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Jewish amulet for a married couple with an inscription in Judeo-Persian, Iran, ca. 1900
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Lucius Caecilius Iucundus, Roman bronze and marble original, House of Caecilius Iucundus, Pompeii. National Archaeological Museum, Naples. Roman portraiture is characterized by its "warts and all" realism. (Wikimedia. org)
That's right, look at the precision of the wrinkles on this Pompeian dominus portrayed. The ancient Romans would not have liked Photoshop and filters!
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Terracotta vase in the form of a lobster claw, Greece, circa 460 BC
from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Terracotta neck-amphora (storage jar). ca. 620–590 BCE. Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1906 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/247191
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Jubilee Procession in a Cornish Village, June 1897 (Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee) by George Sherwood Hunter (Scottish, 1846–1919)
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An ancient Tibetan carved skull of a man most likely dead by now.
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Glass jug, Roman, 1st-2nd century AD
from The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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J. Staub's Bilderwerk zum Anschauungsunterricht für jüngere Kinder - Johann Staub - 1885 - via e-rara
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