Egyptian Sheet gold finger and toe coverings, plus sandals, from the tomb of three minor wives of Thutmose III at Wady Gabbanat el-Qurud, circa 1479-1425 B.C. On display at the Metropolitan Museum of...

Statuette of a Goddess, c. 2000-1000 BC Sculpture Syrian, 2nd millennium BC Bronze Age, c. 3000-1200 BC Clay, hand modelled with applied features 10 x 4 cm (3 15/16 x 1 9/16 in.) Creation Place:...

British Museum (by Jeff G Photography)

This head comes from a group, probably of the blinding of Polyphemos, similar to that constructed from fragments found in the grotto at Sperlonga, along the Italian coast southwest of Rome. Polyphemos is based, in details of hair and beard, on a Pergamene centaur. The sculptor was wise in rejecting the older tradition, one seen in Hellenistic terracottas, of showing the monstrous giant as a kind of fat-faced baboon, with large ears and his eye set like a beacon light in the middle of his…

thepursuitofhyggelig: Lion at the Pergamon museum - this guy used to be on an entrance way in Mesopotamia

Victory and Athena, terracotta, Dating: 400 BC–323 BC Origin: Greek World, Beotia

Collection of George Ortiz, Geneva, Switzerland; [with Robin Symes, London, England]; by 1989 and until 2000, collection of Howard J. and Saretta Barnet, New York; acquired in 2000, gift of the family of Howard J

Seated statuette of Urnanshe, from the Ishtar temple at Mari (modern Tell Hariri)

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Seated Female Figure Mexico, Nayarit, San Pedro Lagunillas region, 200 B.C. – A.D. 300 Earthenware with colored slips and resist decoration

Settlers from Greece brought myths and religious practices to Sicily. Preeminent deities were Demeter, goddess of grain, and her daughter Persephone.