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The statuette of the young wine god with effeminate features bears heavy signs of scorching. It originates from a particularly large and wealthy Prienean house that was destroyed in the disaster around 135 BCE. It perhaps once adorned the...

This smaller than life-size head came from a statue that represented the Greek hero Herakles as a pugilist. Indications for this include the puffy ears that also appear in images of sportsmen. Herakles was their patron deity; the statue may...

The head belongs to a statue from a group composition, which probably represented the musical contest between Apollo and the Silenus Marsyas. Marsyas' painted facial expression shows that he is starting to realize the full implication of...

This was part of a marble architrave. The row of sculpted metopes on the north side of the temple to the goddess of the city of Ilion, Athena, began with an image of the sun god's Quadriga rising out of the sea. Like the Parthenon in Athens...

This partly preserved head of a young man with idealized facial features is understood to represent a Hellenistic ruler, due to the band in his curly hair. Certain classification is however not possible. Historically plausible suggestions...

This small terracotta figurine is part of the so-called "Tanagra Figurines", which represent wealthy middle-class women. These statuettes served as votive and funerary objects, carrying a symbolic meaning connected with the status and role...

A silver coin minted during the reign of Toregene as regent of the Mongol Empire (r. 1241-1246 CE). (Private collection)

A 14th century CE illustration of the Mongol Tolui (son of Genghis Khan) and his wife Sorghaghtani. (From 'Genghis Khan et l’Empire Mongol' by Jean-Paul Roux, collection “Découvertes Gallimard” (nº 422), série Histoire)

A portrait of an unnamed wife of the Chinese emperor Yingzong of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty (r. 1320-1323). National Palace Museum, Taipei.

This Dish or drinking cup is part of the so-called "Hildesheim Silver Treasure" and depicts a medallion of a seated figure of Athena/Minerva wearing a triple-crested helmet. The Hildesheim silver treasure, consisting of more than 70 pieces...