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This is the autograph of the Pushyabhuti Emperor Harshavardhana or Harsha (606-647 CE) as it appears in the Banskhera inscription. This signature in Sanskrit reads as “Svahasto mama maharajadhiraja sri harshasya” meaning, “By my own hand...

A gold coin depicting the Roman emperor Aurelian (r. 270-275 CE).

A 1532 portrait by Jakob Seisenegger of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (r. 1519-56) with his dog. (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)

A marble representation of the Roman Emperor Otho, 69 CE. (Louvre, Paris)

An 18th century CE engraving by Jacques Gabriel Huquier illustrating an audience with a Chinese emperor. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

Bust of Roman Emperor Claudius reworked from a statue of his predecessor Caligula, from Acerra near Formia (Italy), 37 - 54 CE. (Altes Museum Berlin)

This marble head of the Roman Emperor Arcadius (reigned 395-408 CE) came from the foundation trench excavation of the Faculty of Letters-Beyazit, Istanbul, in modern-day Turkey. Late 4th century CE. The head was crowned with a double-string...

A Chinese painted silk depicting the supreme deity of Chinese tradition the Jade emperor and the Heavenly Kings. (Sotherby's, date unknown)

A marble bust of Roman emperor Elagabalus, r. 218-222 CE. (The Vatican Museums, Rome).

The facial features and the scalp hair reflect the typical characteristics of the Roman Emperor Augustus (Octavianus). Marble. Roman Period, 27 BCE to 14 CE. From Pergamon, Bergama, in modern-day Turkey. (Museum of Archaeology, Istanbul...