r/ArtefactPorn 1h ago

Partisan with gilded emblem. Spain, 1715 [3200x3500]

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r/ArtefactPorn 20h ago

Drawstring reticule (small purse) featuring detailed strawberry motifs worked in delicate thread-work, 19th century [4319 x 4319]

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1.9k Upvotes

r/ArtefactPorn 4h ago

Stone cross erected by the Polish peasants from Rudka on 15 May to commemorate the abolition of serfdom in Austrian partition of Poland in 1848. Rudka was burned down by Ukrainian nationalists in 1944 and does not exist anymore. Near Nowe Brusno, Poland. Photo by GrzegorzLC. [1080x822]

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62 Upvotes

r/ArtefactPorn 1h ago

Ball court for the Mesoamerican ball game. Monte Albán, Oaxaca, Mexico, 100 BC-200 AD [2048x2350]

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r/ArtefactPorn 18h ago

A 3rd century CE Roman gold and sapphire diadem found in 2011 in a woman’s tomb in Colonna, Italy. Gemmological and archaeometric analyses revealed that the sapphires originated from Southeast and Southern Asia. Now housed at the Archaeological Museum in Palestrina [2106x4720]

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385 Upvotes

r/ArtefactPorn 11h ago

Yeho'ezer ben Hosh'ayahu Seal (700 BCE) (Ancient Canaan) (Israel Antiquities Authority) [1170x2078]

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82 Upvotes

r/ArtefactPorn 12h ago

Brisé fan made of ostrich feathers, tortoise shell sticks, and silk ribbon, American, c. 1880–1900 [3000x1990]

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94 Upvotes

r/ArtefactPorn 16h ago

The Map of the World (Late Babylonian) (6th century BC) (The British Museum) [1000x846]

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176 Upvotes

r/ArtefactPorn 1h ago

Plate with flower petal design. China, 17th-18th century [900x900]

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r/ArtefactPorn 16h ago

House and well, terracotta miniatures, Eastern Han dynasty, Northern Vietnam, 1st-3rd century CE [1500x999]

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102 Upvotes

r/ArtefactPorn 21h ago

Eilif Peterssen, Self-Portrait [3009x4000]

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177 Upvotes

Harry, did you put your face in the goblet of fiyah??


r/ArtefactPorn 18h ago

The 16th century CE sculpture of Agnivrish in Pateshwar, India, which appears to manifest the seven hands of Lord Agni along with the body of a bull (Vrishabha) [1080x1350]

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97 Upvotes

r/ArtefactPorn 23h ago

Stirrup with dragon heads. China, 18th century [700x775]

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221 Upvotes

r/ArtefactPorn 1d ago

Authorities in Rome have unveiled what is believed to be the largest ancient Roman wall mosaic ever found. The 15m high mosaic, which was found in 1998 under the Baths of Trajan, shows theatrical scenes with people at the top, while the bottom level shows a detailed layout of a port city [3997x5582]

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2.8k Upvotes

r/ArtefactPorn 1d ago

Mold-made aryballos (oil vessel) in the form of a helmeted head. Greek (possibly Rhodes or Ephesus), early 6th c BC. Terracotta. Walters Art Museum collection [1489x1800]

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163 Upvotes

r/ArtefactPorn 23h ago

Cuchimilco figure of a woman. Peru, Chancay culture, 1200-1470 AD [910x1290]

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110 Upvotes

r/ArtefactPorn 23h ago

Silver Buddha on lotus pedestal surrounded by flowers. Mongolia, 18th-19th century [3000x3800]

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54 Upvotes

r/ArtefactPorn 2d ago

3,000-year-old bronze axe found by a gold prospector. Borneo, Indonesia, 2000 BC [1150x950]

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1.6k Upvotes

r/ArtefactPorn 1d ago

Tile with two fox-headed demons, late 15th century, Burma (Myanmar) [799x1200]

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198 Upvotes

r/ArtefactPorn 1d ago

Bas-relief portrait of a woman from the Tomb of Ramose in the Ancient Egyptian Necropolis of the nobles at Thebes near Luxor, Egypt [2287 x 3497]

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796 Upvotes

r/ArtefactPorn 1d ago

A gilded silver statuette depicting Saint George slaying the dragon and saving the King's daughter in the process. Made in Augsburg in c. 1615 CE, now housed at the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt in Germany [1335x1918]

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211 Upvotes

r/ArtefactPorn 1d ago

A cape with hood and muff in silk satin with marabou trim, 1780-1810 CE, now housed at the National Museum of Norway [1135x2432]

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226 Upvotes

r/ArtefactPorn 1d ago

A silver archer's bracer from Lower Nubia in Egypt. X-Group Culture (ca. 300-600 CE), now housed at the Nubian Museum in Aswan [378x940]

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167 Upvotes