Encyclopedia of society and culture in the ancient world ( PDFDrive ) 982

List of Illustrations

Pottery figures of a drummer and a
woman and child, Tala-Tonalá style,
Jalisco, Mexico
Group of bronze tools for woodworking
from Thebes, Egypt
Stone bowl from Khafajeh, Iraq
Bird head made of stone, Papua, New Guinea
Steatite vase from Greece
Papyrus with part of the “Tale of the
Eloquent Peasant” from Egypt
Drawing by Michelangelo of the Crucifixion
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Pyramid of a king, thought to be
Adikhalamani Tabirqa, in
Meroë, Sudan
A reconstructed Egyptian grave pit
Jade eye plaques from China
Iron Age pottery cinerary urn shaped like
a hut, from Italy

Stele of Aristion, a philosopher of Athens
Gold diadem, found in the Camaná
valley, Peru
Bronze figure of Isis and Horus, from
North Saqqara, Egypt
Babylonian lapis lazuli cylinder seal
of Sin-ishmeanni
A 19th-century Indian painting depicting
the climax of the epic the Ramayana
The figure of Silenus, the mentor of Dionysus,
Greek god of plays
Marble relief with two Roman theater masks
The Great Harris Papyrus, from Thebes,
probably Deir el-Medina, Egypt
Mesopotamian stone vase depicting animals
of the first city dwellers of Mesopotamia
Indian bronze cast coin
Mesolithic perforated part skull and antlers
of red deer, from Star Carr, Vale of
Pickering, North Yorkshire, England

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Roman gold bars with assayers’ stamps
Granite statue of Senmut holding
Princess Neferure, the temple of
Amun, Karnak, Thebes, Egypt
Cuneiform tablet with schoolwork,
probably from southern Iraq
Yue ware water dropper in the shape of
a frog drinking from a cup, from
Zhejiang, southern China
Fragments of painted plaster, Roman
Britain, from Otford, Kent, England
Colossi of Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II
and his wife at entrance to Karnak
Temple
Portion of a relief in the tomb of Darius I,
king of Persia, showing his throne
bearers
Cowrie shells, the earliest form of money
in China
Roman marble relief of Jason, the physician
and patient
Stucco head of a monk, said to be from

Hadda, Gandhara
The Dream of Scipio, by Raphael
Papyrus marriage contract between the
priest Pagosh and Teteimhotep, from
Assiut, Egypt
Scarab stamp seal and impressions, in
lapis lazuli, depicting Ishtar, the
Assyrian and Babylonian goddess of
love, fertility, marriage, and childbirth
Fragment of an archaic Greek stele, with
the heads of a mother and child
Ethiopian Orthodox priests at festival
of Timkat
Roman hand of Sabazius, found at
Tournai, Belgium
Pottery dog, from Colima, Mexico
Fineware cup decorated with frogs and
lotus flowers painted in black, from
Faras, Sudan

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