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Inscription from fountain at Oropos, perhaps close to Amphiareion.

Tags: Amphiareion, Ancient sanctuaries, Art and antiquities, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Greek alphabet, Inscriptions, Oropos

Title page.

Tags: Egyptian antiquities, Inscriptions, Title page

Fig. 1. Inscription from Lefkada. Fig. 2. Seat-like stone from the School of Homer (Agios Athanasios), Ithaca. Fig. 3. Capital of column found near Skala, Cephalonia. Fig. 4. Part of wall from the ruins at Aetos, Ithaca.

Tags: Aetos (Ithaca), Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Cephalonia, Greece, Inscriptions, Ionian islands, Ithaca, Lefkada, School of Homer / Agios Athanasios (Ithaca)

Im. 1: Capital found near Mount Behistun in Persia, possibly representing king Khosrau. 2: Reliefs of Mithridates II of Parthia and Gotarzes II from Behistun. 3: Reliefs framing the inscription of Darius I the Great (Behistun inscription) at Mount Behistun.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Behistun, Darius I, Gotarzes II of Parthia, Inscriptions, Kermanshah, Mithridates II of Parthia, Persia / Iran, Reliefs

Im. 1: (1 (Α, B, C, D, E): Shrew bones found in the Ibis burials at Saqqara catacombs, Egypt. Im. 2: Bone of rat from same burial. Im. 3 A, B: Butterfly of the Belenois Aurota species, from the coast of Syria. Im. 4 A, B: Butterfly of the Colotis fausta species from the coast of Syria. Im. 5 A, B: Leaden tablet bearing inscription in Greek, from Beirut. Im. 6, 7: Amulets in cylindrical shape made of red jasper (6) and serpentine (7) bought by Olivier in Sanliurfa.

Tags: Animal burials / Ibis catacombs (Saqqara), Animals, Art and antiquities, Butterflies, Charms, Egypt, Egyptian antiquities, Funerary practices, Inscriptions, Lebanon, Natural environment, Rats, Şanlıurfa / Urfa / anc. Edessa -Antiochia Kallirrhoe -, Saqqara, Syria, Turkey

Inscription from the Choregic monument of Thrasyllus (Panagia Spiliotissa).

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Choregic monument of Thrasyllus (Panagia Spiliotissa), Choregic monuments, Greece, Inscriptions, Votive inscriptions

Marble stele on which a law of Emperor Hadrian is preserved. The author argues that he found this inscription next to the Temple of Rome and Augustus on the Acropolis. He also claims, however, that this inscription was initially found at the Prytaneum.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Hadrian, Inscriptions, Roman inscriptions, Roman Εmperors

Ancient Greek inscriptions. These inscriptions were discussed for the first time in the travel account of G. Wheler (1682) and then in the work of I. Mersius "Opera Omnia" in 1741.

Tags: Inscriptions

Votive inscriptions from the Stoa of Attalos in Athens. These inscriptions, as well as many other parts of the Stoa, were used in the reconstruction of the Propylaea of the Acropolis of Athens and the walls surrounding the rock.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Art and antiquities, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Greek alphabet, Inscriptions, Roman inscriptions, Stoa of Attalos, Votive inscriptions

Ancient inscription from the Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion) in Athens.

Tags: Ancient temples, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Greek alphabet, Inscriptions, Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion)

Votive inscription from the Theater of Dionysus in Athens.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Ancient theatre of Dionysus (Athens), Ancient theatres, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Greek alphabet, Inscriptions, Votive inscriptions

Roman inscription at the Propylaea of the Acropolis of Athens, in between the Beule Gate and the Temple of Athena Nike. The inscription refers to Flavius Septimius Marcellinus, with the sponsorship of whom the Propylaea of the Acropolis were restored (280 C.E.)

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Greek alphabet, Inscriptions, Propylaea of the Acropolis, Roman inscriptions

View and plan of the Arch of the Sergii in Pula, Croatia.

