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Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

"Again Eros, looking at me meltingly from under his dark eyelids, hurls me with his manifold enchantments into the boundless nets of Kypris [Aphrodite]. How I fear his onset."
Ibycus, Fragment 287

🏛 Aphrodite terracotta figurine with #Eros, Tanagra, ca 400 BCE

#DayOfAphrodite #GreekRomanArt #Aphrodite #antiquidons #history #polychromy

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

"Again Eros, looking at me meltingly from under his dark eyelids, hurls me with his manifold enchantments into the boundless nets of Kypris [Aphrodite]. How I fear his onset."
Ibycus, Fragment 287

🏛 Aphrodite terracotta figurine with #Eros, Tanagra, ca 400 BCE

#DayOfAphrodite #GreekRomanArt #Aphrodite #antiquidons #history #polychromy

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

"Again Eros, looking at me meltingly from under his dark eyelids, hurls me with his manifold enchantments into the boundless nets of Kypris [Aphrodite]. How I fear his onset."
Ibycus, Fragment 287

🏛 Aphrodite terracotta figurine with #Eros, Tanagra, ca 400 BCE

#DayOfAphrodite #GreekRomanArt #Aphrodite #antiquidons #history #polychromy

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

"Again Eros, looking at me meltingly from under his dark eyelids, hurls me with his manifold enchantments into the boundless nets of Kypris [Aphrodite]. How I fear his onset."
Ibycus, Fragment 287

🏛 Aphrodite terracotta figurine with #Eros, Tanagra, ca 400 BCE

#DayOfAphrodite #GreekRomanArt #Aphrodite #antiquidons #history #polychromy

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

"Again Eros, looking at me meltingly from under his dark eyelids, hurls me with his manifold enchantments into the boundless nets of Kypris [Aphrodite]. How I fear his onset."
Ibycus, Fragment 287

🏛 Aphrodite terracotta figurine with #Eros, Tanagra, ca 400 BCE

#DayOfAphrodite #GreekRomanArt #Aphrodite #antiquidons #history #polychromy

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

"You will see Diokleia, a rather slim little #Aphrodite, but blessed with a sweet disposition."
"Then there won't be much between us, but falling on her thin bosom I will lie all the nearer to her heart."
Anthologia Graeca, Epigram 5.102

🏛 Aphrodite statuette, Greek, 4th century BCE

@antiquidons @mythology
#DayOfAphrodite #GreekRomanArt #mythology #polychromy #SmallTits

It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

"And golden-haired #Dionysos made blonde-haired #Ariadne, the daughter of Minos, his buxom wife: and [Zeus] the son of Kronos made her deathless and unageing for him."
Hesiod, Theogony 947

🏛️ Painted terracotta figures of Bacchus and Ariadne, 50 BCE - 50 CE, Thappsus, Sicily; now in the #Ashmolean Museum, #Oxford

@antiquidons @archaeodons @mythology
#GreekRomanArt #mythology #polychromy

It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

"And golden-haired #Dionysos made blonde-haired #Ariadne, the daughter of Minos, his buxom wife: and [Zeus] the son of Kronos made her deathless and unageing for him."
Hesiod, Theogony 947

🏛️ Painted terracotta figures of Bacchus and Ariadne, 50 BCE - 50 CE, Thappsus, Sicily; now in the #Ashmolean Museum, #Oxford

@antiquidons @archaeodons @mythology
#GreekRomanArt #mythology #polychromy

It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

"And golden-haired #Dionysos made blonde-haired #Ariadne, the daughter of Minos, his buxom wife: and [Zeus] the son of Kronos made her deathless and unageing for him."
Hesiod, Theogony 947

🏛️ Painted terracotta figures of Bacchus and Ariadne, 50 BCE - 50 CE, Thappsus, Sicily; now in the #Ashmolean Museum, #Oxford

@antiquidons @archaeodons @mythology
#GreekRomanArt #mythology #polychromy

It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

"And golden-haired #Dionysos made blonde-haired #Ariadne, the daughter of Minos, his buxom wife: and [Zeus] the son of Kronos made her deathless and unageing for him."
Hesiod, Theogony 947

🏛️ Painted terracotta figures of Bacchus and Ariadne, 50 BCE - 50 CE, Thappsus, Sicily; now in the #Ashmolean Museum, #Oxford

@antiquidons @archaeodons @mythology
#GreekRomanArt #mythology #polychromy

It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

"And golden-haired #Dionysos made blonde-haired #Ariadne, the daughter of Minos, his buxom wife: and [Zeus] the son of Kronos made her deathless and unageing for him."
Hesiod, Theogony 947

🏛️ Painted terracotta figures of Bacchus and Ariadne, 50 BCE - 50 CE, Thappsus, Sicily; now in the #Ashmolean Museum, #Oxford

@antiquidons @archaeodons @mythology
#GreekRomanArt #mythology #polychromy

5th c. BCE small Greek terracotta naiskos (shrine) with the god Hermes and two goddesses or 'nymphs'. They all have large shield fibulae pinning their clothes at their shoulders. Clear remains of the original pigments. #polychromy #archaeology

From Tanagra (Boeotia, Greece)
Altes Museum, Berlin

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

Meet #Aphrodite Anadyomene, Aphrodite rising from the sea. The goddess is wringing out her beautiful hair that still has traces of #polychromy.

