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Pan for a weight scale, bronze with silver inlays, Iraq, 12-13th century AD
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Gold glass depiction of the Abrahamic story of Jonas and the Whale, Late Roman Empire, ~4th century AD
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Context: Sleeping Hermaphroditus or Sleeping Hermaphrodite (also, "The Borghese Hermaphrodite") is an ancient Roman marble sculpture depicting Hermaphroditus life size; it rests on a marble mattress completed by Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini in 1620. The form is derived from ancient portrayals of Venus and other female nudes, and from feminized Hellenistic portrayals of Dionysus. This subject was widely repeated during the Hellenistic period and in ancient Rome, given the number of versions that have survived.
The sculpture was discovered at Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome in 1618 and became part of the Borghese Collection. It was sold to France at the end of the 18th century and is currently on display at The Louvre, in Paris.
The Sleeping Hermaphrodite has been described as a good early Imperial Roman copy of a bronze original by the later of the two Hellenistic sculptors named Polycles (working c. 155 BC); the original bronze was mentioned in Pliny's Natural History.
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Chainmail supposedly belonging to the Arab military commander Khalid ibn al-Walid during the Rashidun Caliphate, 7th century AD
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Achaemenid Persian goblet depicting horse and rider, Armenia or Iran?, 6th-3rd century BCE
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Dagger, found in a Scythian burial site, Central Asia, 8th-7th century BCE
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Oil skyphos (500-450 BCE)
Archäologisches Museum Frankfurt, Germany
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Authorization symbol in the shape of a tiger, Qin Dynasty China, ~3rd entury BCE
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