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Pottery: black-figured kantharos with donkey-head attachment. Culture/Period: Attic. Date: 520-500 B.C. Place of origin: Attica, Greece. Collection: British Museum.
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Gold box bezel ring with the hero Bellerophon riding Pegasus, attributed to the Santa Eufemia master Greek (from Southern Italy), c. 340-320 B.C. Now on display at the Getty Museum.
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Griffin. 6th century Byzantine mosaic, Great Palace Museum, Istanbul. Destroyed in Nika Riot in the 6th century, the Great Palace was rebuilt by Justinian I. The mosaics, decorating the floors of the museum today date back to that restoration time.
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Etruscan lebes with five lion heads. Regolini-Galassi tomb, Cerveteri, Italy. 7th century BC. Vatican Museums, Rome, Italy.
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Portable vertical sundial, Rome, ca. 250 A.D. © Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford.
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Roman Glass Cup with Medallions, From the Rhine Valley, C. 1st Half of the 4th Century AD. With six medallions depicting female faces. This may have been been used as a lamp. Private Collection.
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Detail, the Last Judgment by Pietro Cavallini, c.1293, fresco, Santa Cecilia, Rome. This fresco was discovered in 1900 and represents one of the few works by Cavallini to survive.
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Battle of Salamis Monument in Modern Salamis, Greece. The Battle of Salamis was a naval battle fought between an alliance of Greek city-states under Themistocles and the Persian Empire under King Xerxes in 480 BC. Photo Credit: nippletitlove - deviantart.
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Winged scarab. Culture: Egyptian Period: Late Period, Dynasty 25. Date: 760–660 BC., or later.
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Ptolemaic mosaic depicting a dog and a knocked-over gold vessel, Alexandria, Egypt. Period - Date: from Hellenistic Egypt, dated between 200 - 150 BC. Now located in the Greco-Roman Museum of Alexandria, Egypt.
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Karl Heilmayer (1829-1908) - Venice, Full Moon over Santa Maria Salute.
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The Forum Baths in Pompeii were established in 80 BC and were the only baths still in use after the earthquake of 62 AD. The walls are beautifully decorated with frescoes of garden scenes, and the vault ceilings are embellished with stucco friezes. @pompeii_sites
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Celtic Gold Ring with Mask Motif, 5th Century BC. Private Collection.
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Stater of Taras (Tarentum) with Taras on dolphin.Date: Greek Early Classical Period, c. 473–460 B.C. Collection: MFA Boston.
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Hercules Slays the Centaur Eurytion by Antonio Sasini (Italian 1558-1624). Medium: bronze.
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A dolphin and fish, surrounded by various forms of marine life.Tondo of an Apulian red-figure lekanis (low bowl with two handles and broad foot), attributed to the Phrixus Group; ca. 340-335 BC. Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photo by: Marie-Lan Nguyen/W.Commons.
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Antonio Canova (1757-1822) – Adonis and Venus, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire in Geneva.
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Spiral finger ring. Period: Hellenistic, 200 BC.- 100 BC. Medium: Gold. From the Museum of Cycladic Art. Source: cycladic.gr
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Sarcophagus and lid with husband and wife Italic, Etruscan, Late Classical or Early Hellenistic Period, 350–300 BC., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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A 9th century sculpture of a female torso carved in black chlorite. Geography: Rajasthan, India. Now on display at the Victoria and Albert museum in London.
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The Ides of March by Edward John Poynter (1836-1919).
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The Temple of Neptune, Paestum, Salerno, Italy. Photographer: Giorgio Sommer (Italian, born Germany, 1834 - 1914). Source: getty.edu.
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Roman carnelian intaglio, perhaps depicting Achilles, dated to the 1st century BC. The intaglio has been set in a gold ring dated to the 19th century. Private Collection.
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Roman mosaic with marine animals, Santiponce (Italica), Spain.
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Winged Lion. Culture: Iberian. Place of origin: Tartessos, Spain. Date: 500–400 B.C. Medium: Bronze. Collection: Getty Museum.
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