Human Likeness Collection (page 7)

Chinese Stoneware Figure of a Judge of Hell, Ming Period, 16th century. Diyu is the realm of the dead or hell in Chinese mythology, each of the Ten Courts of Hell is ruled by a judge

The Taoist Immortal, Han Xiangzi, Ming Dynasty, 17th century. Chinese mythological figure and one of the Eight Immortals in the Taoist pantheon, often depicted carrying a dizi (Chinese flute)

Attendant of Hsi Wang Mu and peaches of Immortal, Ivory Figure, Ming Dynasty. In Chinese mythology, Peaches of Immortality are consumed by the immortals due to their mystic virtue of conferring

Ivory Figure of Tien Kuan, Master of Heaven, Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644. Tian is one of the oldest Chinese terms for heaven and a key concept in Chinese mythology, philosophy, and religion

The Taoist Immortal, Chung Li Ch Uan, Chinese Ivory, Ming Dynasty, 17th century. Chung-Li Ch uan. revives the souls of the dead with a wave of his fan

Buddha, gilt-bronze, Ming Dynasty, 1396. British Museum

A Lohan (Disciple of Buddha), Chinese woodcarving, 14th century

The Bodhisattva, Manjusri, Gilt-Bronze, Yung-Lo Period, c1403-1424. Manjusri is a bodhisattva associated with prajna (insight) in Mahayana Buddhism. British Museum

Chinese Tomb Figure of Horse and Rider, Tang Period, 8th century. The Tang Dynasty is generally regarded as a high point in Chinese civilization, and a golden age of cosmopolitan culture

Chinese Tomb Guardian, T ang Dynasty, 7th-10th century. The Tang Dynasty is generally regarded as a high point in Chinese civilization, and a golden age of cosmopolitan culture

Chinese Bronze Wrestlers, Late Zhou Dynasty, 4th century BC-3rd century BC. The Zhou dynasty lasted longer than any other dynasty in Chinese history

Japenese Netsuke, The Two Heroes, Benkei and Yoshitune, 19th century. Musashibo Benkei (1155-1189), popularly called Benkei

Japanese Netsuke of Two Shojo, Drunkards, Edo Period, 18th century. Artist: Gyoku-un
Japanese Netsuke of Two Shojo, Drunkards, Edo Period, 18th century. Signed Gyoku-Un

Japanese Warrior, Haniwa Tomb Figure, c300-550

Japanese Haniwa figure of Shamaness Tomb-figure, 5th-6th century

Taoist Hermit, Chinese folk art, c1800. Made of wood

Chinese Bronze, A Taoist Emperor

Chinese Pottery Ridge Tile figure of Buddhas disciple, Ming Dynasty. 16-17th century. Glazed in turquoise, cream and brown. British Museum

Chinese Jade Face, Neolithic period, c2500 BC

Wooden Ancestor Figure from Easter Island, Polynesia, c19th century. Known as an emaciated man - worn with others hanging from the waist in dances at feasts

Ancestral Board, wood carved with two human faces. Painted with earth figments and kept in the Mens house, from New Guinea, Papua at Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh

Clay Fertility Figures or Mother Goddesses from Caraja Tribe of Brazil. The Karaja, also known as Iny, are a tribe indigenous to the Brazilian Amazon. hey are self-sufficient

Vegetation figure on Roman Capital at Carthage Tunisia, 2nd-3rd century. Rome took control of Carthage after the Third Punic War (149-146), annexed the city and its vicinity

Christ seated on Globe surrounded by Palms, Church of Santa Costanza, Rome, c 4th century. Apse Mosaic in the South Aisle of Sta. Constanza

Terracotta Astarte or Ishtar figure, Third Dynasty of Ur, c2100 BC. The Third Dynasty of Ur, also known as the Neo-Sumerian Empire

The Shrine of Hendursag, Old Babylonian, 1750BC. White limestone carved statuette found in Ur, chapel (private houses), repaired and reused in chapel devoted to Hendursag, god of law in Sumerian

Babylonian Terracotta Plague of Goddess Astarte, c2000BC-1600 BC. Worshipped from the Bronze Age through classical antiquity

Australian Aboriginal Bark Painting. Bark painting is an Australian Aboriginal art form, involving painting on the interior of a strip of tree bark

Etruscan Soldier wearing early Chain Mail, Sarcophagus, Chiusi, c3rd century BC-2nd Century BC
Etruscan Soldier wearing early chain mail, from Sarcophagus in Chiusi, c3rd century BC-2nd Century BC

Etruscan Canopic Jar from Santano near Chiusi, 6 century BC. Etruscan canopic jars, typical of the area of Chiusi (Siena), are clay urns shaped like the head of a man or woman

Chinese Stoneware, Seated Daoist Deity, Ming Dynasty, 16th century. British Museum

Archaic Greek warrior in Bronze, Syracuse, Sicily

Christ the Teacher, c350

Early Christian Sarcophagus of Christ healing the sick, 4th century. At Vatican Museums

Etruscan Sarcophagus of Funeral procession approaching a shrine. At British Museum

Minoan Sacred Dance, Palaikastro, Eastern Crete, Post-Palatial Period, c1400BC- c1100 BC. Archeaeological Museum, Heraklion

Terracotta Idols from House of the Idols, Citadel of Mycenae, Greece, 13th century BC. one of the idols is holding a sword. Mycenae is an archaeological site near Mikines in Greece

Celtic Bronze Mount of Stylised Human Head, Stanwick, Yorkshire, c1st century

Greek relief detail, Battle of Gods and Giants, Apollo and Artemis fight, 525BC. Treasury of the Siphnians, Delphi

Parthenon Frieze, Elgin Marbles, Sacrifice Procession with Ram, c5th century BC. Artist: Phidias
Parthenon Frieze, Elgin Marbles, Sacrifice Procession with Ram, c5th century BC. The Parthenon frieze is a high-relief pentelic marble sculpture created to adorn the upper part of the Parthenon

Romano-British rendering of Roman God Mars, 3rd century
Roman period. Romano-British rendering of Roman God Mars, 3rd century. Bronze Statuette from cSouthbroom, Wiltshire. British Museum

Kore, Persephone wearin Ionaian Chiton and Himation Attic Sculpture, c420 BC. Found in Piraeus at National Archaeological Museum, Athens

Bronze Greek Portrait head of a man, late Hellenistic Period, c1st century BC. Found on Delos. At Nat. Archaeological Museum, Athens

Greek small bronze Apollo from Kosmas near Sparta, late 6th century BC. Epiphenomenos means Appearing, Laconian work held at National Museum, Athens

Athena, Roman copy of Greek sculpture, c1st century BC
Athena. Roman copy of Greek sculpture, c1st century BC. Athena often given the epithet Pallas, is the goddess of wisdom, craft, and war in ancient Greek religion and mythology

Demosthenes. Greek Orator & Statesman, 384-322 BC
Demosthenes, Greek Orator and Statesman, 384-322 BC. Demosthenes (384-322 BC) was a prominent Greek statesman and orator of ancient Athens. Roman Portrait Bust at Capitoline Museum, Rome

Apollo, Greek Bronze. circa early 5th century BC. ollo is one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology

Homer, Roman Portrait Bust, c2nd century. Homer is the name ascribed by the ancient Greeks to the legendary author of the Iliad and the Odyssey

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