Tags: Animals, Arch of the Sergii, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Carriages, Columns / Pillars, Corinthian order, Costume - Hats and headwear, Croatia, Horses, Human types, Inscriptions, Istria, Modes of transport, Pula / anc. Polai, Roman monuments

View and plan of the Temple of Rome and Augustus in Pula, in Croatia.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Columns / Pillars, Corinthian order, Costume - Hats and headwear, Croatia, Human types, Inscriptions, Istria, Plans and drawings, Pula / anc. Polai, Roman monuments, Temple of Rome and Augustus (Pula)

Building in the form of ancient temple, in which the statue of Cybele stood, in the villa Grimani in Venice.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Inscriptions, Italy, Veneto, Venice

An amphora, probably of the Hellenistic era, found in the city Antium (today Anzio), in Italy. Inscription found in the interior of the vase.

Tags: Ancient pottery / Vase painting, Anzio / Antium, Art and antiquities, Inscriptions, Italy, Lazio, Rome

View of the Temple of Artemis Agrotera in Agrae (Panagia stin Petra). Drawing of the epistyle. Plan of the monument. The porch of Aqueduct of Hadrian (Dexameni) in Athens (Β). Plan of the monument. Drawing of the entablature.

Tags: Aqueduct of Hadrian /Dexameni (Athens), Aqueducts, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Columns / Pillars, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Human types, Inscriptions, Ionic order, Plans and drawings, Roman monuments, Temple of Artemis Agrotera in Agrae / Panagia stin Petra (Athens)

Ancient inscriptions from Kition (Cyprus).

Tags: Art and antiquities, Cyprus, Inscriptions, Kition

1. Roman inscription from Baalbeck (anc. Heliopolis). 2. Roman inscription from Souk El Gharb.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Baalbek / anc. Heliopolis, Inscriptions, Lebanon, Roman inscriptions, Souk El Gharb

Roman inscriptions from Faqra (Lebanon).

Tags: Art and antiquities, Faqra, Inscriptions, Lebanon, Roman inscriptions

Inscriptions in Greek from the Troad.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Greek alphabet, Inscriptions, Troad, Turkey

Inscription from the tomb of Sir Edward Barton, the British ambassador to the Ottoman Porte, in the late 16th century. The author argues that this inscription is found at the Monastery of Hagia Triada on Heybeliada (Halki).

Tags: Art and antiquities, Funerary steles, Hagia Triada (Heybeliada/Chalki), Heybeliada / gr. Chalki, History, Inscriptions, Istanbul, Latin alphabet, Monasteries, Prince islands (Prens Adaları), Turkey

View of the front of the roman tomb of Zakynthos, erroneously thought to be the Tomb of Cicero. Vases from the monument.

Tags: Ancient pottery / Vase painting, Art and antiquities, Funerary monuments, Greece, Greek alphabet, Inscriptions, Ionian islands, Ionian sea, Islands, Latin alphabet, Roman monuments, Tomb of Cicero (Zakynthos), Zakynthos

1. Ancient marble panel with inscription from the Temple of Artemis. After the Temple was demolished, this panel served as the altar stone at the church of Agios Dimitrios in Melinado, Zakynthos, which is today in ruins. 2. Ancient coins of Zakynthos and Cythera.

Tags: Ancient temples, Art and antiquities, Church of Hagios Dimitrios (Melinado), Churches, Coins, Cythera, Greece, Greek alphabet, Inscriptions, Ionian islands, Ionian sea, Islands, Melinado, Ruins, Temple of Artemis (Zakynthos), Zakynthos

Stele from Pali, ancient city in Paliki peninsula, near Lixouri, Cephalonia.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Cephalonia, Greece, Greek alphabet, Inscriptions, Ionian islands, Lixouri, Paliki peninsula (Cephalonia), Roman monuments, Steles, Votive steles, Wrestling

Roman sarcophagus at Vathy, Preveza.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Epirus, Greece, Greek alphabet, Inscriptions, Ionian sea, Preveza, Roman monuments, Roman sarcophagi, Sarcophagi, Vathy (Preveza)

Coins and inscription from Corfu.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Coins, Corfu, Greece, Inscriptions, Ionian islands

Roman inscriptions from Elephantine island.

