The pharaohs built their mortuary temples [in Thebes] and were buried in huge rock-cut tombs decorated with finely executed paintings or painted reliefs illustrating religious texts concerned with the afterlife.
Royal hand ca. 1353–1336 B.C. Ripe barley ca. 1353–1336 B.C.
shield at his left side, and aiming a short sword or dagger in his raised right hand
The fragmentary calligraphic inscription along the bottom half was hand-carved, and
Emile Gavet , Paris (until 1889) ; Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont , Newport, Rhode Island (by 1922) ; [ Duveen Brothers , until 1928; sold to Herbert H. Lehman ] ; Governor (later Senator) and Mrs. Herbert Lehman (1928–69)
shows the Virgin Mary tenderly supporting the Christ Child, who solemnly raises his hand
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Lucas van Leyden 1520 Mercury descending from the sky a trumpet in his right hand
Coptic 4th century On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 302 In his left hand
Of works of art and other material culture only coins and scant ceramic fragments remain from this early period of the Umayyad governors (711–56).
–88) made Córdoba his capital and unified al-Andalus under his rule with a firm hand
From an imperial villa in Boscotrecase, near Pompeii (Santini 1905; Alexander 1929). 1903-4, excavated by Ernesto Santini from an imperial villa on his property at Boscotrecase; from 1904, collection of E
One hand appears to be chained to the crag; the other elegantly placed on the rocks
the book at a later date, a suggestion supported by the presence of writing in a hand
mouth of a column krater, bent forward with his head between his legs, in his right hand
