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Two-handled Vase, Brundisium
The two-handled pottery vessel (trozella) which was unique to the Messappian culture of southern Italy. 5th century BCE, Brundisum, southern Italy. (Archaeological Museum of Brindisi, Italy)
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Lekythos of Two Women Sharing a Mantle
A black-figure lekythos (oil flask) depicting two women sharing a cloak and gazing at each other. The imagery carries an erotic component, due to the connotations of gazing and cloak-sharing in Greek art. Attributed to the Pharos Painter...
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A Stone Bowl with Two Inscriptions
This stone bowl has two sets of cuneiform inscriptions. The first one says that the bowl was booty brought to Mesopotamia from Magan (modern Sultanate of Oman) by the Akkadian king Naram-Sin (2254-2218 BCE). The second inscription mentions...
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Two Bronze Drachms of Hadrian
Two silver drachms of Hadrian. The drachm on the left shows Zeus Ammon on a plinth, wearing a ram's horn (c. 134-135 CE) while the one on the right shows busts of Serapis and Isis facing each other, with a small statue of Harpocrates and...
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Roman Glass Two-Handled Cup
Roman glass two-handled cup. 1st-2nd century CE. Provenance unknown. (Archaeological Museum of Pavia, Italy).
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Ptolemaic Slab with Two Goddesses
This is a limestone block which depicts the heads and bodies of two goddesses; both are looking to the left side. The background was left rough. From Egypt, precise provenance of excavation is unknown. Ptolemaic Period, 332-30 BCE. The Petrie...
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Lamp Showing Two Tragic Actors
The scene on this terracotta lamp depicts two tragic actors (perhaps Orestes and Pylades) on a couch; a severed head lies below. Roman period, made in Italy, about 175-225 CE. Transferred from the Wellcome Collection. (The British Museum...
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Doctrine of the Two Swords from the Sachsenspiegel
An illumination from the Sachsenspiegel, a German book of customary law, compiled somewhere between 1220-1235. The image depicts Christ giving one sword to the Holy Roman Emperor and another to the Pope. The manuscript is in the Saxon State...
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Tadodaho Receiving Two Mohawk Chieftains
Illustration from page 52 of 'The Mythology of All Races, Vol. Ten: North American' by Hartley Burr Alexander. Boston: Marshall Jones, 1916 CE.
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Two Statues of Shalmaneser III at the Iraq Museum
In the centre of this image is the so-called Kurba'il statue of Shalmaneser III (reigned 858-824 BCE), which was found in Fort Shalmaneser in 1961 CE by the British School of Archaeology in Iraq. The statue originally stood in the Temple...