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This encaustic painting on rectangular cedar wood, known as “L’Européenne,” depicts the portrait bust of a young woman, from her head to her upper body, placed atop a grey-blue background. Her face, an ovular shape with a subtle point at…
Description: This Roman coin, called a sestertius, presents portrait busts of two different men, Octavian and Julius Caesar, on the obverse and reverse respectively. Framed by thin, circular border patterns that resemble intricate clock dials, and…
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This marble funerary relief sculpture depicts three figures, consisting of an older husband and wife and their young son, who are framed by a rectangular niche with a Latin inscription of bold, capital letters incised at the base. In…
The ‘Bust of Themistokles’ depicts the head of a man and part of his upper chest, which is more specifically known as a herm, on the bottom of which rests a small Greek inscription of his name, ‘Themistokles’. In terms of facial…
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The ‘Large Kneeling Statue of Hatsheput’ presents a large female figure kneeling atop a rectangular slab with a rounded front. She wears a nemes headdress of incised lines that wraps around her forehead and extends to her shoulders and…