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Ink tablet in the form of a turtle (China, Han dynasty, 206 BC - 220 AD) Earthenware with modelled and incised decor including the Eight Trigrams of the I-Ching (The Book of Changes). Image and text information: Minneapolis Institute of Art.
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The Fisherman Frescoes from Akrotiri on the Aegean island of Thera (Santorini). The male may actually be a youth offering fish as part of a religious ceremony rather than a fisherman. From Room 5 of the West House, c. 17th century BC. (National Archaeological Museum, Athens)
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Wild Goat style pitcher. Culture: Greek. Orientalizing Period about 625–600 BC. Currently located: Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
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Game of Hounds and Jackals 12th Dynasty, Middle Kingdom c.1814-1805 BC. Now on display at the British Museum. Detailed post: instagram.com/archaeologyart
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Medieval Silver-Gilt Skull Ring, c. 16th Century AD.
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Great Horned Owl and Fledgling at Dusk by Joseph Rusling Meeker (1827-1889).
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Gold bracelet from the tomb of Shoshenq II (r. 887-885 BC) mounted with a lapis lazuli scarab, from Tanis, 3rd Intermediate, 22nd Dynasty.
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Upper part of a bronze caduceus, snakes twined around a staff. Literally a ‘herald.’ Carried by Hermes, messenger of the Gods. Also, Hermes’ Staff. Date: 5th C. BC. Place of origin: Greece. Medium: Bronze.
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Wild boar; Floor mosaic of the entrance to the House of Vesbinus (Casa del Cinghiale II). Date: A.D. 50—79. Photographer: Ilya Shurygin.
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Statuette of a Griffin with an Arimasp. Culture: Greek. Place of origin: Italy (?). Date: 125–75 BC. Medium: Bronze. Collection: Getty Museum.
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Decapitator (a mythological being) Plaque. Date: A.D. 390–450. Geography: Perú. Culture: Moche (Loma Negra). Medium: Silvered copper, shell. Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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Gold pendant in the form of a Cretan wild goat. ca. 1700-1550 BC. Culture: Minoan (Crete). Now on display at the British Museum.
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A view of Mount Vesuvius erupting near Naples, Italy, print dated to 1663.
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Terracotta krater. Period: Geometric. Date: ca. 750–735 BC. Culture: Greek, Attic Attributed to the Hirschfeld Workshop. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 150.
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The Dance of the Maenads, 2nd Century AD. Medium: White marble. Now on display at the Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain.
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Egyptian Priest Entering a Temple. Oil on panel, 47 x 34.3 cm, 1892, Art by Ludwig Deutsch.
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Mesopotamian Kudurru (Boundary Stone), 2nd Dynasty of Isin, 1157-1025 BC. Collection: California Museum of Ancient Art (CMAA). Detailed post: instagram.com/archaeologyart
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St. Stephen’s Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem, circa 1895. (Photograph: Library of Congress)
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Guennol Lioness. A Magnesite or Crystalline Limestone Figure of a Lioness. Culture: Elam circa 3000-2800 B.C. Height: 3 1/4 in. 8.26 cm. Private Collection..
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Spherical Astrolabe, Museum of the History of Science, 1480. This astrolabe is made of brass with the inscriptions, hour-lines, meridians and circles of altitude in silver; the rotating star map is made of brass, laminated with silver on the ecliptic and equatorial circles.
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Abu Simbel in Nubia, southern Egypt, 1860s, photo by Francis Frith.
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The Atalanta Lekythos: Eros by Dan Diffendale.
Attic white ground lekythos with labeled figures (ΑΤΑΛΑΝΤΕ and ΕΡΟΣ), attributed to the Athenian vase-painter Douris (Beazley). 500-490 BC (Late Archaic) Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
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Detail of a Sasanian bowl dating back to the 3rd century AD. The silver and gilt bowl depicts a member of the Persian nobility. Photo Credit: Babylon Chronicle Blog on Tumblr.
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The Caryatid Porch of the Erechtheion, Athens. Photo by William J. Stillman (1828 - 1901).
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Handle of a chest: lion’s head, Roman Imperial Period ca. 200 AD. Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
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