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Roman
Baths of Caracalla
c. 211-17, Rome

           

Roman
Baths of Diocletian
c. 298-306, Rome

     

Roman
Baths of Neptune
c. 139, Ostia

 

Celtic
The Battersea Shield
c. 100 BCE - 100 CE, British Museum, London

   

Roman
Battle of Centaurs and Wild Beasts
c. 118-28, Antikensammlung, Berlin

 

Egyptian
Battlefield Palette
c. 3100 BCE, British Museum, London

           

Mesopotamian
Beaded Necklace
c. 1400-1200 BCE, Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin

 

Mesopotamian
Beaded Necklace with Pendants
c. 2000 BCE, Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin

 

Aegean
Beak-Spouted Jug from Thera
c. 1900-1550 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Aegean
Beak-Spouted Jug with Ivy Leaves and Rosettes
c. 1500-1450 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Nauplion

 

Aegean
Beaked Jug
c. 1425-1400 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Rhodes

   

Aegean
Beaked Jug with Lily Palm Decoration
c. 1450-1400 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Thebes

 

Iranian
Beaker with Male Figures
c. 1400-1200 BCE, Miho Museum, Shigaraki

       

Anatolian Bronze Age
Beaker, Flask and Sauceboat from Priam's Treasures in Troy (Gold Vessels from Troy)
c. 2000-1700 BCE, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

 

Egyptian
Bearded Deity, from Saqqara
c. 2780-2680 BCE, Brooklyn Museum

 

Greek
Bearded Head
c. 350-300 BCE, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

 

Roman
Bearded Hercules with the Lion's Skin
c. 69-98, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Egyptian
Bearded Man
c. 3650-3300 BCE, Musée d'Histoire Naturelle, Lyon

 

Native American
Beaver Effigy Platform Pipe
c. 200-400, Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa

 

Persian
Bell-Shaped Rhyton
c. 500-300 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Ufa

 

Greek
Bellerophon and Chimera Pebble Mosaic
c. 400-350 BCE

 

Central Asian
Belt Buckle in the Form of a Horse
c. 500-400 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Belt Buckle with a Tiger and a Monster
c. 400-200 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Belt Buckle with Figures under a Tree
c. 400-200 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Belt Buckle with Griffin Heads
c. 520-480 BCE, Musée Barbier-Muller, Geneva

 

Central Asian
Belt Plaque with a Monster Attacking a Horse
c. 400-200 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Belt Plaque with a Vulture Mauling a Yak and a Tiger
c. 400-100 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Belt Plaque with Boar Hunting Scene
c. 300-100 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Belt Plaque with Dragons and Tree of Life
c. 200-100 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Greek
The Belvedere Torso
c. 50 BCE, Vatican Museum, Rome

 

Greek
Berlin Kore
c. 570-560 BCE, Antikensammlung, Berlin

     

Native American
Berlin Tablet
c. 400-1 BCE, Ohio Historical Society, Columbus

 

Egyptian
Bes-image of the God Horus-Ashakhet
c. 400-100 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Roman
Bikini Mosaic
c. 325, Piazza Armerina

 

Native American
Bird and Owl Effigy Pipe
c. 1-600, National Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C.

 

Pre-Columbian
Bird-Shaped Effigy Vessel
c. 1200-600 BCE, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Native American
Birdstone
c. 1500-1000 BCE, American Museum of Natural History, New York

 

Native American
Birdstone
c. 1500-1000 BCE, Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa

 

Roman
The Blacas Cameo (Cameo Portrait of Augustus)
c. 10-20, British Museum, London

 

Mesopotamian
Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III
erected 825 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Mesopotamian
Blau monuments
c. 3000-2900 BCE, British Museum, London

   

Egyptian
Block Statue of Padimahes
c. 680-650 BCE, Brooklyn Museum

 

Egyptian
Block Statue of Pakhraf
c. 640-610 BCE, Egyptian Museum, Cairo

 

Egyptian
Block Statue of Sennefer
c. 1479-1425 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Egyptian
Block Statue of Senwesret-Senbefny
c. 1878-1814 BCE, Brooklyn Museum

 

Egyptian
Block Statue of Wahibre, Governor of Upper Egypt
c. 715-332 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Egyptian
Block Stature of Nebnetjeru
c. 883-845 BCE, Egyptian Museum, Cairo

 

Aegean
Blue Bird Fresco
c. 1550 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Iraklion

 

Aegean
Blue Monkeys Fresco
c. 1550-1100 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

 

Roman
Blue Wall, House with the Large Portal
c. 62-79, Herculaneum

 

