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Gilt and lacquered bronze statue of Shaka
The historical Buddha was born as a prince named Siddhartha …
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Gilt bronze and silver figure of the enshrined Buddha
This image of Buddha stands in a thirty-one centimetre high …
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Hanging canopy (tengai)
A canopy or tengai , hangs from the ceiling of Japanese Budd…
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Lacquer cup
The cup is a shallow oval, with handles (ears) on the long s…
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Aes signatum or money ingot
The Roman historian Livy (about 59 BC - AD 17) mentions that…
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Brass sestertius of Hadrian
All Roman emperors found it vital to stay popular with the s…
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Bronze as of Antoninus Pius, showing Britannia
Britannia, the personification of Britain, first appears on …
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Bronze banliang coin
The Chinese inscription on this coin reads banliang , with b…
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Bronze coin of Augustus and Agrippa, with pig's trotter appendage
This coin was produced at the town of Colonia Nemausus, anci…
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Bronze coin of Caracalla with Christian graffiti
This large bronze coin was minted at the Greek city of Cyzic…
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Bronze coin of Ephesos, reign of emperor Macrinus
This bronze coin of Ephesos comes from the reign of the Roma…
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Bronze coin of Ephesos, reign of Valerian
This bronze coin of Ephesos comes from the period of the rul…
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Bronze coin of Pontius Pilate, Procurator of Judaea
The Herodian dynasty lost its sole control over Judaea in AD…
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Bronze coin of Smyrna, reign of emperor Caracalla
This bronze coin of Smyrna comes from the period of the rule…
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Bronze coin of Tarsus, reign of emperor Elagabalus
This bronze coin of the eastern city of Tarsus comes from th…
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Bronze coin of the city of Alexandria, reign of emperor Hadrian
In 30 BC Egypt became a province of the Roman Empire. Unlike…
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Bronze coin of the city of Alexandria, reign of emperor Hadrian
The Ptolemaic kings had consciously sought to turn Egypt int…
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Bronze coin of the city of Alexandria, reign of emperor Hadrian
In 30 BC Egypt became a province of the Roman Empire. Unlike…
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Bronze coin-shaped charm
Touch the animation button to see the traditional process of…
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Bronze Daguan tongbao coin
Touch the animation button to see the traditional process of…
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Bronze Daibinh thinhbao coin
Like Korea and Japan, Vietnam issued its first coins based o…
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Bronze follis of Theodohad
Following the fall of Rome in the late fifth century, a numb…
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Bronze Kaiyuan tongbao coin
The Chinese inscription on this coin reads 'Kai yuan tong ba…
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Bronze knife coin inlaid with gold
This distinctive coin combines features of ancient knife mon…
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Bronze nummus of Magnentius with Christogram
For most of the fourth century AD, Roman society was a curio…
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Bronze reliquary and Kushan coins from a Buddhist relic deposit
In 1836, Charles Masson, an Englishman who was employed, amo…
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Bronze sestertius of Nero with harbour scene
Under the emperor Nero (reigned AD 54-68) the artistic achie…
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Bronze sestertius with the Circus Maximus
The Circus Maximus was the greatest hippodrome (chariot-raci…
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Cast bronze medal commemorating the Pazzi Conspiracy by Bertoldo di Giovanni
The medal tells the story of an attack on the Medici family,…
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Cast bronze medal of John VIII Palaeologus, Emperor of Byzantium, by Pisanello
According to art historical tradition, this is 'the first tr…
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Cast bronze medal of Leon Battista Alberti by Matteo de'Pasti
Leon Battista Alberti (1404-72) was one of the leading human…
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Cast bronze medal of Leonello d'Este, Marchese of Ferrara, by Pisanello
Leonello d'Este (1407-50) was born into the aristocratic rul…
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Nummus of Diocletian
Almost all Roman emperors left imperial office by dying. If …
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Roman coins reused as weights in an Anglo-Saxon balance
Gold and silver coins have an intrinsic value because they a…
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Strip of three Roman bronze coins (asses)
The ancient city of Rome was huge by any standards - approac…
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Struck bronze medal of Cosimo I de' Medici by Domenico Poggini
Giorgio Vasari, painter and biographer of artists, designed …
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The pot-hoard from the Temple of Artemis at Ephesos
Deciding which are the earliest coins, let alone when they w…
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Bronze bust of a woman
This distinctive bronze bust of a woman is one of the earlie…
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Bronze dinos and a gold myrtle spray
These two objects were discovered by Lord Elgin's agent in 1…
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Bronze figure of a horse
Small bronze horses were frequently dedications in the shrin…
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Bronze figure of Jupiter
This bronze figure of Jupiter (Greek equivalent Zeus) is one…
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Bronze handled dish (patera) showing Scylla
The centre of the dish has relief decoration showing the sea…
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Bronze head of a goddess, probably Aphrodite
In about 1872 a man digging his field on the site of ancient…
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Bronze head of Apollo: the 'Chatsworth Head'
This impressive bronze head is from a slightly over life-siz…
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Head of Augustus
In 31 BC he defeated Mark Antony and Cleopatra at the battle…
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Bronze head of Hypnos
Hypnos first appears in mythology in the works of one of the…
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Bronze mirror showing Herekele and Mlacuch
The scene shows Herekele (the Etruscan name for Herakles) li…
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Bronze model of a 2-horse chariot (biga)
The very animated horse (its companion is now missing) is pu…
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Bronze portrait of a man
The thick-walled casting of this bronze portrait of a man su…
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Bronze statuette of a huntsman, perhaps Alexander the Great
Throughout antiquity royal dynasts promoted an image of them…
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Bronze statuette of Vanth
Vanth was the servant of Charun (Greek Cheiron), lord of the…
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Bronze statuette of Venus or Dione
In 1791-92 some Albanian peasants found an extraordinary gro…
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Bronze tripod-stand for a bowl
This magnificent bronze stand was probably used to support a…
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Fragments of horses from Halikarnassos
A four-horse chariot group ( quadriga ) was positioned on th…
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Gold-plated bronze pin
The inscription reads: 'To the Paphian Aphrodite Eubola vowe…
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'Hand of Sabazius'
Bronze hands of this kind are associated with the cult of th…
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Military horse trapping inscribed with the name of Pliny the Elder
Cnaeus Plinius Secundus, or Pliny the Elder (AD 23/4-79), th…
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The sword of Tiberius
This detail of the tinned and gilded scabbard shows the Roma…
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Three bronze strigils with scenes from the Roman Circus
These three strigils or cleaning blades would have hung from…
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Bronze altar to Rahmaw
This fragmentary altar is made of bronze and is cast in reli…
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Bronze band from the gates of the palace of Shalmaneser III
Tablets inform us that the gates at Balawat (one days march …
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Bronze band from the gates of the palace of Shalmaneser III
Tablets inform us that the gates at Balawat (one days march …
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Bronze bowl
This very fragmentary bronze platter was discovered in the l…
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Bronze bowl
On 5 January 1849 the excavator Henry Layard made a remarkab…
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Bronze bowl with Egyptian motifs
On 5 January 1849 the excavator, Henry Layard, made a remark…
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Bronze ceremonial axe head inlaid with silver
This bronze axe head is in the form of three animals, a boar…
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Bronze door-slab
This door-slab comes from the lower part of a flight of step…
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Bronze figure
One of the duties of a Mesopotamian king was to care for the…
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