#TwoForTuesday + #TilesOnTuesday:
2 of 120 lifesize #lions that lined the Processional Way from the Ishtar Gate to the Temple of Marduk at Babylon.
Striding Lion Panels
Mesopotamian, Babylonian Neo-Babylonian Period, reign of Nebuchadnezzar II 604–561 BCE
Findspot: Iraq, Babylon, 1899, excavated by the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft for the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin
Terracotta glazed bricks
#TwoForTuesday + #TilesOnTuesday :
Joseph-Théodore Deck (French, 1823-1891)
Tile Plaques, c.1880
Earthenware w/ underglaze & overglaze enamel decoration
tiles 10 x 10 in (25.4 x 25.4 cm) ea.
panels 40 x 20 in (101.6 x 50.8 cm) ea.
On view at PMA #birdsinart
The vibrant turquoise blue in these works was one of the signature glazes developed by Deck, who was inspired by Turkish ceramics. It came to be so closely identified with the artist that it came to be known in the late 1800s as ‘Deck blue.’”
#TilesOnTuesday: a Roman 'fridge', unearthed in 2022 in the legionary fort of Novae, Bulgaria. It's a kind of container made of tiles that was embedded under the floor. It was used by the soldiers to store food. In the container fragments of pottery and animal bones were found.
A child's footprint in time: I can vividly imagine a child walking over this #Roman tile laid out to dry before firing some 1,800 years ago! Found in Carnuntum, Austria.
#TwoForTuesday on #TilesOnTuesday:
Tile Decorated with a Fountain between Two #Parrots , 1580s
Iznik kilns, Bursa Province, Türkiye (Ottoman Empire)
Fritware with white, green, blue, red, and transparent glazes
on display at Baltimore Museum of Art
For #TilesOnTuesday an insight into the life of ordinary people in the North of the #Roman empire: a tile from Weißenburg, that was scratched with the alphabet before firing, probably for the purpose of a writing practice. However, the order is not quite correct.
For #EpigraphyTuesday and #TilesOnTuesday a 2000 year old joke - a good one! A #Roman tegula (roof tile) with an inscription in Roman cursive: VENTVRAM / TERRIS / VID(e) - Now that you see me, I've fallen to the ground.
From Vindobona/Vienna, on display at Römermuseum Vienna
#TilesOnTuesday! Hoof marks of lambs or kids on a tile found in Pfongau/Austria
Tiles with imprints can be found all across the Roman empire, since tiles were laid out to dry in the open air ahead of firing, where animals could step on them.
Museum Salzburg
#TilesOnTuesday:
Tile with Image of #Phoenix
Iran, probably Takht-i Sulaymän, late 13th c.
Stonepaste; modeled, underglaze painted in blue & turquoise, luster-painted on opaque white ground
Met 12.49.4: https://metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/446207
"Ilkhanid period artists readily adopted imagery from Chinese iconography...this image of a soaring phoenix with crested head & elaborate trailing plumage exemplifies the adaptation of Chinese imagery by Persian artists." #PersianArt
Many #Roman tiles with #children's footprints are known from all parts of the empire. But this is a special one, as it can be dated precisely due to the stamp: in 123 AD a #toddler stepped on the tile that laid out to dry before firing.