User:ArchaiOptix

Dear visitor,
welcome to my picture gallery.
The gallery contains a large number of pictures. It takes a few seconds for the site to build up (even after the green sign "gallery slideshow" in the upper right corner shows up).

Old Satyr Marsyas with ivy wreath

About me:
I am teaching Classics (Ancient Greek and Latin), Theology, modern Greek and Italian. I am particularly interested in Archaeology and History of Ancient Art. One of my other hobbies is photography. Combining these two hobbies I take lots of pictures in museums and archaeological sites and catalogue the photos according to the scientific literature.

About this picture gallery:
Under the relevant categories (of museums and artists) and more systematically on this user page I share a selection of my photos of ancient art.
The site is under construction since January 2020.
I thank all directors of museums who permit photography of the exhibits for private, educational, scientific, non-commercial purposes, thus spreading the knowledge of their treasures in a wider public. I hope that my photos published on wikimedia commons act also as an incentive to visit these museums and admire the works of art directly. Therefore editing the photos I refrain from replacing the background, so that the objects can be seen as displayed in the museum. If you intend to use one of my photos for commercial aims, I would recommend you to contact the museum.

The structure of this picture gallery:
material / object category
→ artistic epoch / date
→→ place of production / findspot
→→→ workshop / artist / object type

Transcription of the letters in Greek inscriptions
Epsilon = E
Eta (if written as H) = E_
Theta = TH
Xi = X
Omikron = O
Ypsilon = Y / U in diphthongs
Phi = PH
Chi = CH
Psi = PS
Omega = O_
Digamma = F Koppa = Q Spiritus asper (if written as H) = H
Spiritus asper (if written as superscript c: rarely!) = c

Clicking on the bold blue headings you will arrive at the subpages of the specific object categories containing already a larger number of pictures.

sculpture (stone statues, reliefs and figurines, bronze statues) and stone vessels: neolithic and bronze age

ancient Greek coins

ancient painting

mummy portraits

Cretan pottery from the beginnings to the end of the bronze age

Greek Geometric painted pottery

Ancient Greek plastic pottery aryballoi and alabastra in the orientalizing, archaic and classical period

Corinthian painted pottery in the orientalizing and archaic period

Boeotian painted pottery in the orientalizing and archaic period

East Greek painted pottery in the orientalizing and archaic period

West Greek painted pottery in the orientalizing and archaic period

Laconian painted pottery in the orientalizing and archaic period

Protoattic vases

Athenian black figure vase painters I From the Pioneers to the Tyrrhenian Group

Athenian black figure vase painters II From Lydos to the Affecter

Athenian black figure vase painters III From the circle of the Lysippides Painter to the circle of the Nikoxenos and Eucharides Painters

Athenian black figure vase painters IV other work grouped according to shapes

Athenian black figure vase painters V Attic black figure vases not yet attributed to a specific painter or group or class

Athenian red figure vase painters I From the earliest pot painters to the Pioneer Group

Athenian red figure vase painters II Early cup painters

Athenian red figure vase painters III From the Berlin and Kleophrades Painters to late archaic painters of smaller vases

Athenian red figure vase painters IV Late archaic cup painters

Athenian red figure vase painters V Early classical painters of large pots and the Earlier Mannerists

Athenian red figure vase painters VI From the Niobid Painter to early classical painters of cups and skypoi

Athenian red figure vase painters VII Classical pot painters

Athenian red figure vase painters VIII Classical painters of lekythoi and cups and skyphoi

Athenian red figure vase painters IX From the late fifth to the fourth century

Athenian red figure vase painters X Attic red figure head vases not attributed to a specific painter

Red figure vase painters of Lucania

Apulian red figure vase painters I early Apulian

Apulian red figure vase painters II middle Apulian

Apulian red figure vase painters III late Apulian 1

Apulian red figure vase painters IV late Apulian 2

Apulian red figure vase painters V Apulian red-figure vases without attribution to a specific painter or group

Red figure vase painters of Sicily

Red figure vase painters of Campania

Red figure vase painters of Poseidonia (Paestum)

The content-box underneath and the headings of level 2 show the object categories being in the planning stage or under construction.

gold, silver, jewellery, seals

late archaic / 530-490 BC

Egypt (findspot unknown)

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  Horus_as_falcon_god_with_Egyptian_crown_from_the_27th_dynasty_(01)
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  Horus_as_falcon_god_with_Egyptian_crown_from_the_27th_dynasty_(02)
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  Horus_as_falcon_god_with_Egyptian_crown_from_the_27th_dynasty_(03)
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  Horus_as_falcon_god_with_Egyptian_crown_from_the_27th_dynasty_(04)
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  Horus_as_falcon_god_with_Egyptian_crown_from_the_27th_dynasty_(05)
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  Horus_as_falcon_god_with_Egyptian_crown_from_the_27th_dynasty_(06)