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Oceanic
Adze Blade
before 1900, private collection
Spanish
Agate Casket
c. 900, Oviedo Cathedral, Oviedo
French
Alton Towers Triptych
c. 1150, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Greek
Amphora from Melos
c. 625-600 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens
Italian
Annoni-Visconti Marriage Bowl
1569-1571, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Byzantine
The Antioch Chalice
c. 500-550, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Central Asian
Appliqué of a Tiger with Antlers
c. 600-500 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
Central Asian
Appliqué of Two Roosters
c. 500-400 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
Pre-Columbian
Axe with Footprint
c. 1200-900 BCE, Centro INAH Veracruz
Native American
Baby Carrier
c. 1880, private collection
Native American
Baby Carrier
before 1840, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem
Native American
Bag with Underwater Panthers
c. 1820-1850, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem
Paleolithic
Barbed Harpoon
c. 12,000-8,000 BCE, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Mesopotamian
Base of Vase from the the Diyala Region
c. 3000 BCE, Iraq Museum, Baghdad
German
Basilewsky Situla
c. 980, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Egyptian
Basin with Handle
c. 2323-2150 BCE, Ägyptisches Museum, Leipzig
Native American
Basket
c. 1910, private collection
Native American
Basket
c. 1802, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem
Native American
Basket
c. 1850-1900, Burke Museum, Seattle
Native American
Basket in the Form of a Teacup and Saucer
before 1821, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem
Native American
Basket Jar
c. 1790, private collection
Native American
Basketry Drinking Cup
before 1824, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem
Celtic
The Battersea Shield
c. 100 BCE - 100 CE, British Museum, London
Egyptian
Battlefield Palette
c. 3100 BCE, British Museum, London
Byzantine
Beresford Hope Cross
c. 850-900, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Native American
Bi-lobed Basket
c. 1200
Visigothic
Boar Hunt Sarcophagus
c. 450-550, Musée Saint-Raymond, Toulouse
Egyptian
Board for the Game of Fifty-Eight Holes
c. 1981-1802 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Paleolithic
Bone and Antler Spear Points
c. 32,000-26,000 BCE, Logan Museum of Anthropology, Beloit
Paleolithic
Bone and Antler Spear Points
c. 20,000-16,000 BCE, Logan Museum of Anthropology, Beloit
Byzantine
Book Cover with Crucifixion and the Virgin Orans
c. 800-950, Treasury of San Marco, Venice
Byzantine
The Borradaile Oliphant
c. 900-1100, British Museum, London
Native American
Bottleneck Gift Basket
c. 1880, private collection
Aegean
Bowl with Bulls and Birds
1300-1200 BCE, British Museum, London
Mesopotamian
Bowl with Incised Decoration
c. 2600-2400 BCE, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia
Byzantine
Bowl with Portrait of a Saint
641-51, British Museum, London
Aegean
Bowl with Stylized Leaf Decoration
c. 1700-1500 BCE, Musée Barbier-Muller, Geneva
Native American
Box Drum
before 1900, Burke Museum, Seattle
Levantine
Box from Pella with Inlaid Lions
c. 1500-1200 BCE, Jordan Archaeological Museum, Amman
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
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
Mesopotamian
Bronze Lion Weights
c. 726-722 BCE, British Museum, London
Frankish
Brunswick Casket
c. 875-900, Brunswick Museum, Brunswick
Mesopotamian
Bull Head Lyre (Great Lyre)
c. 2600-2400 BCE, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia
Aegean
Bull Head Rhyton from Mycenae
1500 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens
French
The Burghley Nef (Salt Cellar)
1527-1528, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Egyptian
Cartonnage of Djedmaatiuesankh
c. 945-712 BCE, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Islamic
Carved Box
c. 1300-1400, Kuwait National Museum, Kuwait City
Islamic
Carved Box for Qur'an Manuscripts
c. 1344, Kuwait National Museum, Kuwait City
Islamic
Carved Jade Cup
c. 1650, Furusiyya Art Foundation, Vaduz
Islamic
Carved Pyxis
c. 1000-1050, Kuwait National Museum, Kuwait City
