Maria Tatiana · @ColorsAndStones
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Fragment of a wall painting from the temple in Kellis, time with a depiction of a supporting the sky.
I like the color pallet here a lot

📸 And more info ➡️ The Kellis Mammisi: A Painted Chapel from the Final Centuries of the Ancient Egyptian Religion
Olaf E. Kaper
getty.edu/publications/egypt-c

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Maria Tatiana · @ColorsAndStones
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"Painted panel from a wooden casket, depicting Aphrodite in a shrine adorning herself with a necklace."
From , time Egypt.
Panel is dated to 250-300 CE
© The Trustees of the British Museum bmimages.com/preview.asp?image

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Maria Tatiana · @ColorsAndStones
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Polychrome head of a woman, once a part of a clay funerary statue. She wears gilded diadem with a tendril motif, and long earrings made of clay.

From Taranto, Magna Graecia, 4th century BCE.
Photo © NAM Umbria

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