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A facsimile of an ostracon discovered at Samaria, dating to the 8th century BCE. The writing is ancient Hebrew. George Andrew Reisner. Harvard Excavations at Samaria, 1908-1910. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1924.

An Attic krater showing Hephaistos riding a mule. 550-500 BCE. (Archaeological Museum of Agrigento, Sicily)

The London Mithraeum Museum over the Mithraeum ruins dating from c. 240 - 4th century CE. The ruin is now on display in its original location in the City of London.

The Tauroctony depicting Mithras slaying the bull. The relief was found at the Walbrook site and is now on display at the Museum of London. Dating from ca. 240 - ca. 4th century CE.

Old Kannada inscription (780 CE) of Rashtrakuta King Dhruva Dharavarsha, Naregal, India. Ref source: Epigraphia Indica and Record of the Archæological Survey of India, Volume 6, (1900), pp.162-163

Jain Narayana temple, Pattadakal, India, constructed by the Rashtrakuta Dynasty in the 9th century CE.

A red-figure krater showing a scene where harpies attack King Phineus. Attica, c. 450 BCE. Archaeological Museum, Ferrara.

Baked clay perforated plaque showing a heavily armoured horseman (cataphract) wearing scale or lamellar armour and a "coal skuttle" helmet, spearing a lion. 3rd century BCE - 2nd century CE British Museum

Tomb of Paätenemheb, New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden

This 18th-Dynasty papyrus contains a collection of literary texts. On the recto is a series of love songs, comprising a first cycle (1.1-4.1), a second cycle (4.1-6.2) followed by the Harpist's Song from the mansion of Intef (6.2-7.3), a...