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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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One thought to “Photolog: British Museum”

  1. William Greenman

    February 23, 2017 at 9:17 pm

    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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