A Haida bowl made of a dall mountain sheep horn. From Haida Gwaai in Canada, ca. 1840–1860 CE, now housed at the Fenimore Art Museum in New York [3472×5815]May 16, 2025
Sculpture of Asuras or Devas churning the Ocean of Milk by pulling on the serpent Vasuki. Once placed at the end of the causeway to Preah Khan Temple. Cambodia, Khmer Empire, 1191 AD [2950×3680]May 16, 2025
Carved lacquer dish with birds and flowers. China, Ming dynasty, 15th century [2550×2500]May 16, 2025
This pair of boots, made of finely woven silk tapestry features phoenixes in flight chasing a flaming pearl. Although the colors have become muted from being buried in a tomb, the lavish use of gold & phoenix motif suggest that the boots were made for a member of the Liao imperial family [2560×1806]May 16, 2025
Ancient Roman slave-collar found in Rome with a bronze disc announcing the reward for returning the runaway slave to his or her master, Zoninus, 4th-6th century AD, National Museum of Rome, Baths of Diocletian, Rome[1284×1744]May 16, 2025
Devil sharpening a woman’s tongue, 1848 Painted Beehive panel at the Museum of Apiculture, Radovljica [2560×1258]May 16, 2025
Fluorite “Barber Cup” discovered during World War I by an Austro-Croatian officer who excavated a Roman tomb near the current Turkish–Syrian border. The Barber Cup has a low-relief design of a vine and grapes, and may have been intended as a trulla, or dipper. 50-100 AD, British Museum [1679×2048]May 16, 2025
Fluorite chalice (kantharos) known as the Crawford cup, 50-100 AD. According to the Roman author Pliny, the emperor Nero once paid a million sesterces to acquire such a cup. This cup was found in Cilicia, modern Turkey in a Roman tomb along with the Barber cup. Now in the British Museum [1000×710]May 16, 2025
“AGLA” was a popular amuletic charm in the Middle Ages. It signifies “ATHE GEBIR LEILAN ADONI” (Thou Art Mighty For Ever, Oh Lord) invoked to prevent fever. The stone is exposed deliberately to provide contact between it and the skin of the wearer. 1200-1350, British Museum [1480×1003]May 16, 2025
Roman decoration in the shape of a tiger’s face, which was located on the fountain. The artifact is in the National Archaeological Museum in Naples. [1200×1600]May 16, 2025
