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Ancient Mediterranean + Europe

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  • A beginner’s guide
    • Tiny timeline: ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in a global context, 5th–3rd millennia B.C.E.
    • Tiny timeline: ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in a global context, 2nd–1st millennia B.C.E.
    • In Full Color, Ancient Sculpture Reimagined
  • Ancient Near East
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    • A beginner’s guide
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      • Ancient Near East: Cradle of civilization
      • Cuneiform, an introduction
      • Writing Cuneiform
      • Cuneiform Tablets
      • Lapis lazuli stamp seal
      • An introduction to Zoroastrianism
    • Sumerian
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      • Sumer, an introduction
      • White Temple and ziggurat, Uruk
      • Archaeological reconstructions
      • Warka Vase
      • Standing Male Worshipper (Tell Asmar)
      • Relief of Ur-Nanshe
      • Cylinder seals
      • Standard of Ur and other objects from the Royal Graves
      • The ‘Ram in a Thicket’
    • Akkadian
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      • Akkad, an introduction
      • Victory Stele of Naram-Sin
      • Cylinder seal with a modern impression
    • Neo-Sumerian/Ur III
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      • Seated Gudea holding temple plan
      • Ziggurat of Ur
    • Canaanite
      • Canaanites, an introduction
    • Hittites
      • Hittites, an introduction
    • Babylonian
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      • Babylonia, an introduction
      • Visiting Babylon
      • The Babylonian mind
      • Law Code Stele of King Hammurabi
      • The Ishtar Gate and Neo-Babylonian art
      • Map of the world
      • Towers of Babel
      • Kassite art: Unfinished Kudurru
    • Amorite
      • Amorites, an introduction
    • Assyrian
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      • Assyria, an introduction
      • Assyrian Sculpture
      • Lamassu from the citadel of Sargon II
      • Ashurbanipal Hunting Lions
      • The palace decoration of Ashurbanipal
      • Assyria vs Elam: The battle of Til Tuba
    • Persian
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      • Ancient Persia, an introduction
      • The Cyrus Cylinder and Ancient Persia
      • Capital of a column from the audience hall of the palace of Darius I, Susa
      • Persepolis: The Audience Hall of Darius and Xerxes
    • Parthian
      • Clasp with an eagle and its prey
    • Sasanian
      • Sasanian art, an introduction
      • Silver dish
  • Pre-Islamic Arabia
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    • A beginner’s guide
      • Pre-Islamic Arabia, an overview
  • Ancient Egypt & Sudan
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    • A beginner’s guide
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      • Ancient Egypt, an introduction
      • Ancient Egyptian chronology and historical framework
      • Ancient Egyptian art
      • Materials and techniques in ancient Egyptian art
      • Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs overview
      • The mummification process
      • Mummification and funeral rites
      • Private tombs, portals to the afterlife
      • Introduction to Ancient Egyptian Mortuary Texts
      • Creation myths and form(s) of the gods in ancient Egypt
      • Egyptian deities
      • Egyptian Social Organization—from the Pharaoh to the farmer (Part 1)
      • Egyptian Social Organization—from the Pharaoh to the farmer (Part 2)
    • Predynastic, Early Dynastic, and Old Kingdom
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      • Predynastic and Early Dynastic, an introduction
      • Old Kingdom and First Intermediate Period, an introduction
      • Decorated jar, predynastic
      • King Den’s sandal label
      • Palette of King Narmer
      • Step Pyramid complex at Saqqara
      • The Great Pyramids of Giza
      • Pyramid of Khufu
      • Pyramid of Khafre and the Great Sphinx
      • Pyramid of Menkaure
      • King Menkaure (Mycerinus) and queen
      • The Seated Scribe
      • Wooden tomb statue of Tjeti
      • Statue of seated man, Ankhwa
    • Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period
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      • Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period, an introduction
      • The White Chapel
      • Scarab pendant
      • Pectoral and necklace of Sithathoryunet
      • Statues of Senusret III
      • Statue of an Offering Bearer, Tomb of Meketre
      • Standing Hippopotamus
      • Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis
      • Stela of the sculptor Userwer
      • Apotropaic wand
    • New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period
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      • New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period, an introduction