Visigothic
Boar Hunt Sarcophagus
c. 450-550, Musée Saint-Raymond, Toulouse

 

Aegean
Boar Hunt with Dogs
c. 1300-1200 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

 

Celtic
Boar Standard
c. 50 BCE, Musée d'Art et Archeologie, Soulac-sur-Mer

 

Iranian
Boar-Shaped Vessel
c. 2900 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Egyptian
Board for the Game of Fifty-Eight Holes
c. 1981-1802 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Egyptian
Boat-Shaped Palette
c. 3650-3500 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Spanish
Book-Cover Plaque with Scenes of the Life of Christ
c. 800-900, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

Greek
Borghese Krater
c. 50 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Roman
Bottle
c. 100-200, Römisch-Germanisches Museum, Cologne

 

Roman
Bottle
c. 300-400, Princeton University Art Museum

 

Roman
Bottle
c. 100-300, Princeton University Art Museum

 

Roman
Bottle
c. 200-400, Princeton University Art Museum

 

Native American
Bottle Shaped Banner Stone
c. 3000 BCE, private collection

 

Pre-Columbian
Bottle with Carved Relief
c. 1200-600 BCE, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Roman
Bottle with Handle
c. 150-150, Corning Museum of Glass

 

Roman
Bottle with Spiral Ribs
c. 75-100, private collection

 

Aegean
Bovine Figure
14th c BCE, Archaeological Museum, Melos

 

Central Asian
Bow-Case Ornament in the Form of a Stag with Superimposed Animals
c. 500-300 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Mesopotamian
Bowl
c. 2600-2400 BCE, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia

   

Aegean
Bowl
c. 2800-2200 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Roman
Bowl
c. 200-400, Princeton University Art Museum

 

Roman
Bowl
c. 200-400, Princeton University Art Museum

 

Levantine
Bowl from Ugarit with Hunting Scenes
c. 1400-1300 BCE

     

Pre-Columbian
Bowl with a Celestial Being
c. 1200-900 BCE, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

 

Roman
Bowl with a Portrait of Constantius II
c. 350, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Persian
Bowl with Appliques of Composite Animals and Foliage
c. 600-500 BCE, Miho Museum, Shigaraki

 

Aegean
Bowl with Bulls and Birds
1300-1200 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Roman
Bowl with Busts of Barbarians
c. 150-200, Regionální Muzeum v Mikulov, Mikulov

 

Persian
Bowl with Garnet Inlays
c. 150-1 BCE, Miho Museum, Shigaraki

 

Egyptian
Bowl with Hippopotami
c. 3700-3450 BCE, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

 

Egyptian
Bowl with Hippopotami and Crocodiles on Rim
c. 3700-3450 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Levantine
Bowl with Hunting Scene
c. 900-700 BCE, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

Levantine
Bowl with Ibex Decoration
c. 3500-3000 BCE, Israel Museum, Jerusalem

 

Mesopotamian
Bowl with Incised Decoration
c. 2600-2400 BCE, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia

 

Pre-Columbian
Bowl with Incised Iguanas
c. 1000-600 BCE, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

 

Byzantine
Bowl with Portrait of a Saint
641-51, British Museum, London

 

Egyptian
Bowl with Scene of a Man Hunting Hippopotami
c. 3700-3450 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Aegean
Bowl with Stylized Leaf Decoration
c. 1700-1500 BCE, Musée Barbier-Muller, Geneva

 

Egyptian
Bowl with Weaving Scene
c. 3700-3450 BCE, Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London

 

Levantine
Box from Pella with Inlaid Lions
c. 1500-1200 BCE, Jordan Archaeological Museum, Amman

 

Greek
Box Mirror with the Head of a Woman
c. 375-350 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Greek
Box Mirror with the Head of Pan
c. 325-300 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Pre-Columbian
Box with Elaborate Carving (Monument C)
c. 400-1 BCE, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Roman
Boy in a Toga
c. 100-150, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

 

Roman
Bracelet in the Form of a Snake
before 79, British Museum, London

 

Greek
Bracelet with Lion Terminals
c. 450-350 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

   

Egyptian
Bracelets of Queen Hetep-heres
c. 2575-2528 BCE, Egyptian Museum, Cairo

 

Roman
Brawl in the Pompeii Amphitheater from House I,3,23
c. 60-79, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples

 

Roman
The Brescia Casket
c. 375-400, Museo Civico Cristiano, Brescia

   

Aegean
Bridge-Spouted Jug
15th c BCE, Archaeological Museum, Kea

 

