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Roman Marble Sarcophagus Lid Fragment

Origin: MediterraneanCirca: 3rd Quarter of the 3rd Century AD Dimensions: 11" Height x 20" Length (28 cm x 51 cm) excluding stand Medium: Marble

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Relief with Achaemenid warriors.

Pergamon Museum in Berlin

Photo: Jakub Hałun

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Relief of Maya praying to the gods

Maya was Chancellor and Overseer of the Treasury during the reign of Kings Tutankhamun, Ay and Horemheb. New Kingdom, late 18th Dynasty, ca. 1332-1292 BC. Tomb of Maya, Saqqara necropolis.

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Greek Geometric Pottery Amphora

Origin: Mediterranean Circa: Geometric Period, c. 725-700 BC Dimensions: 18.75" Height x 10" Width (47.6cms x 25.4cms) Medium: Terracotta

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Contest between Apollo and Hercules for the Delphic tripod

* Temple of Apollo Palatinus, Rome

* 1st century CE

attribution: Sailko, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Hercules and the Hydra by John Singer Sargent (1921)

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Title: The Mourning Mary Magdalene Artist: perhaps Colijn de Coter (Flemish, ca. 1440/45 - ca. 1522/32) -- attribution contested Date: ca. 1500 Genre: religious art Period: Early Netherlandish Medium: oil on panel Dimensions: 112.3 cm (44.2 in) high x 55.3 cm (21.7 in) wide Location: Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary

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Ancient Pottery from the Italo-Geometric period, Cypro-Geometric, and Attic.

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"Hathor, patroness of the west, who is represented as a cow emerging from the western mountain at Thebes into the clumps of papyrus that fringe the Nile Valley. She wears around her neck the pendulum shaped counterpoise and loosely strung bead rows of a 'menyet' collar.

The 'menyet' collar provides source of sound when shaken and particularly associated with the goddess' worship. Between her horns are a sun-disc and tall plumes."

Papyrus of Ani, British Museum, EA10470,34

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A bust on the painted loggia at Palazzo Altemps in Rome, Italy | myleslea  

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Blue in a room

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Khmer Sandstone Torso of Lokesvara

Origin: CambodiaCirca: 10th Century AD to 11th Century AD Dimensions: 12.5" Height x 12" Width (31.8 cm x 30.5 cm) excluding base Medium: Sandstone

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Mery, Chief Scribe of the Royal Archives, depicted upon the false door from his tomb at Saqqara.

Old Kingdom, 4th Dynasty, ca. 2613-2498 BC. Now in the Louvre. N 153

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Detail of Dionysos, Hermes, and satyrs from a terracotta amphora, attributed to a member of the Bateman Group

Greek (from Attica), c. 530 B.C.

Metropolitan Museum of Art

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A harmonious union. The Three Graces by Raphael, Musée Condé, Chantilly, France. Date: 1503-1505.

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Two unicorns.

Minoan fresco from Akrotiri (Santorini).

Approximately 1500 BC.

Currently preserved at the Museum of Heraklion.