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Athena and Hera, Mycenaean style by Peter Connollys, The Legend of Odysseus.
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Hippopotamus, Egyptian, 2040-1638 BC. “Hippos were fearsome beasts.. The hippopotamus was also a power for good. Tawaret, a hippo goddess, protected women in pregnancy and childbirth.” Risd Museum.
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Aphrodite, by Briton Rivière (English, 1840–1920).
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Ancient Greek gold finger ring with a large round bezel, engraved with a siren playing the aulos. Date: c. 4th century BC.
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A jar filled with 2500-year-old eggs is pictured at the excavation site of an ancient tomb dating back to the Spring and Autumn Period in Shangxing town, Liyang city, east China's Jiangsu province, 24 March 2019.
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An Amarna period relief depicting a Pharaoh and his Queen - the identity of the two is much debated. Date: c. Late 1300s to mid 1200s BC.
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A Roman mosaic depicting three birds stealing pearls from a jewellery box in the National Archaeological Museum, Pompeii, Naples, Italy.
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The Game of the Vestals, Ulpiano Checa Sanz (Spanish, 1860–1916).
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The frescoes of spring. Detail with the kiss of the swallows. Akrotiri, Thera island, Cyclades, Greece.
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Bowl with Painted Motifs. Date: c. 970–1020 AD. Culture: Mimbres culture (found in New Mexico), Saint Louis Art Museum.
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Pan mosaic from Pompeii. Now on display at the Archaeological museum of Naples.
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A beautiful Mesolithic (12500-3900 BC) amber figure of a bear. It washed up on a beach at Fanø in Denmark from a submerged Mesolithic settlement under the North Sea. , now on display at the National Museum of Denmark.
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Edgar Maxence (1871-1954) Fleurs du lac, 1900, (detail)
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A silver diobol - it is a cute little Greek ancient coin, it was minted in the city of Fokaja (Phokaia), Jonia, the coin was minted in 521-478 BC.
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"Spring" by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, detail, 1894.
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The Stag Hunt Mosaic (c. 300 BC). The Archaeological Museum of Pella, Pella, Greece.
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A dancer with a removable crocodile helmet from Mexico. Culture: Colima culture, 300 BC-300 AD. Now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.
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Fresco of a winged woman. Culture: Roman.. Date: A.D. 1st - 2nd century AD. Medium: Fresco painting; Ocher and brown tones on a red background. Source: khm.at
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The crowning of Dionysus, a roman mosaic found in the ancient city of thysdrus, 2nd century AD. El Djem Archaeological Museum, Tunisia.
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Witches and Sorceresses in John William Waterhouse paintings.
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Ancient Greek gold ring depicting the goddess Nike. circa 4th century BC. Private Collection.
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Pegasus. Roman fresco of the 2nd cent. AD. Now in the National Museum of Rome - Palazzo Massimo alle Terme. Photographer: Carole Raddato @carolemadge
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A collection of various rings, ca. 1295-1070 B.C.E, 19th Dynasty (Ramesside period), New Kingdom.
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Detail from an ancient Egyptian papyrus, depicting a lion playing the board game of senet against a gazelle. The scene is one of multiple satiric vignettes of animals behaving like humans. ca. 1250 BC.
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The Laocoön, Vatican, Rome, 1910s. The story is that during the Trojan War, Laocoön, a priest of Apollo in the city of Troy, warned his fellow Trojans against taking in the wooden horse left by the Greeks outside the city gates.
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