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Woman Playing the Tympanon
Painted terracotta statuette of a woman playing the tympanon (tambourine), 4th century BCE. Altes Museum, Berlin.
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Apollo Playing the Kithara
A fresco of Apollo playing the kithara, from a building in the Forum of Rome. Augustan period. (Museum of the Forum Romanum, Rome)
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Rules for playing the Royal Game of Ur
There are Akkadian cuneiform inscriptions as well as explanatory diagram and rules for playing the so-called the game of 20-squares (the Royal Game of Ur).This is the front aspect of the clay tablet which shows how the central squares were...
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Skeleton (Calavera) Playing the Guitar - Vignette for the Feast of the Dead
Female skeleton playing the guitar, type-metal engraving by José Guadalupe Posada, c. 1890-1910. José Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913) was a Mexican illustrator best known for his satirical depictions of skeletons (calaveras), which often appeared...
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Red-figured Jug - Girl Playing with Tortoise
Red-figured chous (jug). Girl playing with tortoise: in her left hand she holds a white oinochoe; in the right she holds out a tortoise, by a string tied to its hind-leg, to a spaniel to right which looks up at it.
360-350 BCE, Puglia.
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Gem: Grasshopper Playing the Lyre.
Sard gem engraved with a grasshopper marching to the right, wearing a lion-skin and playing on a lyre.
Length: 1 centimetres
Height: 1.3 centimetres
1st-3rd centuries CE
London, BM, 1814,0704.1447.
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Rachmaninov Piano Concerto 2 / Sviatoslav Richter, Stanislaw Wislocki (1959/2015)
Sergey Vasil’yevich Rachmaninov (1873 – 1943) Konzert Für Klavier Und Orchester Nr. 2 C-moll Op. 18 1 Moderato 2 Adagio Sostenuto 3 Allegro Scherzando Recorded: #1-3: Warsaw, Philharmonie on 26th to 28th April 1959 https://www.buymeacoffee.com/cgoroo...
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Statue of a Girl Playing Knucklebones
The motif of the seated young girl dates back to a late Hellenistic model, which in the Roman version, was supplemented by the game gesture. The knucklebones (astragalus) game are often also depicted on funerary reliefs and the portrait-like...
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Christian & Muslim Playing Chess
An illustration from The Libro de los Juegos (13th century CE) that shows a game of chess between a Muslim and a Christian. (Monasterio de El Escorial, Spain)
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Symposiast and Hetaira Playing a Harp
Red-figure chous. This symposium scene depicts a youthful symposiast reclining on a coach whilst a hetaira plays the harp. In was found in the Theatre of Dionysus, and is painted by the Eretria Painter, 425- 420 BCE. National Archaeological...