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A devotional statue (a married couple ?) dating to 2600 BC.Found place: Nippur in Iraq. Dimensions: 3.5 inches. Medium: Gypsum (alabaster), resin, shell rock inlays. Now on display at the The Iraq Museum, Baghdad.

A devotional statue (a married couple ?) dating to 2600 BC.Found place: Nippur in Iraq. Dimensions: 3.5 inches. Medium: Gypsum (alabaster), resin, shell rock inlays. Now on display at the The Iraq Museum, Baghdad.
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'Oedipus and the Sphinx' (1808) by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867). Oil on canvas. Louvre (RF 218). © 2010 RMN-Grand Palais (Louvre museum)/Stéphane Maréchalle

'Oedipus and the Sphinx' (1808) by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867). Oil on canvas. Louvre (RF 218). © 2010 RMN-Grand Palais (Louvre museum)/Stéphane Maréchalle
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Detail, an Octopus fresco from the palace of Knossos, Crete. The palace is full of representations of marine animals, such as these tentacles that appear in another of its murals. Photo: Public Domain.

Detail, an Octopus fresco from the palace of Knossos, Crete. The palace is full of representations of marine animals, such as these tentacles that appear in another of its murals. Photo: Public Domain.
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The Cat by John Bernard Flannagan. Date: 1930. Dimensions: 2.22 cm x 32.39 cm. Medium: granite on wood base
Credit: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, gift of Susan Dwight Bliss.

The Cat by John Bernard Flannagan. Date: 1930. Dimensions: 2.22 cm x 32.39 cm. Medium: granite on wood base Credit: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, gift of Susan Dwight Bliss.
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Breastplate. Date: c. 1000/1470 A.D. Culture: ChimĂş. Place of origin: North coast, Peru. Collection: The Art Institute of Chicago.

Breastplate. Date: c. 1000/1470 A.D. Culture: ChimĂş. Place of origin: North coast, Peru. Collection: The Art Institute of Chicago.
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Four rats rowing a little boat in the margins of Pontifical of Guillaume Durand, 14th century France. Source: “Pontifical de Guillaume Durand” (Guillaume Durand), approx. 1390, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Paris, ms. 143, fol. 77v

Four rats rowing a little boat in the margins of Pontifical of Guillaume Durand, 14th century France. Source: “Pontifical de Guillaume Durand” (Guillaume Durand), approx. 1390, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Paris, ms. 143, fol. 77v
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Dancing dogs. Date: c. 200 B.C.–A.D. 200. Culture: Late Preclassic Colima. Medium: Blackware ceramic. Collection: Princeton University Art Museum.

Dancing dogs. Date: c. 200 B.C.–A.D. 200. Culture: Late Preclassic Colima. Medium: Blackware ceramic. Collection: Princeton University Art Museum.
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Heqat, the Frog Goddess. Travertine, 15.4 x 14.7 x 15.5 cm. Predynastic Period to early first dynasty, ca. 2950 BC. Now in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio.

Heqat, the Frog Goddess. Travertine, 15.4 x 14.7 x 15.5 cm. Predynastic Period to early first dynasty, ca. 2950 BC. Now in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio.
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Bracelet with Agathodaimon, Isis-Tyche, Aphrodite, and Terenouthis. Period: Roman Period. Place of Origin: Egypt. Date: c. 1st century BC.–AD. 1st century. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 137, NY.

Bracelet with Agathodaimon, Isis-Tyche, Aphrodite, and Terenouthis. Period: Roman Period. Place of Origin: Egypt. Date: c. 1st century BC.–AD. 1st century. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 137, NY.
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Detail of fresco of couple in bed. From southern wall of room 43 (Cubiculum) in the House of the Centurion (IX 8,3) in Pompeii, 1st Century.

Detail of fresco of couple in bed. From southern wall of room 43 (Cubiculum) in the House of the Centurion (IX 8,3) in Pompeii, 1st Century.
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Roman cavalry mask, recovered from the site of the battle near Kalkriese, early 1st century AD. Photo via Museum und Park Kalkriese

Roman cavalry mask, recovered from the site of the battle near Kalkriese, early 1st century AD. Photo via Museum und Park Kalkriese
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