Trident and Tales

Egyptian "Hounds and Jackals"-game board

The board features 58 holes (29 on each side), used for placing game pieces (either hounds or jackals). Some of these holes have hieroglyphs next to them, such as 𓄤 nfr - good and 𓍶 šn - protection, with the latter being the goal and lines connecting them. It is thought that the game would be played like Chutes and Ladders today, with two players moving their pieces according to the rolled number to reach the end.

Late period, Dynasty 26, 664 - 525 BCE

Egyptian mold for a Heron (a bird associated with the sun, the annual flooding of the Nile, and the afterlife)

2nd - 1st century BCE (Ptolemaic period)

Roman mosaic depicting Triton, a dolphin, and a fish, found in the Sanctuary of Artemis (Ephesus)

ca. 200 CE

Greek appliqué of a Maenad

3rd - 2nd century BCE

Greek mirror with a nymph washing her hair

ca. 280 BCE

Roman statue of the goddess Luna

2nd century CE

Greek amphora with a Satyr carrying a Silenos on his back, another satyr behind them

ca. 470 BCE (The Charmides Painter)

Greek votive relief of Selene with a crescent on her head, around her seven stars, and the signs of the zodiac

2nd - 3rd century CE

Etruscan statue of Perseus holding the head of Medusa

4th century BCE

Greek bronze statue of a wild boar

6th century BCE

Roman ring stone depicting an artist painting a statue head

1st - 3rd century CE

Cycladic marble statue of a harp player

2800 - 2700 BCE