Return To The British Museum, 2022

Our brush with Egyptian Revival Art Deco whetted our appetite for another visit to the British Museum. (Egyptian stuff). However, we'd vowed to look at just those things we missed last summer, namely the classical Greek stuff, ceramics and buildings and sculpture and such. As with our 2021 Bloomsbury apartment, the BM was just a ten minute walk away.

The Nereid Monument, from Xanthos, now Turkey; we were 
there in 2010, and immediately noticed a curiously vacant area in
the agora; aha, we thought, the British Museum has been here

Ultima Cena

Madonna e Bambino; wait, no...

My all-time favorite Greek wine cooler; do not try this at home,
kids; love the commentary below

Another favorite: Hercules and Apollo fighting
over the Delphic Oracle's tripod chair

Floorplan of the British Museum; or possibly
the palace of Minos

I love the very old Cycladic figurines

Alas!

Now we are upstairs examining the friezes from the Temple of
Apollo near Bassei, Greece, late 5th century BCE

Pretty much about the fight between the Lapiths
and the Centaurs (long story, basically a cautionary
tale about not abusing the hospitality shown you);
also fighting between the Greeks and Amazon 
delivery drivers 

Now we are at the center ring, the Elgin Marbles

from the Parthenon, in Athens; I'll spare you all

the literature the BM has promulgated about its

rightful ownership, etc., etc.; the current story is

that the BM is the world's proper custodian of such

treasures, at least the ones it has already in its

possession; it's complicated, sort of, but would be

nice if they'd give just a few back to Greece, maybe

on a trial basis...

Helpful model of the Parthenon before the Turks used it for artillery
practice

One whole wall; mostly a ceremonial procession

More Lapiths and Centaurs

On the pediment, goddesses

Other long wall

My two favorite male gods, Mercury (travel) and Dionysus (wine)

Still more, but enough is enough