ. Terra cotta ornaments. Paintings on vases. Fret-work or meanders.
Greek Art. Conventional Flora, Fretwork, and Meanders.
Category: Ancient
Religious sacrificial ceremonies of Romans in ancient times.
Various depictions and descriptions of bloody and bloodless sacrificial ceremonies of the ancient Romans. The cultrarius, the camillus, the spondaules, the victim butchers, victimarii, the popa.
Greek Military. Two warriors in armor of iron, bronze, and leather.
The two warriors in the picture are wearing or carrying most of the types of war material used by the Greeks for over a thousand years.
Egypt. The river Nile, with the Pyramids of Ghizeh in the distance.
The Nile is the only river of Egypt, and is called by way of pre-eminence the River.
The Lictor panel. A stately Roman lictor in a rich costume.
The Paulus Emilius series, as previously stated, was woven in the third quarter of the XVII century. It showed the Roman hero clad in a sumptuous robe …
Minoan or Mycenaean Age. Costumes of ancient cretan people.
The Cretan costume of Antiquity. Long ago on the island of Crete there lived a group of people called Cretans and belonged to Minoan or Mycenaean Age.
Musical instruments. Wind and Stringed instruments of ancient Rome.
Rome. Musical instruments. Wind instruments. Stringed instruments. Cymbals, Timpani and castanets.
The Atrium. Interior of an ancient Roman palace.
The atrium was connected to several side rooms, which were closed by doors, and two open rooms, the latter being called alae.
Reconstructed Gallic warrior from about 400-200 B.C.
Gallic warrior from about 400-200 before Christ. Reconstructed after antique sculptures and original finds. Gimbel’s weapons collection.
Gauls. The inhabitants of Gaul before the Roman conquest.
Gauls. Male and female types. Gallic chief. Merovingian chief. Frankish warrior with the Scamasax. Farmers. Flag Bearer. Horsemen. Warrior types of the Salian Franks. The bardocucullus. The carnyx, war trumpet.