Archéologie & Antiquiities

AlUla : merveille d'Arabie à l'Institut du Monde Arabe. Fabuleuse plongée dans une région méconnue du nord-ouest de l’Arabie saoudite, « AlUla, merveille d’Arabie » dévoile le fruit de plus de vingt ans de recherches, pour la première fois révélées au grand public. Invitation à un parcours  à travers les millénaires, de l’Antiquité à nos jours, au cœur d’une somptueuse oasis transportée jusqu’à l’IMA le temps d’une exposition par les technologies modernes, les objets nouvellement découverts et la magie de photographies... [Lire la suite]

Winged Isis pectoral, Nubian, Napatan Period, reign of Amaninatakelebte, 538–519 BCE. Gold. Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition. Photo: © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. BOSTON—For more than 3,000 years, a series of kingdoms flourished along the Nile Valley in what is today southern Egypt and northern Sudan, a region known in antiquity as Kush and by modern scholars as Nubia. In Ancient Nubia Now, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), presents more than 400 works of art from its... [Lire la suite]

Gilded Coffin Lid for the Priest Nedjemankh (detail) Late Ptolemaic Period (150–50 B.C.) Cartonnage, gold, silver, resin, glass, wood The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, 2017 Benefit Fund; Lila Acheson Wallace Gift; Louis V. Bell, Harris Brisbane Dick, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest; Leona Sobel Education and The Camille M. Lownds Funds; and 2016 Benefit Fund, 2017 (2017.255b) Image: © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. NEW YORK (AFP).- American authorities on Wednesday repatriated to... [Lire la suite]

The Road to Palmyra. COPENHAGEN.- Presenting the largest collection of ancient Palmyrene tomb sculptures outside of Syria, The Road to Palmyra at The Glyptotek is the first exhibition in Denmark devoted to the culture of Palmyra: an ancient oasis city located in present-day Syria.At a time where globalisation, migration and cultural conflict permeate the agenda, Palmyra attracts attention with its fascinating history as one of the ancient world’s most sophisticated and multicultural societies and the current... [Lire la suite]

The Shapur Plate, Iran, Sasanian period, Reign of Shapur II (309-379 C.E.), 4th century, Silver and gilt, H x Diam: 5 x 24 cm, Purchase, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection, F1934.23. © Freer Gallery and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery / The Smithsonian's Museums of Asian Art The wealth and power of ancient Iran was in part expressed in portable luxury objects fashioned from precious metals and decorated with royal imagery. From the establishment of the Achaemenid Empire in circa 550 BCE to the... [Lire la suite]

London - This new exhibition explores Freud’s enduring fascination with Egypt evident both in his writings and in his collection of antiquities. A painting of Oedipus’ encounter with the Sphinx famously hung beside Freud’s couch. Nobody doubts the significance of Oedipus to the development of Freud’s thought but the presence of the Sphinx reminds us of his less celebrated interest in Egyptian culture. Egyptian artefacts form the largest part of Freud’s collection and lie behind his ‘archaeological metaphor’ – one of his most... [Lire la suite]

Mosaic of a skeleton holding two wine jugs or askoi, First century AD © Archaeological Museum Naples OXFORD - When the ash from Mount Vesuvius began raining down on Pompeii in AD 79, people in and around the town were engaged in typical Italian activities – eating, drinking and producing food. Located in the sunny paradise of southern Italy, Pompeii was sandwiched between lush vineyards and fertile orchards to one side and the bountiful waters of the Bay of Naples on the other. The town produced more wine, olive oil... [Lire la suite]

    Lot 170. Rare bague en or et agate, Art sassanide, IVème - Vème siècle ap. J.-C. Est: €2,000 - €4,000. © HVMC Excellent état de conservation. L'intaille_ 1,8 cm. L’intaille ovale en forme de cabochon, en agate marron foncé avec la couche blanche sous-jacente, représente un puissant lion s’avançant vers la gauche, entouré d’une inscription en palhavi. Le félin a une musculature puissante et des mâchoires ouvertes, avec une longue queue et des griffes détaillées gravées. La gemme est... [Lire la suite]

  Lot 171. Bague Sassanide avec intaille, Art sassanide, IVème - Vème siècle ap. J.-C. Or et grenat. Est: €2,000 - €4,000. © HVMC Excellent état de conservation. L(intaille)_ 1,4 cm. L'intaille en grenat, de forme ovale, représente le torse d'un personnage barbu, tourné vers la gauche. La figure se caractérise par un profil linéaire avec un grand oeil, des lèvres allongées et des cheveux épais et gravés; la barbe est faite de lignes incisées et d'éléments globulaires, ainsi que les... [Lire la suite]

Lot 148. Statuette d'ibex, Art des steppes, Vème - IVème siècle av. J.-C. Jadéite. H_ 3,5 cm, L_ 5,5 cm. Est: €3,500 - €4,000. © HVMC  Figurant allongé, les cornes annelées et largement développées. Les yeux, le museau et la bouche finement incisés.  Provenance: Paris, collection privée de Monsieur J.    Archéologie & Glyptique - Archaeology & Glyptic, by HVMC - Hôtel des Ventes de Monte-Carlo, July 21, 2019