Central Asian
Bridle
c. 550-450 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Bridle
c. 300-200 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Bridle
c. 350-250 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Bridle Ornament with Two Griffin Heads
c. 600-500 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Aegean
Bronze Armor from Dendra (The Dendra Panoply)
15th c BCE

   

Aegean
Bronze Bowl from Mycenae
c. 1300 BCE

 

Levantine
Bronze Bowl with Egyptian Motifs
c. 800-700 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Mesopotamian
Bronze Bowl with Star Motif
c. 900-700 BCE, British Museum, London

 

European Bronze Age
Bronze Cuirass from Marmesse
9th-8th c BCE, Musée des Antiquités Nationales, Saint-Germain-en-Laye

 

Celtic
Bronze Fitting in the Shape of a Horse's Head (The Stanwick Horse Mask)
1st c BCE, British Museum, London

 

Greek
Bronze Horse from a Votive Offering
c. 470-460 BCE, Olympia Museum, Olympia

 

Mesopotamian
Bronze Lion Weights
c. 726-722 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Celtic
Bronze Openwork Phalera
5th c BCE, British Museum, London

 

Celtic
Bronze Openwork Phalera
c. 400-350 BCE, Musée des Antiquités Nationales, Saint-Germain-en-Laye

 

Greek
Bronze Sheet depicting Kaineas and Centaurs
c. 630 BCE, Olympia Museum, Olympia

 

Greek
Bronze Sheet depicting Theseus abducting Antiope, and Orestes killing Klytaimnestra
c. 570 BCE, Olympia Museum, Olympia

 

Greek
Bronze Sheet of Female Griffin Nursing her Young
c. 630-620 BCE, Olympia Museum, Olympia

 

Greek
Bronze Sheet with Warrior, Wife, and Charioteer
c. 590 BCE, Olympia Museum, Olympia

 

Celtic
Bronze Statuette of a Boar
2nd-1st c BCE, Museum husitskeho revolucniho hnuti, Tabor

 

Aegean
Bronze Statuette of a Young Man, from Tylissos
c. 1500 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Iraklion

 

Etruscan
Bronze Urn
c. 710 BCE

 

Celtic
Brooch with Hanging Pendants
c. 1200-800 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Celtic
Brooch with Spirals
c. 1400-1100 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Celtic
Brooch with Spirals
c. 1200-800 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Egyptian
Brooklyn Black Head
c. 50 BCE, Brooklyn Museum

 

Frankish
Buckle of Saint Caesarius
c. 500-550, Musée de l'Arles et de la Provence Antiques, Arles

 

Celtic
Buckle with Arched Back
c. 300-200 BCE, private collection

 

Aegean
Bucranium Earring from Mavro Spelio
c. 1400-1200 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Iraklion

 

Greek
Bull and Lion Altar
c. 550-500 BCE, Museo Archaeologico Regionale, Syracuse

 

Celtic
Bull from Byci skala
c. 450 BCE, Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna

 

Mesopotamian
Bull Head Lyre (Great Lyre)
c. 2600-2400 BCE, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia

         

Aegean
Bull Head Rhyton
c. 1550-1400 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Iraklion

   

Aegean
Bull Head Rhyton
c. 1700-1500 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Iraklion

 

Aegean
Bull Head Rhyton from Mycenae
1500 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

 

Aegean
Bull Leaping Fresco from Knossos
c. 1550-1450 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Iraklion

     

Egyptian
Bull Palette
c. 3300-3100 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

   

Greek
Bull Statuette
c. 700 BCE, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

Mesopotamian
Bull-Man
c. 2900-2650 BCE

 

Iranian
Bull-Man Decoration from the Dynastic Temple at Susa
c. 1200-1100 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Anatolian
Bull-Shaped Vessel
c. 1400-1200 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Etruscan
Bulla with Daedalus and Icarus
c. 500-400 BCE, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

Aegean
Bull's Head from Knossos
c. 1500 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Iraklion

 

Greek
Bull's-Head Earring
c. 300-250 BCE, Athens

 

Roman
Bust of a Bearded Man
c. 150-175, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Roman
Bust of a Couple from Palmyra
c. 150, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen

   

Greek
Bust of a Goddess
c. 630 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

 

Egyptian
Bust of a King
c. 399-380 BCE, Roemer und Pelizaeus Museum, Hildesheim

 

Pre-Columbian
Bust of a Man
c. 1200-900 BCE, Centro INAH Veracruz

 

