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This is a clay plaque depicting a naked woman, standing on a platform and holding her breasts. Such plaques were made to protect women and ensure their safety during labor. From Ur, Southern Mesopotamia, Iraq. Circa 700-500 BCE. (The British...

In this clay plaque, a woman is depicted nursing her child from her left breast. The mother sits cross-legged putting her infant on her lap. Such plaques were made to protect women and ensure their safety during labor. From the north-west...

Bust of Mên, the Moon God worshipped in the western interior parts of Anatolia. He wears the Phrygian cap and the crescent moon seem to emerge from his shoulders. Roman period (Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara).

Funerary stele for a murmillo gladiator called Chrisampelos, 2nd century CE. Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara.

A bronze gynaecological instrument, Roman, 1st century CE. (Archaeological Museum of Como, Italy)

A map showing the areas controlled by different members of Rome's Second Triumvirate of Lepidus (Brown), Octavian (Purple), and Mark Antony (Green) in the 1st century BCE. The light red areas indicate shared control.

A 42 BCE gold aureus coin depicting Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, member of the Second Triumvirate alongside Mark Antony and Octavian (Augustus).

A relief from the tomb of Pharaoh Amenemhet I, El-Lisht, 12th Dynasty. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

The remaining columns of the Hellenistic period gymnasium, Kos.

The Roman-built temple of Apollo in the Asclepeion sanctuary of Kos, 2nd century CE.