Images Theatre & Religion

1: Mammoth tusk figurine of a human with a lion’s head

Hohlenstein-Staedl, Ulm, Germany

Ulm Museum

Upper Palaeolithic, Aurignacian period, 38 000 - 33 000 BCE

(PPT 3)

2. Cave painting of a bird-headed man, bison, and rhinoceros

Lascaux cave, Dordogne, France

In situ

Upper Palaeolithic, Magdalenian period

15 000 - 13 000 BCE

(PPT 3)

3. Limestone mask decorated with paint

Nahal Hemar cave, Judean Desert (Israel)

Israel Museum (Jerusalem)

Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, 7th millenium BCE

4. THe “Sorcerer”

Trois Frères cave, Montesquieu-Avantès, France

In situ

Upper Palaeolithic

13 000 BC

(PPT 3)

5. Mask made with a red deer antler frontlet with carved eyeholes (?)

Star Carr, Scarborough, UK

Yorkshire Museum, Scarborough

Mesolithic

9 300 - 8 500 BCE

(PPT 3)

6. The Stela of Emhab

Edfu, Egypt

Egyptian Museum of Cairo, Egypt

XVIII Dynasty

16th cent. BCE

(PPT 4)

Ikhernofret Stela

Abydos, Egypt

Egyptian Museum of Berlin, Germany

Sesotris III

1879 - 1846 BCE

(PPT 4)

Papyrus Ramesseum B (the “Dramatic Papyrus”)

Thebes, Egypt

The British Museum of London, UK

Sesotris I

1962-1928 BCE

(PPT 4)

image 37: The Choregoi vase

Puglia, Italy

J. Paul Getty Museum at Malibu, USA

380 BCE

38: Terracotta figurine of actor as donkey

unknown

Staatliche Antikensammlungen at Munchen, Germany

5th cent. BCE

39: Greek ceramic theatre mask

unknown

Bochum, Germany

6th-5th cent. BCE

40: Terracotta comic mask

Athens, Stoà of Attalus, Greece

Stoà of Attalus Museum

250-200 BCE

41: Terracotta theatre mask

Athens, Stoà of Attalus, Greece

Stoà of Attalus Museum

250-200 BCE

42: Terracotta theatre mask of young man

unknown

Staatliche Antikensammlungen at Munich, Germany

2nd cent. BCE

43: Bust of Aeschylus

unknown

National Archaeological Museum of Naples, Italy

Roman copy (30 BCE) of an ordinal Greek bronze herms (340-320 BCE)

44: Bust of Sophocles

Latinum, Italy

Prado Museum at Madrid, Spain

150 CE

45: Bust of Euripides

unknown

Vatican Museums at Rome, Italy

Roman copy (480-406 BCE) of a Greek original (4th cent. BCE)

46: Bust of Aristophanes

Tivoli, Italy

Uffizi Gallery, Florence

2nd cent. CE Roman copy of a Greek original (450-385 BCE)