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Kylix from Tarquinia. Dance scenes around the central medallion. In the central medallion is represented a scene of struggle between Heracles and Triton. Etruscan art. VI century BC. National Museum of Tarquinia, Italy.
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Greek vase depicting the olive harvest. VI century BC. Now on display at the British Museum.
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Detail, The Apparition by James Tissot, 1885.
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The Villa Adriana (Hadrian’s Villa) in Tivoli, Italy. Photo Credit: Aquilifer - Wikimedia Commons.
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Olive Trees with Yellow Sky and Sun, Vincent van Gogh, 1889.
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Today in History: World's first adhesive postage stamp, the "Penny Black", is first used in Great Britain. 6 May 1840.
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Fragments from Pair of Feet from Colossal Statue of Amenhotep III, Tenth Pylon, Photographer Unknown.
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The Persians adopted the Lydian tradition of minting coins following their conquer of Lydia in 547 BC. The shown example below is of the obverse and reverse of a double daric of Artaxerxes II, ca. 330–300 BC. Cabinet des Médailles, France. Photo taken by Marie-Lan Nguyen.
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Helios in his chariot, a relief sculpture excavated at Troy in 1872. Berlin, Pergamon Museum. Helios in ancient Greek religion and myth, is the god and personification of the Sun, often depicted in art with a radiant crown and driving a horse-drawn chariot through the sky.
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Orvieto Cathedral, detail of a twisted column. Photographer: Simone Tagliaferri, Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0.
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Aulos player. Date: 5th century B.C. Provenaance: Tarquinia, Tomb of the Leopards. The Tomb of the Leopards is an Etruscan burial chamber so called for the confronted leopards painted above a banquet scene. The tomb dates to around 480–450 BC.
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The starry night sky, detail from the ceiling of the burial chamber of the Pyramid Temple [Ku16] of King Tantamani (last King of the XXV Dynasty, ca. 664–653 BC) in the Royal Necropolis of Karoy (now called “kurru”, in Sudan). Image via Alamy.
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Statuette of Pazuzu, Assyrian, beginning of the 1st millennium BC. Now on display at the Musée du Louvre. Photo (C) Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Thierry Ollivier.
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Assistants at the Swedish History Museum, sitting on the 12th century bench from Kungsåra church. Stockholm, 1908.
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Ancient Greek ball player balancing the ball. Part of a marble grave stele, found in Piraeus, 400-375 BC. Item (NAMA) 873 of the National Archaeological Museum, Athens.
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“Gossip”, 1911, John William Waterhouse. (1848 – 1917).
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The Pharaoh’s Handmaidens, 1883, John Collier (1850–1934).
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A pair of Greek gold earrings in the form of Dolphins, 4th c.BC.
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Shark Pendant, Costa Rica or Panama, Burica Peninsula, Period: 11th–16th century AD , Medium: Gold. Now on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Members of the Japanese Mission to Europe in front of the Sphinx, Egypt, by Antonio Beato, 1864.
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Votive double ax (Gold), Culture: Early Aegean, Minoan. Period: Bronze Age, Late Minoan Period. Date: 1550–1500 BC. Now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, US.
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John Collier, The Death of Cleopatra, 1890.
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Landscape with a Roman Temple by Hubert Robert (French 1733-1808). Medium: oil-canvas.
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