Islamic
Carved Turban Stand (Kavukluk)
c. 1750-1800
Islamic
Casket
c. 1000-1025 (altered 17th-18th century), Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Spanish
Casket
c. 1500-1575, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Italian
Casket
c. 1000-1200, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha
Italian
Casket (Cassetta)
c. 1500-1530, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Islamic
Casket of the Daughter of Abd al-Rahman III
c. 961-965, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
French
Casket with the Legend of Saint Eustace
c. 1325-1350, private collection
Italian
Casket with Venus and Cupid
c. 1550-1600, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Native American
Ceremonial Pipe (Opwagan)
before 1825, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem
Pre-Columbian
Ceremonial Shield (Chimalli)
c. 1500-1521, Museo Nacional de Historia, Mexico City
Aegean
Ceremonial Vase from the Basin of Purification at Zakros
c. 1450 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Iraklion
Byzantine
Chalice of the Patriarchs
c. 900-1050, Basilica di San Marco, Venice
Byzantine
Chalice with Eucharistic Inscription
c. 800-100, Treasury of San Marco, Venice
Islamic
Chess Piece: Elephant (Bishop)
c. 1000-1100, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha
Islamic
Chess Set
c. 1100-1200, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Spanish
Chessboard
c. 1500-1600, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Native American
Chest
before 1900, Burke Museum, Seattle
Native American
Chunkey Stone
c. 1300, American Museum of Natural History, New York
Native American
Chunkey Stone
c. 1300-1400, private collection
Native American
Chunkey Stone
c. 1300, American Museum of Natural History, New York
Native American
Chunkey Stone
c. 1200-1400, National Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C.
Native American
Clan Hat
c. 1832, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem
Italian
Coffer
c. 1450-1500, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Egyptian
Coffin of Ahmose
c. 1550-1525 BCE, Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Egyptian
Coffin of Artemidorus
c. 100-120, British Museum, London
Egyptian
Coffin of Henutmehyt, Priestess of Amun
c. 1300-1200 BCE, British Museum, London
Egyptian
Coffin of Khnumnakht
c. 1802-1640 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Aegean
Collared Vase (Kandela)
c. 2800-2100 BCE, Goulandris Collection, Athens
Italian
Comb
c. 1400, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Native American
Comb
c. 1850-1880, private collection
Native American
Comb
c. 1680, private collection
Etruscan
Comb with Lions and Geometric Designs
c. 600-400 BCE, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
Aegean
Conical Rhyton with Octopus Decoration
c. 1400-1300 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris
Aegean
Conical Rhyton with the Master of Animals and Applied Bull Head
c. 1400-1300 BCE, Archaeological Museum of Rhodes, Rhodes
Aegean
Conical Rhyton with Warriors
c. 1300-1200 BCE
European Bronze Age
Copper Hafted Axe from Kersoufflet
c. 2000 BCE, Musée des Antiquités Nationales, Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Mesopotamian
Cosmetic Box Lid with a Lion Attacking a Goat
c. 2500-2400 BCE, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia
Egyptian
Cosmetics Spoon in the form of a Young Girl carrying a Vase
c. 1600-1300 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris
Mesopotamian
Cover of a Lamp with Intertwined Snakes
c. 2200-2100 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris
Lombard
Cross
c. 650-850, Museo di Santa Giulia, Brescia
German
Crossbow
c. 1500, private collection
German
Crossbow
c. 1450-1470, Wallace Collection, London
German
Crossbow and Cranequin of Elector Augustus I of Saxony
c. 1553-1573, Cleveland Museum of Art
Anglo-Saxon
Crucifix Reliquary
c. 1000, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Pre-Columbian
Cuauhxicalli of Motecuhzoma Ilhuicamina
c. 1440-1469, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City
Mesopotamian
Cult Vase decorated with Symbols of Ishtar
c. 1900-1800 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris
European Bronze Age
Cult Wagon with Cauldron
