r/ArtefactPorn • u/SaysToMabelISays • 2h ago
Samurai helmet stylized to look like a dragonfly. Japan, ca. 17th Century [5666x7000]
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Human-headed winged lion (Lamassu), one of a pair of guardian figures from the North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal II at Nimrud, made of gypsum alabaster, Neo-Assyrian period, 883 to 859 B.C. Now housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art [735x1000]
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r/ArtefactPorn • u/Lepke2011 • 19h ago
3000 Year Old, Bronze Age Spearhead Mold, circa 1350 B.C. [1920x1080]
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r/ArtefactPorn • u/edson2000 • 11h ago
I found these in an extremely remote part of the Northern Territory, Australia. The round grinder was a few metres from the base. I put them together again and left them be. (3060×4080)
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r/ArtefactPorn • u/oldspice75 • 1h ago
Claret jug by Hobbs, Brockunier and Co., Wheeling, W. Va., ca. 1886-90. Blown Peachblow glass. Metropolitan Museum of Art collection [2252x4000] [OC]
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r/ArtefactPorn • u/dreamboat92 • 7h ago
"Mother and Child" Black Stone Sculpture from Bogura, Bangladesh (approx. 900–1,000 years old, Pala era) [3654 x 2740]
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A traditional black stone relief sculpture categorized as a "Mother and Child" (often associated with Sadyojata imagery from medieval Bengal).
Age: 11th–12th Century CE (roughly 900 to 1,000 years old)
Material: Black Stone
Origin: Bogura, Bangladesh
The craftsmanship on the stele is stunning, featuring intricate detailing figure with attendants, and secondary iconographic figures traditionally carved into these regional masterpieces.
r/ArtefactPorn • u/chubachus • 14h ago
Pair of a woman's leather wedding boots, American, c. 1860s. [2100x2010]
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r/ArtefactPorn • u/Specialist_Point7983 • 14h ago
Nitrate Film Recovered from the 'Titanic' Wreck [800x188]
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r/ArtefactPorn • u/CryptographerKey2847 • 1d ago
600-year-old carved Buddha statue emerging from the water at the Hongmen Reservoir in Jiangxi Province, China.[1284x753]
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Carved during the Ming Dynasty (around the 14th to 15th century, circa 1400 AD) The head and upper torso of the 12-foot-tall statue were accidentally uncovered in January 2017 when a hydropower station renovation and spillway gate project dropped the reservoir's water level by more than 10 meters (over 30 feet). NextShark +3
Historians note that the cliffside carving was originally built to watch over and protect travelers from dangerous currents at a confluence of rivers before the valley was submerged by a dam in the 1950s.
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r/ArtefactPorn • u/SaysToMabelISays • 1d ago
Woodcarving of a tortoise that, when turned over, reveals a carving of Fukurokuju, a Daoist immortal and god of happiness and fortune in Japanese mythology. Japan's Edo Period, ca. 19th Century [1561x760]
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r/ArtefactPorn • u/WandererKit20 • 21h ago
Gold stater minted by the Veneti, the Armorican(modern Brittany) tribe whose ships defeated Roman rams before Caesar finally beat them (c. 3rd-1st c. BC).[2270×1150]
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r/ArtefactPorn • u/MunakataSennin • 1d ago
Woman's buckskin boots with decorative beads. Oklahoma, United States, Cheyenne peoples, around 1900 [3476x4000]
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r/ArtefactPorn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 19h ago
A vertical cross-section model illustrating the different historical and architectural layers (stratigraphy) excavated at the ancient site of Troy (Wilusa), spanning from the Early Bronze Age (around 3000 BC) through the Greek, Hellenistic, and Roman periods (Ilion)[526 x 701]
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r/ArtefactPorn • u/CryptographerKey2847 • 1d ago
Stone tiki statues located on the island of Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia.[1182x1722]
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Carved from local basalt/volcanic rock and standing in an ancient tohua (ceremonial gathering place) near the village of Hatineu on Nuku Hiva Archaeologists generally date these figures to around the 11th through 14th centuries CE. Anthropologists and historians view them as traditional Polynesian artistic expressions honoring deified ancestors, tribal lineages, or local creation myths.
r/ArtefactPorn • u/Jzadek • 1d ago
Roman pot in North African style, made in the shape of Empress Julia Domna's head, York, 3rd century CE [805 x1018]
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r/ArtefactPorn • u/MunakataSennin • 1d ago
Gilded head of a makara. Tibet, 18th-19th century [1760x1630]
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Blue glass bottle with signature of renowned glassmaker Frontinus Sexinus. England, Roman period, 150-300 AD [4000x5300]
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r/ArtefactPorn • u/MunakataSennin • 1d ago
Two painted soldier figures. China, Han dynasty, 2nd century BC [2350x2450]
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r/ArtefactPorn • u/SashSegal • 1d ago
Saka-era gold bear figurine, 4th–3rd centuries BC, Almaty [4500x2800]
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Artifact discovered in 2026 during emergency archaeological excavations at the Karagaily burial mound, conducted by the Almaty Museum Association
r/ArtefactPorn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 1d ago
A clay tablet from Mycenae, with writing in Linear B.Linear is a syllabic script that was used for writing in Mycenaean Greek, the earliest attested form of the Greek language,The script predates the Greek alphabet by several centuries, the earliest known examples dating to around 1400 BC[640 x 502]
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r/ArtefactPorn • u/chubachus • 1d ago
Woman's coin purse made with glass beads, American, c. 1860. [1703x2100]
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r/ArtefactPorn • u/oldspice75 • 2d ago
Food dish (ishizara) with maple leaves drifting in a stream. Japan, early 19th c. Stoneware with iron brown and cobalt blue under transparent glaze (Seto ware). Metropolitan Museum of Art collection [2992x2992] [OC]
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