Dear all,
I know that many people will be busy with family, but for those
taking a computer break-- I have just posted over 200 new images to
my online archive (many taken last May, but delayed by complex
indexing).
Many of the objects are in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology in Ann
Arbor. I have given that museum its own index page, with the
material chronologically divided:
http://www.KornbluthPhoto.com/AnnArbor.html
Most of the medieval material is of course in the "Byzantine and
Islamic" section, including among other things a loaf of early
Byzantine Eucharistic bread.
Those of you interested, as I am, in the magical objects on Marjorie
Burghart's new site (
http://medievalartefacts.shutterfly.com)
may want to look at the "pharaonic to Roman" page; rows 5 and 6 have
incantation bowls and an inscribed egg shell apparently meant to
break a curse.
And the "1st to 4th/5th c." has a glass wine set, the bottle still
holding its reed stopper (ever wonder what people used other than
cork?) and a Bacchic sarcophagus with particularly nice centaurs.
I have not yet posted much from the Fitzwilliam Museum, but I have
updated the Cambridge location page with one object, a magical
amulet related to the material mentioned above:
http://www.KornbluthPhoto.com/UCambridge.html
Material from the Pushkin is gathered on the updated Russia location
page:
http://www.KornbluthPhoto/Russia.html
The new images are mostly Byzantine textiles, and also include a
mosaic panel from the oratory of John VII in St. Peter's.
I have updated the Berlin location page
http://www.KornbluthPhoto.com/Berlin.html
with more metalwork, and a pair of wooden arm reliquaries (cf.
earlier discussion of a wooden reliquary).
The page for Toledo (Ohio) now includes a 13th c. reliquary base and
the Carolingian engraved crystal on it
http://www.KornbluthPhoto.com/ToledoMuseum.html
And for those of you who teach introductory surveys or are for other
reasons interested in earlier material, I have posted a number of
objects in the BM and the Louvre requested by a colleague for her
intro course. The easiest way to access these is through the links
on the period/culture pages:
http:///www.kornbluthPhoto.com/ANE1
for the newly added Standard of Ur, a nicely complete Gudea figure,
and the stele with the Code of Hammurabi; and
http://www.KornbluthPhoto.com/Greek1
for many views of three of the metopes from the Parthenon.
Best wishes for the holidays,
Genevra
home page:
http://www.KornbluthPhoto.com
archive indices:
http://www.KornbluthPhoto.com/archive-1.html