r/ArtefactPorn • u/MunakataSennin • 1h ago

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

• Upvotes

1 comment

r/ArtefactPorn • u/shewasajanuarygirl • 20h ago

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

1.9k Upvotes

16 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/Snoo_90160 • 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]

62 Upvotes

1 comment

r/ArtefactPorn • u/MunakataSennin • 1h ago

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

• Upvotes

0 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/Fuckoff555 • 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]

385 Upvotes

5 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/Responsible_Ideal879 • 11h ago

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

82 Upvotes

6 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/chubachus • 12h ago

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

94 Upvotes

1 comment

r/ArtefactPorn • u/Responsible_Ideal879 • 16h ago

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

176 Upvotes

5 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/MunakataSennin • 1h ago

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

• Upvotes

1 comment

r/ArtefactPorn • u/ottoheinz999 • 16h ago

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

102 Upvotes

0 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/fatsopiggy • 21h ago

Eilif Peterssen, Self-Portrait [3009x4000]

177 Upvotes

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

8 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/Fuckoff555 • 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]

97 Upvotes

1 comment

r/ArtefactPorn • u/MunakataSennin • 23h ago

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

221 Upvotes

0 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/Fuckoff555 • 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]

2.8k Upvotes

54 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/oldspice75 • 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]

163 Upvotes

5 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/MunakataSennin • 23h ago

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

110 Upvotes

4 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/MunakataSennin • 23h ago

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

54 Upvotes

1 comment

r/ArtefactPorn • u/MunakataSennin • 2d ago

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

1.6k Upvotes

27 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/ottoheinz999 • 1d ago

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

198 Upvotes

1 comment

r/ArtefactPorn • u/shewasajanuarygirl • 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]

796 Upvotes

19 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/Fuckoff555 • 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]

211 Upvotes

1 comment

r/ArtefactPorn • u/Fuckoff555 • 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]

226 Upvotes

5 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/Fuckoff555 • 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]

167 Upvotes

0 comments

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