My Artifact: A Small Metal Object

This bushel comes from a cemetery at the bottom of the Susa acropolis, where thousands of secondary-burial places were discovered. All of these burial places contained painted ceramic pots and metal objects. While we are not completely certain why the Ancient people of Susa buried their dead with pots like these, this object was given to the deceased during a secondary burial. During a secondary burial, the deceased would receive bushels, which are cylindrical earthenware pots, bowls, and metal objects which served to represent how prosperous the people living in this fertile area were. The Susa people lived in a very fertile river valley and painted beautiful vessels like these to bury in their

The Ain Samiya goblet was found in a shaft grave, Tomb 204a, near Ain-Samiya. The grave also contained sixteen jars, two four-spouted lamps, a dagger, a spear-butt, a spear-head, carnelian beads, and the goblet. Ain Samiya was excavated in 1970. The cup has been dated to the Intermediate Bronze Age. The geographical and cultural origins of the goblet are unknown. The goblet is made of silver sheeting and decorated in repouseé with fine pointed tools.

Through further research, I have learned that this vase “depicts the heroes Achilles and Ajax playing a board game” (Two-Handled Jar with Achilles and Ajax).

The Chavin civilization built this sculpture around 900-200 BCE. The Chavin civilization was known to mix human with feline features in their sculptures. The sculpture has a handle and spout almost like a teapot and has a feline creature on towards the bottom of it. The sculpture is an art piece that the Chavin civilization would have kept in their temples.

This artifact represents a boat that slaves would be transported to the Americas. The boats that would transport slaves were made of wood and had large sails. These large ships played an important role in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade because they could hold many slaves. The drawing on the back of the boat is a diagram of how were the slaves would stay. My boat is made of cardboard and covered in wooden sticks. In addition, there is a sail made of paper, but would normally made of cloth. Boats like this would bring the merchants and colonies money, but would ruin the lives of most

The object you gave us was a pillow and it looks Native American. It looks like a throw pillow, but it is medium sized. It has a rectangle shape. It has a real texture to it when touched. The pillow has a soft texture since a pillow is usually filled with cotton or foam, it has a simple structure to it. The material of the pillow seems to be cotton and hand stitched. It is very light and has a small mass, one that is not too heavy. It has a stable state, meaning it will not break or fall apart easily.

It looks like its made out of very strong clay, and done nicely to give it a long useful life.To make this vessel, the potter worked from the bottom, beginning with small coils of clay and adding successively larger ones as he or she moved to the waist. From there, the coils decreased in size to the neck.The coils were probably fused by hand on a slow-turning wheel to form this shape.The jar was then fired at a very high temperature, painted, and finally polished into a shiny finish. In daily use, it may have been carried with a rope strung through the pair of handles. Jars like this one have also been excavated from burial

In 1836, several young boys were out hunting for rabbits on a hill nicknamed Arthur's Seat. But as they searched for rabbit holes, they found something they never would have expected to encounter. They came across a small cave, and in it they found 17 mini coffins. Each of the coffins had a small, wooden figure inside. Many people thought that the wooden figures may have been created to be used for witchcraft activities, but police had another theory.

It was a huge display that looked like a cloth stand with fabrics hanging off. But when I looked closer, I realized that this work was made out of different types of metals such as lead, and steel. Pinheiro also modified hoses to make it more colourful, and she placed a pair of gloves in front of the work to create a sense of boundary. It is admirable how Pinheiro explored different kind of materials to create art, and how she was able to make such supple visual effects with rigid materials.

Guang, probably from Anyang, China, Shang dynasty, 12th or 11th century BCE is a fined artifact. A guang is a particular shape used in Chinese art for vessels, originally made as Chinese ritual bronzes in the Shang dynasty. Research from wikipedia stated they were used for pouring rice wine at ritual banquets, and often deposited as grave goods in high status burial. Shang artists perfected casting elaborate bronze vessels covered with animal motifs. The animal forms symbolized real and imaginary.

Researchers dubbed the finding the Ishango Bone. An article by D. Huylebrouck says that the bone is about 11,000 years old and was possibly used as a sort of calendar (Huylebrouck). Unfortunately, not much else is known about it, but historians know much more about later

The other objects on the cup are mostly heads, pillars, and trees. The heads are for the most part realistic but the one animalist head seems to be a mixture of a sheep and a man with horns protruding, a split sheep nose, and a slight elongation of the nose and middle of the face into a proto snout. Overall, the cup appears to be telling a story, most likely a mythological or fictional story due to the sheep man and the two men seem to be the same person at different phases as they both carry the same stick object and have the same facial features and body size. Due to the fact that the man to the right of the cup is slightly fat and out of shape and that by following the curve to the right the man becomes in shape and adopts a more heroic stance. It can be concluded that the cup is depicting a story as you rotate it.

In order to create my artifact, I used a graphic design software called Photoshop Elements. I used images that can be found on the internet to display the various purposes and effects of self driving cars, that are both good and bad for today’s society. I dragged and dropped the images into the program and I placed them in different places on a 2612 x 1612blank file. Then I added special effects to each of the images, like glow, and adding a drop shadow to add more detail. Also, I added text in order to make the artifact stand out.

When I found this I thought it was nothing. This looks like something they would drink out of or use for clothing. They may go to the lake and but some water in bowl or put some oil in it the jewelry is probably for looks on them for a feast or celebration the cross maybe to resemble what Jesus went through and how we should be thankful. The little toys the children could have played with them or made them for the

The artwork I chose to analysis was a Vajra Ritual Scepter that is currently being held by the Philadelphia Museum of Art (“Vajra Ritual Scepter” & See Appendix 1). The Wheeler’s donated this piece to the museum in 1933. The actual artwork has been dated to the nineteenth century from somewhere in Tibet. The artist is unknown but the vajra was constructed of copper alloy with mercury gilding. As a result it is a shiny cool gold color, not quite true gold but not quite a true silver or metallic color. The center is made of a bead of metal where a person can hold the vajra between the tips of their thumb and a finger. From the center the decorative elements are identical on either side, creating a symmetrical