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10/07/2026

10/07/2026

Rhyton with Running Spiral Decoration — New Kingdom Egypt 🏺

This elegant faience rhyton dates to Egypt’s 18th Dynasty, around 1479–1425 BC/BCE, during the reign of Thutmose III.

The vessel is covered in a brilliant blue glaze and decorated with flowing black bands and running spiral motifs. A hole in its base identifies it as a rhyton—a vessel designed so that liquid could be poured through an opening, likely during ceremonial, ritual, or feasting activities.

Its spiral decoration is especially interesting. Similar running spirals were widespread across the Bronze Age Aegean and eastern Mediterranean, including in Minoan and Mycenaean art. Egypt maintained extensive contacts with these regions during the 18th Dynasty, and Aegean artistic influences can be seen in some Egyptian luxury objects of the period. However, the decoration alone does not necessarily mean the vessel was imported.

The rhyton was discovered in Tomb D11 at Abydos and excavated in 1900 by Flinders Petrie and Arthur Mace. Today, it is held by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

🏺 Rhyton with Running Spiral Decoration
📅 1479–1425 BC/BCE
👑 New Kingdom, Dynasty 18 — Reign of Thutmose III
📍 Abydos, Egypt — Tomb D11
🔹 Glazed faience

10/05/2026

Igor Shipilin
(Russian painter, b. 1961)
Acacia is Blooming, 2022
Oil on Canvas
80 × 70 cm.
Private Collection.

10/05/2026

10/05/2026

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09/29/2026

Female Figure of the Kapsala Type — 2700–2600 BCE 🗿

Carved from marble more than 4,600 years ago, this elegant female figure represents one of the earliest forms of the iconic folded-arm sculptures of the Cycladic civilization.

Known as the Kapsala type, after an Early Cycladic cemetery on the island of Amorgos, figures of this style are distinguished by their slender, elongated proportions. The arms are modeled three-dimensionally across the body, unlike later Cycladic figures where similar details were often indicated with incised lines.

This unusually large example has been attributed to the so-called Kontoleon Master, an unidentified Cycladic sculptor whose surviving works share distinctive proportions and features. His actual name is unknown; modern scholars identified his artistic style and named him after archaeologist Nikolaos Kontoleon.

The original meaning of these mysterious marble figures remains uncertain. Examples with known archaeological contexts have frequently been discovered in graves, while hundreds of deliberately broken fragments were deposited at the sanctuary on Keros. They may have represented humans, deities, or ideas connected with fertility and the cycle of life.

Their downward-pointing feet meant they could not stand independently. They may have been placed lying down, although they could also have been held upright or carried during ceremonies.

🏛️ Object: Female Figure of the Kapsala Type
📍 Culture: Early Cycladic
📅 Date: 2700–2600 BCE
🗿 Attributed to: Possibly the Kontoleon Master
🏝️ Region: Cyclades, Greece
🏛️ Collection: Getty Villa

09/16/2026

I’m in the land of these ladies and it feels so good!!

Late Cypriot II
ca. 1450–1200 BCE