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Polychrome marble statue depicting the goddess Tyche holding the infant Plutus in her arms, 2nd century CE. Istanbul Archaeological Museum.

Golden double shekel from Tyre in today's Southern Lebanon, dated 104/103 BCE, two decades after the Phoenician city regained its independence from the fading Seleucid Empire, depicting the head of deity Tyche (Fortuna), wearing a crown of...

A portrait of Siraj ud-Daulah (b. 1733), Nawab of Bengal (1756-7).

An illustration of a mid-18th century British infantryman. 39th Regiment, 1742.

A mid-19th-century scene by Utagawa Kunisada fancifully showing fashionable Japanese women creating books using woodblock printing techniques.

A modern statue of Ihara Saikaku (1642-1693), the Japanese poet and novelist who played a leading role in creating the so-called ‘floating world’ (ukiyo-zoshi) genre of popular literature in the 17th century.

This is a page from the book 'The Man who Loved Love' (1684) written by Ihara Saikaku and illustrated by Hishikawa Moronbu held by the National Diet Library, Tokyo. Rare books of the National Diet Library -The 60th anniversary- (https://www.ndl.go.jp/exhibit60/...

Portrait of the Japanese writer Ihara Saikaku (1642-1693 CE) by an unknown artist.

Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East by Amanda H. Podany

Amanda H. Podany, the author of Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East published by Oxford University Press.