Encyclopedia of Society and Culture in the Ancient World

xvi List of Illustrations

“Empress” pepper pot, from the Hoxne

hoard in Suff olk, Roman Britain 478

Terra-cotta utensil with six receptacles,

thought to be an egg dish or cup holder 480

Detail of an Ethiopian tribute bearer, from

a relief in stairway of the palace at

Persepolis, Persia (modern-day Iran) 486

Greek terra-cotta statuettes: woman holding

pancake and woman kneading dough 500

Spout and bridge vessel in the shape of

a woman, holding what is thought to be

a spindle wrapped in cloth, from the

Nasca culture of Peru 503

Olmec jade perforator, from Mexico 536

Coffi n with skeleton of a child, from Speos

Artemidos, Egypt 547

Terra-cotta votive womb, Italy 551

Hellenistic ivory fi gure of a hunchback

thought to show signs of Pott’s disease 553

Altar from Roman Britain dedicated to

the goddess Fortuna, the healing

god Aesculapius, and Salus, goddess

of health 554

Paleolithic stone chopping tools from

Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania 562

A folding wooden headrest, from

Akhmin, Egypt 563

Stone bowl and pitcher from Greece 567

Roman jug, two-handled cup (the

handles now missing), strainer, ladle,

and stirrer, from Arcisate, near Como,

northern Italy 569

Archery case painted with a hunting scene,

from Th ebes, Egypt 574

Impressions of cylinder seals on clay,

depicting hunting scenes and found in

the treasury of the palace at Persepolis 575

Harpoon tips made of antler from the cave

of Courbet, Penne-Tarn, France 578

Fragments of a fresco from Tiryns, Greece,

showing hunter and dog 579

Stone weight carved in the form of the head

of an aquatic bird and thought to have

been used in fi shing, from Orange

County, Florida 582

A bronze lamp found at the palace of

Persepolis, Persia 586

Broken limestone lamp from the cave of

Courbet, Penne-Tarn, France 589

Roman lamp showing a chariot race 591

Paleolithic stone hand ax from Olduvai

Gorge, Tanzania 593

Papyrus from the Book of the Dead of

Nakht with agricultural scenes, from

Th ebes, Egypt 595

An administrative text in cuneiform

(the world’s earliest form of writing),

recording food supplies, probably from

southern Iraq 597

Pair of fragments of silk, from Cave 17,

Mogao, near Dunhuang, China 599

Roman aqueduct in Tunis 602

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Sandstone off ering table with Meroitic

cursive inscription around the edges,

from Faras, Sudan 610

Clay tablet with Elamite inscription found

in the treasury of the palace at

Persepolis, Persia (modern-day Iran) 613

Jade disc inscribed with a poem by the

Qianlong emperor, from China 614

Linear A tablets, from Agia Triada,

Heraklion 617

Th e Rosetta Stone, from Fort St. Julien,

el-Rashid (Rosetta), Egypt 623

Jade cicada, China 626

Page from the Book of the Dead of Hunefer,

Th ebes, Egypt 644

Sculpted panel depicting Vishnu

Trivikrama, eastern India 650

Frieze of three Greek muses 657