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Bronze fibula in shape of a human figure.
Celtic; from Hradek near Manetin, Bohemia; 450 BCE.
#03050665

Bronze fibula in shape of a human figure. Celtic; from Hradek near Manetin, Boh...

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
#03050666

Animal merchant. Detail of the middle zone of the embossed and engraved sheet-b...

Bronze leaf depicting woman in sacred ceremonial dress.
From Este, Italy; 6th century BCE.
#03050667

Bronze leaf depicting woman in sacred ceremonial dress. From Este, Italy; 6th c...

Temple of Ceres, Goddess of Agriculture,
Paestum. The Doric temple has 34 fluted
columns (6th BCE).
32.8 x 14.54 cm
#03050757

Temple of Ceres, Goddess of Agriculture, Paestum. The Doric temple has 34 fluted...

The funeral banquet. Second panel of the "tomb of
the diver", the only remaining mural of Greek
classical art of the early 5th BCE.
From Paestum,Italy.
See also 10-01-06/68-70
#03050759

The funeral banquet. Second panel of the "tomb of the diver", the only remainin...

Grey schist relief panel depicting the maha-pari-nirvana, the Buddha's physical passing from this world. The grieving figures that surround the dying Buddha include prnces, beggars and lay-followers. In front of the couch on which he lies are the monk Ananda and the nun Subhadra.
OA 1913.11-8.17
#03060113

Grey schist relief panel depicting the maha-pari-nirvana, the Buddha's physical...

Limestone carving of the enlightenment of the Buddha, 1st  BCE. A group of men worship at the spot; at the base of the empty throne are the Buddha's footprints with the "Wheel of the Law" set in motion by Buddha's first sermon. A pair of kimranas (semi divine beings) hover above the bodhi-tree.
OA 1880.7-9.79
#03060124

Limestone carving of the enlightenment of the Buddha, 1st BCE. A group of men w...

Pottery jar with dragon handles, chinese, 4th-3rd BCE. This funerary jar of the late Zhou or early Han dynasty is made of grey earthenware. It was clearly intended to imitate a bronze vessel, more expensive and carrying greater status.
Pottery placed in burials that imitated bronze and laquer came into use during the Easter Zhou period (771-221 BCE).
The handles of the jar are in the shape of dragons. 
OA 1933.10-25.1
#03060150

Pottery jar with dragon handles, chinese, 4th-3rd BCE. This funerary jar of the...

The saga of the hero Rustam: his red horse Rakhsh lies in the pit dug by his brother Shaghhad, but Rustam, also dying, shoots his brother with his final arrow.
From a Shahnama manuscript, produced at the end of the Khanid dynasty of Persia in the 1330s.
#030602 1

The saga of the hero Rustam: his red horse Rakhsh lies in the pit dug by his bro...

Battle between Babhruvahana, son of Arjuna the archer in Hinduism, fights against the snakes of the nether regions. Peacocks and other birds attack the snakes, some of which are hooded cobras. The men stand in chariots or ride horses with decorated cparisons, some use bows and arrows. From the Persian version of the "Mahabharata", parvans XIV - XVIII. Authorship is traditionally ascribed to the sage Vyasa.
ID: Or 12076
#030602 4

Battle between Babhruvahana, son of Arjuna the archer in Hinduism, fights agains...

Battle scene, 1589. Mounted soldiers with swords and bows 
ride horses wearing armour.
ID: Or 5182
#030602 5

Battle scene, 1589. Mounted soldiers with swords and bows ride horses wearing...

Majnun visited in the desert by his mother and Salim, 1595.
Majnun's mother touches him on the shoulder. The ematiated Majnun,wearing a loincloth, rests one hand on the head of a tiger. From the story Layla and Majnun by the poet
Nizami.
ID: Or 12208, fol. 150 verso.
#030602 6

Majnun visited in the desert by his mother and Salim, 1595. Majnun's mother tou...