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By Martini Fisher Posted on 26 Jun 202020 Feb 2021

The Golden Age of Java

The Medang kingdom or the Mataram kingdom was a Javanese Hindu-Buddhist kingdom which flourished between the 8th and 11th centuries. It was based in Central Java, and then in East … Continue reading The Golden Age of Java

Categories: HistoryTags: architecture, borobudur, candi, candi indonesia, golden age of java, history, indonesia, java, jawa, medang kingdom, mythology, prambanan, temple

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The two statues at the end are from C. 7-9th century.

The stone head of Avalokiteshvara Boddhisattva, discovered in Aceh. Srivijayan art, estimated 9th century CE.

In ancient Roman society, a Roman's house was perceived as an extension of the self, signalling to divine protectors and social and genealogical status to the world outside. Similarly, just as the domus would have been seen as an extension of the self, memory was thought of as one of the best ways to understand the self. The second picture is a painting of some details one may find in an ancient Roman house.

The Severan Tondo, circa AD 199 with portraits of Septimius Severus, Julia Domna, and their sons Caracalla and Geta. The face of one of Severus' and Julia's sons has been erased; it is likely Geta's, as a result of the damnatio memoriae ordered by his brother Caracalla after Geta's death.

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