Tags: Aswan / anc. Syene, Egypt, Elephantine island, Inscriptions, Roman inscriptions

Inscriptions of Roman era: ΙV. Inscription from temple in Akhmin (anc. Panopolis). V. Inscription from Qus (anc. Apollonopolis Parva).

Tags: Akhmin / anc. Panopolis, Egypt, Inscriptions, Qus / anc. Apollonopolis Parva, Roman inscriptions

Roman inscriptions: Ι. Inscription on granite pillar in the old port of Alexandria. ΙΙ. Inscription on marble. ΙΙΙ. Inscription on pylon from a temple in Qaw el-Kebir (anc. Antaiopolis).

Tags: Alexandria, Egypt, Inscriptions, Qaw el-Kebir /anc. Antaiopolis, Roman inscriptions

Inscriptions from Mount Sinai. Inscriptions from the base of one of the colossal statues of Amenophis / Amenhotep III in Luxor (anc. Thebes).

Tags: Amenophis / Amenhotep III, Art and antiquities, Colossi of Memnon, Egypt, Egyptian antiquities, Inscriptions, Mount Sinai, Thebes / Luxor

Inscriptions from Mount Sinai.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Egypt, Inscriptions, Mount Sinai

The right leg of one of the two colossal statues of Amenophis / Amenhotep III in Luxor (anc. Thebes).

Tags: Amenophis / Amenhotep III, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Colossi of Memnon, Egypt, Egyptian antiquities, Graffitis, Inscriptions, Thebes / Luxor

Roman inscription embedded in the church of Saint Nicholas at the port of Aegina.

Tags: Aegina, Argo-Saronic gulf, Art and antiquities, Churches, Greece, Hagios Nikolaos (Aegina), Inscriptions, Islands of the Argo-saronic gulf, Roman inscriptions

Roman inscription from Teos, ancient city on the shores of Asia Minor.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Greek alphabet, Inscriptions, Ionia, Sığacık – Seferihisar / anc. Teos

Statue of Apollo in Oitylo (Mani).

Tags: Apollo, Art and antiquities, Greece, Inscriptions, Laconia, Mani, Musical instruments, Musicians, Oitylo, Peloponnese, Sculptures

Statue of Artemis in Oitylo (Mani).

Tags: Animals, Art and antiquities, Artemis, Dogs, Greece, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Inscriptions, Laconia, Mani, Oitylo, Peloponnese, Sculptures

1. Relief from Gytheio. Warrior overcomes his enemy, probably an Amazon. 2. Base of ancient stele from Sparta 3. Ancient inscription from Sparta.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Greece, Greek alphabet, Gytheio, Inscriptions, Laconia, Peloponnese, Reliefs, Sparta, Steles

Antiquities from Cythera, which according to the author come from the Temples of Aphrodite.

Tags: Ancient temples, Art and antiquities, Cythera, Funerary monuments, Greece, Inscriptions, Ionian islands, Islands, Reliefs, Sarcophagi, Temple of Aphrodite (Cythera)

Bronze statue of a deer from the Temple of Apollo in Priene, ancient city in Asia Minor.

Tags: Ancient gods / deities, Animals, Apollo, Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Deer, Greek alphabet, Inscriptions, Ionia, Priene, Sculptures, Votive offerings / Ex-voto

Inscriptions from Carthaea, ancient city on Kea island.

Tags: Aegean sea, Art and antiquities, Carthaea, Cyclades, Greece, Greek alphabet, Inscriptions, Kea

Inscriptions from Carthaea, ancient city on Kea island.

Tags: Aegean sea, Art and antiquities, Carthaea, Cyclades, Greece, Greek alphabet, Inscriptions, Kea

Inscriptions from Carthaea, ancient city on Kea island.

Tags: Aegean sea, Art and antiquities, Carthaea, Cyclades, Greece, Greek alphabet, Inscriptions, Kea

Inscriptions from Carthaea, ancient city on Kea island.

Tags: Aegean sea, Art and antiquities, Carthaea, Cyclades, Greece, Greek alphabet, Inscriptions, Kea

Inscriptions from Carthaea, ancient city on Kea island.

Tags: Aegean sea, Art and antiquities, Carthaea, Cyclades, Greece, Greek alphabet, Inscriptions, Kea

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