EditorialHorse Hoes, Horsehoes, Fig. 9, Pl. IX, to p. 40, R.W. Dickson: Practical agriculture, or, a complete system of modern husbandry: with the methods of planting, and the management of live stock. Bd. 1. London: printed for Richard Phillips; by R. Taylor a...
EditorialThe sacrifices of the nails of the month, Parallel title: victim on hoes and on tables, Signed: G. Lichtensteger sculps, copperplate, plate DCXL, F?ssli, Johann Melchior; Lichtensteger, G. (sculps.), 1731, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer: Kupfer-Bibel (...). A...
EditorialParasol (or umbrella?) With plain, dark blue silk cover and cover, on light brown wooden stick, driven gilt copper bud with landscape with loving couple and three mythological figures, Parasol or umbrella (?) With plain deck, dark blue silk, with a dri...
EditorialFigure of a man with a hoe, from Assiut, Egypt, 6th Dynasty, c2250 BC. By the New Kingdom (c1550-1070 BC) the deceased was expected to perform manual labour, especially in the fields, in the afterlife. In order to avoid this, small shabti figures were ...
EditorialFigure of a man with a hoe, from Assiut, Egypt, 6th Dynasty, c2250 BC. By the New Kingdom (c1550-1070 BC) the deceased was expected to perform manual labour, especially in the fields, in the afterlife. In order to avoid this, small shabti figures were ...
EditorialAncient Roman naumachia with reenactment of famous sea battle in an ampitheatre between naval fleets of condemned prisoners 1. Galley with single row of oars 2, and bireme warship with two rows of oars 3. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J.B. Hoes...
EditorialFigure of a man with a hoe, from Assiut, Egypt, 6th Dynasty, c2250 BC. By the New Kingdom (c1550-1070 BC) the deceased was expected to perform manual labour, especially in the fields, in the afterlife. In order to avoid this, small shabti figures were ...
EditorialFaience ushebti of Seti I, 19th dynasty, around 1290 BCE. The figure wears the " nemes" headdress of a king, with the cobra on his brow. The identity of the object as an ushebti is made clear by the hoes which he holds and the " ushebti-...