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chrisjohnbeckett has added a photo to the pool:

On display at an exhibition on site.

Following the Persian invasion, Caria was ruled by a King named Mausolus (c 376-353 BC), who moved the capital to Bodrum from Mylasa and called the town Halicarnassus. When he died, his wife oversaw the construction of a monumental tomb planned by Mausolus himself.

The Mausoleum - an enormous white marble str...

mharrsch has added a photo to the pool:

"The large size and gold foil inlays decorating the upper surface of the bow make this fibula especially noteworthy. The large catch-plate is incised on both sides with a delicate linear design of three fishes within a border. Like all fibulae, it functioned as a clothing fastener, usually worn a pair on each shoulder." - Walters Art Museum

Photographed a...

mharrsch has added a photo to the pool:

"This handle in the form of a nude male athlete was part of a metal "oinochoe," or jug, with a trefoil mouth, many of which were manufactured in the Peloponnese, renowned for its metallurgists. A nude male is holding the tails of two lionesses, which were attached on the lip of the vessel, while trampling a "gorgoneion," the head of the Medusa, who turned ...

mharrsch has added a photo to the pool:

"This head decorated a "hydria" (water jug) at the place where the handle attached to the rim. The facial characteristics are typical of Corinthian works, especially the high, prominent brow, long nose, and shallow, curved chin. The delicately etched arrangement of the hair, the thickly rimmed eyelids, and the horizontal mouth date this piece to the late A...

mharrsch has added a photo to the pool:

"The broad stance, bent rear legs, and extended tail of this miniature bronze horse give this small sculpture a sense of motion. While the rest of the body is smooth, the horse's mane is indicated by a series of short, incised lines in a chevron pattern; zig-zag patterns are inscribed on each cheek. The eyes are deeply recessed and may have once been inlai...

peterjr1961 has added a photo to the pool:

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask).
Greek, Attic, red-figure, ca. 440-30 BC.
Attributed to Phiale Painter.
Youth Arming.
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The sureness and fluency of the Phiale Painter's drawing is evident in this representation. The placement of the helmet within a large area of black glaze in the center of the composition effectively suggests that the warrior may not ...

peterjr1961 has added a photo to the pool:

Terracotta squat lekythos (oil flask).
Greek, Attic, red-figure, ca. 420 BC.
Philoktetes on Lemnos.
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The painter, as yet unidentified, has created an exceptionally expressive composition on this vase. It concerns Philoktetes, a Greek hero who inherites the arrows of Herakles, thus their prominence here. In the sory of the Trojan War, these arrows wer...

peterjr1961 has added a photo to the pool:

Terracotta squat lekythos (oil flask).
Greek, Attic, red-figure, ca. 420 BC.
Philoktetes on Lemnos.
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The painter, as yet unidentified, has created an exceptionally expressive composition on this vase. It concerns Philoktetes, a Greek hero who inherites the arrows of Herakles, thus their prominence here. In the sory of the Trojan War, these arrows wer...

peterjr1961 has added a photo to the pool:

Terracotta squat lekythos (oil flask).
Greek, Attic, red-figure, ca. 420 BC.
Philoktetes on Lemnos.
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The painter, as yet unidentified, has created an exceptionally expressive composition on this vase. It concerns Philoktetes, a Greek hero who inherites the arrows of Herakles, thus their prominence here. In the sory of the Trojan War, these arrows wer...

peterjr1961 has added a photo to the pool:

Terracotta Calyx-Krater (bowl for mixing wine and water).
Greek, Attic, red-figure, ca. 460-450 BC.
Attributed to the Painter of the Berlin Hydria.
Obverse and reverse, Amazonomachy (battle between Greeks and Amazons).
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The number of figures and the complexity of poses here reflect an innovation that entered vase painting about the middle of the fifth ...

peterjr1961 has added a photo to the pool:

Terracotta Calyx-Krater (bowl for mixing wine and water).
Greek, Attic, red-figure, ca. 460-450 BC.
Attributed to the Painter of the Berlin Hydria.
Obverse and reverse, Amazonomachy (battle between Greeks and Amazons).
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The number of figures and the complexity of poses here reflect an innovation that entered vase painting about the middle of the fifth ...

peterjr1961 has added a photo to the pool:

Terracotta Calyx-Krater (bowl for mixing wine and water).
Greek, Attic, red-figure, ca. 460-450 BC.
Attributed to the Painter of the Berlin Hydria.
Obverse and reverse, Amazonomachy (battle between Greeks and Amazons).
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The number of figures and the complexity of poses here reflect an innovation that entered vase painting about the middle of the fifth ...

Sebastià Giralt has added a photo to the pool:

Peristyle or monumental court of the Diocletian's Palace, Split, Croatia....

Sebastià Giralt has added a photo to the pool:

Crowded peristyle or monumental court of the Diocletian's Palace, Split, Croatia....

Sebastià Giralt has added a photo to the pool:

Gate of the Cathedral of St. Duje, and Diocletian's mausoleum, Split, Croatia....

Sebastià Giralt has added a photo to the pool:

Vault of the Cathedral of St. Duje, and Diocletian's mausoleum, Split, Croatia....

Sebastià Giralt has added a photo to the pool:

The basement of the Diocletian's Palace, Split, Croatia....

Sebastià Giralt has added a photo to the pool:

Silver Gate (Porta argentea) of the Diocletian's Palace, Split, Croatia....

Sebastià Giralt has added a photo to the pool:

Gates (Porta argentea) of the Diocletian's Palace, Split, Croatia....

Fil Clàssiques has added a photo to the pool:

Fil Clàssiques has added a photo to the pool:

Fil Clàssiques has added a photo to the pool:

Alun Salt has added a photo to the pool:

At the time I was annoyed that I could never get a photo without someone being in it.This was taken in a small gap in a constant stream of visitors. Now I'm quite pleased because they give an element of human scale to the photo....

Alun Salt has added a photo to the pool:

I think the people really add a sense of scale. It's easy to overlook what a stunning engineering feat this is. If there was just one temple like this in the world we'd have loads of TV documentaries asking how it was built. Because there's so many we tend to be less curious....

Alun Salt has added a photo to the pool:

Temple E is the temple that's still standing....