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31 octobre 2010

Iconic Cycladic Marble Reclining Female Figure to Be Offered for the First Time Ever at Auction

A Cycladic marble reclining female figure. Name-piece of the Schuster Master, Early Cycladic II, circa 2400 B.C. 11 ½ in. (29.2 cm) high. Estimate: $3-5 million. Photo: Christie´s Images Ltd 2010. NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announced the sale of a Cycladic...

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Tags: Marble, 2400 B.C., Cycladic II, Cycladic idol

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28 octobre 2010

A Masterpiece from the Museo Archeologico Regionale di Agrigento Goes on View at the Getty Villa

Unknown, Kouros (The Agrigento Youth), about 480 B.C. H: 102 x W: 50 x D: 40 cm. Museo Archeologico Regionale di Agrigento, Agrigento, Italy, C 1853. Photo © Angelo Pitrone. LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Agrigento Youth, one of the masterpieces of the Museo Archeologico...

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Tags: Getty Villa, Kouros, Museo Archeologico Regionale di Agrigento, The Agrigento Youth

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20 octobre 2010

Sotheby's New York to Offer Property from the Collection of the Late Clarence Day

A Marble Portrait Bust Of The Deified Antinous, Roman Imperial, Reign of Hadrian, Cira AD 130-138 (est. $2/3 million). Photo: Sotheby's. NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s announced a single owner sale of important Antiquities from the Collection of the late Clarence...

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Tags: Antinous, Roman Imperial, Egyptian porphyry, Clarence Day, Green Porphyry, Marble Portrait Bust, Reign of Hadrian, Royal Sphinx

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2 octobre 2010

The Crosby Garrett Helmet. A Roman bronze cavalry parade helmet. Circa late 1st-2nd century A.D.

The Crosby Garrett Helmet. A Roman bronze cavalry parade helmet. Circa late 1st-2nd century A.D. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2010 Composed of two sections, helmet and mask; the tinned bronze face-mask with idealised youthful features, the openwork eyes...

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Tags: helmet, 1st-2nd Century A.D., Crosby Garrett Helmet, Roman bronze

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2 octobre 2010

An Egyptian wood and bronze goose. Late Period, circa 664-32 B.C.

An Egyptian wood and bronze goose. Late Period, circa 664-32 B.C. © 2002-2010 Bonhams 1793 Ltd., The walking bird with left leg advanced, the sinuous bronze head and neck cast with a well-defined beak and recessed nostrils, the ovoid eyes with incised...

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Tags: Egyptian, Late Period, goose

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2 octobre 2010

A Roman marble bust of an athlete. Circa early 1st century A.D.

A Roman marble bust of an athlete. Circa early 1st century A.D. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2010 With head twisted and gazing towards his right, with sensitively modelled idealized features and serene expression, his short curling hair brushed forward...

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Tags: 1st Century A.D., Roman marble, athlete

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16 septembre 2010

Ancient Roman Mosaic from Israel on View @ Metropolitan Museum

Mosaic Floor. Roman, ca. A.D. 300. Excavated at Lod (Lydda), Israel. Stone tesserae. Israel Antiquities Authority and the Shelby White and Leon Levy Lod Mosaic Center. Image: Courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority September 28, 2010–April 3, 2011...

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Tags: Roman, mosaic, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Israel, Lod Mosaic

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14 septembre 2010

The Crosby Garrett Helmet @ Christie's

The Crosby Garrett Helmet dates from the late 1st-2nd Century A.D. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2010. LONDON.- The auction of Antiquities on 7 October at Christie’s South Kensington will offer an exceptional survival from Roman Britain discovered by a...

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Tags: Roman, 1st-2nd Century A.D., Crosby Garrett Helmet, hippika gymnasia

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13 septembre 2010

Phoenix Ancient Art S.A. @ XXVe Biennale des Antiquaires. Grand Palais

Statue équestre d’Alexandre le Grand. Art hellénistique, IIIe - IIe s. av. J.-C. Bronze. H 49 cm © Phoenix Ancien Art Cette magnifique sculpture en bronze d'Alexandre le Grand, qui représente le jeune souverain dans toute sa puissance et sa grandeur,...

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Tags: bronze, Age du Bronze, Art hellénistique, Cycladic, Alexandre le Grand, Dinos, IIIe - IIe s. av. J.-C., Plastiras, Ribbon Painter

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11 septembre 2010

Cyrus the Great Artifact to Be Displayed in Iran's National Museum

The Cyrus Cylinder (detail) is a sixth century B.C. clay object inscribed with an account in cuneiform of the conquest of Babylon by the Persian King Cyrus the Great. TEHRAN (AP).- A Babylonian artifact sometimes described as the world's first human rights...

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Tags: Babylonian, Cyrus Cylinder, Cyrus the Great

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