Games and toys (16 Subjects)
Games of antiquity.
Turkish women playing mangala.
Terra cotta figure, with moveable legs and arms, which were put in motion by means of a string. This figure was found at a funerary monument in Piraeus.
Terra cotta figure, with moveable legs and arms, which were put in motion by means of a string. This figure was found at a funerary monument in Piraeus.
View of the temple of Rome and Augustus and the adjacent temple of Diana in Pula, Croatia. Between the two temples is situated the Communal Palace of Pula and the city prison. Next to the building, a guard and locals who are playing a game of marbles. In the middle ground, a soldier of Slavic ethnicity conversing with a young woman. On the left, a Polish woman with her donkey and small dog.
The Nuns' Tower and Devin Castle in Slovakia.
Turkish women playing mangala.
Roman statue of girl playing astragaloi (knucklebones), kept at Altes Museum, Berlin.
Young women playing on the swing (imaginary representation).
Fictional representation of gynaeconites (female quarters) of affluent house, possibly of a hetaera, showing typical morning activities.
Alexandra Princess of Wales and Olga of Greece promenading at the Royal Gardens (today National Garden), March 1877. In the background, the temple of Olympian Zeus.
Alexandra Princess of Wales promenading in the Royal Gardens (today National Garden), during her visit to Athens in 1877. In the background, the Acropolis.
Baking day in a Greek village on the plains of Troy.
Easter Monday. The crew of H. M. S. “Research” celebrates the day in the presence of George I of Greece.
The British National Aid Society's Hospital at Thessaloniki.
Card-players in a café, Piraeus.