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Roman flask shaped like a mouse. Medium: Glass. Translucent cobalt blue, with same color added head, ears, eyes, feet, and snake-thread decoration. Date: c. 2nd Century AD. Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
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Copy of silver Roman cup. Decorated with skeletons, both adult and infant, the silver cup on the right represents the ‘Dance of Death’. This cup is a copy of the original silver version, which is in the Louvre in Paris, France. Credit: Science Museum, London. (CC BY 4.0).
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Mosaic of the thief partridge, from House of the Labyrinth, Pompeii. Now on display at the Naples Archaeological Museum, Italy. Photo Credit: Jebulon (CC0)
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Amethyst figure of the goddess Twaeret. Date: Egypt, 18th Dynasty, 1500 - 1391 BC. Collection: Phoenix Ancient Art.
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Knife and fork, ca. 1650. Place of origin: Netherlands (made). Collection: © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
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Draw a cat using only straight lines. Design in theory and practice, by Ernest Allen Batchelder, 1910.
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Lovers. Wall painting from Pompeii. Collection: Naples Archaeological Museum, Italy. Photo Credit: by Carlo Raso (CC0)
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Stunning images of costumes at winter celebrations around the Europe. Photographer: Charles Fréger.
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Transfiguration by Sergey Petrovich Panasenko (1993)
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An egyptian blue chalcedony horus-behdet amulet. Date: Late period to Ptolemaic period, circa 664-30 BC. Collection & Credit: Christies.
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Detail of Ascent of the Blessed, Hieronymus Bosch, late 15th century or early 16th century.
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Feline Bowl. Culture: Inca. Date: c. 14th–early 16th century. Medium: Stone. Collection: The Met, NYC.
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Nomade Kirghize, Uzbekistan, CCCP, 1932. Photographer: Ella Maillart.
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Head of Alexander the Great. Medium: Bronze. Period & Date: Late Hellenistic to Hadrianic, ca. 150 BC — 138 AD. Collection: New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Detail from the Froissart’s Chronicles, Bruges ca. 1470-1475. Collection: BnF, Paris, Français 2643, fol. 72r.
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Bat Before the Moon by Takahashi Biho (1910)
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Portable diptych sundial. Maker: Hans Tröschel the Elder (German, 1549–1612) Date: ca. 1598 Culture: German, Nuremberg. Medium: Ivory, brass. Collection: The Met, NYC.
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Bronze shield device in the shape of a winged Gorgon head. Date: c. first half of the 6th century BC. It was found during the excavations at Olympia and is kept at the Archaeological Museum of Olympia under the inventory number B 110. Photographer: Xocolatl.
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“Caryatids and heads.” Illustrated catalogue of plastic ornaments cast in plaster for interiors and composition for exterior of theaters by Decorators Supply Co, 1913.
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Vietnam, Sand dunes, 1956. Photographer: Ján Cifra (1929 - 1959).
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Earthquake fish netsuke by Kaigyokusai Masatsugu (Japan, 1813-1892). Medium: Ebony with inlays; sashi type. Collection: Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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Helmet with divine figures beneath a bird with outstretched wings. Date: ca. 1500–1100 BC. Geography: Southwestern Iran Culture: Elamite. Medium: Bronze, gold foil over bitumen. Collection: The Met.
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Gold bracelet in the form of a coiled snake. Date: c. 1st century AD, Place of origin: Pompeii. Collection: The British Museum.
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