List of Illustrations xvPottery fi gures of a drummer and a
woman and child, Tala-Tonalá style,
Jalisco, Mexico 283
Group of bronze tools for woodworking
from Th ebes, Egypt 287
Stone bowl from Khafajeh, Iraq 288
Bird head made of stone, Papua, New Guinea 290
Steatite vase from Greece 293
Papyrus with part of the “Tale of the
Eloquent Peasant” from Egypt 298
Drawing by Michelangelo of the Crucifi xion
of Christ and two thieves 304VOLUME II
Pyramid of a king, thought to be
Adikhalamani Tabirqa, in
Meroë, Sudan 312
A reconstructed Egyptian grave pit 314
Jade eye plaques from China 316
Iron Age pottery cinerary urn shaped like
a hut, from Italy 318
Stele of Aristion, a philosopher of Athens 319
Gold diadem, found in the Camaná
valley, Peru 321
Bronze fi gure of Isis and Horus, from
North Saqqara, Egypt 329
Babylonian lapis lazuli cylinder seal
of Sin-ishmeanni 331
A 19th-century Indian painting depicting
the climax of the epic the Ramayana 332
Th e fi gure of Silenus, the mentor of Dionysus,
Greek god of plays 334
Marble relief with two Roman theater masks 337
Th e Great Harris Papyrus, from Th ebes,
probably Deir el-Medina, Egypt 347
Mesopotamian stone vase depicting animals
of the fi rst city dwellers of Mesopotamia 351
Indian bronze cast coin 355
Mesolithic perforated part skull and antlers
of red deer, from Star Carr, Vale of
Pickering, North Yorkshire, England 359Roman gold bars with assayers’ stamps 368
Granite statue of Senmut holding
Princess Neferure, the temple of
Amun, Karnak, Th ebes, Egypt 378
Cuneiform tablet with schoolwork,
probably from southern Iraq 379
Yue ware water dropper in the shape of
a frog drinking from a cup, from
Zhejiang, southern China 381
Fragments of painted plaster, Roman
Britain, from Otford, Kent, England 385
Colossi of Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II
and his wife at entrance to Karnak
Temple 395
Portion of a relief in the tomb of Darius I,
king of Persia, showing his throne
bearers 400
Cowrie shells, the earliest form of money
in China 429
Roman marble relief of Jason, the physician
and patient 433
Stucco head of a monk, said to be from
Hadda, Gandhara 440
Th e Dream of Scipio, by Raphael 444
Papyrus marriage contract between the
priest Pagosh and Teteimhotep, from
Assiut, Egypt 449
Scarab stamp seal and impressions, in
lapis lazuli, depicting Ishtar, the
Assyrian and Babylonian goddess of
love, fertility, marriage, and childbirth 451
Fragment of an archaic Greek stele, with
the heads of a mother and child 455
Ethiopian Orthodox priests at festival
of Timkat 463
Roman hand of Sabazius, found at
Tournai, Belgium 469
Pottery dog, from Colima, Mexico 471
Fineware cup decorated with frogs and
lotus fl owers painted in black, from
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