Mare Nostrum.
Pattern inspired by ancient cultures of the Mediterranean.
Inspiration.
Artifacts and Art from The Metropolitan Museum, New York.
Part of the north side of the west wall of Nakht's offering chapel. Twentieth Century; original New Kingdom, various artists/makers, 1908–1914; original ca. 1410–1370 B.C.
Fish-shaped palette. Predynastic, Naqada III, ca. 3300–3100 B.C.
Spear head. Etruscan, ca. 750–90 BCE.
Poppy-bead necklace. New Kingdom, ca. 1550–1295 B.C.
Glass flask in the form of a fish. Roman, 3rd century CE.