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xochipilli grid — Xochipilli was the Mexica god of music and dance

Xochipilli

by The British Museum

Group of pottery model temples, Mexica (Aztec), 1325–1521, from Mexico, 14.7 x 10.5 cm (© The Trustees of the British Museum) — Small pottery temple models add valuable details to our knowledge of Mexica religious architecture

Pottery model temples

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Beautiful glass was popular from ancient Egypt into the Coptic period

Glass dish, Coptic

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coptic egypt grid — In the course of the fourth and fifth centuries C.E., Christians transformed the architectural landscape of pharaonic Egypt by building monumental churches, martyrs’ shrines, and monasteries

Byzantine Egypt and the Coptic period, an ...

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silk coptic grid — By the seventh and eighth centuries in Egypt, patterns on the highest-quality silk panels had become extremely sophisticated and complex

Coptic silk panel

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grid Piye 416314001 — King Piye was the first major ruler in Egypt of the Kushite Dynasty (referred to as the Twenty-fifth Dynasty)

King Piye and the Kushite control of ...

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grid Piye 416314001 — In 716 B.C.E. Kushite king Piye died and was buried in an Egyptian style pyramid tomb at El-Kurru

King Piye and the Kushite control of ...

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Meroitic stela From Hamadab, Sudan Kushite period, about 24BC, Height: 236.5 cm — Sudan is home to the oldest sub-Saharan African kingdom, the kingdom of Kush.

Ancient Nubia and the Kingdom of Kush, ...

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meriotic grid — Throughout the Meroitic period Egyptian elements introduced into Kushite royal burial practices under the early Napatan kings were retained and reinterpreted

Meroitic period of the Kingdom of Kush

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meriotic grid — Throughout the Meroitic period Egyptian elements introduced into Kushite royal burial practices under the early Napatan kings were retained and reinterpreted

Meroitic period of the Kingdom of Kush

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Between 500 and 600 C.E., the rulers of three Nubian medieval kingdoms, Nobatia, Makuria and Alwa, governed the Nile valley from the first cataract to just south of modern Khartoum in Sudan—and eventually became Christian

Medieval Nubian Kingdoms, an introduction

by The British Museum

korea painting grid buddhist — The huge size of the canvas, the dynamic and decorative lines, and the combination of mineral colors are typical of Buddhist paintings from Korea.

Dhratarastra, Guardian King of the East

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This handscroll is an extremely valuable example of Korean calligraphy

Yun Baek-ha, a calligraphic handscroll

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confucian scholar grid — Earlier Korean portraits were more interested in capturing a sense of the sitter's 'spirit' rather than in portraying an actual physical likeness such as this one from the 18th century

Yi Che-gwan, Portrait of a Confucian scholar

by The British Museum

grid ghana coffin — This wooden coffin in the form of eagle with painted gold feather markings was made in the village of Teshie in Ghana.

Coffin in the shape of an eagle

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In medieval Korea, wine bottles were known as maebyong, which comes from the Chinese mei-ping ('vase for plum blossoms'), a misnomer dubbed by Chinese scholars of the Qing dynasty.

Maebyong vases, an introduction

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Kabuki theatre's leading actors influenced fashion and taste and quickly became the subject of popular woodblock prints in Japan

Kabuki actor prints

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Figure of the war god Ku-ka’ili-moku — Ku-ka’ili-moko, one of the manifestations of Ku, is the Hawaiian god of war, and this one was made for and erected by King Kamehameha I at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century.

Temple figure of war god Ku-ka’ili-moku

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casket grid — A casket made for secular use is decorated with lively scenes of combat, music, dance and love.

Casket with troubadours

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The anonymous figure depicted in this painting embodies the fashion of Isfahan, Iran’s capital city under the rule of Shah 'Abbas I

Riza-yi ‘Abbasi, portrait of a young page ...

by The British Museum