“God is beyond the manifest? He is ether and limitless space? you may ask forever, you may penetrate every shrine, an initiate, and remain unenlightened at last.”— H.D., from Helen in Egypt, Book Six
Gold earrings with disks and figures of Nike driving two horses above boat-shaped pendants
Greek, Hellenistic Period, c. 300 B.C.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
(Source: metmuseum.org)
Broad collar with falcon heads, belonging to an ancient Egyptian noblewoman named Senebtisi. Made of faience, gold, carnelian, and turquoise. Artist unknown; ca. 1850-1775 BCE (late 12th or early 13th Dynasty). From Senebtisi’s tomb, part of the funerary complex of the vizier Senusret at Lisht, Egypt; now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
