EditorialStone tablet of Nabu-apla-iddina, from Sippar, southern Iraq, Babylonian, around 870 BCE. On the top are 13 symbols of the gods designed to protect the legal document. Both the king, wearing the typical Babylonian royal hat and the priest whose hand is...
EditorialStatue of an Egyptian priest in headdress holding a stone tablet found in the Canopus of Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli. Copperplate engraving by Giacomo Bossi after an illustration by A. Tofanelli from Pietro Paolo Montagnani-Mirabili's Il Museo Capitolino...
EditorialDesign of Escutcheon with Coat of Arms, Leonardo Scaglia, French, active Italy, 1640 1650, Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash on off-white laid paper, Elevation of an escutcheon supported symmetrically by four putti, with two more sitting above. Th...
EditorialDesign for a Sepulchral Monument, Pen and brown ink, brush and gouache, brown wash on off-white laid paper, Vertical rectangle. Design for a monument to be fixed against a wall made up of a variety of colorful stone. The upper part contains an ovoidal ...
EditorialArtist: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian, Venice, 16961770, Reclining male nude with right hand resting on a stone tablet, seen from?below, ca.?174050, Pen and brown ink and brown wash on white paper, 23.8 ? 17.4 cm (9 3/8 ? 6 7/8?in.), Italian, 18th...
EditorialA limestone tablet with an inscription, originating from the foundation of the temple of the goddess Nanaja in Uruk. The inscription, also found on bronze foundation statues of the monarch, immortalizes Rim-Sin I (1823-1763 BC) and his father, Kudur-Ma...
EditorialStone tablet with the instructions of Moses Verklaar-Steen on the Inauguration of the Hebrew Republijk (title on object), the reading of the law (Joshua 8: 30-35), Jan Luyken, Amsterdam, 1683, paper, etching, h 143 mm ? w 85 mm.
EditorialStatue of an Egyptian priest in headdress holding a stone tablet found in the Canopus of Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli. Copperplate engraving by Giacomo Bossi after an illustration by A. Tofanelli from Pietro Paolo Montagnani-Mirabili's Il Museo Capitolino...
EditorialCuneiform tablet: Sumerian dedicatory(?) inscription from Ekur, the temple of the god Enlil, Kassite, ca. 16th?15th century B.C., Mesopotamia, probably from Nippur, Kassite, Black marble, 8.25 x 9 x 1 in (20.96 x 22.86 x 2.55 cm) , Stone-Tablets-Inscri...
EditorialBanded agate ring stone, Hellenistic, 3rd?2nd century B.C., Italic, Agate, banded, Length: 1/2 in. (1.3 cm), Gems, Man writing on a tablet the auguries told by a head on the ground.
EditorialStatue of an Egyptian priest in headdress holding a stone tablet found in the Canopus of Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli. Copperplate engraving by Giacomo Bossi after an illustration by A. Tofanelli from Pietro Paolo Montagnani-Mirabili's Il Museo Capitolino...
EditorialStone tablet of Nabu-apla-iddina, from Sippar, southern Iraq, Babylonian, around 870 BCE. On the top are 13 symbols of the gods designed to protect the legal document. Both the king, wearing the typical Babylonian royal hat and the priest whose hand is...