March 24, 2005
March 24 Photos: Katherine
The front entrance to the British Museum.
The library rotunda in the Great Hall.
Our favorite meeting place: The Lion in the Great Hall. From left to right: Nkosi, Caleb, Laura, and Neha.
The lion from below.
Caleb as human scale next to a column capital from the Parthenon.
A metope from the Parthenon depicting a centaur carrying off a Lapith woman. The photo has been shot from below in an attempt to mimic the original viewing angle. Thanks to Caleb for lying on the floor of the Parthenon gallery to take the picture.
Peter and Laura as human scale next to another metope from the Parthenon.
Caleb and Laura as human scale and re-enactors of the same metope.
Horsemen on the frieze of the Parthenon.
The horsemen from another angle.
A hoard of bronze objects from Cyprus on display in the museum. This hoard is from the Late Bronze Age and may be a sign of disturbances at that time.
A Cyprian base-ring ware bowl made from clay.
A copper bowl perhaps imitating base-ring ware.
The frieze from the Temple of Apollo at Bassae. The depth of the relief can be seen in this image. We will visit the actual temple while we are in Greece.
The display of the frieze from Bassae, on the interior of a small room. This frieze was displayed on the exterior of the inner temple on the original building.
Statue of Mausolus from the Mausoleum, with human scale provided by Guest Lecturer Peter Higgs.
One of the horses which originally stood on top of the Mausoleum.
Caleb as human scale next to the horse.
The two Spinarios (thorn-pullers) currently on display in the museum. The one in the rear is bronze and the one in the foreground is marble. This is the first time these two statues, which are probably both copies of a Greek original, have been displayed next to each other.
Bronze head of Octavian with inlaid eyes, from the Roman collection.