Encyclopedia of society and culture in the ancient world ( PDFDrive ) 986

List of Illustrations Tapestry made of multicolored wool on linen showing Artemis and Actaeon, Egypt Wool textile fragment from Persepolis, Persia (modern-day Iran) Bone needles from the cave of Courbet, Penne-Tarn, France Greek utensil used for unwinding balls of wool, called Ariadne’s clew box Mantle border fragment made of cotton and camelid hair, Peru Site of ancient walled town, Cameroon, Central Africa Gold bracelet or diadem, from the Phoenician trading center of Tharros, Sardinia Steatite seals from the Indus Valley Iron Age luxury imports from Italy, Rome, and the Near East, found at Hertfordshire, England The Crawford Cup, Roman, found on the border between Syria and Turkey Petroglyph of camel and horse, from the Sahara Desert at Tassili, Algeria, North Africa Achaemenid Persian gold model chariot from the region of Takht-i Kuwad, Tadjikistan Horse harness fittings from Iron Age Britain Chariot with horse and rider, from a sarcophagus at Heraklion Frieze in the temple of the Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II, showing a listing of captured cities in Nubia Clay prism of King Sennacherib Stone figure of the war god Skanda, from eastern India 1076 1078 1081 1081 1084 1087 1099 1100 1102 1105 1111 1114 1116 1119 1127 1132 1139 Bust of a Greek warrior known as Leonidas Bronze statuette of the Mars, Roman god of war, Earith, Cambridgeshire, England Stone ball found in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania Short sword of steel, bronze, and gold from eastern Central Asia Spear thrower carved in the shape of a mammoth, from the rock shelter of Montastruc, Tarn-et-Garonne, France Vase from Mycenae portraying warriors in battle gear Sixteenth-century shield depicting Roman battle scene Bronze duck weight, found in the treasury at Persepolis, Persia (modern-day Iran) Bronze steelyard with lead weights from Roman Britain Red porphyry one talent weight, from Knossos Roman cup or bowl depicting a man carving the number on a nilometer, a device used to measure the water level of the Nile’s annual flood Abu Simbel—hymn in praise of the Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II Clay tablet with Babylonian inscription, found in the treasury of Persepolis, Persia (modern-day Iran) Pillar edict of the emperor Asoka from Uttar Pradesh, India Painted pebbles from cave of Mas d’Azil, Ariége, France Bilingual milestone marker Pottery inkwell from Roman Britain, inscribed with its owner’s name, Iucundus xix 1145 1151 1162 1165 1167 1168 1170 1175 1178 1179 1181 1185 1186 1188 1188 1190 1191