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~ Plaque with a Saint.

Culture: French (Southwestern France, Conques (?))

Period: Medieval

Date: late 11th–early 12th century (?)

~ Corinthian Olpe (Pitcher).

Date: ca. 575 BC.

Place of origin: Greece, Corinth

Aryballos

Greek (found near Olympia), 6th - 4th century B.C.

Small oil or perfume flask, glass, 7.2 cm high ( ~ 3 in)

A Neolithic circle of standing stones was recently “discovered” by archaeologists in Scotland. But it turns out, local farmers have known about it for generations.

The ancient monumental structure — thought to be between 3,500 and 4,500 years old — consists of 10 stones, each about 3 feet (1 meter) high, standing in a circle about 25 feet (7.7 m) across.

The stone circle is located in a remote patch of farmland near the village of Alford, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) west of Aberdeen.

Sarcophagus of Queen Hatshepsut

Painted quartzite, recut for her father, Thutmose I

The word “sarcophagus,” from the Greek sarkophagos, “flesh-eater,” refers to a stone coffin that devoured its occupant. (Such a coffin was presumably made of limestone, because of the material’s corrosive action on flesh.) Although the very notion of a container that would devour the body inside it would have horrified the ancient Egyptians, we use the term “sarcophagus” today to refer to coffins of stone as opposed to wood. The Egyptians used a happier name, “lord of life,” because it was meant to protect and preserve the body forever.

A colossal status of the Roman Emperor Hadrian (r. 117 to 138 CE) found in the ruins of a bathhouse at Sagalossos, a Greco-Roman city in south-central Turkey. It is estimated the statue stood between 13 and 16 feet (4 and 5 meters) tall. 

~Warrior and Captive.

Place of origin: Mexico, Jalisco

Date: 200 B.C. - A.D. 500