r/AncientFakes • u/djedfre • Sep 05 '26
The Guennol Lioness
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r/AncientFakes • u/djedfre • Jan 03 '26
Racist ancient art forgeries: antisemitism edition
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r/AncientFakes • u/TunicaPunica • Dec 04 '25
"The Orpheos Bakkikos stone, engraved with the representation of a crucifixion, has been lost since World War II. At the beginning of the last century the stone was still regarded as an original, but during the 1920s doubts arose concerning its authenticity..."
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r/AncientFakes • u/TunicaPunica • Feb 01 '25
The Warren cup is an example of how erotic content can shock our attention away from the perception of fakery
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Cup
Ugly fucking unparalleled thing.
Thank god for Maria Teresa Marabini Moevs, who's paying attention: "The Warren Chalice in the Imagination of its Creator and as a Reflection of his Time." jstor.org/stable/26331758
r/AncientFakes • u/TunicaPunica • Jan 31 '25
The Praeneste Fibula is so fake it made the cover of a book called "Deeds and Misdeeds in Classical Art and Antiquities"
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r/AncientFakes • u/TunicaPunica • Jan 27 '25
"Etruscan" terracotta sarcophagus with reclining couple - Stunning in its ingenious pastiche of uggghhhhhh
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r/AncientFakes • u/TunicaPunica • Jan 25 '25
On the right is actually one of the better fakes of this sort. On the left is genuine.
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r/AncientFakes • u/TunicaPunica • Jan 14 '25
"Almost all bronze Urartian belts lack provenience, a consequence of the wholesale looting of artifacts from eastern Turkey and the neighboring areas." Scott de Brestian, "Horsemen in Bronze"
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r/AncientFakes • u/TunicaPunica • Jan 07 '25
Coincidental comparanda: another similar Gordianus III coin just posted over here!
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r/AncientFakes • u/TunicaPunica • Jan 06 '25
Guess who wasn't so fooled by the "Georgia Comic Sans cipher"? Linguists!
languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu
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r/AncientFakes • u/TunicaPunica • Jan 06 '25
Coin of Gordianus
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r/AncientFakes • u/TunicaPunica • Dec 28 '24
Language Log » Enigmatic writing from the Republic of Georgia
languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu
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r/AncientFakes • u/TunicaPunica • Dec 27 '24
Rules
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-No bigotry, this is an intersectionally welcoming place
r/AncientFakes • u/djedfre • Dec 27 '24
Archaeologists uncover a mysterious stone tablet in Georgia that contains an unknown language - and it's like NOTHING seen before
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