Londres. British Museum. Cacera de lleons. Nínive, 645 aC. by Pilar Torres on Flickr.
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Londres. British Museum. Cacera de lleons. Nínive, 645 aC.
Greek Gold Libation Bowl, from Sicily c.600 BC by monopthalmos on Flickr.
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The shallow dished phiale or libation bowl is decorated with a procession of six walking bulls. The central recess may have once held a circular gem, and a crescent is pricked out. Gadrooned edge.
The British Museum, London
Italy, Apulia, Rhyton, drinking cup, Crocodile and African, c340 BC by monopthalmos on Flickr.
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The drinking cup with flaring rim and looped handle is moulded at the base with the scene of a young African boy held in the grip of a crocodile, one arm held by the crocodile’s looped tail, the other clamped in the beast’s jaws.
From Italy, Capua. Grouped with other vases in the ‘Negro Group’.
The British Museum, London
Granite ram of Amun with King Taharqa by miltonmic on Flickr.
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Granite ram of Amun with King Taharqa
Twenty-fifth Dynasty, 690-664 BC
From Kawa in Nubia
The worship of Amun, imported into Nubia by the Egyptians, was carried on with great zeal by the royal family of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty. Taharqa built or enlarged several temples in honour of the god. This statue symbolises the god’s protection of the king.
EA 1779
Egyptian Sculpture by Adrian Ace’s Photostream on Flickr.
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Egyptian Sculpture, Room 4
(The British Museum, London, UK)
The civilization began around 3150 BC with the political unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under the first pharaoh, and it developed over the next three millennia.
