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Rare Tibetan Monastic Painted Door, XVII Century. Private Collection.
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Early Medieval grave findings from Gammertingen Germany, 6th century, the princely man was wearing a golden helmet and mail armor. Beside him lay his weapons including a sword, an ax, a throwing spear, and an ornate lance.
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Standing Warrior. Period: Pre-Columbian. Culture: Maya, Jaina-style. Place of origin: Mexico, Campeche. Date: A.D. 600-900. Medium: Terracotta.Collection: Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
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Wallet. Place of origin: Eastern Iran or Afghanistan Date: end of 12th-beginning of 13th century Medium: Stamped leather. Collection/Credit: The David Collection.
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Subterranean room in the House of Amphitrite, Bulla Regia, Tunisia. (Image Credit: Getty Museum)
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The abduction of Persephone.Wall painting from Aigai, Macedonia, Greece. Date: 4th c.BC.
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A Kashan pierced and incised underglaze-painted pottery Bowl. Geography-date: Persia, 12th Century AD.
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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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Detail of a floor mosaic, Roman period. Delphi Archaeological Museum, Greece.
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Interior of an Ancient Egyptian Palace, illustration from ‘Le Costume Historique’ (History of Costumes), Vol II, c.1888 by Auguste Racinet (French, 1825-1893).
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A congenial task (detail), by John William Godward, 1915. Medium: oil on canvas.
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Signet ring. Period: Meroitic. Date: A.D. 2nd-3rd century. Place of origin: Gammai, Nubia (Sudan). Medium: Electrum.
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Sleeping Hermaphroditus. Date: Roman copy of the 1st-2nd century after a late Hellenistic original of the 2nd-1st century B.C. Medium: Parian marble. Provenience: Florence, Uffizi Gallery (Firenze, Galleria degli Uffizi).
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The Lappvattnet hat. Period/Date: Medieval, c. 1310-1440. The hat, which is made of sheep's wool, was preserved in a bog. Now on display at the Västerbottens museum in Sweden. Image Credit: Västerbottens Museum.
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Parakeet. Culture: Roman. Date: A.D. 3rd-4th century AD. Medium: Mosaic. Source/Collection: risdmuseum.org
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Detail, Meditation by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905). Medium: Oil on canvas. Collection: Cincinnati Art Museum.
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A few figures from Greek Mythology by illustrators Leo and Diane Dillon: Atalanta, Zeus, Heracles and Cadmus. From the book, Classical Greece (1965).
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Occurrence of the ‘Litany of Re’, detail of a wall painting from the Tomb of Siptah (KV47). New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, ca. 1292-1189 BC. Valley of the Kings, West Thebes. Photo: Robert Harding
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Apollo, illustration by Donn P. Crane. Apollo is one of the most complex and important gods, and is the god of many things, including: music, poetry, art, oracles, archery, plague, medicine, sun, light and knowledge.
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Reconstruction of the clothes of women from the Minoan era in Crete (reconstructions made by Dr. Bernice Jones). Photo Credit: Tahney Fosdike.
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Bust of Neptune by Lambert-Sigisbert Adam (1700-1759). Collection: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California.
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Bracelet with lions’ head finials. Place of origin: Near Eastern, Anatolian. Period: Bronze Age. Date: ca. 2400 B.C. Medium: Gold. Source: mfa.org
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Anubis. Date: 664-30 B.C. Place of origin: Saqqara, Egypt Period: Late Period to Ptolemaic Period, 26th Dynasty or later Medium: Wood, pigment. Collection: Brooklyn Museum.
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