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Very
Egyptian in origin;
its probably pretty darn old.
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An
amazingly detailed and
preserved coffin of what
was at once believed to hold
the remains of Alexander the
Great. Now believed to be from
a man that wanted to be
remember as the Great Alexander,
the reliefs of this coffin ...
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show battles of
Alexander over the Persians.
Tremendous time and cost
went into this near perfectly
preserved treasure, no matter
whose body ended up within.
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A
nearly perfectly preserved
Egyptian coffin sits in the
middle of the room.
Absolutely glorious stuff!!
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A local man and a boy
play together with a small
ball, while an older chap
looks on.
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I
believe Apollo is the subject
of this large relief,
playing his lyre.
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Who
knows how old the solid
marble relief here is, but the
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Anatalia
under the Persians
(546 - 333 BC). These stelae
reliefs show a new style of art,
which is a synthesis of eastern
and western cultural traditions.
These 2 reliefs document the
Ionian-Persian style of Antaloia,
in which the dominant Persian
art demonstrably adopted a great
deal from the Ionian style
of Anatolia.
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Another
Persian-Ionian relief
exhibiting this newly blended
style of artistic cultures.
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The
slow process of putting
cobblestones back together
to create the artistic pattern
on the floor that once was is
truly a painstaking process
better left to those with little
else but time on their hands.
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A
Roman looking gentleman
or god in what I believe is
a military campaigning cloak.
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