Emblema with Aphrodite and Eros.pptx archaelogy

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1. Emblema with Aphrodite and Eros Presented by: Alaa Helmy Under the supervision of: Prof. Mervat Seif El Dine

2. Description: On the left: Aphrodite is in seated posture leaning back with her right hand on a rock formation and clad that she is sitting on. Aphrodite is wearing a skirt partially covering legs. She is sitting comfortably with her legs crossed diagonally. On her left hand, she is holding a mirror into which the winged infant figure of Eros is looking. Her figers are  Eros is looking into the mirror in a self-indulgent manner and is leaning on a shield in an upright profile. On the top, there is the figure of a herm, god of travel and commerce, or it might be the war god Ares presented as a guarding soldier dressed like a Spartan in a helmet ( kranos ) and a chiton. The soldier is  in the posture of unsheathing his sword. The soldier has his right hand crossing his chest as he is reaching for his sword that  is  placed on his left side at waist level. On the right: The love god and son of Aphrodite,  Eros, is  leaning on a shield and gazing at the mirror with his wings rising at head level. At the top, there is a suspension hole which shows that the figure was made for display in a wordsmith's workshop or a merchant's storeroom.

3. Credit Lines A credit line should be placed apart and at the bottom of the marker. It should include the name of the group/individual responsible for the marker project, the names of any supporters and the year the plaque was installed. Credit lines should appear in a smaller font than the main text and should never be displayed in all caps.

4. Kapisi Alexandria in the Caucasus was a colony of Alexander the Great founded the colony at an important junction of communications in the southern foothills of the Hindu Kush mountains, in the country of the Paropamisadae. Graeco Bactrian trade centre, and Indo Pathian Centre. May have had royal workshops because of 50 plaster emblema connected with Alexandria through the Read Sea. Exhibition for traders of Hellenistic period ftom the west.

5. Casts and Originals The originals were serving dishes, drinking bowls decorated with scenes from Classical mythology. Sign of luxury. Artistic tradition over vast areas reaching North Africa to the Black Sea extending to Afghanistan.

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