EditorialThe Mold gold cape, Bronze Age, c1900-c1600 BC. The cape is one of the finest examples of prehistoric sheet-gold working and is quite unique in form and design. It was labouriously beaten out of a single ingot of gold, then embellished with intense dec...
Editorial0310000058 Crystal buckle with silver tongue, Merovingian, first half of the 6th century. Buckle, probably from a belt; the hoop of rock crystal would have been cut and polished in the East Mediterranean region. Special skill was required to cut this s...
EditorialThe Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 107, 'Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard.', William Blake, 17571827, British, between 1797 and 1798, Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlai...
EditorialFunerary stele with relief depicting a chariot scene. The standing charioteer pulls at the reins, while a second figure holding a weapon, possibly a sword, is depicted in front of the chariot. The spirals represent waves, indicating the coastal locatio...