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Pottery Dish from Uruk Period
Image by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin

Pottery Dish from Uruk Period

The outer surface of this large, partially broken, pottery dish is painted in black geometric shapes and pelicans ,while the inside (not shown) is painted with ibex figures. Uruk period, 3500-2800 BCE, Mesopotamia, Iraq. (The Sulaimaniya...
Foundation Cone of Gudea
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Foundation Cone of Gudea

This foundation cone records the building of a temple at Girsu by Gudea, ruler of Lagash. From Girsu (modern Tell Telloh, Dhi-Qar Governorate, Iraq), Southern Mesopotamia, Iraq. Reign of Gudea, 2144-2124 BCE. (The Sulaimaniya Museum, Iraq...
Shaft-Hole Axe from Early Dynastic Period
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Shaft-Hole Axe from Early Dynastic Period

This shaft-hole axe dates back to the early dynastic period,2800-2350 BCE, Mesopotamia, Iraq. (The Sulaimaniya Museum, Iraq).
Mascot From Jemdet Nasr Period
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Mascot From Jemdet Nasr Period

This mascot is made of white marble and represents the "goddesses of the eye." Jemdet Nasr period, circa 3000 BCE, Mesopotamia, Iraq. (The Sulaimaniya Museum, Iraq).
Mosaic Fragment from Uruk
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Mosaic Fragment from Uruk

This piece of wall decoration (mosaic) was part of one of the walls of the white temple at Warka (Uruk) city. Stone cones are inlaid on a gypsum background. Uruk period, 3500-2800 BCE, Mesopotamia, Iraq. (The Sulaimaniya Museum, Iraq).
A Pottery Jar from Pangween
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A Pottery Jar from Pangween

This pottery jar has two bronze handles and was found in the Nzara area near Pangween village of modern Sulaimaniya Governorate, Iraq. The Hellenistic period, 323-30 BCE. (The Sulaimaniya Museum, Iraq).
Sappho
Image by John William Godward

Sappho

Sappho of Lesbos (c. 630-570 BCE). Painting by John William Godward (1904). Through her poetry which included love between women, she gave the term "lesbian" its modern meaning.
Reconstructed Israelite House
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Reconstructed Israelite House

Reconstructed Israelite House, 10th-7th cent BCE, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
Four-Room House Model
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Four-Room House Model

Four-Room House (or Israelite Pillared House), Iron Age
Inca General Ruminahui
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Inca General Ruminahui

Sculpture of Inca General Ruminahui (1490-1535 CE) in Quito, Ecuador.
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