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Roman Ring with Elephant Intaglio, 2nd-3rd Century AD. Medium: silver & carnelian. Photo Credit: Timeline Auctions & Private Collection.
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Phidias Showing the Frieze of the Parthenon to his Friends by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1868, oil on canvas. Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery.
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Mycenaean Terracotta Octopus Goblet, 13th century BC. The Mycenaeans, like the Minoans, painted a wide range of sea creatures on their pottery, especially octopuses. Over time, Mycenaean artists produced ever simpler and more abstract depictions of octopuses.
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Apollo Playing the Lute by Briton Riviere.
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Our designs inspired by antiquity: archaeostore.com
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Fashion of the Late Postclassic Mayab/Maya Lowlands (Yucatan Peninsula and the Peten) - c. 1250-1521 AD.
Artwork Credit: Kamazotz - Mesoamerican Artist, deviantart.com/kamazotz.
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An Egyptian snake coffin. Made of bronze, dates to 664-30 B.C. Now on display at the Brooklyn Museum, US.
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Hedgehog toy from 1500-1200 BC. Date: between 1500 and 1200 BC. Found at the temple of Inshushinak in the city of Susa, capital of the ancient Elamite civilization (modern day Iran). Now on display at the Louvre Museum, Paris.
Photo Credit: Rama / Wikimedia Commons.
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Vase in the shape of a hedgehog, from Tomb D11 at Abydos. Date: New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, reign of Thutmose III, ca. 1479-1425 BC. Collection: Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford.
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Alessandro Sicioldr, 1990- The black Sphinx or Black Sun, 2017, oil on linen, 75x55 cm.
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A Kashan pierced and incised underglaze-painted pottery Bowl. Geography-date: Persia, 12th Century AD.
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Bronze helmet for a Roman gladiator, 1st century AD. from The Higgins Collection.
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Boats on the Nile, 1900.
The Nile was held up to the ancient people as the source of all life in Egypt and an integral part of the lives of the gods. The Milky Way was considered a celestial mirror of the Nile and it was believed the sun god Ra drove his ship across it.
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Passage flanked by two glowing walls full of Egyptian hieroglyphs, illuminated by a warm orange backlight from a door at the Edfu, Aswan temple, completed by Ramses II (-1200). Photo by Konstantin / Adobe Stock.
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Fourth century mosaic depicting Tethys: in Greek mythology, sister and wife of Titan-god Oceanus. Musée de Shahba, Syria.
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Painted wooden ushabti of Ka-ha, Chief of Painters. Artist unknown; ca. 1279-1186 BCE (19th Dynasty, New Kingdom). Found at Deir el-Medina; now in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Fall of the Rebel Angels (details), 1562.
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Detail of the Lion Gate at Mycenae by David Monniaux. Lion Gate is the popular modern name for the main entrance of what was the Bronze Age citadel of Mycenae in southern Greece. It was erected around 1250 BC, in the northwestern side of the acropolis.
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Climbing down Satan’s fur. Detail from Dante, Divina Commedia, Urbino and Ferrara, 1477-1478. Collection: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Urb.lat.365, fol. 93v.
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Fresco from Pompeii, depicting a man with a theater mask and a garlanded woman playing the lyre. Now in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples. Photo: Alamy / Stock Image.
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Fishing. Detail from the Pèlerinage de vie humaine by Guillaume de Deguileville, ca. 1490. Collection: Geneva, Library of Geneva. Ms. fr. 182, fol. 162v.
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Pendant, eagle with lion’s head. Medium: gold, lapis lazuli, copper. Dimensions: 12.8 cm high, 11.9 cm wide. Excavated at the Palace of Mari, Eastern Syria.Date: Early Dynastic Period IIIb, ca. 2500 B.C. Collection: National Museum of Syria, Damascus.
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Mesopotamian Elephant. Period: Jemdet Nasr Period - c. 3000 BC. Carved of limestone in stylized form, the straight trunk hanging between forelegs, pierced at the top to represent its eyes, the ears carved as spirals, a short tail between its hind legs. Credit: Christies.
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Amphora Attica, Greece. Date: 570 BC-550 BC (circa) Pottery: black-figured amphora showing the sacrifice of the Trojan princess Polyxene. Now on display at at he British Museum.
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