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Reconstruction of Procession in Central Court at Knossos
No full textThis image was digitized and added to Dlynx by the Visual Resources Center during summer, 2023. The metadata was created by students enrolled in Dr. Miriam Clinton's Greek Art classes. The student cataloger's name can be found in the dc.contributor.advisor field.This image depicts a procession, likely religious, held in the Central Court in Knossos. There are many men dressed only in colorful loincloths marching, dancing, and clapping in an orderly manner. One man is dressed in a priest's robe based on the Harvester Vase. Some of the men carry what look like brooms. The image seems to be depciting a celebratory procession. There is a large building in the background with mutliple floors and colorful markings on the outer wall, representing the Tripartite Shrine and other areas on the west side of the Central Court at Knossos. The horns of consecration can be seen
Photograph of Ring, likely from Lefkandi
No full textThis image was digitized and added to Dlynx by the Visual Resources Center during summer, 2023. The metadata was created by students enrolled in Dr. Miriam Clinton's Greek Art classes. The student cataloger's name can be found in the dc.contributor.advisor field.Photograph of a small greenish white ring. The top of the ring features an unidentifiable figural decoration, and the band is relatively thick indicating that the ring is not made of metal. The preservation and apparent partial vitrification suggest that it is faience
Poto-Poto School Painting
No full textReverend William Pruitt (1911-1999), who served as a Presbyterian missionary in the Belgian Congo from the 1930s to 1978, collected a group of 37 paintings from artists at the Poto-Poto School, a small art school in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo that is still in operation today. In 1998, the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. began an investigation into allegations of sexual abuse made by several children of missionaries from the time Pruitt was a missionary in the Congo. This collection of paintings was found in the Rhodes College collection in the summer of 2023. The paintings were digitized and cataloged in the Visual Resources Center during fall 2023.
Learn more about the William Pruitt investigation here:
https://www.pcusa.org/news/2010/12/16/pcusa-named-lawsuit-alleged-victim-sexual-abuse-mi/
https://www.pcusa.org/site_media/media/uploads/iarp/pdfs/iarp_final_report.pdfGouache on blue paper. Depicts four figured one wears a white skirt, one an orange skirt, one in a blue skirt, and one in a red skirt. Five spirals extend from each skirt. Signed in bottom right corner
Japanese Flower Arrangement Painting
No full textGouache painting on paper using watercolor and white pigment for opacity. From a black pot with a blue interior is a flower arrangement with branches. The flowers are red, pink, white, and yellow. There are light and dark green leaves and bushes. There is a faded and red seal.This object was photographed and inventoried during fall 2023 by Alana Reece-Walker ('26). Please note that the date issued field refers to the date of the digital object's creation. The temporal coverage field contains date information for the actual physical object, when known
Plan of Lefkandi Heroon
No full textThis image was digitized and added to Dlynx by the Visual Resources Center during summer, 2023. The metadata was created by students enrolled in Dr. Miriam Clinton's Greek Art classes. The student cataloger's name can be found in the dc.contributor.advisor field.The image shows an architectural diagram of a post-Bronze Age archaeological site at Lefkandi, the so-called Heroon or house. The structure, which is an apsidal house in a long rectangular shape, was very large and contained at least two burials inside, with several dozen around the house as well from later periods
Giant Pithoi
No full textThis image was digitized and added to Dlynx by the Visual Resources Center during summer, 2023. The metadata was created by students enrolled in Dr. Miriam Clinton's Greek Art classes. The student cataloger's name can be found in the dc.contributor.advisor field.This image shows four human sized pithoi located in Agia Triada, Crete. They are blueish and brown in color with geometric patterns etched into the ceramic. There are small handles on the shoulders of the pithoi
Poto-Poto School Painting
No full textReverend William Pruitt (1911-1999), who served as a Presbyterian missionary in the Belgian Congo from the 1930s to 1978, collected a group of 37 paintings from artists at the Poto-Poto School, a small art school in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo that is still in operation today. In 1998, the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. began an investigation into allegations of sexual abuse made by several children of missionaries from the time Pruitt was a missionary in the Congo. This collection of paintings was found in the Rhodes College collection in the summer of 2023. The paintings were digitized and cataloged in the Visual Resources Center during fall 2023.
Learn more about the William Pruitt investigation here:
https://www.pcusa.org/news/2010/12/16/pcusa-named-lawsuit-alleged-victim-sexual-abuse-mi/
https://www.pcusa.org/site_media/media/uploads/iarp/pdfs/iarp_final_report.pdfGouache on red paper. Depicts four figures on a boat in a body of whater surrounded by trees. A vessel sits in the center of the figures and the two exterior figures hold oars. Signed "Inguila" in bottom right corner
Raised arm figure (goddess)
No full textThis image was digitized and added to Dlynx by the Visual Resources Center during summer, 2023. The metadata was created by students enrolled in Dr. Miriam Clinton's Greek Art classes. The student cataloger's name can be found in the dc.contributor.advisor field.This is an image of a terracotta simplified female figure from the hips up. Her arms are raised. She wears a crown of some sort on her head. Her breasts and hips are exaggerated and she has a very small waist
Poto-Poto School Painting
No full textReverend William Pruitt (1911-1999), who served as a Presbyterian missionary in the Belgian Congo from the 1930s to 1978, collected a group of 37 paintings from artists at the Poto-Poto School, a small art school in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo that is still in operation today. In 1998, the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. began an investigation into allegations of sexual abuse made by several children of missionaries from the time Pruitt was a missionary in the Congo. This collection of paintings was found in the Rhodes College collection in the summer of 2023. The paintings were digitized and cataloged in the Visual Resources Center during fall 2023.
Learn more about the William Pruitt investigation here:
https://www.pcusa.org/news/2010/12/16/pcusa-named-lawsuit-alleged-victim-sexual-abuse-mi/
https://www.pcusa.org/site_media/media/uploads/iarp/pdfs/iarp_final_report.pdfGouache on black paper. Two white birds standing to the right of a tree. Signature of "GAlliN" in bottom right corner
Panoramic view of Ithaca #1
No full textThis image was digitized and added to Dlynx by the Visual Resources Center during summer, 2023. The metadata was created by students enrolled in Dr. Miriam Clinton's Greek Art classes. The student cataloger's name can be found in the dc.contributor.advisor field.This image is a view of Ithaca from a village in the mountains called Perachori. It is the first of five images that form a panorama (along with sackett_64-67). The view includes the city itself as well as the mountains that surround it, the ocean in the background, and more mountains off in the distance beyond the ocean. There are signs of life nearby where this image was taken because of the tin roof that is visible through the bushes, but there are no people visible in the picture