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Sumerian/Mesopotamian Amulet Seal in the Form of a Bull, c. 3250 BCE.

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Codex Rotundus “266 almost perfectly circular pages of parchment have been bound together to build a block of 3cm height with a diameter of only 9cm.”

The initials of the metal clasps point us to Adolph of Cleves, Lord of Ravenstein (1425 - 1492) as the owner.

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An Attic Pottery Pyxis Geometric Period, 8th Century B.C.

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Blue Faience Hedgehog

Hedgehogs had a favourable reputation in ancient Egypt, and were often seen as a symbol of rebirth and renewal of life. This was likely due to their reappearances after long periods of absence while hibernating.

Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty, ca. 1900 BC. From Thebes. Now in the Ägyptisches Museum, Berlin. 10250

Photo: Sandra Steiß

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Skara Brae Buddo, human figure carved from whalebone, dated c. 2,900 – 2,400 BC. Discovered at Skara Brae, a Neolithic settlement located in the Bay of Skaill on the Mainland, an island in the Orkney archipelago of Scotland.

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Ink stone in the form of a turtle, China, 6th-7th century

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Erotic fresco at the House of the Vettii in Pompeii.

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Memento Mori mosaic from Pompei, circa 1st century AD

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The Book of Kells, Ireland, circa 800 AD

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Henri-Guillaume Schlesinger (German-French, 1814-1893)

Jeunes filles au perroquet

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Gold and garnet pendant, Anglo-Saxon England, early 7th century AD

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Painted lid coffin of Petamenophis, 117–138 AD, Roman Egypt

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Scrimshawed pie crimper in shape of a fish, made by a sailor for a beloved person aboard or ashore, mid 19th century

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Duck shaped cosmetic vessel made from a single piece of rock crystal (quartz), Mycenaean Greece, circa 1500 BC

from The National Archaeological Museum, Athens

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Memento Mori Finger Ring, black enamel and gold, 17th Century

From the London Museum

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Hemendranath Majumdar (1894-1948)