Aion Art

met-greekroman-art:

Terracotta kylix: eye-cup (drinking cup), Greek and Roman Art

Medium: Terracotta

Rogers Fund, 1944 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/254509

met-ancient-art:

Coin, Ancient Near Eastern Art

Medium: Copper

Rogers Fund, 1936 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/323501

colin-vian:

Japanese Black with Gold Waves pattern Chiyogami paper . Chiyogami is silkscreened onto machine-made sheets of mixed kozo and sulphite.

the-met-art:

Top fragment of a kudurru with a mushhushshu dragon and divine symbols via Ancient Near Eastern Art

Medium: Limestone

Rogers Fund, 1985 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/327048

elsewheregreen:

Krishna Killing the Horse Demon Keshi. India (Uttar Pradesh), Gupta period. 5thC. Metropolitan Museum, New York. 

“Vishnu appears in innumerable guises (avatars) on earth but none is more popular than that of Krishna, the warrior-king who freed his people from demonic threats. On one occasion the youthful Krishna slayed the demon Keshi, who appeared in the guise of a horse.”

ancientanimalart:

virtual-artifacts:

Bull sculpture, Achaemenid period ca. 550 - 330 BCE

I believe this is Matthew W. Stolper, a professor at University of Chicago, with a bull from their (unfortunately named) Oriental Institute.