Juggler. Mexico, Jalisco, 200 B.C. – A.D. 200. Public Domain by LACMA.
Sculpture, Slip-painted ceramic
16 x 8 x 5 in. (40.64 x 20.32 x 12.7 cm)
The Proctor Stafford Collection, purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Allan C. Balch (M.86.296.97)
Currently on public view: Art of the Americas Building, floor 4
This so called juggler is very interesting. Its arms around the ball look very much like the disc within a circular enclosure, one of the most fundamental symbols in many cultures around the world.
Petroglyphs. Sears Point Archaeology Site. Yuma County, AZ, USA. © chris_crssd via Flickr.
The Witham Shield. Detail. CC BY-NC-SA The British Museum.
Three Rivers Petroglyph Site, New Mexico. Shared by J.gumby.BOURRET via mapio.
Figure 8. Sketches of characteristic and representative examples of Coso Range Patterned Body Anthropomorph petroglyphs. Images come from elements located within the rock art galleries in Little Petroglyph, Big Petroglyph, and Sheep Canyons. Images range in size from the largest at three to four feet in length and the smallest being just under a foot.
Figure 7. Sketches of characteristic and representative examples of Coso Range Patterned Body Anthropomorph petroglyphs. Images come from elements located within the rock art galleries in Little Petroglyph, Big Petroglyph, and Sheep Canyons. Images range in size from the largest at three to four feet in length and the smallest being just under a foot.
Figure 6. Sketches of characteristic and representative examples of Coso Range Patterned Body Anthropomorph petroglyphs. Images come from elements located within the rock art galleries in Little Petroglyph, Big Petroglyph, and Sheep Canyons. Images range in size from the largest at three to four feet in length and the smallest being just under a foot.
Figure 12. Pen and ink drawing of Yahwera panel with a side by side comparison with Coso PBA panel from Little Petroglyph Canyon (aka Renegade Canyon). Scale of Coso PBA enlarged to allow a direct comparison with Back Canyon image.
Petroglyphs Provincial Park, Peterborough, Canada. Details on the area via albinger.me.
Leviathan, illumination from a Byzantine manuscript of the Book of Job, (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana),c 850. Via Rabih Alameddine.
Sun, moon, stars. From Shaman's drum symbols in Scandinavia.
Labyrinth of the Minotaur in Knossos on Crete. Composite manuscript., c. IX - X Century, Cod. Sang. 197, f. 122, St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek. CC BY-NC e-codices.unifr.ch.
The Great Mosque. Touba, Senegal. © Rocio Garcia via The Arabesque Tumblr.
The Eye of Providence
Our Lady of the Pillar (Nuestra Señora del Pilar). CC BY-NC-ND by Zaragoza Turismo.
The undated photo shows an ancient Buddhist statue that a Nazi expedition brought back from Tibet shortly before World War II. The statue was carved from a meteorite which crashed on Earth thousands of years ago. The existence of the statue _ known as "iron man" _ was only revealed in 2007 when its owner died and it came up for auction. (AP Photo/University of Stuttgart, Elmar Buchner)
In the Al-Hayit region in Saudi Arabia near Medina, keyhole and pendant shapes vary in size from a few meters to dozens of meters, and they are often found arranged along “avenues”. © Imagery GeoEye. See it on Google Maps. Via Myths are History and Saudi Aramco World. They are probably burial structures from as old as 7000 BC, as similar late Neolithic and the early Bronze ages structures from Jordan.
Guishan Guanyin of the Thousand Hands and Eyes in Changsha, China. CC BY-SA by Alexandre Afanassiev via Wikimedia Commons
