Reviewing photos made last year in Berlin I finally got to the Berliner Dom. It will take me sometime to select photos for a coverage on this magnificent building. Right now my pick of the day: a woman mourning beneath one of the ceremonial sarcophagi you can admire in the Dome.
a Greek sarcophagus cover frame
When visiting interesting places, we often have too little time to stop and think about what we see or even read a plate with a description of the items we are looking at. Just for pleasure I have a habit of going through numerous photos I take when traveling and quietly studying them. This time is the ancient museums in Berlin, which I managed to quickly visit when on a business trip to Berlin last year. I had not enough time to just stop and contemplate the artifacts. But today, you can ask Google for ‘a similar photo’ and it will tell you what you see on it and often even specify exactly where you saw it.
This beautiful ancient Greek artifact is a cover frame of a sarcophagus. It is made of clay. It was either left white or it was decoratively painted, as you can see in the photo. When archaeologists were working on excavations and then wanted to take the artifacts to other countries, they only took the frames leaving sarcophagus basins on site.
The sarcophagus cover frame on the photo above you can find in the Old Museum in Berlin.
A relief on a Roman sarcophagus made in the 2nd century AD telling the story of Medea by the Greek poet Euripides. Medea was a mythical sorceress who murdered her own children to take revenge on her husband, Jason. You can see the Medea sarcophagus in Altes Museum in Berlin in the ancient Rome section. Just a pick from photographs I made last May in Berlin.