Copper vessel with silver wire, from Ur,
southern Iraq 680
Gold cup of the Bronze Age, beaten out of
a single lump of gold and found in
Rillaton, Cornwall, England 683Gold mask from Mycenae 684
Hammered gold standing fi gure, Colombia
or Ecuador 687
Granite statue of Senwosret III, from Deir
el-Bahari, Th ebes, Egypt 694
Albert Bierstadt, Th e Rocky Mountains,
Lander’s Peak 719
Detail of a Persian soldier from the stairway
of the palace of Darius, king of Persia, at
Persepolis (modern-day Iran) 728Th e fortifi cations of Eleutherae, a city in the
northern part of Attica, bordering the
country of Boeotia 733Roman marble statue of a youth on
horseback and wearing a military cloak 735
Linen bag of salt for mummifi cation,
from Deir el-Bahari, Egypt, New
Kingdom 743Stone panel from the palace of Sennacherib,
Nineveh, northern Iraq 744
Lead pig (ingot), Roman Britain, from Hints
Common, Staff ordshire 749
Th e el-Amarna Hoard, from el-Amarna,
Egypt 754
Silver coins of various cultures found at
Persepolis, Persia (modern-day Iran) 756
Fragments of a stone mould and bronze
knife money, from northeastern China 757
Cast ingots of bronze used as money in
Rome before the invention of silver
coinage 761Babylonian relief plaque of harpist 766
Red sandstone railing pillar in the form of
a fl ute player, Mathura, northern India 767
Th e Greek god Apollo with kithara, a
stringed instrument similar to a lyre 770
Whistling vessel in the form of a macaw,
Peru, Moche culture 773
Rock inscription at Seheil, Egypt, recording
a seven-year famine 777
Roman wall painting showing a coastal
landscape, from Boscoreale, Campania,
Italy 782
Petroglyph showing herders and cows,
from Sahara Desert at Tassili, Algeria,
North Africa 787
Th e Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, showing
mathematical problems and solutions,
from Th ebes, Egypt 799
Painted Greek stele with metrical
inscription 804
Granite statue of Ankhwa, the shipbuilder,
possibly from Saqqara, Egypt 810
Spinning and weaving tools from Iron Age
England 814
Frieze of hydriaphoroi (water carriers) from
the Greek Parthenon 815
Traditional healer in anti-smallpox costume,
Nigeria, West Africa 820
Mesopotamian terra-cotta fi gure of an
animal thought to be a dog 822
Greek marble block from the frieze of the
Temple of Apollo Epikourio (Apollo, the
Helper), Bassae, Arcadia 826
Limestone stela with images of the goddess
Tanit, from Carthage (modern-day
Tunisia) 834
Limestone relief panel depicting the
departure of Prince Siddhartha from his
palace, to start on the spiritual journey
that brings him to Buddhahood 846
Iron Age horned helmet, from the River
Th ames at Waterloo Bridge, London,
England 851
Frieze of the gods Greek gods Poseidon and
Apollo and the goddess Artemis from
the Parthenon 854List of Illustrations xvii