      • Temple of Amun-Re and the Hypostyle Hall, Karnak
      • Mortuary Temple and Statue of Hatshepsut
      • The tomb-chapel of Nebamun
      • Paintings from the Tomb-chapel of Nebamun
      • Bottle and toy: objects from daily life
      • Bronze statuette of Thutmose IV
      • House Altar depicting Akhenaten, Nefertiti and Daughters
      • Portrait of Queen Tiye
      • Thutmose, Model Bust of Queen Nefertiti
      • Tutankhamun’s tomb (innermost coffin and death mask)
      • Head of Tutankhamun
      • Hunefer’s Judgement in the presence of Osiris
      • Paintings from the tomb of Sebekhotep
      • Canopic Jar with a Lid in the Shape of a Royal Woman’s Head
      • Barry X Ball on an Egyptian fragment of a queen’s face
      • Cult Image of the God Ptah
    • Late, Ptolemaic, and Roman Periods
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      • Late Period and the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods, an introduction
      • Meet an Ushabti, an Ancient Egyptian Statuette Made for the Afterlife
      • Ptolemaic
        • Egyptian mummy portraits
        • Faiyum mummy portraits
        • Decoding the Rosetta Stone
        • Multilingualism along the Nile
        • The Rosetta Stone
      • Roman Egypt
        • Mummy of Herakleides
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      • Nubia and the Kingdom of Kush
        • Ancient Nubia and the Kingdom of Kush, an introduction
        • Pylon of the Nubian Lion Temple at Naga
        • Pyramids of Sudan
        • King Piye and the Kushite control of Egypt
        • Head of Augustus at Meroë (Kush)
        • Meroitic period of the Kingdom of Kush
  • Punic
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    • Carthage
  • Ancient Aegean
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    • An introduction to the ancient Aegean
    • Cycladic
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      • Cycladic art, an introduction
      • Male Harp Player of the Early Spedos Type
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      • Male Harp Player from Keros
      • Akrotiri, Thera
    • Minoan
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      • Minoan art, an introduction
      • Knossos
      • Restoration versus conservation: the Palace at Knossos
      • Kamares Ware Jug
      • Snake Goddess
      • Bull’s Head Rhyton
      • Harvester Vase
      • Octopus Vase
      • Palaikastro Kouros
      • Hagia Triada sarcophagus
      • Bull-leaping fresco
      • La Parisienne
    • Mycenaean
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      • Mycenaean art, an introduction
      • The “Palace” and Grave Circle A
      • Mask of Agamemnon
      • The Treasury of Atreus
      • Lion Gate
  • Ancient Greece
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    • A beginner’s guide
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      • Ancient Greece, an introduction
      • Introduction to ancient Greek art
      • Introduction to ancient Greek architecture
      • Greek architectural orders
      • Classic, classical, and classicism explained
      • Contrapposto explained
      • Black Figures in Classical Greek Art
      • Greek sanctuaries as artistic hubs
      • Olympic games
    • Pottery
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      • Greek Vase-Painting, an introduction
      • Ancient Greek vase production and the black-figure technique
      • Making Greek vases
      • Dipylon Amphora
      • Terracotta Krater
      • Commemorating the Dead in Greek Geometric Art
      • Eleusis Amphora
      • Sophilos: a new direction in Greek pottery
      • François Vase
      • Exekias
        • Ajax and Achilles playing a game
        • Dionysos Kylix
      • Euphronios, Sarpedon Krater
      • Euthymides, Three Revelers
      • Niobid Krater
    • Daedalic and Archaic
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      • Tiny timeline: Archaic Greece in a global context
      • Kouroi and Korai, an introduction
      • Lady of Auxerre
      • Bronze helmet donated by Olympic gold medalist Son Gijeong
      • Marble statue of a kouros (New York Kouros)
      • Anavysos Kouros
      • The Kouroi of Kleobis and Biton
      • Peplos Kore
      • Ancient Greek Temples at Paestum
      • Sanctuary of Apollo, Delphi
      • Siphnian Treasury, Delphi
    • Early Classical
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      • Pediments from the Temple of Aphaia, Aegina
      • Kritios Boy
      • Contrapposto explained
      • Charioteer of Delphi
      • Artemision Zeus or Poseidon
      • Riace Warriors
    • Classical
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      • Polykleitos, Doryphoros (Spear-Bearer)
      • Myron, Discobolus (Discus Thrower)
      • The Athenian Agora and the experiment in democracy
      • The Parthenon, Athens
      • Parthenon sculptures
      • The Many Lives of the Parthenon
      • Who owns the Parthenon sculptures?
