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A decorative wall console in the form of clenched hand. The surface is not inscribed. Similar "Hands of Ishtar" were found in Kalhu of Mesopotamia, which were used as corbels but these were inscribed. 9th to 7th century BCE. From Sam'al/Zincirli...

This rounded piece of silver (which is part of a hack silver) was used as a method of payment. Its weigh is 497.38 g. The overlying Aramaic inscription mentions that this is a property of Barrakib, son of Panammuwa, Prince of Sam'al. 9th...

Remains of the Temple of Hera in Olympia, Greece.

Map based on Description of Greece by Pausanias. The map shows which parts of Greece each book in the work describes.

A Minoan octopus, detail from a New-Palace period (1500-1450 BCE) Cretan Clay askos with 'Marine Style' decoration, (Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete)

A painted terracotta figurine of a woman wrapped in a himation. Tarentum, 3rd century BCE. (Archaeological Museum of Taranto, Italy)

A nutcracker in the form of bronze hands with gold decoration. 4th-3rd century BCE, Tarentum. (Archaeological Museum of Taranto, Italy)

A marble relief from a funerary monument depicting seated women. 4th century BCE, Tarentum. (Archaeological Museum of Taranto, Italy)

A red-figure volute krater. 330 BCE, Tarentum. (Archaeological Museum of Taranto, Italy)

A silver stater of Sybaris, southern Italy. c. 550-510 BCE. (Archaeological Museum of Altamura, Italy)