http://www.phoenixancientart.com Updated regularly en-us Copyright: (C) Phoenix Ancient Art SA, http://www.phoenixancientart.com/news/phoenixnewsCR.html Mon, 10 Oct 11 07:20:00 GMT http://www.phoenixancientart.com/news/images/herculesw200x204.jpg http://www.phoenixancientart.com/news/rss01.xml http://www.phoenixancientart.com/assyrianrelief.html The relief is a fragment from a wall from Room B, the Throne Room of the North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal II at Nimrud . Other reliefs from Room B are in the Ashmolean Museum , Oxford , the British Museum , London , the Iraq Museum , Baghdad , The Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey, the Prince of Wales Museum of Western India, Bombay , and the Staaliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden. Provenance: Acquired by a member of the Ludlow family in the latter part of the 19th century. Passed by marriage to another English family in 1907. http://www.phoenixancientart.com/faiencefishbowl.html Egyptian Bowl with a Fish Period: Egyptian, 18th Dynasty CA. 1540-1292 B.C. Dimensions: 12 cm diameter, by 5 cm height Provenance: Given by Sir Flinders Petrie to his friend Luxmore Newcombe, Sub-Librarian at University College London 1903-22, Chief Librarian 1922-26. Friends and supporters of the British School of Archaeology in Egypt were often given surplus small antiquities by Petrie from his excavations. http://www.phoenixancientart.com/redfigurenikelekythos.html This graceful lekythos depicts a winged Nike flying to the right and bearing a thymiaterion (incense burner) in her left hand. Her right hand lifts the pleats of her chiton, which flows behind, and she wears http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/beaconjournal/news/state/8985638.htm CLEVELAND - A sculpture of mythology's Apollo went on display Tuesday at the Cleveland Museum of Art, which hopes to prove the acquisition is the only one among about 20 large Greek bronzes in the world that can be linked to the ancient Greek masters. ... http://www.phoenixancientart.com/millefiori/millefiori.html This beautiful Greco-Roman mosaic glass bowl, molded out of canes of varying shades of rose pink, deep blue and amethyst with golden yellow and white accents, was acquired by Ali and Hicham Aboutaam for their Geneva antiquities gallery Phoenix Ancient Art, S.A. Virtually intact, the bowl is a superb example of mosaic glass, a technique that first developed in areas of the Eastern Mediterranean during the 3rd century B.C. ... http://www.phoenixancientart.com/bactrianblackchloritefigure.html This extraordinary chlorite figure is most likely a representation of the "scarred man" or Narbemann: a Near Eastern demon often represented as a scaly man with a large, inlaid gash across his face. Although this particular piece is smooth-skinned, the striking scar complete with ivory inlay immediately identifies him as one of the largest and most elegant examples of this type ...