Showing posts with label Apollo. Show all posts
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Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Figure 171

LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art
William Randolph Hearst Collection
(no. 50.33.14)
Photograph courtesy of © Museum Associates
The marble Lansdowne throne of Apollo (Roman late first cent.).

Figure 160

Photograph courtesy of © Mark Wilson
Column B from Temple A. Displays three registers (with figures inside of wreaths) with Latin inscriptions. In the upper wreath is a relief of the god Apollo, (APOLLINISACRUM); the middle relief of two griffins (VOTISXX), and the last of Fortuna (Gr. Tyche, FORTUNAE SACRUM).

Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Figure 146

Photograph by Rjdeadly, PD
The restored Temple A with 19 columns restored and raised. It was originally dedicated to Apollo.

Figure 127

© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. (CNG).
(Photographs courtesy of www.cngcoins.com)
Coin from Philadelphia. Obv.: Draped bust of Artemis, wearing a crown (stephane), with quiver and arrows behind her back on one side. Rev.: ERMIPPOS ERMOGENOUS ARCIEREUS. Apollo enthroned holding a lyre and plectrum, with an owl in left field (first cent. BC; BMC 10 = SNG Cop. 337 = SNGvA 2.3058).

Figure 90

© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. (CNG).
(Photographs courtesy of www.cngcoins.com)
Coin from Thyatira (second cent. BC). Obv.: Laureate head of Apollo Rev.: ΘYATEIΡHNΩN, a labrys (double axe) with a bow on the left. (SNG Cop. 570).

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