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Three Fountain Heads from Pompeii
Three marble fountain heads from Pompeii. 1st century CE. In private gardens, fountains were an ostentatious display of the owner's wealth. His or her taste was shown in the choice of fountain head, such as these three: a theatre mask...
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Kylix with Three Pairs
Red-figure kylix depicting three pairs of individuals; two men, two women, and a man and woman. The three pairs may represent couples engaged in acts of courtship, such as gift-giving. However, the scene is not precisely defined. Height...
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Ancient Korean & Japanese Relations
Ancient East Asia was dominated by the three states known today as China, Japan, and Korea. These kingdoms traded raw materials and high-quality manufactured goods, exchanged cultural ideas and practices, and fought each other in equal measure...
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The Three Orders
The Third Estate of France carrying the other two orders (Clergy and Nobility) on its back, engraving with the initials M. P., Paris, 1789.
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.
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Three Doctors Attend a Man with the Plague
Woodcutting of a plague-stricken man lying in bed, attended by three physicians. From the Pestbuch, a 16th Century CE medical treatise by Hieronymous Brunschwig (c. 1450-1512 CE). (Courtesy of the Historical Medical Library of The College...
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Three Venus Statues
Three marble sculptures of “Venus” (left to right): Venus of Arles (194 cm, ca. late 1st cent. BCE; Louvre inv. no. Ma 439), proper right arm and lower left arm are modern restorations; Venus of Milos (202 cm, 100-50 BCE; Louvre inv. no...
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1598 Map of the Three Arctic Voyages (1594–1596) by Willem Barentsz
1598 Map of the Three Arctic Voyages (1594–1596) by Willem Barentsz. Spitsbergen (now Svalbard) is mapped for the first time and indicated as "Het Nieuwe Land" (Dutch for "the New Land"), centre-left.
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The Three Moirai
The Three Moirai, relief, grave of Alexander von der Mark by Johann Gottfried Schadow.
Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin.
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Diorama of the Iroquois Planting the Three Sisters
A diorama of "the three sisters" (corn, beans, and squash) on display in A Mohawk Iroquois Village, an exhibit at the New York State Museum, Albany, NY, USA.
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Roman Relief of a Teacher & Three Pupils
Funerary relief depicting a teacher with three discipuli (pupils). The scene shows two boys seated on either side of their teacher as a younger boy walks into the room. The older boys hold an open scroll. The younger boy enters from the right...