Metaphor Collection (#81)

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

Detail of a gravestone from Asia Minor, 1st century
Detail of a gravestone from Asia Minor, of a man with a pruning knife, and a woman with a mirror, spindle, and distaff, 1st century

Sri Lankan bullock cart. Artist: CM Dixon
Sri Lankan bullock cart at Anuradhapura

Russian General Mikhail Skobelev on horseback, (1883). Artist: Nikolai Dmitrievich Dmitriev-Orenburgsky
Russian General Mikhail Skobelev on horseback, (1883). Mikhail Dmitrievich Skobelev (1843-1882) was a Russian soldier who distinguished himself in the conquest of Central Asia

The death of Duke Leopold of Brunswick during a flood in Brunswick, Germany, 1785. Artist: Pierre Alexandre Wille
The death of Duke Leopold of Brunswick during a flood in Brunswick, Germany, 1785. Leopold of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel (1752-1785) was a Prussian general

Dwarf figures on a building in the Buddhist city of Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka, which are associated with wealth

Detail of a column showing Norman Soldiers, 12th century
Detail of a column showing Norman Soldiers in the cloisters of Monreal Cathedral, 12th century

Sculpture of Karl Marx and Engels
Sculpture of Karl Marx (5 May 1818 ? 14 March 1883) and Engels (28 November 1820 ? 5 August 1895) in a park in east Berlin

Landscape with Lightning, 1660s. Artist: Gaspard Dughet
Landscape with Lightning, 1660s. Found in the collection of the State Hermitage, St Petersburg

Guardian Angel, 17th century. Artist: Domenico Piola I
Guardian Angel, 17th century. Found in the collection of the State A Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Gallery of Kings in Lincoln Cathedral, 14th century

Opus sectile mosaic of a tiger seizing a calf, 4th century
Opus sectile mosaic of a tiger seizing a calf from the Basilica of Junius Basio in Rome, now in the Capitoline Museum, 4th century

Tunisian llustration of a winged mythical being
Tunisian popular illustration of a winged mythical being in the Islamic tradition

Storm at the Sea, 1740s. Artist: Claude-Joseph Vernet
Storm at the Sea, 1740s. Vernet, Claude Joseph (1714-1789). Found in the collection of the Museum of Western and Oriental Art, Kiev

View in the Park of the Villa Pamphili in Rome, 1749. Artist: Claude-Joseph Vernet
View in the Park of the Villa Pamphili in Rome, 1749. Vernet, Claude Joseph (1714-1789). Found in the collection of the State A. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Road-building in Tunisia
Road-building in Tatouine, in Tunisia

Roman mosaic from Curium of Creation

Farmer and his cart in Hungary. Artist: CM Dixon
A famer and his cart near Egervar in Western Hungary

Statue of a Roman husband and wife, with what is probably a child behind them. In the collection of the National Archaeological Museum in Rome

Detail of a coptic wall painting showing two apostles, 6th Century
Detail of a Coptic wallpainting form Baouit, Egypt, depicting John and Jacob/James, 6th Century. In the collection of the Coptic Museum in Cairo

Part of the frieze on the Parthenon, 5th century BC

Scythian plaque showing two men drinking from a horn, 4th century BC
Scythian gold plaque showing two men drinking from a horn, probably as part of a blood-brother rite. From Kul Oba in South Russia, now in the Hermitage Museums collection in St Petersburg

Detail of Native American totem pole from Bella Bella on the pacific north-west coast, now in the Horniman Museum in London

Relief of a Hittite Chariot from the Pergamon Museum in Berlin

Detail from the Egyptian satirical papyrus of a lion and a unicorn playing a board game
Detail from the Egyptian satirical papyrus of a lion and a unicorn playing Senet, a board game similar to draughts

Griffin-headed Armlet
Griffin-headed armlet which originally had inlays in the recessed parts

Limestone plaque with two deer, from Susa, Iran. At the Museum fur Islamiche Kunst, Berlin-Dahlen

Persian lion mounted on a wheeled carriage
Lion mounted on a wheeled carriage made of calcite and bitumen, from Susa

Stone tablet from North Babylonia, recording how King Nablu-apla-iddim, then twenty, confirmed a gift of land

Babylonian story of the flood on a clay tablet, probably from Sippor, Old Babylonian, 1635BC. This is one of three tablets which contained the Epic of Ammisaduqa, hero of the Babylonian flood story

Roman mosaic of boxers with wrapped hands, frm the Bardo Museum in Tunis (Carthage)

Roman funerary relief, showing an ox-cart
A Roman funerary relief, showing an ox-cart, fromthe Muno Nationale Museum Romanos collection

Greek terracotta of bakers making bread, from the Louvres collection

Mosaic of a Vandal on horseback, 5th century
Mosaic from Carthage, depicting a Vandal horseman. Note his very germanic clothing which probably indicates that he is a member of the nobility, 5th century

Gaullish prisoner, Roman bronze statuette, c1st century

Gaullish prisoner, Roman bronze figure, Umbria, Imperial period

Children at play, Japanese painting, 18th century. A group of five children seated around a mat playing, reading and writing. From the British Museum, London

Splendid Jem amongst the convicts in the Naval Dock Yard at Chatham, Kent, 1821. Artist: Isaac Robert Cruikshank
Splendid Jem, once a dashing hero in the Metropolis, recognised by Tom amongst the convicts in the Naval Dock Yard at Chatham, 1821

Prison hulk at Deptford, London, c1826. These convict hulks were an intermediate confinement between an ordinary gaol or transportation

Prison hulk Warrior at Woolwich, London, 1848. This hulk held 600 and was an intermediate confinement between an ordinary gaol or transportation

Convict ward on board the prison hulk Warrior at Woolwich, London, 1848. This hulk held 600 and was an intermediate confinement between an ordinary gaol or transportation

Chapel on board the prison hulk Warrior at Woolwich, London, 1848. This hulk held 600 and was an intermediate confinement between an ordinary gaol or transportation

On board a prison hulk, 1848. A warder watching prisoners entering their ward on board convict hulk Warrior at Woolwich. This hulk held 600

St Paul the Apostle who took the Christian message to the Gentiles, 19th century. In the background is his conversion on the road to Damascus

Fidgety Joe, 1903. Artist: Edward Linley Sambourne
Fidgety Joe, 1903. The troubles of coalition government. Two parents representing the Duke of Devonshire and Arthur Balfour (centre)

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