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Details of the various designs which decorate panels of the House of the Columns, Mitla, Mexico. Post-Classic period. The designs may have been originally inspired by textile patterns and may actually represent family lineages or geographical...

This literary text narrates the war between Gilgamesh (king of Uruk) and Aga (the last king of the first dynasty Kish). The Epic of Gilgamesh mentioned that Aga had besieged Uruk. Purchase. From Southern Mesopotamia (precise provenance unknown...

The upper halves of terracotta plaques, depicting a male figure (on the left, who has a long beard) and a female figure (on the right, with bare breast) wearing a horned headdress (symbol of divinity) and appearing to hold a long bar in both...

A terracotta charm mulet. From Assur (modern Qal'at Sharqat, Salah Al-Din Governorate, Iraq), Mesopotamia. Middle Assyrian period, 12th century BCE. (Istanbul Archeological Museums/Ancient Orient Museum, Istanbul, Turkey).

The Hall of the Columns, Mitla, Mexico. Late Post-Classic Period, 1300-1500 CE.

These 3 necklaces were founds inside graves. From Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq. Old-Babylonian period, 2000-1500 BCE. The Sulaimaniya Museum, Iraq.

A carnelian sealstone showing showing a hydraulis, with apprentices operating the bellows. Roman, 1st-2nd century CE. British Museum, 1859.3-1.112

A terracotta lamp in the shape of a hydraulis being played by an organist. On either side of the manuals are the air pumps which fed the water organ with a supply of air into order to produce the notes. Roman, Porconsularis (modern Tunisia...

Detail of the Triumph of Aemilius Paulus by Carle Vernet, 1789 CE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Philip V of Macedon, 221–179 BCE, coin in British Museum.