Object Notes

French glass designer René Jules Lalique's oviform molded blue glass vase depicts a pair of lovebirds, or parakeets, amid leafy branches in medium relief.

Small scarab amulets were common objects in ancient Egyptian funerary burial practice as devices to ward off evil and promote rebirth.

Thoth, god of wisdom, learning, science, and medicine, was also a patron of art and scribes who recorded the judgment on the dead in the afterworld.

This coin issued by Lysimachos, who ruled Thrace from 306 to 281 BCE, features a portrait of Alexander of Macedon (known to history as Alexander the Great) on the obverse, and seated Athena holding Nike on the reverse.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION   

This carved limestone bust of a man, part of a Palmyrene funerary relief, reflects the cultural and religious ideas of Roman Syria, embodying a fusion of Near Eastern beliefs and realistic Roman portraiture styles. The stylized treatment of the hair and eyes combined wi

French glass designer René Jules Lalique's thick butterscotch colored molded glass vase depicts nude male archers with drawn bows beneath a sky of swooping birds.

This smokey taupe molded glass “Malesherbes” vase, by French glass designer René Jules Lalique, has stylized overlapping leaves and a polished outer surface and frosted inner surface. 

Egyptian Mummy masks like this were made to cover the linen-wrapped body of the dead person, acting as magical substitutes for the face, and therefore the personality, of the dead person, should the body be damaged.