      • Egyptian blue on the Parthenon sculptures
      • Plaque of the Ergastines
      • The Erechtheion
      • Caryatid and Ionic Column from the Erechtheion
      • Temple of Athena Nike on the Athenian Acropolis
      • Nike Adjusting Her Sandal, Temple of Athena Nike, Acropolis, Athens
      • Grave stele of Hegeso
    • Late Classical
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      • The Antikythera Shipwreck
      • The Antikythera Youth
      • Lysippos
        • How an ancient Greek bronze ended up in the Vatican
        • Apoxyomenos (Scraper)
        • Farnese Hercules
      • Capitoline Venus (copy of the Aphrodite of Knidos by Praxiteles)
      • The Alexander Sarcophagus
    • Hellenistic
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      • Statue of a Victorious Youth
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      • Barberini Faun
      • Dying Gaul and Ludovisi Gaul
      • The Dying Gaul, reconsidered
      • Bronze statue of Eros sleeping
      • Nike (Winged Victory) of Samothrace
      • The Pergamon Altar
      • Apollonius, Boxer at Rest (or The Seated Boxer)
      • Spinario (Boy with Thorn)
      • Alexander Mosaic from the House of the Faun, Pompeii
      • Athanadoros, Hagesandros, and Polydoros of Rhodes, Laocoön and his Sons
      • Nemrut Dağ (tomb of King Antiochus I Theos)
  • Ancient Ireland & Britain
    • Golden lunula and two gold discs (Coggalbeg hoard)
    • Celtic
      • The Witham Shield
  • Etruscan
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    • The Etruscans, an introduction
    • Bucchero
    • The Regolini-Galassi tomb and the Parade Fibula
    • Temple of Minerva and the sculpture of Apollo (Veii)
    • Sarcophagus of the Spouses (Louvre)
    • Sarcophagus of the Spouses (Rome)
    • Tomb of the Triclinium
    • The François Tomb
    • Tomb of the Reliefs
    • Chimera of Arezzo
    • Mars of Todi
    • Aule Metele (Arringatore)
    • Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia
  • Ancient Rome
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    • A beginner’s guide
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      • Introduction to ancient Rome
      • Introduction to ancient Roman art
      • City of Rome overview—origins to the archaic period
      • Ancient Rome (virtual reality tour)
      • Ostia, an introduction
      • Rome’s history in four faces at The Met
      • Damnatio memoriae—Roman sanctions against memory
      • Roman funeral rituals and social status: The Amiternum tomb and the tomb of the Haterii
      • The Modern Invention of Ancient White Marble
    • Beginner guides to Roman architecture
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      • An introduction to ancient Roman architecture
      • Italo-Roman building techniques
      • Roman domestic architecture: domus
      • Roman domestic architecture: villa
      • Roman domestic architecture: insula
      • Forum Romanum (The Roman Forum)
      • The archaeological context of the Roman Forum (Forum Romanum)
      • Imperial fora
    • Roman art, archaeology and museums
      • Digging through time
      • Seizure of Looted Antiquities Illuminates What Museums Want Hidden
      • Looting, collecting, and exhibiting: the Bubon bronzes
    • Pompeii
      • Pompeii, an introduction
      • The rediscovery of Pompeii and the other cities of Vesuvius
      • An Indian ivory statuette in Pompeii
    • Wall painting
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      • Roman wall painting styles
      • Painted Garden, Villa of Livia
