Priest
The illustration shows a priest wearing nothing but a loin cloth and a leopard skin.
Hunifer
Paris on Mount Ida
An illustration is given, from Hope's "Costume of the Ancients," of Paris on Mount Ida, in which he is figured as wearing a closely fitting garment which covers the whole body and limbs, being buttoned all the way up the legs and arms; a short tunic, also buttoned up the front, being worn over this dress
Toga
From Hope's "Costume of the Ancients." The material of the toga was wool, in the earlier time and for the common people; afterwards silk and other materials were used, coloured or bordered according to the `rank` or station of the wearer.
Greek Figure
Greek Figure
From Hope's "Costume of the Ancients." With the Greeks the tunic was the principal article of attire. It was worn next to the skin, and was of a light tissue. In the earlier time it was composed of wool, in later periods of flax, and in the latest periods it was either of flax mixed with silk or of pure silk. The illustration given will serve to show its construction. It was a simple square bag, open at the two ends, made sufficiently wide to admit of the folds being ample, and sufficiently long to allow of its being gathered up about the waist and breasts. It was kept in its place by various means, either by a simple girdle round the waist or by cords drawn crosswise between the breasts, over the shoulders, looped at the back, and again drawn round the waist, or by an arrangement of cords or ribbons drawn over each shoulder and attached to the girdle.
Offerings to a god
Gods carried in procession
Gods carried in procession 2
Feast of Assurbanipal
Feast of Assurbanipal 2
Eagle-headed divinity
Demons
Anou or Dagon
The suite of Sargon
The suite of Sargon 2
The King Sargon and his Grand Vizier
Statue of Nebo
Assurbanipal at the chase.
Genius in the attitude of adoration
Assyrian inscription
Mummy
Ouah-ab-ra
Ploughing
Hoeing
Inundation
Sarcophagus
Asiatic Cithara
Ancient Egyptian Cithara
Street Musicians
twenty-one string harp
Bruce's Harpers
Harps, pipe, and flute, from an ancient tomb near the Pyramids
Bacchus
Bacchus was the Roman god of agriculture, wine and fertility, equivalent to the Greek god Dionysus.
Egyptian wig
Egyptian Wig
Assyrian Bas-relief
Layard's "Nineveh." Beards were curled and probably dyed and powdered, the powder, however, being gold. As a matter of fact, gold was employed in various ways as an enrichment to the hair.
Queen of Assur-nasir-pal
Queen of Assur-nasir-pal
short-sleeved coat
6th to 5th Century BC
sixth to fifth centuries B.C.
Persian Costume of 6th to 5th Century BC
The God Osiris
The God Osiris
Thuthu
THuthu, wife of Ani
A captive of Sennacherib
This woman, a captive of Sennacherib who reigned in eighth and seventh centuries B.C., wears a long tunic
An Egyptian goddess
A goddess, 700 B.C., is an exact copy of an Egyptian drawing.
A hunter
This man, in hunting dress dates from ninth century B.C
A Priestess
A Priestess
A Queen
Egyptian queen
A Queen
An Egyptian queen
Ani, a scribe
Ani, a scribe 1450 B.C.
Assyrian
Assyrian
Darius, king of Persia
Darius, king of Persia
Details of decoration
Details of decoration
Eighth century BC
Eighth century BC Persian costume
King Assur-nasir-pal
King Assur-nasir-pal (ninth century B.C.)
King Assur-nasir-pal
King Assur-nasir-pal
Mythological Personage
This type of dress, which in the British Museum is described as worn by “a Mythological Figure in attendance upon King Assur-nasir-pal”, ninth century B.C., might be dated about 1000 B.C., as following the usual custom of the ancients who dressed their sacred figures in the costume of some previous generation as a rule
Persian
The costume is considered to be that of a Jewish captive of the Persian conqueror and dates sixth to fifth centuries B.C
Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar (From the Bust in the British Museum.)
Roman General
Roman General
Winged Sun of Thebes
Over the portico of the Theban temple there is usually a ball or sun, ornamented with outstretched wings, representing the all-seeing Providence thus watching over and sheltering the world. From this sun hang two asps wearing the crowns of Upper and Lower Egypt.
Amun-Ra
First among these gods of the Egyptians was Ra, the Sun, or Amun-Ra, the Great Sun, whose warmth ripened their harvests, but whose scorching rays made his power felt as much as an enemy as a friend.