Collections: Items Tagged "Ancient"

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On View: Hairpin

Ivory’s value results from its scarcity, as well as its association with the elephant, a symbol of power and strength. Ivory bracelets...

Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

Hiroshige's 118 woodblock landscape and genre scenes of mid-nineteenth-century Tokyo, is one of the greatest achievements of Japanese art.

    On View: Door (Ilekun)

    The Yoruba often install doors carved in low relief in places frequented by people of special distinction. This door probably belonged to a ...

     

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    Donation Stela with a CurseHead of a Ptolemaic QueenRoyal Statues in ProcessionThe Kings Scribe Si-ese, Grinding GrainBase for Votive Model of a Temple GatewayNefertitiRelief of a FowlerRelief of Mourning WomenStatue of MetjetjiHeadrest with Two Images of the God BesPrincess Sobeknakht Suckling a PrinceFemale Offering BearerLife-Death FigureSunk Relief Representation of Ptolemy IIDouble Spout and Bridge BottleStela of Djefi and Ankh[en]es-itesStela of PakhaasRitual Tripod Vessel (Ding)
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