Browse Items (972 total)

Obv.: Laureate head of Augustus, r.; around, AVGVSTVS DIVI F.
Rev.: Augustus, bare-headed, togate, seated l. on stool on low platform on r. extending r. hand to infant held out by cloaked figure; in exergue, IMP XIIII.

Astrolabe of ‘Umar ibn Yusuf ibn ‘Umar ibn ‘Ali ibn Rasul al-Muzaffari, later Sultan of Yemen (r.1295-96).
Brass; cast and hammered, pierced, chased, inlaid with silver. Made in Yemen
A.H. 690/ A.D. 1291
The Metropolitan Museum, NYC, Edward C. Moore…

Cowries throughout Africa are symbols of wealth and well-being and, in some parts of West Africa, were used as a form of currency. In Akan communities cast gold cowrie shells were worn by high-status individuals such as the Asantehene, paramount…

Museum Description: “An ivory doll with articulated arms and legs. Found in the sarcophagus of a young girl in the Early Christian Necropolis of Tarragona.

It would have been part of the grave goods of the girl, who died at the age of five or six.…

The Arch as illuminated by the surrounding lamps in Rome: the absence of people emphasizes the monumentality and permanence of the structure as a truly integral part of Roman cityscape

An honorary arch of Augustus (built 1st century BCE), Tarraco.