#DayOfAphrodite #GreekMythology #mythology #GreekRomanArt #polychromos #FannyFriday @antiquidons @histodons @mythology

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

Terracotta Statuette of #Aphrodite rising from the sea in a seashell. You can see remnants of #polychromy on the left shell!

Dated to ca. 3rd century BCE

#DayOfAphrodite #GreekMythology #mythology @mythology @antiquidons #ancientHistory #ancientGreece

#HappyNewYear to everyone 🥂

I hope you welcomed the new year with as much joy as #Sol Invictus and Mithras are displaying in this polychrome reproduction of a Mithraic banquet scene featuring #Mithras and the #SolInvictus banqueting on the hide of the slaughtered bull 🥳
Sol is raising his drinking horn, large rays of light emerging from his head in the background.
Prosit!

#DayOfHelios #Helios #GreekRomanArt @Chapps @antiquidons @histodons #polychromy

Of course, I'm always thrilled to see little remnants of #polychromy, and here you can see traces of once-vibrant red pigment in the letters. I also have to wonder if anything was written on the tag (usually seen with a bust) below the figure of Fortunatus, now lost. 🤷‍♂️ 5/

An extremely large 2,300-year-old funerary building and a large cache of mummies - and mummy portraits - has been discovered in the Fayum province of #Egypt. It apparently covers the Ptolemaic and Roman eras. I love the tempera portrait, below. Very sweet. #polychromy

Today is the 2,012th birthday of the beautiful Bythinian lover of the emperor Hadrian, #Antinous. Here, he appears as a priest of Attis, lover of Cybele (found in the sanctuary of Cybele/Magna Mater).

Also, visible remnants of red pigment in the hair. #polychromy

Lekythos figurine in the form of Aphrodite in a shell. The almost airbrushed technique in the pinks is remarkable.

4th c. BCE. From the necropolis of Phanagoria, a Greek colony on the Taman peninsula, between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. #polychromy

Hermitage Museum

This Etruscan roof tile is late 6th c. BCE, and can be seen at the #MetMuseum in NYC (1997.145.2a). #polychromy #archaeology 2/end

#SarcophagusSaturday I'm often asked if the Romans painted their spectacularly carved sarcophagi. Yes, they certainly did, as you can see from the red pigment remaining on this 3rd c. CE beauty with a Dionysian procession. ALT for more. #polychromy 1/

A fancy pitcher for your tomb! Configured in the shape of a sphinx. Note the bright pink under the figure, in addition to yellow, red and black pigments. Polychrome tempera, made in Apulia (?). #polychromy

Second half of the 4th century BCE. Museum of Rescued Art, Rome.

Sometimes a humble object from antiquity references metallic polychromy from larger sculptures. This cup in the form of a head (probably Bacchus) uses deep yellow to suggest gold or bronze, the reddish brown resembles copper, and the green simulates patinated bronze. #polychromy

Today's sessions at the International Round Table on #Polychromy in Rome makes me think about the *meaning* of the gilding of sculptures. This 2nd c. CE fragment of a gilded sculpture can only be the deified Alexander the Great. Gold on the hair, skin = divinity.

Here's my #introduction to all you ... Tooters. I'm a refugee from the Tech world, who took early retirement, which enabled me to return to my first love: #archaeology. Specifically, Roman history and archaeology (love the Greeks, Egyptians and Assyrians, too!).

I started getting tired of asking why there weren't any good #reconstructions of ancient polychrome sculpture, so I decided to create them myself. A continuing process, always learning. #polychromy

Here's my #introduction to all you ... Tooters. I'm a refugee from the Tech world, who took early retirement, which enabled me to return to my first love: #archaeology. Specifically, Roman history and archaeology (love the Greeks, Egyptians and Assyrians, too!).

I started getting tired of asking why there weren't any good #reconstructions of ancient polychrome sculpture, so I decided to create them myself. A continuing process, always learning. #polychromy

Here's my #introduction to all you ... Tooters. I'm a refugee from the Tech world, who took early retirement, which enabled me to return to my first love: #archaeology. Specifically, Roman history and archaeology (love the Greeks, Egyptians and Assyrians, too!).

I started getting tired of asking why there weren't any good #reconstructions of ancient polychrome sculpture, so I decided to create them myself. A continuing process, always learning. #polychromy

Here's my #introduction to all you ... Tooters. I'm a refugee from the Tech world, who took early retirement, which enabled me to return to my first love: #archaeology. Specifically, Roman history and archaeology (love the Greeks, Egyptians and Assyrians, too!).

I started getting tired of asking why there weren't any good #reconstructions of ancient polychrome sculpture, so I decided to create them myself. A continuing process, always learning. #polychromy

Here's my #introduction to all you ... Tooters. I'm a refugee from the Tech world, who took early retirement, which enabled me to return to my first love: #archaeology. Specifically, Roman history and archaeology (love the Greeks, Egyptians and Assyrians, too!).

I started getting tired of asking why there weren't any good #reconstructions of ancient polychrome sculpture, so I decided to create them myself. A continuing process, always learning. #polychromy