Photolog: British Museum
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Royal Lion Hunt bas-relief details, Mesopotamian Collection
‘Photolog’ is a new series of posts with predominant focus on photographs rather than text. I’ll be posting a selection of images from my photographic endeavors that are mostly around travel, nature, landscape and urban photography.
Starting with one of the world’s greatest museums of human history and culture the British Museum London. Its permanent collection, numbering some eight million works, is amongst the finest, most comprehensive, and largest in existence and originates from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.
The British Museum was established in 1753, largely based on the collections of the physician and scientist Sir Hans Sloane. The museum first opened to the public on 15 January 1759 in Montagu House in Bloomsbury, on the site of the current museum building. Its expansion over the following two and a half centuries was largely a result of an expanding British colonial footprint and has resulted in the creation of several branch institutions, the first being the British Museum (Natural History) in South Kensington in 1887… more
Bas-relief details, Mesopotamian Collection
Royal Lion Hunt bas-relief details, Mesopotamian Collection
Roman Sculptures
Crouching Venus, Roman, circa 1st century AD
Crouching Venus, Roman, circa 1st century AD
Parthenon marbles from the Acropolis of Athens – 447 BC
Colossal statue of Ramesses II, the ‘Younger Memnon’ – 1250 BC
Egyptian hieroglyphs
Mechanical Galleon (Ship Clock), Augsburg – 1585 AD
Mechanical Galleon (Ship Clock), Augsburg – 1585 AD
Nimrud & Nineveh Palace Reliefs, Mesopotamian Collection
Royal Lion Hunt bas-relief details, Mesopotamian Collection
Chariot horse details, Mesopotamian Collection
Royal Lion Hunt bas-relief details, Mesopotamian Collection
Royal Lion Hunt bas-relief details, Mesopotamian Collection
Royal Lion Hunt bas-relief details, Mesopotamian Collection
Royal Lion Hunt bas-relief details, Mesopotamian Collection
Royal Lion Hunt bas-relief details, Mesopotamian Collection
Assyrians relief details, Mesopotamian Collection
Roman marble copy of the ‘Spinario (Boy with Thorn)’, circa 1st century AD
Skeleton in Basketwork Coffin, Tarkhan, circa 2950 BCE
Jewellery and armoury
Ancient Clay Pots
The Babylonian ‘Queen of the Night relief’ of the goddess Ishtar, circa 1790 BC (Left) – Fayum mummy portrait of an Egyptian-Roman Lady (right)
Roman metal pot
Parthenon marbles from the Acropolis of Athens – 447 BC
Egyptian Papyrus paintings
Clocks and watches
Clocks and watches
Various items from South America and Egypt
battle scene relief, Assyrian collection
Great Court, The British Museum
Great Court, The British Museum
Great Court, The British Museum
Great Court, The British Museum
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William Greenman
Thank you for your website. I especially enjoy viewing the bas-relief details from the Mesopotamian Collection of the British-museum. It would be helpful to viewers interested in studying these works to have a link to see the complete panel piece depicted in the detail, along with size measurements to fully understand the scale. Thank you. Wagreenman, Indio,CA
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