List of Illustrations Pottery figures of a drummer and a woman and child, Tala-Tonalá style, Jalisco, Mexico Group of bronze tools for woodworking from Thebes, Egypt Stone bowl from Khafajeh, Iraq Bird head made of stone, Papua, New Guinea Steatite vase from Greece Papyrus with part of the “Tale of the Eloquent Peasant” from Egypt Drawing by Michelangelo of the Crucifixion of Christ and two thieves 283 287 288 290 293 298 304 VOLUME II Pyramid of a king, thought to be Adikhalamani Tabirqa, in Meroë, Sudan A reconstructed Egyptian grave pit Jade eye plaques from China Iron Age pottery cinerary urn shaped like a hut, from Italy Stele of Aristion, a philosopher of Athens Gold diadem, found in the Camaná valley, Peru Bronze figure of Isis and Horus, from North Saqqara, Egypt Babylonian lapis lazuli cylinder seal of Sin-ishmeanni A 19th-century Indian painting depicting the climax of the epic the Ramayana The figure of Silenus, the mentor of Dionysus, Greek god of plays Marble relief with two Roman theater masks The Great Harris Papyrus, from Thebes, probably Deir el-Medina, Egypt Mesopotamian stone vase depicting animals of the first city dwellers of Mesopotamia Indian bronze cast coin Mesolithic perforated part skull and antlers of red deer, from Star Carr, Vale of Pickering, North Yorkshire, England 312 314 316 318 319 321 329 331 332 334 337 347 351 355 359 Roman gold bars with assayers’ stamps Granite statue of Senmut holding Princess Neferure, the temple of Amun, Karnak, Thebes, Egypt Cuneiform tablet with schoolwork, probably from southern Iraq Yue ware water dropper in the shape of a frog drinking from a cup, from Zhejiang, southern China Fragments of painted plaster, Roman Britain, from Otford, Kent, England Colossi of Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II and his wife at entrance to Karnak Temple Portion of a relief in the tomb of Darius I, king of Persia, showing his throne bearers Cowrie shells, the earliest form of money in China Roman marble relief of Jason, the physician and patient Stucco head of a monk, said to be from Hadda, Gandhara The Dream of Scipio, by Raphael Papyrus marriage contract between the priest Pagosh and Teteimhotep, from Assiut, Egypt Scarab stamp seal and impressions, in lapis lazuli, depicting Ishtar, the Assyrian and Babylonian goddess of love, fertility, marriage, and childbirth Fragment of an archaic Greek stele, with the heads of a mother and child Ethiopian Orthodox priests at festival of Timkat Roman hand of Sabazius, found at Tournai, Belgium Pottery dog, from Colima, Mexico Fineware cup decorated with frogs and lotus flowers painted in black, from Faras, Sudan xv 368 378 379 381 385 395 400 429 433 440 444 449 451 455 463 469 471 473