Metaphor Collection (#80)

Threshing machine by Andrew Meikle, Scottish inventor and millwright, 1811. Top: original form of the machine powered by horses. Bottom: improved form powered by a water wheel

Break of Gauge at Gloucester, Gloucestershire, 6th June 1846. Artist: WJ Linton
Break of Gauge at Gloucester, Gloucestershire, 6th June 1846. Plate taken from the Illustrated London News (6 June 1846) showing passengers

Brandreths horse powered locomotive Cycloped, 1829. Plate taken from History and Progress of the Steam Engine, 1831 by Elijah Galloway

Silk cloth with lions and Palm Trees, Buk Kham region, central Asia, 8th-9th century

Silver and Gilt Plaque from Kama River region, USSR, 3rd century BC-8th century. State Hermitage Museum. Leningrad

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

Neje and his mother, New Kingdom. 19th Dynasty, 1300BC-1200BC. Painted limestone, Thebes, Egypt.. (State Museum of Egyptian Art, Munich, Germany)

Pair of horses heads on Teak Door-Panel, Egypt, Fatimid Period, 11th century. Fatimid Dynasty; Political and religious dynasty that dominated an empire in North Africa

Detail of Egyptian coffin of Priestess of Amen-Ra, Cartouche of Osiris, c950BC-900BC. Found at Thebes and dated by shape and style of decoration to late 21st or early 22nd Dynasty (c 950-900 BC)

Roman Mosaic of Horses, Diomeder and Aicides, 2nd-3rd century
Roman Mosaic of Horse, Diomeder and Aicides, 2nd-3rd century. A Roman mosaic of two famous race horses called Diomedes and Aicides. Notice they are surrounded by the palm leaves of victory

Persian Manuscript Illustration c16th-17th century. Victoria and Albert Museum

Capitoline Triad, Minerva, Jupiter and Juno, Funerary cippus or tomb marker. The Capitoline Triad were a group of three deities worshipped in ancient Rome. Cippus made of travestine (volcanic rock)

Combat between two gladiators, Roman relief from Epheseus, c3rd century. Marble, At Pergamon Museum, Berlin

Roman Husband and wife (funerary slab) Imperial period. At Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome
Roman Husband and wife, funerary slab from Imperial period, c2nd-3rd century. Bas-reliefs depicting couples were popular, signifying a longing for reunion in the afterlife

Husband and wife on Roman gravestone. Bas-reliefs depicting couples were popular. It signifies a longing for reunion in the afterlife, rather than a double burial. Terme Museum Rome

Bellerophon and Pegasus, Roman Wallpainting from Pompeii, 1st century. Bellerophon was a great hero and slayer of monsters, alongside Cadmus and Perseus, before the days of Heracles

Swallow and Sparrow, Roman wall painting from Boscoreale near Pompeii, 1st century. There are at least four Roman villas that have been excavated in Boscoreale, Italy

Etruscan Stela Detail, Combat between horseman and foot-soldier, c4th century BC. At Museo Civico. Bologna, Italy

Vishnu in his 10th Incarnation as the White Houre Kalki, 1710-1720. Painting from Bilaspur at Victoria and Albert Museum. London

Buddha meditating with disciples, Sariputta and Moggallana, c2nd-3rd century. Buddha preaching from a lotus flanked by two bodhisattvas, (from Jamalghari, Yosufzai) Gandhara Style. British Museum

Detail of inside of coffin of Am Enemope, Thebes, XXI Dynasty, c1050BC. Usermaatre Amenemope was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the 21st Dynasty

Greek Vase painting, Athletes with jumping-weights, found in Etruscan burial, c6th century BC

Detail from a Psalter, The Jews before Herod, c1140
Detail from a Psalter: The Jews before Herod: probably illuminated in Canterbury c1140 AD

Detail from a Psalter, Temptation of Christ (second) probably illuminated at Canterbury, c1140

Thou shall not kill, The Ten Commandments, c20th century. Frankfurt, West Germany (5th) -

Do Not Take Lords Name in Vain, The Ten Commandments, c20th century.. Frankfurt, West Germany (2nd)

Amphora, Theseus and the Minotaur, 6th century BC

Three Mother Goddesses, Celtic, c1st century. A triple deity is three deities that are worshipped as one. This shows a Three Matres

Pectoral Plaque from the Tomb of Tutakhamun, New Kingdom, c1332BC-1323 BC. Shows the Pharoah with on the left, the Vulture of Upper Egypt wearing the White Crown of Upper Egypt and on the right

Silver Ghost Rolls Royce at Rally, Cheshire, England, c1960. Artist: CM Dixon
Silver Ghost Rolls Royce at Rally, Cheshire, England, c1960. The Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost chassis was first made at Royces Manchester works, with production moving to Derby in July 1908

Outdoor Game of Draughts in Union Terrace Gardens in City Centre, Aberdeen, Scotland, c1960s. Artist: CM Dixon
Aberdeen, Scotland. Outdoor Game of Draughts in Union Terrace Gardens in City Centre, Aberdeen, Scotland, 20th century, c1960s

North American Indian decorated skin, showing a horse and rider, from the Arapaho tribe

Voltaire, French author and epitome of the Enlightenment, 18th century. Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) in a box at the theatre crowned with laurels as the unique man of all ages

Gold Stater of Phillip II of Macedonia, 356BC
The coin refers to Phillips success in a chariot race in the Olympic Games of 356 BC. Many of these coins were used to pay western barbarian mercenaries

Detail from Saint Chapelle, 13th century
Detail from Saint Chapelle of Adam and Eve, 13th century

Kingfisher and worm (Alcedo atthis)

The Dancing Bear, Brimham Rocks near Pately Bridge in Yorkshire. This shows wind erosion of horizontally-bedded sedimentary rock

Detail of a Roman mosaic showing lions killing a boar, 2nd century

The steps leading to the cistern in Mycenae

Dakota Native American mans vest, 19th century
Dakota Native American mans vest. The small beads came from Venice, and replaced quills, 19th century

Main street in Ambleside, looking north
Main street in Ambleside in the Lake District, looking north

Assyrian relief showing Assyrian chariot at battle of the river Ulai, 7th century
Assyrian relief showing an Assyrian chariot at the battle of the river Ulai, from the north palace of Ashurbanipal at Ninevah, from the British Museums collection, 7th century

Kestrel with a mouse
Kestrel (Falc tinnunculus) with a mouse

Redstart with insect
Redstart (Phoenicurus Phoenicurus) with insect

Detail of an early Sumerian stone tablet
Detail of Sumerian stone tablet with some of the oldest characters found on stone, from early Babylonia. From the British Museums collection

The Sumerian Blau Tablet, 30th century BC
The Blau Tablet, a Sumerian tablet with archaic characters that are almost the oldest found on stone, from the British Museums collection, 30th century BC

Solid copper Sumerian bison, found near Lake Van in Turkey, from the British Museums collection

Detail of the arch of the Emperor Titus, 1st century
Detail of the arch of Titus (30 December 39 - 13 September 81), showing the return of spoils from Jerusalem, including a Menorah, 1st century

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