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Back wall of the Tomb of Hunting and Fishing, Tarquinia, Italy; around 530-520 BCE.
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Back wall of the Tomb of Hunting and Fishing, Tarquinia, Italy; around 530-520 B...

Tomb of the Augurs, Tarquinia, Italy; around 530-520 BCE. Detail of a priest with pointed shoes.
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Tomb of the Augurs, Tarquinia, Italy; around 530-520 BCE. Detail of a priest wi...

Cupid hunting deer. From Pompeii, Italy; 1st century CE.
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Cupid hunting deer. From Pompeii, Italy; 1st century CE.

Gladiator fighting a lion. Roman fresco from the amphitheatre of Merida, Spain; 2nd century CE.
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Gladiator fighting a lion. Roman fresco from the amphitheatre of Merida, Spain;...

Roman silver shield showing Cybele and Attis in a lion-drawn chariot. Attis is holding a shepherd's crook and a pan pipe. Silverwork; 1st-3rd century CE.
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Roman silver shield showing Cybele and Attis in a lion-drawn chariot. Attis is h...

Bronze dagger and scabbard with figures of animals. Celtic; 6th century BCE.
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Bronze dagger and scabbard with figures of animals. Celtic; 6th century BCE.

Animal merchant. Detail of the middle zone of the embossed and engraved sheet-bronze Benvenuti Situla from Este, Italy. Height of the frieze: 5.5cm Inv. 4667
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Animal merchant. Detail of the middle zone of the embossed and engraved sheet-b...

Bimaran Reliquary, from stupa 2 at Bimaran, Gandhara (Afghanistan). The inscription on the steatite casket in which the reliquary was kept, states that it contained some of the bones of the Buddha; when found in the 19th century, the bones were missing, but there were burnt pearls, beads of precious and semi-precious stones and four coins, which date the reliquary to about 50 CE. In the central arch the Buddha, with two figures facing him on either side. OA 1900.2-9.1
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Bimaran Reliquary, from stupa 2 at Bimaran, Gandhara (Afghanistan). The inscrip...

Carving of the Great Stupa on a limestone slab, 3rd CE. An image of the Buddha stands in the entrance to the stupa being worshipped. Lions on pillars guard the entrance. Celestial beings and dwarf yakshas (nature deities) surround the stupa. Reliefs such as this one permits one to reconstruct what the Great Stupa, built in the 2nd to 1st BCE, looked like. OA 1880.7-9.79
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Carving of the Great Stupa on a limestone slab, 3rd CE. An image of the Buddha s...

The war-god Skanda, eastern India, 8th09th CE. Skanda is alwyas depicted as a young man; here he holds a spear and wears a tiger-claw necklace. His hair is divided into three strands, characteristic of boyhood. Skanda's vehicle is the peacock and the peacock's fan-tailed feathers cover the rear of the stone stele. OA 1872.7-1.66
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The war-god Skanda, eastern India, 8th09th CE. Skanda is alwyas depicted as a yo...

Sandstone stele depicting Matsya, Indian, 9th CE. The Hindu god Vishnu is a preserver and maintainer of order in the universe. In times of spiritual and political decline, Vishnu descends on earth in an incarnation. In the great flood Vishnu took the form of a fish (Matsya) to save primeval man and the sacred Vedas. In this relief he carries a shrine wich he has saved from the waters. OA 1872.7-1.50
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Sandstone stele depicting Matsya, Indian, 9th CE. The Hindu god Vishnu is a pres...

Gilt bronze and silver figure of the enshrined Buddha, Sri Lanka, 18th century. The image of Buddha stands in a 31 cm-high silver arched shrine. The Buddha's right hand faces palm outwards with thumb and forefinger touching, a gesture indicating argument or discussion. The decoration of the arch spews from the mouths of two mythical aquatic monsters. OA 1905.6-16.83
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Gilt bronze and silver figure of the enshrined Buddha, Sri Lanka, 18th century...