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Stele depicting the 19th Dynasty pharaoh Seti I (r. 1290-1279 BCE) and his son, the future Ramesses

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Ancient Mesopotamian baked-clay plaque, depicting two bull-men holding a palm trunk topped by a sun-

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Ancient Mesopotamian baked-clay plaque depicting the storm god Ishchali.  Artist unknown; ca. 2000-1

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Quartzite portrait sculpture of the 13th Dynasty pharaoh Neferhotep (I) Khasekhemre.  Artist unknown

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Ancient Egyptian raised relief fragment (limestone), bearing a hymn inscribed in hieroglyphics.  Art

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Head from an ancient Egyptian coffin (wood, gesso, and paint).  Artist unknown; ca. 1550-1069 BCE (N

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Sandstone sculpture of the head of a Nubian captive, from the mortuary complex at Medinet Habu of th

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Column capital in the shape of a man-bull hybrid, from the palace of Xerxes I (r. 486-465 BCE) at Pe

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Painted jar depicting an animal procession, from the Semna South Fort, Semna, Nubia (present-day Sud

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Painted model boat, from Sedment el-Gebel, Egypt.  Artist unknown; ca. 2200 BCE (9th Dynasty, First

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ancient-mesopotamia:Assyrian Lamassu at the Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago.T

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