      • Scenes from Homer’s Odyssey, Via Graziosa
      • Still Life with Peaches
      • House of the Vettii
      • Villa of Mysteries
      • Room M of the Villa of Publius Fannius Synistor, Boscoreale
    • Republic
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      • Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus
      • Temple of Portunus
      • Maison Carrée
      • Capitoline She-wolf
      • Capitoline Brutus
      • Tomb of the Scipios and the sarcophagus of Scipio Barbatus
      • Veristic male portrait
      • Head of a Roman Patrician
    • Early empire
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      • Augustus as Pontifex Maximus
      • Augustus of Primaporta
      • Ara Pacis Augustae
      • Mausoleum of Augustus
      • Gemma Augustea
      • Gem carving
      • Pont du Gard
      • Obelisks and ancient Rome
      • Preparations for a Sacrifice
      • The Domus Aurea, Nero’s Golden Palace
      • The rediscovery and impact of the Domus Aurea
      • Portrait of Vespasian
      • The Colosseum
      • The Arch of Titus
      • The Spoils of Jerusalem, Arch of Titus
      • Shekel of the Second Jewish Revolt
      • Portrait Bust of a Flavian Woman
      • The Forum and Markets of Trajan
      • Column of Trajan
      • Volubilis
      • Djémila
      • Colony of Augusta Emerita, Mérida
    • Middle empire
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      • The Pantheon (Rome)
      • Bronze head from a statue of the Emperor Hadrian
      • A virtual tour of Hadrian’s Villa
      • Hadrian: The imperial palace, Tivoli
      • Maritime Theatre at Hadrian’s Villa
      • Rome’s layered history — the Castel Sant’Angelo
      • Pair of Centaurs Fighting Cats of Prey from Hadrian’s Villa
      • Hadrian’s Wall
      • Medea Sarcophagus
      • Equestrian Sculpture of Marcus Aurelius
      • The Lullingstone Busts
      • Julia Domna’s Portraits
      • Triumphal Arch of Septimius Severus
      • Severan marble plan (Forma Urbis Romae)
      • The Severan Tondo: Damnatio memoriae in ancient Rome
      • Baths of Caracalla
      • Battle of the Romans and Barbarians (Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus)
      • Leptis Magna
      • Ancient city of Bosra
      • Ancient Sabratha
      • Amphitheater of El Jem
    • Late empire
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      • Trebonianus Gallus — emperor or athlete? Rethinking a modern attribution.
      • Portraits of the Four Tetrarchs
      • Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine
      • The Symmachi Panel
      • The Colossus of Constantine
      • Arch of Constantine, Rome
      • Mosaic decoration at the Hammath Tiberias synagogue
  • Nabataean
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    • Petra: The rose red city of the Nabataeans
    • Petra: urban metropolis
    • Petra: rock-cut façades
    • Petra: UNESCO Siq Project
    • Al-Hijr (Madâin Sâlih)
  • Palmyra
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    • Palmyra: the modern destruction of an ancient city
    • Temple of Bel
    • Palmyrene Funerary Portraiture
    • Temple of Baalshamin
  • Dura-Europos
    • Dura-Europos, an overview
    • The Synagogue at Dura-Europos 

Ancient Mediterranean + Europe

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  • A beginner’s guide
    • Tiny timeline: ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in a global context, 5th–3rd millennia B.C.E.
    • Tiny timeline: ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in a global context, 2nd–1st millennia B.C.E.
