Encyclopedia of society and culture in the ancient world ( PDFDrive ) 985

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