This paper is concerned with a morphological-stylistic and archaeometric study of two small pottery statues, confiscated by the Cosenza Carabinieri Unit for Protection Cultural Heritage Anti-Counterfeiting (Calabria, Italy). The research aimed to establish authenticity artworks verify possible origin from same workshop manufacturing, providing indications about textural features raw materials u...

The cult of the goddess Fortuna has been attested on territory Roman provinces in Central Balkans with numerous votive monuments, sculptures, reliefs, statuettes and glyptics. was particularly popular among army, but also venerated by administrative personnel, merchants, freedmen, slaves women. epithets imply that she honoured her devotees as other - mainly good luck chance, protectress transpo...

Photos and/or copies of one hundred Upper Paleolithic (45,000-40,000 to 10,000 BP) statues were studied, the photos having been taken from the frontal, lateral and back view. Among the 97 female idols studied, 24 were skinny (mainly young women), 15 were of normal weight, while more than half of them (51) represented overweight or very obese females whose breasts were also extremely large. The ...

Until recently fabrication techniques of Renaissance bronzes have been studied only with the naked eye, microscopically, videoscopically and with X-radiography. These techniques provide information on production techniques, yet much important detail remains unclear. As part of an interdisciplinary study of Renaissance bronzes undertaken by the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, neutron-imaging techniques h...