today’s #RaceB4Race panel is making me think about how infrequently we actually see ancient representations of Black people discussed in classics... (“the Image of the Black in Western Art” Vol. 1, p210) we also almost never see these images on Twitter, right?

Top left: "Statuette of an African boy orator" (150-50 BCE) Bronze. 8cm. Accession Number 59.11. Not on view @mfaboston

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/152717/statuette-of-an-african-boy-orator?ctx=94d1445b-1eb2-43f8-acc7-64152c8dc396&idx=3

Bottom left: "Bronze statuette of an African (known as Ethiopian) youth" (3rd - 2nd c. BCE) Bronze. 18.29. Accession Number: 18.145.10. On view in Gallery 164 @metmuseum

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/250673

Right: this one is in the Louvre, but after clicking through 43 pages of "bronze" "sculptures" "Département des Antiquités grecques, étrusques et romaines" I wasn't able to find it - maybe someone more savvy than me can. Listed as "MNC 1645" in the catalogue for the vol.