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Statue of Empress Julia Domna (wife of Septimius Severus) as Ceres, from the Portico of the Fountain with oil-lamp, 3rd century CE, Ostia Antica.

Aesop (c. 620-564 BCE) was an Ancient Greek fabulist or story teller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables. Although his existence remains uncertain and (if they ever existed) no writings by him survive...

Bronze statue of Boudica with her daughters in her war chariot. It was commissioned by Prince Albert and executed by Thomas Thornycroft. It was completed in 1905 and stands next to Westminster Bridge and the Houses of Parliament.

A gold-sheet mask representing the sun god Inti from the La Tolita part of the Inca empire. The design is typical of masks of Inti with zig-zag rays bursting from the head and ending in human faces or figures. (National Museum, Quito, Ecuador...

Julia Domna, Empress and wife of Roman Emperor Lucius Septimius Severus, c. 193 CE. (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen)

Colossal portrait of Faustina the Elder, Roman Empress and wife of Emperor Antoninus Pius, 138-140 CE. (Vatican Museums, Rome)

Head of empress Livia Drusilla (wife of emperor Augustus) in green basalt, c. 31 BCE. (Louvre Museum)

Marble head of Livia Drusilla, wife of emperor Augustus, from Fayum (Egypt), copy from the 4th century CE or later after an original from 27-23 BCE (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen)

Empress Faustina the Younger, wife of Marcus Aurelius, 161 – 175 CE. (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen)

Mummy portrait of a woman, known as "L'Européenne" painted on wooden board (encaustic wax paintings), from Antinoopolis (Antinoe), Egypt, 120-130 CE. Louvre Museum, Paris.