Some antiquities I haven't previously posted

@DonnaML (and everyone else), those are all phenomenal.
Regarding the Hellenistic esthetic, with its seeming reaction to the more idealized Hellenic ethos, I always liked to see parallels between that and the increased emotional content and 'naturalism' in Mannerist sculpture (later 16th c.), relative to the early and High Renaissance.

 

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Yes completely agree!.....The Trumpet is my favourite as I dug this one out of the ground myself and took a great deal of time to clean...The disc brooch I bought from a reputable dealer in the UK from a 1970's collection. Donna if you ever do start to collect Fibulas one of the main look outs is 'Bronze disease', it can be very common!

 

Thank you for the illuminating discourse on grotesque sculptures in ancient Greece. For me it certainly breaks the stereotype of Hellenistic art always depicting the perfect, sometimes almost too perfect human form.

 

Though I have some nice pieces, my collection is more quantity over quality.

Some small Roman bronze statuettes and fragments.


Phalerae, simpulum (ladles) and other bronze fragments.


Medical Tools, Vessel Fragments and Locks.


Plaster Fragments, Stone and Terra Cotta Fragments and Lead Weights.


Lead Votive Plaques and Legion Bricks.


I have lots more, including some 15 trays of fibulae, but I think I will stop there.

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Coincidentally, I was just looking through the antiquities section in the current Harlan J. Berk 214th Buy or Bid Sale, and notice that there's a small grotesque head of an old man still for sale as Lot 443, for the Buy price of $900. (I paid $350 for mine in 1998). It's in bronze (rather than terracotta), and it's Roman, circa 2nd Century AD (rather than Greek, 400 years earlier), but the size is comparable and the design looks remarkably similar to me. Which suggests the persistence of that cultural "meme." See two of the photos, at https://www.hjbltd.com/api/util/img?i=https://www.hjbltd.com/antiquities/images/antq/aq13725c.jpg and
https://www.hjbltd.com/api/util/img?i=https://www.hjbltd.com/antiquities/images/antq/aq13725b.jpg.

 

I keep trying to click the "PURCHASE" button on your pic, but it won't let me take it away from you...

GREAT wall pic!!!

 

Wonderful things right there @DonnaML LOVE the HANDSOME old guy (do you think he'd have liked to be remembered as grotesque?)

Here's some things, wonderful or not is debatable, that I've not shown from the box of shadows:

And the top of Dr Coinlove's cabinet https://www.cointalk.com/threads/dr...top-worrying-and-built-a-coin-cabinet.369939/
is looking rather opulent with amphorii in my grandiose opinion:

 

@DonnaML and @jdmKY your collections are very impressive!

How wonderful.....its like having your own private mini museums! Maybe somewhere down the road I'll acquire antiquities too....you're certainly inspiring me to do so!

 

@Ryro, these are great. I'm curious: in the bottom photo, what's the little terracotta (I assume) figure of a woman in the far right corner? It looks very interesting.

 

I think they all look fascinating! I wish you had labels on them, so I could see what they are.

 

Indeed it is. When my son was little, he used to refer to all my antiquities (together with some of my other little collections) as the "[our last name] museum."

It's been very nice to find out that I'm far from the only one here who thinks that collecting ancient coins and collecting antiquities complement each other very naturally. And that one can do both, on a modest scale, without having piles of money.

 

I only have these few. Don't know where they are from and what are their dates:
a spear head (I think it is) - must have seen a lot of battles

Kouros with his enigmatic smile that I like very much:




an Amphora mouth:


a horse head


and an oil lamp

 

Don't know if these books qualify as antiquities and they are pretty much useless because they are written in Latin



1st page:


and any page ups, this picture is really blurred, but I hope you get the idea how each issue is described


And Romanorum Numismata:


any page - this is better but in Latin

it has beautiful prints, e.g.

 

Wow. These are great, and the kouros is particularly amazing, especially as a complete figure. How tall is it? (I'm hoping that you're going to tell me it's life-sized, like the ones I've seen at museums!) And where in the world did you find it to buy (assuming that you're the person who purchased it)?

 

Double-ear pommel from a sword, Iran, c. 1200 - 800 BC.

 

@cmezner, I don't know if you're being ironic in the first place, but Please, Don't apologize for their being in Latin!!! ...Okay, after the first wave of Autism Spectrum, I'm thinking you were ...being ironic.

 

oh no, it is not life-sized. He is only 7 ½ inches. My dad bought it, he really was one of a kind, a Renaissance man, will always miss him. When he had to travel for business to Europe, he always took the opportunity to travel to places he wanted to go after his meeting were over. He went to Greece, Italy, Egypt among others and always bought and brought with him pieces that he loved and found interesting. Luckily, we were able to bring to the US all these, and also his coin collection, when we moved here in 2007, else they would have been lost.

 

from Iran and so old? I am impressed! Thank you for "attributing" it Now I wonder where my dad got it, because he never traveled to Iran...

 

oh no, I am not being ironic at all. Let me guess, you can read Latin? I have been trying to learn it, but these books are well above of what I have learned...not to mention the Greek words that are included in the description of coins

 

With apologies, @cmezmer, I cannot (to segue to 'American English' --which sometimes strikes me as an oxymoron), that's, Can, Not read Latin (except for what collectors, whether of ancient or medieval, refer to as 'Coin Latin'). This very day, on this forum, I was envying someone who had gotten Latin in high school. I was not so lucky.
...But there are too many languages I wish I knew any more of than I do. Yoruban. Sanskrit. Hebrew. Arabic. I'm missing some....