EditorialTip of a sceptre (mvala) of a high personage. The chief is seated in ritual nudity, chewing a medicinal root. Below, a shackled prisoner. Congolese. Ivory, H: 22,7 cm Musee du quai Branly, Inv.70.1998.10.1.
EditorialMaker: Khwaja Ghiyath ad-din Ali, active late 16thearly 17th century, Textile Fragment with Figures, Animals, and?Plants, late 16thearly 17th?century, Triple-weave silk, 8 7/8 ? 16 5/16 in. (22.6 ? 41.5?cm), Poet, painter, mystic, and master weaver of ...
EditorialVz: running animal to the right, lying personage, decorative band with eyelets, coil seal, stone, Color: gray white, Form: cylinder, Processing:, Method: L. 14 mm, Diam. 11 mm, ca. 1500 BC.
EditorialVz: god and follower, personage with sword, naked goddess, empty space for inscription, seal, limestone, Color: black, Form: cylinder, Processing:, Method of manufacture:, L. 24.5 mm, Diam. 13 mm, 1st dynasty Babylon.
EditorialVz: 2 crossed animals and personage between 2 animals, coil seal, stone, Color: greyish black, Form: cylinder, Processing:, Method: L. 23 mm, Diam. 15 mm, early dynastic.
EditorialVz: god with club and goddess, disc in crescent moon, vase, personage with standing god, club and bread, roll seal, hematite, Color: black, Form: cylinder, Processing:, Method: L. 29 mm , Diam. 12 mm, 1st dynasty Babylon.
EditorialTip of a sceptre (mvala) of a high personage. The chief is seated in ritual nudity, chewing a medicinal root. Below, a shackled prisoner. Congolese. Ivory, H: 22,7 cm Musee du quai Branly, Inv.70.1998.10.1.
EditorialAmenirdis I, Kashta's daughter, was established as God's Wife of Amun in Thebes. Alabaster and basalt; Late Period (25th Dynasty, Ethiopian). This statue inspired the personage of princess Amneris in Verdi's Opera Aida. The scenario of this opera was w...
EditorialAmenirdis I, Kashta's daughter, was established as God's Wife of Amun in Thebes. Alabaster and basalt; Late Period (25th Dynasty, Ethiopian). This statue inspired the personage of princess Amneris in Verdi's Opera Aida. The scenario of this opera was w...
EditorialTip of a sceptre (mvala) of a high personage. The chief is seated in ritual nudity, chewing a medicinal root. Below, a shackled prisoner. Congolese. Ivory, H: 22,7 cm Musee du quai Branly, Inv.70.1998.10.1.
EditorialStatue of a worshipper and a sitting personage, both wearing the " polos" hat and the typical wollen garments of Mari. Gypsum. From the Ishtar temple in Mari, period of the Archaic dynasties. AO 17561, AO 19066.