Inspired by antiquity

Hello to everyone. We have created this web page in order to present you the designs created by the members of the @archeologyart team. As we create new designs, we will add them to this page.

Designs are available on Amazon (US, UK, FR, GER, Japan stores), Etsy (for US) and on Redbubble (outside US). If the Amazon store in your country does not have the design you clicked on, our page will automatically direct you to our Redbubble store.

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Be cheerful, enjoy your life T-Shirt
Price: $21.99
  • Available on Amazon and Redbubble (worldwide).
  • Fit Type: Men & Women and Youth.
  • This design is inspired by the famous mosaic found in Antioch (modern-day Hatay, Turkey).
  • It says "Effrósinos"which means joyful, full of happiness, cheerful.
 
Cave Canem (Beware of dog) - 2nd Version T-Shirt
Price: $21.99
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  • Fit Type: Men & Women and Youth.
  • "Cave Canem" means "Beware of the dog" in Latin.
  • This design is inspired by the Roman mosaic at the Casa di Orfeo, Pompeii, Italy.
Great Bull of Catalhoyuk T-Shirt
Price: $21.99
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  • Fit Type: Men & Women and Youth.
  • This design was inspired by a 7500-year-old bull-hunting scene discovered at the neolithic site of Catalhoyuk.
  • Çatalhöyük is a large Neolithic “town” with a history of 9.400 years and home to approximately 8.000 people. In this big town without streets, people were walking around on the roofs and entering their homes through the openings in the roofs. These people created wonderful works of art, as can be seen from the murals, reliefs and sculptures inside their homes that have survived thousands of years ago.
Minoan Octopus T-Shirt
Price: $21.99
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  • Fit Type: Men & Women and Youth.
  • This design is inspired by an ancient Minoan vase. This vase, found at Palaikastro, a wealthy site on the far eastern coast of Crete, is the perfect example of elite Minoan ceramic manufacture.
Owl of Athena T-Shirt
Price: $21.99
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  • Fit Type: Men & Women and Youth.
  • Athena; Greek Goddess of Wisdom and Courage, Civilization and Justice, of Artisanal Skill and Strategic Warfare. The patron Goddess of Athens and her virtues were often represented with the Owl, for its ability to pierce through the gloam of night allows it the vision and perception to see well beyond those who are blinded by the darkness around them. In Athena the Athenians saw the virtues they sought to aspire to, and commemorated her by painting the Owl into their pottery and vases, and would even mint the unblinking and ever-vigilant Owl into their coinage.
 

Other Designs

Cave Canem (Beware of dog) T-Shirt
Price: $21.99
  • Available on Amazon and Redbubble (worldwide).
  • Fit Type: Men & Women and Youth.
  • This design is inspired by the Roman mosaic at the House of the Tragic Poet, Pompeii, Italy.
  • The mosaic picture of a domesticated dog, leashed and chained, with the words “cave canem” (beware of the dog) written under the animal, greeted (or, well, warned) visitors upon entering the house.
Cave of Hands T-Shirt
Price: $21.99
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  • Fit Type: Men & Women, Youth.
  • This design is inspired by 10,000 year old stenciled handprints found in the Cave of Hands in Argentina,
  • The artwork in the cave dates from 13.000 to 9.000 years ago. The age of the paintings was calculated from the remains of bone-made pipes which were used for spraying the paint on the cave wall to create silhouettes of hands.
Dionysos riding on a panther T-Shirt
Price: $21.99
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  • Fit Type: Men & Women.
  • This design inspired by a floor mosaic found at the House of Masks on the Greek island of Delos.
  • Dionysos was the God of wine and festivals. Dionysos' sacred animals were the panther (leopard), tiger, dolphin, donkeys, bull, and serpent.
Double-headed eagle of Byzantium T-Shirt
Price: $21.99
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  • Fit Type: Men & Women.
  • In Byzantine heraldry, the double-headed eagle is a charge associated with the concept of Empire – the heads represent the dual sovereignty of the emperor both in secular and religious matters and/or dominance over both East and West.
  • The early Byzantine Empire continued to use the (single-headed) imperial eagle motif. The double-headed eagle appears only in the medieval period, by about the 10th century in Byzantine art.
  • Lightweight, Classic fit, Double-needle sleeve and bottom hem.
Famous Pirates Flags T-shirt
Price: $21.99
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  • Fit Type: Men & Women and Youth.
  • The famous Pirates Flags design has been recreated from a tattoo design. All flags belong to famous pirates.
Great Deer of Catalhoyuk T-Shirt
Price: $21.99
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  • This design was inspired by a 7.700-year-old deer-hunting scene discovered at the neolithic site of Catalhoyuk (modern-day Konya, Turkey).
  • Çatalhöyük is a large Neolithic “town” with a history of 9.400 years and home to approximately 8.000 people.
Hittite Sun Disk T-Shirt
Price: $21.99
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  • The Hittite Sun Disk or Hittite Sun Course is an ancient Anatolian symbol dating back to the 20th century BC. The symbol belongs to the Hattis from the pre-Hittite period. The Sun Disk was used in ceremonies by Hattians about 4.250 years ago from today.
  • Round sphere forming the Sun Disk symbolizes the earth or the sun. At the bottom, there are two horn-like protrusions but what they represent is not clear. The protrusions at the top represent fertility, and the procreation of nature.
Horse of Lascaux T-Shirt
Price: $21.99
  • This design is based on a 15.000-year-old cave painting in the Lascaux Cave in France,
  • The Cave of Lascaux is famous for its prehistoric paintings showing various animals, hunts, and wars. Four local boys discovered them on the 12th of September 1940,
  • Fit Type: Men & Women, and Youth,
  • Available on Amazon and Redbubble (worldwide),
Know Thyself T-Shirt
Price: $21.99
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  • This design inspired by a memento mori mosaic from excavations in the convent of San Gregorio in Rome, featuring the Greek motto.
  • Fit Type: Men & Women and Youth.
  • The skeleton is pointing to two words, which translate as 'Know thyself', an aphorism that was inscribed in the pronaos of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, according to the Greek traveller and geographer Pausanias (c. 110 - c. 180 AD).
Little owl as a hoplite warrior T-Shirt
Price: $21.99
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  • Fit Type: Men & Women.
  • This design is inspired by the armed owl figure in an ancient Greek vase, which is approximately 2500 years old.
  • In Greek mythology, a little owl (Athene noctua) traditionally represents or accompanies Athena, the virgin goddess of wisdom, or Minerva, her syncretic incarnation in Roman mythology.
Minoan Bull-Leaping T-Shirt
Price: $21.99
  • This design is based on a 3.500-year-old fresco in the Knossos Palace, Crete. Now on display at the Archaeological Museum of Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
  • Available on Amazon and Redbubble (worldwide).
  • Fit Type: Men & Women.
  • Lightweight, Classic fit, Double-needle sleeve and bottom hem.
Odysseus and the Sirens T-Shirt
Price: $21.99
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  • Fit Type: Men & Women and Youth.
  • The sirens of ancient Greek mythology were bird-women whose enchanted singing lured sailors off course, causing shipwreck and disaster. This vase is painted with this famous scene and is known as the Siren Vase. It is a wide-necked vessel thought to have been used for serving wine. The image is of beautiful detail in a magnificent black ground. These two colours contrast very well together enabling the siren painter to create the beautiful Siren Vase.
 
