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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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