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Limestone statuette of a hunter
The Greek trading colony at Naukratis was founded early in t…
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Upper part of a colossal limestone statue of a bearded man
In 526/5 BC Cyprus suffered the same fate as the East Greek …
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Boundary stone (kudurru)
The cuneiform text of this kudurru describes the military se…
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Boundary stone (kudurru)
Most kudurru have a cuneiform inscription giving details of …
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Calcite (limestone) cylinder seal
Seals, like this one, were not just made to act as a mark of…
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Carved limestone stela with a figure of a god
This grey limestone stela comes from the religious terrace-s…
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Copper foundation peg
This copper figure of a bull in a reed marsh is a foundation…
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Funerary bust showing a deceased couple
From the first century BC the city of Palmyra, in the Syrian…
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Limestone ossuary
This limestone chest was used to hold the bones of a dead pe…
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Limestone ossuary
Limestone chests of this type were used to hold the bones of…
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Limestone statue of a woman
This is a typical figure which was set up in temples to repr…
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Limestone stela with a dedication to Baal
This stela comes from a religious precinct known as the toph…
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Limestone stela with images of the goddess Tanit
This stela comes from a religious precinct in Carthage known…
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Limestone tripod bowl
This limestone tripod vessel may have been an incense burner…
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Stone figure of an attendant god
This limestone figure is one of a pair set up outside a door…
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Stone funerary bust of Aqmat
According to the Aramaic inscription, the woman portrayed he…
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'Tell el-Yahudiyeh ware' juglet
Vessels of this type were first identified by the excavator …
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Altar to Neptune
This limestone altar, dedicated to the sea-god Neptune, was …
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Statue of a hunter-god, possibly Attis
Attis was the young lover of the goddess Cybele, the 'Great …
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Stone plaque decorated with horses
The faint lines that can just be made out on the surface of …
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The Folkton drums
These objects were found by Canon William Greenwell in 1889 …
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Adriaen van de Velde, Study of a Cavalier on Horseback, a red chalk drawing
Adriaen Van de Velde (1636-1672) made his numerous red chalk…
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Alexander Runciman, Lochleven Castle on an Islet, a chalk drawing
Alexander Runciman (1736-85) and his brother John (1744-68),…
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Andrea del Sarto, Four Studies of a Child, a red chalk drawing with red wash
These studies for the infant St John the Baptist, were made …
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Federico Barocci, Landscape with Banks and Trees, a drawing
This landscape was drawn from life in black chalk with a gre…
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François Boucher, Pastoral Composition with Two Young Lovers, a chalk drawing
This fine drawing is in black chalk with some white and yell…
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Giorgio Vasari, Abundance, a drawing
Abundance or Plenty carries a basket of fruit on her right s…
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Honoré Daumier, Street Scene with a Mountebank Playing a Drum, a drawing in pen and watercolour over black chalk
This is one of the most famous drawings by Daumier (1808-79)…
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Jacopo Pontormo, Two Monks Standing, a chalk drawing
This drawing is a study for a painting of the Supper at Emma…
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Michelangelo, Grotesque heads; Hercules and Antaeus, a red chalk, black chalk and stylus drawing
The three grotesque heads in this drawing by Michelangelo (1…
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Michelangelo, Lazarus, a red chalk drawing
This drawing by Michelangelo relates to a gigantic altarpiec…
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Michelangelo, Studies for the Last Judgement, black chalk drawing
Michelangelo (1475-1564) spent the last thirty years of his …
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Roelandt Savery, Alpine Landscape, a chalk drawing
This is one of a group of large drawings in red and black ch…
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False door of Neferseshemkhufu
This false door is thought to come from Giza, mainly because…
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Fragment of painted limestone relief from the tomb of Kemsit
Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II succeeded in reunifying Egypt after…
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Fragment of the beard of the Great Sphinx
Together with the nearby pyramids, the Great Sphinx at Giza …
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Fragment of wall relief showing the attendants of Djehutyhotep
As nomarch, or governor, of the 15th Upper Egyptian nome (pr…
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Fragmentary limestone face of Akhenaten
This face is easy to recognize as that of Akhenaten, even th…
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Limestone block statue of Inebny
The inscription on this block statue contains the convention…
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Limestone false door of Ptahshepses
In the Old Kingdom, acting as an interface between the world…
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Limestone figurine in the form of a woman and her baby lying on a bed
One of the most important objectives of marriage in ancient …
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Limestone headrest of Qeniherkhepeshef
Qeniherkhepeshef lived at the village of Deir el-Medina, and…
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Limestone ostrakon with a register of workmen's absences
Deir el-Medina is the remains of a walled village for the cr…
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Limestone ostrakon with lion's head and quail chicks
The workmen who decorated the tombs of the kings, and those …
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Limestone pilasters of Horemheb
Horemheb was one of the most powerful figures in the reign o…
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Limestone pyramidion of Wedjahor
The uppermost stone on a royal pyramid in the Old Kingdom (a…
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Limestone relief from a tomb
By the time of the Fifth Dynasty (about 2494-2345 BC) and th…
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Limestone relief slab from the tomb of Rehotep
Rehotep was a prince of the Fourth Dynasty, the son of King …
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Limestone statue and stelae from the offering chapel of Inyotef
Abydos was the principal cult centre of Osiris . From the Ol…
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Limestone statue of a husband and wife
We do not know the names of this couple, or where their stat…
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Limestone statue of Amenhotep I
After the construction of the mortuary complex of Nebhepetre…
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Limestone statue of Katep and Hetepheres
This pair-statue is an excellent example of the ancient Egyp…
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Limestone statue of Panehsy
Such a statue would have been placed in a temple, exhibiting…
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Limestone statue of Tjaysetimu
The Nubian kings of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty (about 747-656 …
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Limestone stela of Aapehty
This stela is one of many dedicated to various deities rever…
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Limestone stela of Horemheb
Horemheb was one of the most powerful figures in the reign o…
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Limestone stela of Mahwia
In 1908 Flinders Petrie was excavating in the foundations of…
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Limestone stela of Pasebakhaenniut (Psusennes)
The carving of this stela is particularly fine. It shows the…
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Limestone stela of Pasheryenptah
Pasheryenptah was a member of an important family of high pr…
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Limestone stela of Penbuy
This colourful stela is one of two in the British Museum whi…
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Limestone stela of Sebekaa
This stela would probably have been set up in a very simple …
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Limestone stela of the sculptor Userwer
The unfinished decoration of this stela is particularly inte…
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Limestone stela of Tjetji
A large number of stelae were made at many sites across Egyp…
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Limestone stela with a seated figure of Akhenaten
In the Amarna Period (1390-1327 BC) a major change of emphas…
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Mummy mask of Syros
Gilded mummy-masks such as this appear to have been made for…
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Shrine stela of Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye
The reign of King Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten) (1352-1336 BC) br…
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The shrine stela of Ineny
This shrine is presumably from Ineny's tomb. It combines ele…
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Upper part of a limestone statue of Queen Ahmose-Merytamun
Giovanni Belzoni discovered this piece of a rare early Eight…
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