~ Shabti box.
Period: New kingdom; early 20th Dynasty
Date: ca. 1150 BC.
Place of origin: Thebes (West)
Medium: Wood, painted

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~ Shabti box.
Period: New kingdom; early 20th Dynasty
Date: ca. 1150 BC.
Place of origin: Thebes (West)
Medium: Wood, painted
~ Seated Baboon.
Date: ca. 1539–1075 B.C. or 664–332 B.C.
Period: New Kingdom or Late Period; 18th-20th Dynasty or 26th-31st dynasty
Medium: Wood
~ Hunchback Leaning on Staff.
Date: 10th–12th century
Place of origin: Mexico, Mesoamerica, Veracruz
Culture: Huastec
Medium: Sandstone
~ Asclepius.
Period: Roman period
Provinience: Antalya, Antalya Archeological Museum (Antalya, Antalya Müzesi).
Medium: Marble
~ Enma Tenzo (Flame Statue).
Period: Heian Period
Date: A.D. 12th century
Medium: Coloring on silk
~ Tweezer-Razor.
Period: New Kingdom; 18th Dynasty
Date: ca. 1560–1479 B.C.
Place of origin: Egypt
Medium: Gold
▪︎ Comoediae.
Author: Terence (Roman, 195/185–159 B.C.); Printer: Johann (Reinhard) Gruninger (German, died ca. 1532)
Date: 1499
Medium: Woodcuts (multiple)
~ Childhood of Dionysos: From the cubiculum B of the villa Farnesina (Dionysos with the nymphs of Mt. Nysa, to whom Zeus has entrusted the care of his baby-son).
Date: 1st century B.C.-A.D. 1st century
Provinience: Roman National Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme (Roma, Museo nazionale romano, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme).
~ Aphrodite and Eros Finger Ring.
Culture: Greek
Period: Hellenistic
Date: 4th-3rd century B.C.
Place of origin: Lower Italy , "in the provinces of the Kingdom of Naples in a tomb".
Medium: Gold
~ Lamp.
Date: A.D. 1st century
Place of origin: Knidos, Turkey (?)
Culture: Roman
Medium: Terracotta
~ Relief with Profile of Ramesses II.
Place of origin: Egypt
Period: 19th Dynasty ; Reign of Ramesses II
Date: 1279-1213 B.C.
Medium: Limestone with traces of paint.
~ Female Head.
Culture: Graeco-Egyptian
Place of origin: Akhmim, Egypt
Date: 1st century B.C.-A.D. 1st century
Period: Ptolemaic Period-Roman Period
Medium: Limestone, stone, pigment
~ Gold Oak Wreath with a Bee and Two Cicadas.
Culture: Greek
Period: Hellenistic
Date: 350-300 BC.
Place of origin: Turkey, Marmara Region: Çanakkale (province), Dardanelles
Medium: Gold
~ Kneeling Female Figure.
Culture: Nayarit
Date: 300 B.C.-A.D. 200
Period: Late Formative-Early Classic
Medium: Earthenware, white slip over slip paint in black and red.
~ Literary Papyri: Cyril of Alexandria, On Adoration and Worship in Spirit and in Truth.
Date: A.D. 550-614
Period: Byzantine
Place of origin: El-Deir (Fayoum, Egypt) (?)
~ Bundle of Hair Extensions.
Date: ca. 2114-1502 B.C.
Period: Old Kingdom-early New Kingdom; 16th-18th Dynasty
Medium: Human hair, linen
▪︎ From the source: These hair extensions would have been placed in a tomb for use in the afterlife. In this world, Egyptians used extensions to make their wigs or natural hair thicker and more attractive, just as people do today. The reliefs in this case show hairdressers adding extensions like these to the hair or wig of Queen Neferu.
~ Beaker (kalathos) with Athletes and Trainers.
Culture: Attic, Greek
Period: Archaic period
Date: ca. 800–480 B.C.
Medium: Black-figure ceramic
~ Furniture plaque carved in relief with lion-headed figure.
Period: Neo-Assyrian
Date: ca. 8th–7th century BC.
Place of origin: Mesopotamia, Nimrud (ancient Kalhu)
Culture: Assyrian
Medium: Ivory