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Bronze hand used in the worship of Sabazios. Date: Roman 1st–2nd century AD. Hands decorated with religious symbols were designed to stand in sanctuaries or, like this one, were attached to poles for processional use. Collection: British Museum.
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Gold ear pick with ornamental butterfly. Korea, Goryeo Dynasty, 10th-14th century.
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Gold griffin protome. Culture: Greek. Date: 7th century BC. Credit & Collection: Phoenix Ancient Art.
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Saint Avia (The Jailed Woman). Date: c. 1500. Medium: Limestone with traces of Polychromy. Private Collection: Sam Fogg, London.
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Eva Vlasáková - Restless sleeper, 2002. Medium: glass, fused in a mould. Photo Credit: Artnet.
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Blue glass beads from the Late Bronze Age. Found in 1885 when a farmer ploughed up a cremation urn at Kongehøj in Denmark. Collection: National Museum of Denmark. @AlisonFisk
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Winged Scarab Amulet. Date: 664 B.C.–332 B.C. Medium: Faience. Collection: The Art Institute of Chicago.
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Opalescent glass Art Deco sculptures by French artist, Lucille Sevin. 1920s—1930s. Photo Credit: Bonhams.
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A Gargoyle of Notre Dame, Paris 1920. Photographer: Pierre Yves-Petit (1886–1969).
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Model of a hedgehog from Tomb 416 at Abydos (Egyptian faience). Culture: Egypt. Date/Period: New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1550-1292 BC. Collection: Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford.
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The Cat and the Mouse in the House. Art by Shaun Tan (b. 1974) for a special edition of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales.
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Head of a Markhor Goat. Medium: copper alloy, shell, and red stone. Culture: Sumerian, Early Dynastic III, c. 2550–2250 BC. Photo: University Of Pennsylvania Museum Of Archaeology And Anthropology.
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Minotauro (Minotaur) by Jordi Garriga Mora (2007).
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Wooden Anatomical Eve, "Anatomie des Vanités" Exhibition, 17th century, Brussels, Belgium.
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A Bacchante by Arthur Wardle. Date Issued: 1911-05. Image via the New York Public Library.
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Oval Gold Locket Set with a Red Cabochon Heart. Given to Princess Mary of Teck (1867-1953) by Queen Victoria when a child at Osborne House. From the Royal Collection Trust archive.
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Neolithic pictographs depicting people with their limbs bent as if they were swimming. Date: c. 7000 BC- 5000 BC. Cave of the Swimmers, Gilf Kebir plateau, Egypt. Photographer: Roland Unger via Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-SA-3.0.
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Owl dressed as a pilgrim with hat and drinking bottle. Standing on one leg, staff in the other leg. By Monogrammist MH (graveur), c. 1540. Collection: Rijksmuseum.
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Ancient Egyptian vase in the shape of a duck, made from polychrome faience. Date: c. 3rd cent. BC (Ptolemaic period). Collection: Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.
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The Tower of Babel, attributed to Abel Grimmer. Date16th century. Private Collection.
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‘Slug’ by Nagasawa Rosetsu (1754-1799), painter of the Maruyama school.
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Apollo Playing the Lute by Briton Riviere.
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Detail of a bronze statuette. The Goddess Bastet in Her form of sacred cat playing with her kitten. Date: c. 664-332 BC. Collection: Louvre Museum. Photographer: Rama via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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The almost perfectly preserved 9.000 year old bison mummy was found on the shore of a lake in northern Siberia. Photo Credit: Dr. Gennady Boeskorov.
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Woman Holding Beauty Implements. Culture: Egypt (19th Dynasty; 1292-1187 B.C.). Medium: Terracotta, 20 cm. Collection: Oxford, the Ashmolean Museum.
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