Roman
Bust of a Man
c. 160-170, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Roman
Bust of a Man with a Camel, from Palmyra
c. 160, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen

 

Roman
Bust of a Prince
c. 250-350, Römisch-Germanisches Museum, Cologne

 

Egyptian
Bust of a Queen
c. 380-343 BCE, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

Roman
Bust of a Woman
c. 220-230, Museo Capitolino, Rome

 

Egyptian
Bust of a Woman
c. 1279-1203 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Roman
Bust of a Young Gaul
c. 200, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Egyptian
Bust of a Young Woman
c. 120-70 BCE, Egyptian Museum, Cairo

 

Roman
Bust of Agrippina the Elder
c. 40-45, Museo Capitolino, Rome

 

Egyptian
Bust of Akhenaten
c. 1352-1336 BCE, Egyptian Museum, Cairo

   

Egyptian
Bust of Amenemhat III
c. 1985-1773 BCE

 

Egyptian
Bust of Ankh-haf
c. 2680-2565 BCE, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

 

Roman
Bust of Antoninus Pius
c. 138-140, Museo Capitolino, Rome

 

Roman
Bust of Antoninus Pius
c. 140-175, British Museum, London

 

Roman
Bust of Augustus Wearing the Corona Civica
c. 45-50, Glyptothek, Munich

 

Roman
Bust of Caracalla
c. 211-217, Antikensammlung, Berlin

 

Roman
Bust of Clytie
c. 30, British Museum, London

 

Roman
Bust of Commodus
c. 175-177, Museo Capitolino, Rome

 

Roman
Bust of Domitian
c. 88, Museo Capitolino, Rome

 

Roman
Bust of Faustina the Elder
138-141, Museo Capitolino, Rome

 

Roman
Bust of Faustina the Younger
c. 147-148, Museo Capitolino, Rome

 

Roman
Bust of Julia Domna
c. 200-211, Indiana University Museum of Art, Bloomington

 

Roman
Bust of Julia Mamaea
c. 220-230, Museo Capitolino, Rome

 

Roman
Bust of Julius Caesar
c. 44 BCE, Antikensammlung, Berlin

   

Roman
Bust of Livia
c. 50, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen

 

Roman
Bust of Marcus Aurelius
c. 140, Museo Capitolino, Rome

 

Roman
Bust of Marcus Aurelius
c. 170-180, Museo Capitolino, Rome

 

Roman
Bust of Marcus Aurelius
c. 170-180

   

Roman
Bust of Septimius Severus
c. 200-211, Indiana University Museum of Art, Bloomington

 

Roman
Bust of Trajan
c. 108, Museo Capitolino, Rome

 

Egyptian
Butcher
c. 2450-2325 BCE, Oriental Institute, Chicago

 


Caesar's Campaign in Gaul
c. 58-50 BCE

 

Mesopotamian
Caillou Michaux
c. 1099-1082 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Roman
Calyx Krater with a Relief of Maenads and Maidens
c. 1-100, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

   

Roman
Cameo of Nancy (Cameo with the Apotheosis of Emperor Caracalla (?))
c. 211-217, Médiathèque de Nancy, Nancy

 

Roman
Cameo of the Emperor Claudius
c. 43-45, private collection

 

Roman
Cameo of the Triumph of Licinius
c. 300-400, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

 

Roman
Cameo Panel: Ariadne's Initiation into the Mysteries
c. 1-25, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples

 

Roman
Cameo Panel: The Appearance of Dionysus to Ariadne
c. 1-25, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples

 

Roman
Cameo Skyphos
c. 25 BCE - 25 CE, J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu

 

Roman
Cameo with Alexander the Great Hunting a Boar
c. 50-100, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Roman
Cameo with Constantine the Great and the Tyche of Constantinople
c. 300-400, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Roman
Cameo with Portraits of Trajan and Plotina
c. 117-138, British Museum, London

 

Roman
Camillus (Acolyte)
c. 41-54, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Pre-Columbian
Canoe-Shaped Pectoral
c. 1000-400 BCE, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Aegean
Canonical Female Figure
c. 2500 BCE, private collection

 

Aegean
Canonical Female Figure
c. 2500-2200 BCE, private collection

     

Aegean
Canonical Female Figure
c. 2500-2200 BCE, private collection

     

Aegean
Canonical Female Figure
c. 2500-2200 BCE, private collection

 

Egyptian
Canopic Jar of Iny
c. 1388-1351 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Greek
Canosan Askos
c. 270-200 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Egyptian
Capital with the Head of Hathor
c. 332-30 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

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