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The Museum also had examples of portrait paintings that accompanied the mummies in that Egyptian province of Rome.
Greek influence was evident in clay oil lamps and pots with decorations depicting “Gods and Demigods from the Circle of Dionysus/Bacchus” with animal body parts and in “unrestrained sexual activity”.
The signs in the museum tell us that much could be learned from the necropolises. “The urban culture is most prominently comprehensible in the necropoleis (sic). These cities of the dead mirrored the world of the living in layout, style, and pieces of furniture.”
From the Etruscan city of Vulci, north of present day Rome in central Italy, there were the fragments of a statute of a woman and the male-head of a crouching Sphinx with a lion’s body and wings that once stood as sentinel at a grave, dating to 600-550 BC.
The Old Museum of Berlin displays artifacts collected in ancient Rome and the territories it occupied in Egypt. Roman culture is presented as being based on those of Etruscans and Greeks, but also influenced by ancient Egyptians.
From Miletus the Museum takes you to Babylon City of eight centuries before. Here you are dazzled by the splendor of glazed bricks in orange, blue, and ochre that make up the huge reconstruction of the Ishtar Gate
All along on the freezes you are watched by sculptures and reliefs of lions, horses, and dragons which were the main Babylonian gods.
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