Images

Search Images

Browse Content (p. 1540)

Cambyses Appointing Otanes Judge
Image by Metropolitan Museum

Cambyses Appointing Otanes Judge

Cambyses Appointing Otanes Judge, copy after Peter Paul Rubens, probably 18th century CE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
The Judgement of Cambyses, Vellert
Image by Wikimedia Commons

The Judgement of Cambyses, Vellert

Dirck Vellert, The Judgement of Cambyses, stained glass, 1542 CE, Rijsmuseum, Amsterdam. This panel shows a scene from Herodotus's Histories: Sisamnes, a corrupt judge, is ordered to be flayed alive by Cambyses, the Persian king. His skin...
The Judgement of Cambyses, David
Image by Wikimedia Commons

The Judgement of Cambyses, David

Gerard David, The Judgement of Cambyses, 1498 CE, Groeninge Museum, Bruges, Belgium. This diptych shows a scene from Herodotus's Histories: the arrest and flaying of the Persian judge Sisamnes, who was a corrupt judge, by order of Cambyses...
Antoninus Pius, Agora, Athens
Image by Dana Murray

Antoninus Pius, Agora, Athens

Bust of Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius from the Ancient Agora Museum in Athens, 138-161 CE.
Desert Kites
Image by Olivier Barge

Desert Kites

Extracts of satellite images from Google Earth and Bing of kites from the Harrat-al-Sham in Jordan (above left), Qaratein area in Syria (above right), Ustyurt Plateau in Kazakhstan (bottom left) and the mountains of Palmyre in Syria (bottom...
Examples of Desert Kites
Image by Olivier Barge

Examples of Desert Kites

Desert kites on the Ustyurt Plateau (left) and in the northern Nefoud (right).
The Distribution of Kites
Image by Olivier Barge

The Distribution of Kites

The geographical distribution of desert kites (updated June 2020 CE).
Desert Kite Cell
Image by Olivier Barge

Desert Kite Cell

A cell at the extremity of a pointed appendice from a kite in Armenia (up). The same configuration in Jordan, a cell under excavation (down).
The Excavation of Pompeii
Image by Filippo Palizzi

The Excavation of Pompeii

Filippo Palizzi (1818-1899) was an Italian painter of the Verismo style. This romantic painting shows what the excavation of Pompeii in the 19th century may have looked like.
Bronze Athlete Detail
Image by Mark Cartwright

Bronze Athlete Detail

A detail from a bronze statue of an athlete wearing a laurel crown of victory, 340-330 BCE. Found in the sea off Marathon. (National Archaeological Museum, Athens)
Membership