Mike Dixon Collection (page 16)

Moses and Israelites Cross the Red Sea, San Gimignano, Italy, 14th century. From the Old Testament cycle, The Israelites safely cross the Red Sea, but Pharaoh and his troops are drowned

Pitti Palace and the Boboli Gardens in August, Florence, Italy, c20th century. The Palazzo Pitti, sometimes called the Pitti Palace, is a vast, mainly Renaissance, palace in Florence, Italy

Mosaic detail in ambulatory of Santa Constanza church, Rome, 4th century. Mosaics in the ambulatory are secular and could be considered Dionysiac with images of grapes, fruit, birds

Christ the Teacher, c350

Moses Strikes the Rock, and Christ in the Garden, early Christian Sarcophagus, 4th century

Christ handing scrolll of new law to St Peter while looking at St Paul, mid-4th century. Marble Sarcophagus at Vatican Museums

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

Jonah and the Whale, early Christian Sarcophagus, Roman Marble, 4th century. At Vatican Museums

Fresco detail by Giotto of life of St Francis, Santa Croce, Florence, early 14th century

Moses strikes the Rock, for water in the desert, Early Christian Sarcophagus, c4th century. Early Christians sarcophagi are those Ancient Roman sarcophagi carrying inscriptions or carving relating

Roman Boat-Builder at work, on stele of Publius Longidienus, c2nd century. Publius Longidienus was also a boat-builder, Ravenna. Italy

Bust of Probus, Roman Emperor (276-282), c3rd century. Probus, (19 August 232 -September/October 282), was Roman Emperor from 276 to 282

Roman relief of a shoe-maker or repairer from Rheims, France, c1st-2nd century

Roman doctor inspecting eye of a woman, relief on gravestone, from house near Naix, France. Bas-relief, now in National Archaeological Museum, Rome, Italy

Testudo formation, detail of cast from Trajans Column, (1st century), c20th century. Cast of Trajans Column taken from the original 1st century AD

Roman Lead Water-Pipe with inscription, c2nd century. Emperor Antominus and Commodia. Rome, Terme Museum

Ariadne Deserted by Theseus, Roman wall painting from Herculaneum, 1st century. Ariadne on the shores of Naxos. British Museum

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

Roman Finger-Ring with Helios driving a four-horse chariot, c3rd century. At British Museum

Etruscan Terracotta Antefix, Head of Silenus, from sanctuary of Portonaccio, 6th-5th century BC. In Greek mythology, Silenus was a companion and tutor to the wine god Dionysus

Etruscan Vase in shape of Bulls head, c6th century BC. At National Archaeological Museum, Florence

Detail of Gold bracelet from Praeneste, Etruscan Jewellery, 7th century BC. The Etruscan civilization is the modern name given to a powerful

Roman Aqueduct, West of Tunis, c20th century

Roman floor mosaic, Servants bring wine to guests at a banquet, c3rd century. At Bardo Museum, Tunis

Wrestlers, Roman Mosaic from Gightis, late 2nd century AD. At Bardo Museum, Tunisia

Christ, the Good Shepherd, Istanbul, 4th century. At Archaeological Museum. Istanbul

Sassanian Silver Dish (detail), people with weapons, circa late 4th century. The Sasanian Empire known to its inhabitants as Eranshahr

Persian (Kashan) Ewer with cockerels head and tail handle, early 13th century. Painted in black under a turquoise glaze. Kashan is a city of Isfahan, Iran

Mesopotamia, Daggers, 3rd millennium BC. The Sumerians and Akkadians (including Assyrians and Babylonians) dominated Mesopotamia from the beginning of written history (c)

Detail from the Balawat Gates, made for Shalmeneser III, Neo-Assyrian, c858 BC-824 BC. The Balawat Gates are three sets of decorated bronze bands that had adorned the main doors of several buildings

Maori Woodcarving representing panel detail of Ancestor. Panel from meeting-house. The Maori are the indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand, they originated with settlers from eastern Polynesia

North American Indian Salish Basket. The Salish peoples are an ethno-linguistic group of the Pacific Northwest

Funeral effigies for Wikaruk ceremony, Diegueno tribe, Southern California. North American Indian. Diegueno, also called San Diegueno

Hunting Magic, Design on pottery vessel, Zuni tribe, Pueblo Indian. Note the line to read the hunters arrow to the buffalos heart. British Museum, London

Pottery. Bat-God: pottery with red paint. Zapotec culture, Mexico, 300-900 AD. (A branch of Aztec cu)
Camazotz, Bat-God, pottery with red paint, Zapotec culture, Mexico, 300-900. The cult of Camazotz began around 100 BCE among the Zapotec Indians in what is the modern-day Mexican state of Oaxaca

Large Knife from grave at Southampton Island, for cutting whale-blubber, Inuit

Man Carrying a Llama, Painted pottery vase, Chancay, Peru, 1000-1470
Man Carrying a Llama, Painted pottery vase, Chancay, Peru. The Chancay were a pre-Columbian archeological civilization which developed on the central coast of Peru from about 1000 to 1470

Aztec Nefrite Head of a Jaguar, 1300-1521. The jaguar is America?s largest and most powerful cat, and for more than three thousand years it has been Mexico?s most enduring symbolic animal

Pottery vessel of Ancient breed of Mexican dog, Colima Culture, Mexico, 300-900. The Thecichi is a hairless and barkless dog fattened for eating and regarded as a delicacy today it is almost extinct

Gold Condor from Columbia, Pre-Columbian
Gold Condor from Columbia - Pre-Columbian. British Museum

Egyptian stele, Deceased worships Osiris who stands on pedestal representing Maat. Horus & Isis stand to left. National Archaeological Museum, Florence

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

Islamic Tiles showing the Kasbah at Mecca (Ka Ba), 1668. Ottoman Period. At Islamic Museum, Cairo. Egypt

Christ the Good Shepherd, Early Coptic Art, c3rd century. Coptic Museum, Cairo

Egyptian Stela with cryptogram For Man called Olympios

Two Saints, Coptic Wall Painting. Egypt, 6th century. At Coptic Museum, Cairo

Celtic Iron Keys from Manching Oppidum, Germany, 1st century BC

Celtic bronze kettle with double handles, Unternack, Bavaria, Halstatt period, 750-600 BC

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