Jade votive ax of a fi gure combining human
and animal traits and thought to
represent a supernatural being, Olmec,
from Mexico 863
Head of the Greek philosopher Socrates 878
Ivory panel commemorating Quintus
Aurelius Symmachus, an orator and
fi gure in Roman government and a
prominent pagan 881
Section of the Neolithic Sweet Track, the
oldest prehistoric timber trackway in
Britain, from Somerset, England 888
Iron hipposandal, Roman Britain, found in
London 891VOLUME IV
Deep gorge in the Atlas Mountains of Africa 898
Limestone stela of Heqaib, from Abydos,
Egypt 900
Iron Age Lindow Man, found in Lindow
Moss, Cheshire, England 903
View of Mount Olympus, in Attica 905
Gold ring bought by a pilgrim and showing
the Roman Temple of Aphrodite at
Palaepaphos 906
Neo-Assyrian stone panel from the palace
of Sennacherib, Nineveh, northern Iraq 912
Base-silver radiate of Carausius, with the
emperors Diocletian and Maximian,
Roman Britain 914
Unwrapped mummy of a woman, perhaps
from Th ebes, Egypt, Late Period 926
Bust of Pseudo-Seneca by Peter Paul Rubens 942
Altar to the sea god Neptune, an off ering
from the Roman admiral of the British
fl eet, from Lympne, Kent, England 959
Aerial view of the Niger River and
surrounding savanna during the rainy
season 963
Relief fragment showing Assyrian soldiers
towing a boat through shallow water 967Painted wooden model of a boat, from Meir,
Egypt 977
Terra-cotta model of a merchant ship,
Amathus, Cyprus 978
Wall painting of Ulysses and the Sirens,
Roman, from Pompeii 983
A Scythian slave and the satyr Marsyas 992
Image of Psyche on a lead coffi n lid, Roman,
made in Lebanon 994
Sarcophagus of Nectanebo II, the last
native ruler of Egypt, from Alexandria 1001
Basalt relief of a gazelle, Neo-Hittite, from
Carchemish, southeastern Anatolia
(modern Turkey) 1002
A Neolithic burial jade carved with faces,
from southern China, Liangzhu culture 1004
Coins from the Hoxne hoard, Roman
Britain, found in Hoxne, Suff olk 1007
Servants carrying food for the king’s tables,
palace of Xerxes, Persepolis, Persia
(modern-day Iran) 1019
Pottery, Japan 1026
Double spout and bridge vessel with pelican
and fi sh, Nasca culture of Peru 1041
Game of 58 Holes, made of ivory inlaid
with gold and blue paste, from Megiddo,
Palestine 1050
Ceramic Liubo players, from China 1052
Bronze group of a bull and acrobat,
Minoan, from Crete 1053
Hockey game, found in the Th emistoclean
wall, Athens 1054
Roman terra-cotta sculpture of two
gladiators fi ghting 1056
Stone hacha (ax), Veracruz, Mexico 1057
Painted wooden model of a granary, from
Aswan, Egypt 1063
Amphora, a ceramic vessel used for storing
and carrying oil and wine and other
commodities, from Athens 1068
Ugandan woman wearing a bark cloth dress 1074xviii List of Illustrationsi-xxii_SocietyCultureV4_fm.indd xviii 10/10/07 1:51:31 PM