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The Queen's principal sitting room, Palace of Knossos, Crete, Greece. This megaron has a fresco of fishes and dolphins. The door jamb was originally painted with rosettes, later with spirals. The door led to the King's quarters.
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The Queen's principal sitting room, Palace of Knossos, Crete, Greece. This mega...

Erotes on boats playing in a pond;dolphins and other fish.Mosaics from the Villa del Casale,Piazza Armerina,Sicily,Italy, 3rd-4th CE.
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Erotes on boats playing in a pond;dolphins and other fish.Mosaics from...

Erotes on boats playing in a pond;dolphins and other fish.Detail of 01-02-02/53.Mosaics from the Villa del Casale,Piazza Armerina,Sicily,Italy, 3rd-4th
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Erotes on boats playing in a pond;dolphins and other fish.Detail of 01-...

Erotes on boats playing in a pond;dolphins and other fish.Detail of 01-02-02/53.Mosaics from the Villa del Casale,Piazza Armerina,Sicily,Italy, 3rd-4th
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Erotes on boats playing in a pond;dolphins and other fish.Detail of 01-...

Erotes on boats playing in a pond;dolphins and other fish.Detail of 01-02-02/53.Mosaics from the Villa del Casale,Piazza Armerina,Sicily,Italy, 3rd-4th
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Erotes on boats playing in a pond;dolphins and other fish.Detail of 01-...

Erotes on boats playing in a pond;dolphins and other fish.Detail of 01-02-02/53.Mosaics from the Villa del Casale,Piazza Armerina,Sicily,Italy, 3rd-4th
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Erotes on boats playing in a pond;dolphins and other fish.Detail of 01-...

Erotes on boats playing in a pond;dolphins and other fish.Detail of 01-02-02/53.Mosaics from the Villa del Casale,Piazza Armerina,Sicily,Italy, 3rd-4th
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Erotes on boats playing in a pond;dolphins and other fish.Detail of 01-...

Erotes on boats playing in a pond;dolphins and other fish.Detail of 01-02-02/53.Mosaics from the Villa del Casale,Piazza Armerina,Sicily,Italy, 3rd-4th
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Erotes on boats playing in a pond;dolphins and other fish.Detail of 01-...

Hunting stag with a net.Mosaic from the Villa del Casale,Piazza Armerina,Sicily,Italy. 3rd-4th CE.
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Hunting stag with a net.Mosaic from the Villa del Casale,Piazza Armerina,S...

Fowling in the marshes; fragment of a wallpainting from the tomb of Nebamun,Thebes. 18th dynasty,around 1350 BCE. Nebamun stands on a small papyrus boat,with his wife Hatshepsut behind and his son below him. He lets fly a throwstick into a mass of birds above a papyrus thicket. Despite his modest title of "scribe and counter of grain" Nebamun could afford an expensive tomb. EA,37977
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Fowling in the marshes; fragment of a wallpainting from the tomb of Nebamun,The...

Ivory cosmetic box in the shape of a fish, Canaanite, from Tell es-Sa'idiyeh, Jordan, 13th century BC. This ivory fish-shaped cosmetic box was found inside a bronze bowl which had been strapped, using Egyptian linen, to the genitals of a body found in a grave at Tell es-Sa'idiyeh. Most unusually, the body had been placed face down in the grave, and over the back of the skull were found the skeletons of three fishes. The site of Tell es-Sa'idiyeh controlled a shallow ford across the river Jordan. In the 13th century it was under Egyptian control. This was the final phase of Egypt's domination of the Levant. Most of the graves at Sa'idiyeh consist of simple, sub-rectangular pits, but the items found in them either show strong Egyptian influence or are purely Egyptian. ANE, 1987-7-27,138
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Ivory cosmetic box in the shape of a fish, Canaanite, from Tell es-Sa'idiyeh, Jo...

Perforated baton with horse and fish engravings, Late Magdalenian, about 12,500 years old. Antler batons first appeared in the early Upper Palaeolithic of western Europe about 35,000 years ago. By the Late Upper Palaeolithic Magdalenian period, about 14,000-10,000 years ago, they were in common use and often richly decorated. Tthe use or uses of batons are not known. It was once thought that they must have been symbols of power, because of the decoration. However, they could also have been used in making string and rope, for softening leather straps or as parts of roping systems used in hunting. This baton from La Madeleine is made on the main stem of the antler from which the branches or tines have been cut off. It has two holes surrounded by deep grooves. Like many batons, this example is decorated with animals. On the right end facing left is a male horse, his feet coming together and tail flying as he runs. Two fish, one overlapping the head of the horse, swim towards the perforated end. On the opposite a shoal of fish fill the middle area. Each fish is infilled with lines. Such infilled fish and horses are typical of the later Magdalenian. P&EE, Sieveking Catalogue no. 312
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Perforated baton with horse and fish engravings, Late Magdalenian, about 12,500...