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A 1st century CE sundial decorated with the likenesses of Helios, Dionysus, and Athena. Sundials were set up both in the public and in the private sphere in ancient Greece. The reconstructed indicator (gnomon) of the conical sundial is...

A marble statue of Amor and Psyche, the lovers from the late 2nd Century CE novel "The Golden Ass" by Lucius Apuleius (125 - 170 CE). The two are depicted as winged children embracing each other. The sculptural group was styled after a Hellenistic...

This much-amended statue of the mythical hunter Meleager goes back to a Greek bronze sculpture from around 340-330 BCE. It was the only sculptural decoration in a hall with galleries that overlooked the sea. Its privileged placement and the...

This marble statue came from the Villa at Monte Calvo in Sabina, Italy. In the villa, the boyish satyr was part of a fountain, for the jug is pierced for receiving a water pipe. The Berlin statue belongs to a series of copies, which go back...

The motif of the seated young girl dates back to a late Hellenistic model, which in the Roman version, was supplemented by the game gesture. The knucklebones (astragalus) game are often also depicted on funerary reliefs and the portrait-like...

A Mongolian ovoo or sacred stone pile used as a point of prayer in the traditional animist religion of the steppe.

The mountain Khan Tengri, located in the Tian Shan mountain range on the China—Kyrgyzstan—Kazakhstan border. Height: 6,995 m (22,949 ft). It is likely named after the ancient Mongol sky god and supreme deity Tengri.

This high-quality head of a statue is based on a bronze figure of a discophoros ("disc-thrower"). The original bronze was created around 460 BCE by the famous Greek sculptor Polykleitos of Argos. The Berlin copy clearly imitates the metallic...

This is a Neo-Attic relief of the so-called "kalathiskos dancer". The relief shows a dancing woman in waving robes and with a basket-like headdress (kalathiskos). Stylistically, the relief can be attributed to the so-called "Neo-Attic workshops"...

The head and body of two different Roman copies were combined in the 18th century CE. The god appears in the so-called "Lykeios type", with the right forearm resting across his head. The model was either an original, created around 340 BCE...