Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...objects which constituted the most important collection of Benin art ever exhibited in the U. S. Follow the Equator westward across Africa to its crotch where the Guinea coast joins the coast of the Cameroons. Just in that corner stood until the end of the 19th Century the ancient Kingdom of Benin. In 1486, six years before Columbus sailed to the west, Portuguese traders searching for pepper first entered the sacred city of Benin. There they found palaces of red clay polished until they shone like marble, great treasures of ivory, brass and bronze, a broad main street stretching...
Owner of this ancient treasure is a Syrian antique dealer named Fahim Joseph Kouchakji, who is careful not to claim too much for his cup. As exhibited last week, it is referred to only as the Great Chalice of Antioch, but Mr. Kouchakji has published at his own expense a vast two-volume monograph by famed Antiquary Gustavus Augustus Eisen, which gives the reader much to think about...
This stone, obtained through the generosity of A. Kingsley Porter, William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts at that time, was from the Sahagun Tomb of Alfenso, tutor of King Alfenso VI, who reigned from 1072 to 1109. It is considered to be the most ancient example of European sepulchral sculpture which remains from the middle ages...
Finally, by 1933, the political situation had become more stable, and on July 8, an exchange was finally effected. In place of the sarcophagus slab, the Fogg received a marble column from a monastery in Santiago, a double capital from a thirteenth century monastery in Palencia, some ancient Spanish pottery and 24 small bronze figures. The latter were found in a sanctuary near a mining district and may have been votive offerings to the gods of minerals...
...wants no more than the A, B, C's, that Greece gave us our culture, Rome our law, Judea our religion, France our manners, and Britain our government, then the present system fills the bill. Under it the student is responsible for four out of five fields of history: ancient (Greek or Roman), medieval, early modern, and modern. Before his divisionals he will probably have taken four courses in his department, among which will be found History 1, valuable as a survey, but nevertheless distinctly a survey. The other three fall where they may, while it is the task...