    • In Full Color, Ancient Sculpture Reimagined
  • Ancient Near East
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    • A beginner’s guide
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      • Ancient Near East: Cradle of civilization
      • Cuneiform, an introduction
      • Writing Cuneiform
      • Cuneiform Tablets
      • Lapis lazuli stamp seal
      • An introduction to Zoroastrianism
    • Sumerian
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      • Sumer, an introduction
      • White Temple and ziggurat, Uruk
      • Archaeological reconstructions
      • Warka Vase
      • Standing Male Worshipper (Tell Asmar)
      • Relief of Ur-Nanshe
      • Cylinder seals
      • Standard of Ur and other objects from the Royal Graves
      • The ‘Ram in a Thicket’
    • Akkadian
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      • Akkad, an introduction
      • Victory Stele of Naram-Sin
      • Cylinder seal with a modern impression
    • Neo-Sumerian/Ur III
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      • Seated Gudea holding temple plan
      • Ziggurat of Ur
    • Canaanite
      • Canaanites, an introduction
    • Hittites
      • Hittites, an introduction
    • Babylonian
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      • Babylonia, an introduction
      • Visiting Babylon
      • The Babylonian mind
      • Law Code Stele of King Hammurabi
      • The Ishtar Gate and Neo-Babylonian art
      • Map of the world
      • Towers of Babel
      • Kassite art: Unfinished Kudurru
    • Amorite
      • Amorites, an introduction
    • Assyrian
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      • Assyria, an introduction
      • Assyrian Sculpture
      • Lamassu from the citadel of Sargon II
      • Ashurbanipal Hunting Lions
      • The palace decoration of Ashurbanipal
      • Assyria vs Elam: The battle of Til Tuba
    • Persian
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      • Ancient Persia, an introduction
      • The Cyrus Cylinder and Ancient Persia
      • Capital of a column from the audience hall of the palace of Darius I, Susa
      • Persepolis: The Audience Hall of Darius and Xerxes
    • Parthian
      • Clasp with an eagle and its prey
    • Sasanian
      • Sasanian art, an introduction
      • Silver dish
  • Pre-Islamic Arabia
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    • A beginner’s guide
      • Pre-Islamic Arabia, an overview
  • Ancient Egypt & Sudan
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    • A beginner’s guide
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      • Ancient Egypt, an introduction
      • Ancient Egyptian chronology and historical framework
      • Ancient Egyptian art
      • Materials and techniques in ancient Egyptian art
      • Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs overview
      • The mummification process
      • Mummification and funeral rites
      • Private tombs, portals to the afterlife
      • Introduction to Ancient Egyptian Mortuary Texts
      • Creation myths and form(s) of the gods in ancient Egypt
      • Egyptian deities
      • Egyptian Social Organization—from the Pharaoh to the farmer (Part 1)
      • Egyptian Social Organization—from the Pharaoh to the farmer (Part 2)
    • Predynastic, Early Dynastic, and Old Kingdom
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      • Predynastic and Early Dynastic, an introduction
      • Old Kingdom and First Intermediate Period, an introduction
      • Decorated jar, predynastic
      • King Den’s sandal label
      • Palette of King Narmer
      • Step Pyramid complex at Saqqara
      • The Great Pyramids of Giza
      • Pyramid of Khufu
      • Pyramid of Khafre and the Great Sphinx
      • Pyramid of Menkaure
      • King Menkaure (Mycerinus) and queen
      • The Seated Scribe
      • Wooden tomb statue of Tjeti
      • Statue of seated man, Ankhwa
    • Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period
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      • Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period, an introduction
      • The White Chapel
      • Scarab pendant
      • Pectoral and necklace of Sithathoryunet
      • Statues of Senusret III
      • Statue of an Offering Bearer, Tomb of Meketre
      • Standing Hippopotamus
      • Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis
      • Stela of the sculptor Userwer
      • Apotropaic wand
    • New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period
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      • New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period, an introduction
      • Temple of Amun-Re and the Hypostyle Hall, Karnak
