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The 'Big Four', Paris Peace Conference
Image by Imperial War Museums

The 'Big Four', Paris Peace Conference

A photograph of the 'Big Four' leaders at the Paris Peace Conference at Versailles which decided peace terms after the First World War (1914-18). Left to Right: Prime Minister of Italy Vittorio Orlando (1860-1952), Prime Minister of the United...
Portrait of the Four Tetrarchs
Image by Carole Raddato

Portrait of the Four Tetrarchs

Porphyry sculpture portraying the four Tetrarchs (Diocletian, Maximianus, Galerius and Constantius Chlorus) embracing. It is dated to c. 300 CE and was sculpted in Asia Minor. It probably originally decorated two separate pillars in Constantinople...
The Four Elements
Image by Mana Lesman

The Four Elements

The Four Elements. Painting by Mana Lesman. Used with the permission of the artist.
Eos in Her Four-horse Chariot
Image by Metropolitan Museum of Art

Eos in Her Four-horse Chariot

Eos in her four-horse chariot, detail of terracotta red-figure lekanis vase attributed to the Stuttgart group, from Canosa, late 300s BCE. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Bottles with Four Tubes from Roman Cologne and Trier
Image by James Blake Wiener

Bottles with Four Tubes from Roman Cologne and Trier

Four tubes are connected to the upper and lower portions of these ancient Roman glass bottles. The tubes were created by carefully cutting and bending the body of a free-blown glass bottle. Like similar piece from Trier, the Cologne bottle...
Apkallu with Four Wings
Image by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin

Apkallu with Four Wings

Alabaster bas-relief of an Apkallu with four wings. Neo-Assyrian Period, 865-860 BCE. Panel 26, Room B, the North-West Palace at Nimrud, modern-day Iraq. (The British Museum, London)
Bare-headed Apkallu with Four Wings
Image by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin

Bare-headed Apkallu with Four Wings

This fragmented alabaster bas-relief depicts an Assyrian Apkallu, a protective spirit or genie. The striking features are that he is bare-headed (he does not wear a horned helmet or diadem) and his four wings, all of them, appear en face...
The Vale Four Gospels from Georgia
Image by James Blake Wiener

The Vale Four Gospels from Georgia

This is a festive and richly illuminated codex-type manuscript made of Persian and Italian watermarked paper. Written (or copied) in the Georgia Nuskhuri script by Zosime from Vale at Samtskhe Atabegs court scriptorium around 1514 CE, this...
Boeotian Four-handled Bowl
Image by Dana Murray

Boeotian Four-handled Bowl

While this class of bowl typically bears bird motifs on the outside, this example, dating to the mid-sixth century BCE, features the stylistic representation of plants and geometric motifs instead. The inside simply features simple banding...
The Year of the Four Emperors Explained
Video by Kelly Macquire

The Year of the Four Emperors Explained

During the Year of the Four Emperors (69 CE), the fight between Vitellius and Vespasian would ultimately bring about the demise of four legions, the XV Primigenia, I Germanica, IIII Macedonica, and XVI Gallia. All four of these legions had...
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