13th-12th c BCE, Landesmuseum Mecklenberg-Vorpommern, Mecklenberg
Aegean
Cup from Mycenae
c 1500 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens
Celtic
Cup in Openwork and Embossed Gold Leaf
c. 450-400 BCE, Staatliche Museen Preussicher Kulturbesitz, Berlin
Bohemian
Cup with Dragon Head Finial
c. 1600-1650, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Nordic Bronze Age
Cups from Borgbjerg
11th-9th c BCE, Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen
Paleolithic
Cylinder Beads
c. 38,000-18,000 BCE, Moravská Galerie, Brno
Mesopotamian
Cylinder Seal
c. 2600-2400 BCE, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia
Mesopotamian
Cylinder Seal
c. 2600-2400 BCE, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia
Mesopotamian
Cylinder Seal
c. 2600-2500 BCE, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia
Mesopotamian
Cylinder Seal of Ibni-sharrum, Scribe of Shar-kali-sharri
c. 2183-2159 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris
Aegean
Cylinder seal with Two Men and a Dog
after 1550 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Iraklion
Mesopotamian
Cylinder seal: Hero protects flock
c. 2,550-2,400 BCE, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology, Philadelphia
Mesopotamian
Cylindrical Vase
c. 2600-2400 BCE, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia
Aegean
Daggers from Mycenae
c. 1550-1500 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens
African
Dance Shield
c. 1900-1950, private collection
Celtic
The Desborough Mirror
c. 100 BCE - 100 CE, British Museum, London
Islamic
Desk Set: Pen Knife, Pen Rest, Paper Scissors
c. 1850, private collection
Oceanic
Diliwau'u Axe
before 1900, Musée Barbier-Muller, Geneva
Roman
Dioscuri Sarcophagus
c. 375-400, Musée de l'Arles et de la Provence Antiques, Arles
Dutch
The Dollhouse of Petronella de la Court
c. 1670-1690, Centraal Museum, Utrecht
German
Domed Reliquary
c. 1175-1180, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin
Aegean
Dove Bowl
c. 2500-2200 BCE, private collection
Islamic
Drinking Bottle
before 1581, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
African
Drinking Cup
before 1900, Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington
African
Drum
c. 1650-1700, British Museum, London
African
Drum
before 1700, British Museum, London
African
Drum
before 1920, private collection
Mesopotamian
Duck-Shaped Weight with Cuneiform Inscription
c. 1300-1200 BCE
Islamic
Embroidered Velvet Quiver and Bowcase
c. 1600-1650
Roman
Engraved Bowl with Biblical Scenes
c. 300-400, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
Italian
Episcopal Throne, Santa Maria in Cosmedin
Founded in the 6th c; Restored 1119-1124, Santa Maria in Cosmedin, Rome
Italian
Ewer from Venice
1500-1600, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Roman
Ewer with Biblical Scenes
c. 350-400, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh
Roman
Ewer with the Healing of the Blind Man and the Traditio Clavium
c. 350-400, British Museum, London
Byzantine
Ewer with Zoomorphic Handle
c. 600-700, Treasury of San Marco, Venice
Egyptian
Faience Bowl with a Girl Playing the Lute (Leyden Bowl)
c. 1314-1197, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leyden
Roman
Family of Vunnerius Keramus (Family Group)
c. 250, Museo Civico dell'Età Cristiana, Brescia
Pre-Columbian
Fan
grip c. 1500, feathers 1999, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City
Oceanic
Fan (Pe‘ahi Niu)
c. 1700-1850, private collection
Pre-Columbian
Feather Fan
c. 1500-1541, Museum für Völkerkunde Wien, Vienna
Greek
Finds from the Giglio Wreck
c. 508 BCE
Egyptian
Fish-Shaped Bottle
c. 1353-1336 BCE, British Museum, London
English
Flask
c. 1650-1660, private collection
Mesopotamian
Flood Tablet
c. 700-600 BCE, British Museum, London
Paleolithic
Flute made from Vulture Bone
c. 32,000-26,000 BCE, Musée des Antiquités Nationales, Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Pre-Columbian
Flutes
c. 1486-1520, Museo del Templo Mayor, Mexico City
French
Foot of a Crucifix from the Abbey of Saint-Bertin
c. 1150-1160, Musée Sandelin, Saint-Omer
Anglo-Saxon
The Franks Casket
c. 725, British Museum, London
Roman
Front Panel of a Child's Sarcophagus with Erotes Racing Chariots
c. 150, Musée du Louvre, Paris
