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Alabaster bas-relief showing Assyrian soldiers playing catch with decapitated heads of their enemies. Neo-Assyrian Period, 865-860 BCE. Detail of Panel 6 (top), Room B, the North-Palace Palace, Nimrud, modern-day Iraq. (The British Musuem...

Alabaster bas-relief showing Assyrian soldiers holding the decapitated heads of their defeated enemy before Assyrian musicians. Neo-Assyrian Period, 865-860 BCE. Detail of Panel 6 (top), Room B, the North-Palace Palace, Nimrud, modern-day...

Alabaster bas-relief showing two women and a child as prisoners of war after the Assyrian army captured their city, detail of Panel 5 (bottom), Room B, the North-Palace Palace, Nimrud, modern-day Iraq, Neo-Assyrian Empire, 865-860 BCE...

Alabaster bas-relief showing a procession of prisoners of war and booty led by Assyrian soldiers and officials. Neo-Assyrian Period, 865-860 BCE. Detail of Panel 17 (bottom), Room B, the North-Palace Palace, Nimrud, modern-day Iraq. (The...

Alabaster bas-relief showing Ashurnasirpal II greeted by his commander-in-chief, awaiting to review prisoners of war and receiving booty after a successful military campaign capturing a city. Neo-Assyrian Period, 865-860 BCE. Detail of Panel...

A samovar was used to serve warm liquids. Charcoal in the hollow centre of the vessel heated the water within the double wall. The liquid then came out of a tap decorated as a head of an eastern barbarian. Three suspension terminals feature...

Four ceramic amphora stoppers from the Comacchio Shipwreck. 25-1 BCE. Museo della Nave di Comacchio, (photo taken at the National Maritime Museum, Sydney, Australia)

A Centussis weight used to weigh the cargo for sale. The stone is inscribed with an 'M' for Magister Navis, the ship's master and the initials 'TRVF', possibly for his name - either Titus Rufius or Titus Rufrenius. The two holes on the upper...

Tombstone of a sailor in the Roman fleet at Misenum, raised by his wife Valeria Primilia. It records that he was Italian born (Roman citizen) and that he died at the age of 35 after having served in the navy for seven years and 10 days...

A loaf of bread from Herculaneum. 79 CE. Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, (photo taken at the National Maritime Museum, Sydney Australia) Carbonised in the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius. Before the eruption, someone in Pompeii scratched...