      • Mortuary Temple and Statue of Hatshepsut
      • The tomb-chapel of Nebamun
      • Paintings from the Tomb-chapel of Nebamun
      • Bottle and toy: objects from daily life
      • Bronze statuette of Thutmose IV
      • House Altar depicting Akhenaten, Nefertiti and Daughters
      • Portrait of Queen Tiye
      • Thutmose, Model Bust of Queen Nefertiti
      • Tutankhamun’s tomb (innermost coffin and death mask)
      • Head of Tutankhamun
      • Hunefer’s Judgement in the presence of Osiris
      • Paintings from the tomb of Sebekhotep
      • Canopic Jar with a Lid in the Shape of a Royal Woman’s Head
      • Barry X Ball on an Egyptian fragment of a queen’s face
      • Cult Image of the God Ptah
    • Late, Ptolemaic, and Roman Periods
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      • Late Period and the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods, an introduction
      • Meet an Ushabti, an Ancient Egyptian Statuette Made for the Afterlife
      • Ptolemaic
        • Egyptian mummy portraits
        • Faiyum mummy portraits
        • Decoding the Rosetta Stone
        • Multilingualism along the Nile
        • The Rosetta Stone
      • Roman Egypt
        • Mummy of Herakleides
          Getty conversations
      • Nubia and the Kingdom of Kush
        • Ancient Nubia and the Kingdom of Kush, an introduction
        • Pylon of the Nubian Lion Temple at Naga
        • Pyramids of Sudan
        • King Piye and the Kushite control of Egypt
        • Head of Augustus at Meroë (Kush)
        • Meroitic period of the Kingdom of Kush
  • Punic
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    • Carthage
  • Ancient Aegean
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    • An introduction to the ancient Aegean
    • Cycladic
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      • Cycladic art, an introduction
      • Male Harp Player of the Early Spedos Type
        Getty Conversations
      • Male Harp Player from Keros
      • Akrotiri, Thera
    • Minoan
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      • Minoan art, an introduction
      • Knossos
      • Restoration versus conservation: the Palace at Knossos
      • Kamares Ware Jug
      • Snake Goddess
      • Bull’s Head Rhyton
      • Harvester Vase
      • Octopus Vase
      • Palaikastro Kouros
      • Hagia Triada sarcophagus
      • Bull-leaping fresco
      • La Parisienne
    • Mycenaean
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      • Mycenaean art, an introduction
      • The “Palace” and Grave Circle A
      • Mask of Agamemnon
      • The Treasury of Atreus
      • Lion Gate
  • Ancient Greece
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    • A beginner’s guide
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      • Ancient Greece, an introduction
      • Introduction to ancient Greek art
      • Introduction to ancient Greek architecture
      • Greek architectural orders
      • Classic, classical, and classicism explained
      • Contrapposto explained
      • Black Figures in Classical Greek Art
      • Greek sanctuaries as artistic hubs
      • Olympic games
    • Pottery
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      • Greek Vase-Painting, an introduction
      • Ancient Greek vase production and the black-figure technique
      • Making Greek vases
      • Dipylon Amphora
      • Terracotta Krater
      • Commemorating the Dead in Greek Geometric Art
      • Eleusis Amphora
      • Sophilos: a new direction in Greek pottery
      • François Vase
      • Exekias
        • Ajax and Achilles playing a game
        • Dionysos Kylix
      • Euphronios, Sarpedon Krater
      • Euthymides, Three Revelers
      • Niobid Krater
    • Daedalic and Archaic
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      • Tiny timeline: Archaic Greece in a global context
      • Kouroi and Korai, an introduction
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The art of gem carving

by The J. Paul Getty Museum

Watch a modern artist engrave a precious gemstone using the techniques of the ancients.

Video from the J. Paul Getty Museum

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Dioskourides, Gemma AugusteaDioskourides, Gemma Augustea, detail with lower registerGemma ClaudiaDioskourides, Gemma Augustea, detail of upper register with (left to right) Roma, Augustus, Oikoumene, and Oceanus

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Cite this page as: The J. Paul Getty Museum, "The art of gem carving," in Smarthistory, December 21, 2015, accessed September 30, 2023, https://smarthistory.org/the-art-of-gem-carving/.
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