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The Hestia tapestry is a Byzantine tapestry, made in Egypt during the 6th century AD. It is a late and very rare representation of the goddess, whom it identifies in Greek as Hestia Polyolbos; (Greek: Ἑστία Πολύολβος "Hestia full of Blessings"). Its history and symbolism are discussed in Friedlander (1945). [48]
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In Greek myth, Hestia was one of the six children of Cronus and Rhea, the first of their three daughters, and thus the eldest of the twelve Olympians. [i] [1] She was the elder sister of Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Hera, and Demeter, and was revered as goddess of the hearth and of domestic life. [2]
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The Hestia tapestry is a Byzantine-era pagan tapestry made in the Diocese of Egypt in the first half of the 6th century. [1] It is now in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection in Washington DC, but generally not on display. [2] The Hestia tapestry, which is made of wool, [3] is a late representation of the goddess Hestia. It measures 114 x 136.5 cm (44 ...
Hestia Coin issued under Nero : the reverse depicts the cult statue of Vesta, holding a patera and scepter , within her hexastyle temple. Vesta ( Classical Latin : [ˈwɛs.ta] ) is the virgin goddess of the hearth , home , and family in Roman religion .
Modern art has a history of misunderstandings and mishaps. Last year, an artwork consisting of a banana duct-taped to a wall was eaten by a hungry visitor to a gallery in Seoul, South Korea.
Hestia is a 1979 science fiction novel by American writer C. J. Cherryh.It is an early novel in her career, about colonists on an alien world and their interactions with the catlike natives, centering on a young engineer sent to solve the colonists' problems, and his relationship with the young native cat-woman in scanty clothing on the cover.