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Noblewoman Figurine Rattle, Jaina Style, Late Classic Mayan.

Courtesy & currently located at the San Diego Museum of Man, USA. Photo taken by Daderot.

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Young girl reading. Roman bronze statuette after a Hellenistic model. From Rome.

Courtesy & currently located at the Cabinet des Médailles, Paris. Photo taken by Jastrow 

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Person holding an ibex and a poppy flower. Low-relief from the m wall of king Sargon II’s palace at Dur Sharrukin in Assyria (now Khorsabad in Iraq), c. 713–716 BC. From Paul-Émile Botta’s excavations in 1843–1844.

Courtesy & currently located at the Louvre, France. Photo taken by Jastrow 

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Asklepios. Marble, Roman copy after a Greek original of the 5th century BC. The inscription on the plinth indicates the statuette to be a votive gift.

Courtesy & currently located at the Vatican Museums, Italy. Photo taken by Marie-Lan Nguyen 

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“Belvedere Antinous”, actually a statue of Hermes of the Andros-Farnese type. The identification of Hermes is justified by the traveller’s cloak, the bearing of the god and by comparison with copies found on graves, stressing Hermes’s role as psychopompus (conductor of souls).

Roman artwork, Hadrian’s era, copy or a Greek bronze original of the 4th century BC.

Courtesy & currently located at the Vatican Museums, Rome. Photo taken by Jastrow 

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The so-called Roman “Braschi Antinous”, also known (wrongly) as Albani Antinous. The statue is composed of an antique head of Antinous and a antique body of Heracles. Marble, Italy.

Courtesy & currently located at the Louvre, France. Photo taken by Jastrow 

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Close up of one of the panels at the Mayan Temple of Inscriptions at Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico.

Photo courtesy & taken by AlejandroLinaresGarcia

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Statue of Minerva. Roman artwork of the Imperial era. 2nd century AD, made of white marble.

Courtesy & currently located at the Naples National Archaeological Museum. Photo taken by Marie-Lan Nguyen 

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Female head Roman Hadrianic 117 – 138 A.D. Large-grained white marble

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Ancient Roman bust of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, marble, 3rd century.

Marcus Aurelius was Roman Emperor from 161 to 180. He ruled with Lucius Verus as co-emperor from 161 until Verus’ death in 169. He was the last of the Five Good Emperors, and is also considered one of the most important Stoic philosophers.

Courtesy & currently located at the Ephesus Museum, Turkey. Photo taken by José Luiz

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Seated old man. Marble, Roman copy of the 2nd century CE after a Hellenistic original, maybe the 3rd-century BC statue of Chrysippus by Euboulides described by Pliny (34.88).

Courtesy & currently located at the Louvre, France. Photo taken by Marie-Lan Nguyen 

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Wedding scene: a matron leads the bride to the house of the groom. Pentelic marble, fragment from the frieze of the Basilica Aemilia, 1st century BC–1st century AD.

Courtesy & currently located at the National Museum of Rome. Photo taken by Marie-Lan Nguyen

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Statue of Aphrodite, known as the Venus of Arles. Hymettus marble, Roman artwork, imperial period, end of the 1st century BC.

Courtesy & currently located at the Louvre, France. Photo taken by Marie-Lan Nguyen

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Apollo and Artemis, Ancient Greek, circa 50 BC (late Hellenistic-Roman), made of marble.

Courtesy & currently located at the Walters Art Museum, USA:

The model for this relief was probably a dedicatory offering on the Athenian Acropolis. Copies intended for decorating the home were produced as late as the 2nd century. Several other almost identical examples of this relief are known, showing that sculpture was mass produced in this period.