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A detail of Statue of Shalmaneser III
Statue of the Assyrian king Shalmaneser III, son of Ashurnasirpal II, grandson of Tikulti-Ninurta. The inscriptions on the statue give a brief account of the king's genealogical titles and characteristics. Basalt, from Assur, neo-Assyrian...
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Edwin Booth as Richard III
Edwin Booth, famous 19th-century American actor, brother of John Wilkes Booth, as Richard III of England, the protagonist of William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Richard III. Print by Henry Duff Linton, 1872.
Folger Shakespeare Library.
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Macedon
Macedon was an ancient kingdom located in the north of the Greek peninsula first inhabited by the Mackednoi tribe who, according to Herodotus, were the first to call themselves 'Hellenes' (later applied to all Greeks) and who gave the land...
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Amenhotep III
From the mortuary temple of Amenhotep III, Thebes, Egypt 18th Dynasty, about 1350 BC Amenhotep III commissioned hundreds of sculptures for his mortuary temple on the west bank of the Nile at Thebes, though the precise original location...
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Coat of Arms of Edward III
The coat of arms of Edward III of England (r. 1327-1377 CE). In 1340 CE Edward quartered the Plantagenet three lions (or leopards originally) with the golden fleur-de-lis of France to signify his claim to the French throne. The arms remained...
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The Court of Abd al-Rahman III
Abd al-Rahman III Receiving the Ambassador by Dionisio Baixeras Verdaguer (1862–1943 CE). Oil on canvas, 1885 CE.
University of Barcelona
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The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III, side A, upper register
The Assyrian king Shalmaneser III, holding a bow, receives a tribute from Sua the Gilzanean. The king faces his field marshal and another official.From Nimrud, (ancient Kalhu), near the building of Shalmaneser, neo-Assyrian era, 827 BCE...
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Obelisk of Thutmose III, Istanbul
The obelisk of Thutmose III (1479-1425 BCE), which originally stood at the temple of Karnak, Egypt, but was removed to Constantinople by Theodosius the Great in the 4th century CE.
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Alabaster Panel from the Central Palace of Tiglath Pileser III
This alabaster panel was part of the decorative scheme of the palace of King Tiglath Pileser III (reigned 745-727 BCE) at Kalhu. The king is shown in his chariot, while in another scene above Assyrian soldiers drive out prisoners and flocks...
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Head of Senusret III
Granite head from a sphinx of the Egyptian pharaoh Senusret III with youthful features. Egypt. Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty, 1870 BCE. (State Museum of Egyptian Art, Munich, Germany).
