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Ancient Roman glass flask with cut decoration.  Artist unknown; 3rd cent. CE.  Now in the British Mu

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Denarius of Julia Mamaea, mother of the Roman emperor Severus Alexander (r. 222-235 CE).  On the obv

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Statue of a Molossian hound.  Roman copy (2nd cent. CE) after a Hellenistic bronze original, with la

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Hao Siwen in the Snow, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, between 1845 and 1850

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Ancient Egyptian wooden funerary stela of a man named Naftekhmut, showing him and his daughter Shepe

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Mask in the shape of a human face (simoni or mbalangwe) used in the Nyau masquerade of the Chewa (Ce

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Gongsun Sheng, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, between 1845 and 1850 

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Denarius of the Roman emperor Septimius Severus (r. 193-211 CE), found in Suffolk, England.  Now in

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Ancient Roman marble head, from a portrait statue of a veiled priestess of Vesta.  Artist unknown; c

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Christ on the Cross, Michelangelo, ca. 1541

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Roman coin issued by Gaius Cassius in 126 BCE to commemorate the lex Cassia tabellaria of 137 BCE, w

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Detail from an ancient Egyptian papyrus, depicting a lion playing the board game of senet against a

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The ancient Egyptian sky goddess Nut.  Detail from the greywacke sarcophagus of Sisobek, vizier of L

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Bronze face-mask helmet of a Roman cavalryman, worn on special occasions.  Artist unknown; late 1st

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Marble bust of Antisthenes (ca. 445-365 BCE), Socratic philosopher sometimes credited as the founder

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Ancient Roman tombstone depicting Heracles/Hercules and Hesione, daughter of King Laomedon of Troy,

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Scene from a papyrus copy of the Book of the Dead made for the High Priest Pinudjem II.  Pinudjem is

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Ancient Greek gold earrings with pendants in the shape of amphorae.  Artist unknown; 2nd/1st cent. B

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Allegory of Life and Death, Joris and Jacob Hoefnagel, 1598

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Menelaus (left) and Hector fight over the body of the Trojan hero Euphorbus.  Ancient Greek plate in

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