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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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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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Three-Headed Demon
Etruscan three-headed Demon from a pediment relief found in Orvieto (Italy). Dated to around 480 BCE.
Altes Museum, Berlin.
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Three Hellenistic Heads, Cyprus
Three heads of worshippers from the Temple of Apollo-Reshef, Cyprus, 350-250 BCE. Early Hellenistic style. (British Museum, London)
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Three Exedras Building, Hadrian's Villa
View of one of the gardens of the Three Exedras building at Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli (Italy). The building was a semicircular arcaded triclinium (dining room) with a large, rectangular fountain located to the north of the structure at the...
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Three Nymphs Plaque
A 2nd century CE Attic relief plaque depicting three nymphs being led to a tree and an altar by a fourth woman. (Archaeological Museum of Piraeus, Athens)
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Three Gates at the Citadel of Gla
Three gates at the Mycenaean citadel of Gla, Greece, built c. 13th century BCE (Mycenaean LHIII).
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Three Pieces of the Antikythera Mechanism
The Antikythera Mechanism (also known as the Antikythera Device), dated to the late 2nd century/early 1st century BCE (roughly 205-60 BCE) is understood as the world's first analogue computer.
National Archaeological Museum, Athens.
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Three Nereids
The 3 figures are sea nymphs, daughters of the sea god Nereus, riding over the waves on sea creatures. They are thought to have escorted the soul of the deceased on its journey to the afterlife. A sea bird is visible under the feet of the...