Oracle of Delphi: King Aigeus in front of the Pythia T-Shirt
Price: $21.99
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  • Fit Type: Men & Women.
  • This design is based on a drawing on a 2500 year-old ancient Greek kylix.
  • The Oracle of Apollo at Delphi was one of the most famous oracles in the ancient world.
Owl of Athena T-Shirt (2nd version)
Price: $21.99
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  • Fit Type: Men & Women.
  • This design inspired by an ancient Greek kalpis (a form of Greek pottery) decorated with Owl of Athena. (ca. 470 BC.)
  • In Greek mythology, a little owl (Athene noctua) traditionally represents or accompanies Athena, the goddess of wisdom, or Minerva, her syncretic incarnation in Roman mythology.
Owl of Athena T-Shirt (3rd version)
Price: $21.99
  • Available on Amazon and Redbubble (worldwide).
  • Fit Type: Men & Women and Youth.
  • This design is inspired by the owl on an ancient Greek vase that is circa 2.500 years old.
  • Lightweight, Classic fit, Double-needle sleeve and bottom hem.
  • Machine wash cold with like colors, dry low heat
Quetzalcóatl T-Shirt
Price: $21.99
  • This design was inspired by the Quetzalcóatl bas-relief at the Feathered Serpent Temple in Teotihuacan. Quetzalcóatl was drawn and colored with Mexican colors.
  • The name of Quetzalcóatl comes from the ancient Nahuatl word quetzalli, meaning “long green feather”. The second part of Quetzalcoatl’s name comes from the word coatl, meaning “snake”.
  • In Mesoamerican myth Quetzalcóatl was the god of winds and rain, and the creator of the world and humanity.
  • Available on Available on Amazon and Redbubble (worldwide),
  • Fit Type: Men & Women,
  • Machine wash cold with like colors, dry low heat.
Spartan Symbol T-Shirt
Price: $21.98
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  • Fit Type: Men & Women.
  • The letter lambda, standing for Laconia or Lacedaemon, which was painted on the Spartans' shields, was first adopted in 420s BC and quickly became a widely known Spartan symbol.
  • The city-state of Sparta used this symbol on their shields and banners back in the day of Ancient Greece, as the Greeks did not identify themselves with flags in this time.
Starry Night - Line Art
Price: $21.99
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  • Fit Type: Men & Women and Youth.
  • This design was created based on Vincent Van Gogh's 1889 painting "Starry Night".
Sun of Vergina T-Shirt
Price: $21.99
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  • Fit Type: Men & Women.
  • The Vergina Sun, also known as the Star of Vergina, Vergina Star or Argead Star, is a rayed solar symbol first appearing in ancient Greek art of the period between the 6th and 2nd centuries BC.
  • The name “Vergina Sun” first became used following archaeological excavations in and around the small town of Vergina, northern Greece, during the late 1970s. It is a historical royal symbol of the ancient kingdom of Macedonia.
Vase with Twelve Sunflowers
Price: $21.99
  • Available on Amazon.
  • Fit Type: Men & Women and Youth.
  • This design was created based on Vincent Van Gogh's painting "Vase with Twelve Sunflowers"

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