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Ohara Koson — Owl, early 1920s. Ohara Koson, Ohara Hōson, Ohara Shōson, (Kanazawa 1877 – Tokyo 1945) was a Japanese painter and woodblock print designer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, part of the shin-hanga ("new prints") movement.
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Terminal of a Grivna (Torque) Shaped like the Head of a Wolf-Dragon. Period: Era of the Huns. Date: Late 4th - early 5th century AD. Place of origin: Stavropol Territory, the Village of Tatarka. Medium: Gold and garnets. Collection: Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.
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Detail of the Theseus Mosaic from a Roman villa, Loigersfelder near Salzburg, Austria. Now on display at the Kunst Historisches Museum, Vienna.
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In the Tepidarium, 1881 Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912).
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The bust of Nefertiti is one of the best-known finds in the world dating back to ancient Egypt. Nefertiti was the wife of Akhenaten, the infamous pharaoh who introduced a new monotheistic religion of the sun god that supplanted the worship of all the other gods.
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Greco-Roman medallion that depicts two lovers. Date: c. 3rd - 4th century BC. Collection: Williams College Museum of Arts, Williamstown, Massachusetts.
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Rock tomb in the Phrygian Valley (Frig Vadisi), modern-day Seyitgazi, Eskisehir, Turkey: Tomb of Solon. Photos by archaeologyart:
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Granite statue depicts the god Horus as a falcon. Dimensions: 52 x 37 cm. Date: Ptolemaic Period, ca. 305-30 BC. Private Collection.
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General view of pyramids from the Giza Plateau (from left- the Pyramid of Mykerinos, Chephren and Cheops and three small pyramids known as Queens' Pyramids on front side) Photographer: Adobe Stock By WitR.
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The Virgin of Consolation by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905). Collection: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg.
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Detail, Tomb of the Diver, Italy c. 470 BC. This is the fresco that gave the tomb its name: “a young man diving into the curving waves in the waters.”
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Detail, Perseus with the Head of Medusa by Antonio Canova. (1804–6) Photo via xshayarsha/blog.
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Tell-Asmar Figurines. The Tell Asmar sculpture hoard is a collection of 12 human effigy statues, discovered at the Mesopotamian site of Tell Asmar. The hoard was discovered during Henri Frankfort’s Oriental Institute excavations in the 1930s.
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Traditional Ancient Persian / Iranic clothing’s of different eras of history (1/3). Images found via Non-Western Historical Fashion Blog on Tumblr.
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Four rats rowing a little boat in the margins of Pontifical of Guillaume Durand, 14th century France. Source: “Pontifical de Guillaume Durand” (Guillaume Durand), approx. 1390, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Paris, ms. 143, fol. 77v.
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Pan and Venus by Adolphe-Alexandre Lesrel (1865).
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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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Egyptian blue-glazed faience bead depicting a curled-up hedgehog. Date: Middle Kingdom, c.1985 - 1650 BC. Collection: National Museums Scotland, United Kingdom.
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Viking silver entwined Urnes Beast brooch. Date: c. 11th century AD. Collection & Credit:Timeline Auctions.
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Medinet Habou, Thebes, Egypt. Photographer: William Henry Goodyear (1846–1923) Credit: Brooklyn Museum Collections, Goodyear Archival Collection.
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Fish Pendant. Culture: Egypt, Late Dynasty 12–early Dynasty 13 (ca. 1878–1749 B.C.). Medium: Gold over a core of unknown material. Collection: National Museums Scotland.
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A Marble Head of a Bull, Roman Imperial, circa 2nd Century A.D. Private Collection.
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Fountain Nymph by Alexander Munro, 1863.
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Cherubs from the Casa dell'Efebo, Pompeii.
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