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| Ancient Egypt Standing Figure of the Court Official Snofru-nefer 2400 BC limestone statue (half life-size) Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Ancient Egypt Stele 1850 BC incised and painted limestone Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Ancient Egypt Triad of Memphis (Ptah, Sachmet and Nefertem) 640-610 BC faience Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Roman Egypt Sarcophagus Fragment AD 130-150 painted stucco and glass Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Roman Egypt Mummy Portrait of a Woman AD 161-192 encaustic on wood Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Ancient Greek Culture on Cyprus Votive Statue of a Man 550-525 BC limestone Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Ancient Greek Culture in South Italy Hydria (Return of Hephaestus to Olympus) 525 BC painted terracotta Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
Hephaestus Alone
His heart is like a boat that sets forth alone
on the ocean and goes far out from him,
as Aphrodite proceeds on her pleasure journeys.
He pours the gold down the runnels
into a great mystery under the sand.
When he pulls it up by the feet
and knocks off the scale, it is a god.
What is it she finds with those men
that equals this dark birthing? The deities
remain invisible in their pretty gardens
of grass and violets, of daffodils and jasmine.
Even his wife lives like that. Going on yachts,
speaking to the captains in the familiar.
Let them have it, the noons and rain and joy.
He makes a world here out of frog songs
and packed earth. He made his wife
so she contains the green-fleshed
melons of Lindos, thalo blue of the sea,
and one ripe peach at five in the morning.
He fashioned her by the rules, with love,
made her with rage and disillusion.
– Linda Gregg (1942-2019)
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| Ancient Greece Signet Ring (Aphrodite and Eros) 4th-3rd century BC gold Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Ancient Greece Grave Stele of Parmeniskos 200 BC (Hellenistic) limestone Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Ancient Greece Head of Serapis 2nd century BC (Hellenistic) sard intaglio Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Anonymous European Maker Head of Young Hercules 18th century carnelian intaglio Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Anonymous European Maker Apollo Kitharoedus ca. 1700-1750 sard intaglio Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Anonymous European Maker Specimen mounted to resemble Trees 16th century coral Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Anonymous Italian Maker Adoration of the Shepherds ca. 1650 oil on alabaster in gold and silver frame Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |