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Parsi dish: Daar ni Potli - Sweet Lentil Crostata

A 1st Century BCE copy of a 4th Century BCE marble bust of the Greek orator Lysias (c. 445 - 380 BCE).

"Demosthenes Practicing Oratory" (also known as "Démosthène s'exerçant à la parole", in French) is an 1870 painting of the Greek orator Demosthenes (c. 384 -322 BCE). The painting was created by the French painter Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte...

A portrait of Japan's Emperor Go-Horikawa, r. 1221-1232 CE. Artist: Fujiwara no Tamenobu. From the Tenshi-Sekkan Miei. (Museum of the Imperial Collections, Tokyo)

Close-up of a silver rhyton with a reclining Silenus. Late 3rd or early 2nd century BCE. Vassil Bojkov Collection Photographer: Marin Karavelov for the Thrace Foundation www.thracefoundation.org

Silver rhyton with a reclining Silenus. Late 3rd or early 2nd century BCE, Vassil Bojkov Collection. Photographer: Marin Karavelov for the Thrace Foundation www.thracefoundation.org

Silver kantharos with the death of Orpheus and the abduction of Helen. 420-410 BCE (Vassil Bojkov Collection) Photographer: Marin Karavelov for the Thrace Foundation www.thracefoundation.org

Silver rhyton with goat protome and death of Orpheus. 420-410 BCE (Vassil Bojkov Collection) Photographer: Marin Karavelov for the Thrace Foundation www.thracefoundation.org

Silver-gilt bull rhyton from the Borovo treasure. First half of the 4th century BCE. Regional Museum of History - Ruse. Photo: Nikolay Genov in the catalogue of the exhibition Los Tracios. Tesoros enigmáticos de Bulgaria, Barcelona-Valencia-Madrid...

Gold amphora-rhyton from the Panagyurishte treasure. Early 3rd century BCE. Archaeological Museum - Plovdiv. Photo: Oleg Konstantinov.