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Woman from the Hellenistic Period
This terracotta statuette depicts a woman. The woman is recumbent and is naked and wears an elaborate headdress. She looks forward, as if she is talking to someone or looking at something. From Mesopotamia, Iraq. The Hellenistic period, 334-139...
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Hellenistic Woman
This terracotta statuette depicts a woman. The woman is recumbent but she is not naked. She looks forward, as if she is talking to someone or looking at something. She put her right arm on her right thigh but she holds something with her...
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Hellenistic Mosaic, Pergamon
Hellenistic mosaic floor panel depicting an Alexandrine parakeet from Pergamon (modern Turkey), 2nd century BCE (Pergamon Museum).
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Pottery Plaque from the Hellenistic Period
This round pottery plaque depicts various human daily activities. In the middle, a man and a woman are having sex, and on the left, a standing woman holds a young child on her shoulders. Hellenistic Period, 323-30 BCE. From Mesopotamia, modern-day...
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Portrait of a Hellenistic Ruler
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...
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Knight from the Hellenistic Period
This is a fragment of a terracotta plaque, which depicts a knight riding a horse. He holds a sword with his right arm. From Mesopotamia, Iraq. The Hellenistic period, 334-139 BCE. (The Sulaymaniayh Museum, Iraq)
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The Hellenistic Agora of Alinda, Caria
Alinda was an ancient city of Caria in Anatolia (now western Turkey). It was situated on a hilltop overlooking a fertile plain and was an important commercial city minting its own coins from the 3rd century BCE. The most striking ancient...
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New Testament
New Testament is the name for the second half of the Christian Bible, compiled from the 2nd century CE, after the separation of Christianity from Judaism. The Christian Bible retained books of the Jewish scriptures, the Old Testament, as...
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The Hellenistic Prince
The 2nd century BCE bronze statue known as 'The Hellenistic Prince'. The statue perhaps represents Attalus II, king of Pergamon. The head may also be a portrait of an unknown wealthy Roman, eager to appear as a Hellenistic prince. The work...
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Hellenistic Tower at Eleutherna, Crete
The remains of a Hellenistic defensive tower standing atop Pyrgi hill in the ancient city of Eleutherna on Crete. The tower was used from the Hellenistic until the Byzantine period (4th century BCE to 7th centuries CE).