Egyptian
Funerary Mask
c. 1700 BCE, Menil Collection, Houston
Native American
Gambling Bones
c. 1850-1900, Burke Museum, Seattle
Mesopotamian
Game Board and Gaming Pieces
c. 2550-2400 BCE, British Museum, London
Anglo-Saxon
The Gandersheim Casket
c. 775-800, Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig
Egyptian
The Gebel el-Arak Dagger
c. 3300-3100 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris
Greek
Gnathian Ware Bowl
c. 300-200 BCE, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leyden
Viking
The Gokstad Ship
c. 890, Vikingskiphuset, Oslo
Aegean
Gold Kylix from Mycenae
c. 1400 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens
Mesopotamian
Gold Vessel in the form of an Ostrich Egg
c. 2600-2400 BCE, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia
Persian
Griffin Rhyton
c. 500-330 BCE, British Museum, London
Native American
Grouse Rattle
before 1900, Burke Museum, Seattle
Celtic
Gundestrup Cauldron
c. 100-50 BCE, Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen
Aegean
Hagia Triada Sarcophagus
c. 1400 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Iraklion
Native American
Halibut Hook
c. 1800, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem
Native American
Halibut Hook
c. 1800, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem
Paleolithic
Hand-Axe
c. 62,000 BCE
Egyptian
Handle in the Form of a Horse
c. 1400-1350 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Paleolithic
Harpoon with Auroch
c. 16,000-10,000 BCE, Musée d'Aquitaine, Bordeaux
Aegean
Head of a Royal Scepter
c. 1650 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Iraklion
Nordic Bronze Age
Herzsprung Type Shield
9th-8th c BCE
Paleolithic
Hooked End of a Spear Thrower Sculpted as a Mammoth
c. 20,000-10,000 BCE, British Museum, London
Egyptian
Ibis Mummy
c. 30 BCE - 50 CE, Brooklyn Museum
Byzantine
Icon with the Annunciation and Saints
c. 1150-1200, Benaki Museum, Athens
Byzantine
Icon with the Koimesis
c. 950-1000, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Greek
Ilissos Stele
c. 330 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens
Mesopotamian
Impressions of Akkadian Cylinder Seals
c. 2300-2200 BCE
Mesopotamian
Impressions of Cylinder Seals
c. 720-700 BCE
Persian
Impressions of Persian Cylinder Seals
c. 522-400 BCE, British Museum, London
Mesopotamian
Inlaid Chair Back from Fort Shalmaneser
c. 800-700 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mesopotamian
Inlaid Panel from a Lyre
c. 2550-2400 BCE, Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology, Philadelphia
Byzantine
Intaglio with the Investiture of Valentinian III
c. 423, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
Roman
Intaglio with Victory
c. 100-200, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
Aegean
Ivory Bull Seal from Platanos
c. 2500-2200 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Iraklion
Mesopotamian
Ivory Handle with Two Women
c. 900-700 BCE, British Museum, London
Islamic
Jade Cup of the Shah Jahan
1656-1657, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Islamic
Jade-Handled Dagger
c. 1650-1700, British Museum, London
Mesopotamian
Jar
c. 2600-2400 BCE, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia
Swiss
Jousting Shield with an Owl
c. 1499, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Aegean
Jug from Mochlos
c. 2500-2200 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Iraklion
Aegean
Jug with Octopus Motif from Berbati
14th c BCE
Oceanic
Kailavala Axe
before 1977, Musée Barbier-Muller, Geneva
English
Kaiser Wilhelm Toilet Roll
c. 1914, Imperial War Museum, London
Aegean
Kantharos from Kalamata
c. 1550-1500 BCE
Islamic
Kashkul (Begging Bowl)
c. 1800-1900, private collection
Native American
Knife Sheath
before 1845, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem
Greek
Kylix
c. 340-310 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Thessaloniki
Greek
The Kyrenia Ship
c. 315-285 BCE, Ancient Shipwreck Museum, Kyrenia
Paleolithic
Lamp from Lascaux Cave
c. 15000-10000 BCE
Paleolithic
Lamp with Ibex Design
c. 15,000-13,000 BCE, La Mouthe Cave, Dordogne
Greek
Larnax
c. 340-310 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Thessaloniki
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