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Inside St. John the Baptist Church, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire.

Assyrian “winged genie” with elaborate bracelets.  Alabaster relief sculpture from Room H of the Nor

Sculpture (black schist with remnants of gesso and puja pigment) of the Hindu elephant-headed deity

centuriespast:Palma:  Eagle Attacking a Skull, Precolumbian, 300-900Veracruz Stonework; Made in Mexi

A pair of Assyrian winged deities, carved in gypsum.  Artist unknown; reign of Ashurbanipal II (883-

Bust of Lucius Verus (co-emperor with Marcus Aurelius, 161-169 CE).  Artist unknown; after 160 CE. 

Marble bust of the Greco-Egyptian deity Serapis.  Roman copy after a Greek original (4th cent. BCE)

Head of Asclepius.  Roman copy (second half of 2nd cent. CE) after a mid-4th cent. BCE Greek origina

Seated statue (schist) of the Hindu deity Ganesha, from Karnataka state, India.  Artist unknown; 13t

Canopic jar lid (limestone) in the shape of a falcon head, representing the deity Qebehsenuef, one o

Portrait head of Amenhotep III, shown wearing the double crown and ceremonial beard.  Artist unknown

Sculpture (chloritic schist) of the Hindu divine couple Shiva and Parvati, known as an Uma-Mahesvara

Memorial to Sir Griffith Boynton, 1712 -1761. St Martins Church, Burton Agnes Hall, East Riding of Y

Alfonso V of Aragon/I of Naples “the Magnanimous”, attr. to Mino da Fiesole (1429-1484)

Cycladic marble female figurine, attr. to the Goulandris Master.  Ca. 2500-2400 BCE (Early Cycladic

Athenian funerary relief of a couple. Artist unknown; ca. 330-320 BCE. Now in the Pergamon Museum, B

Head of a Buddhist guardian king, perhaps Tseng-ch’ang (=Sanskrit Virudhaka), regent of the south. U

Limestone relief fragment showing cattle of the 4th Dynasty pharaoh Khufu.  Artist unknown; ca. 2551

Portrait bust of Seleucus I Nicator (ca. 359-285 BCE), general of Alexander the Great and first rule

Statue of Horemheb, last pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty, with the god Amun.  Artist unknown; ca. 1319-1

Ancient Egyptian column capital (limestone) in the shape of the head of the goddess Hathor.  The col

The goddess Isis greets the 30th Dynasty pharaoh Nectanebo II. Fragment (painted limestone) of the d

Ushabti (glazed and painted steatite) of the chief steward and scribe Seniu.  Artist unknown; ca. 15

Ancient Egyptian relief sculpture (painted limestone) of a porcupine. Detail of a wall fragment from

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