Editorialastragalos, bikkel, Bikkel of solid light blue glass. The mold seam runs horizontally across the object. In ancient times, beaks were used as oracles or children's games. The beaks, or metatarsals, were thrown. The side of the javelet pointing upwards ...
EditorialMokujiki Shnin, Sacred Names of Shinto Deities and the 'Oracles of the Three Shrines', Japan, Edo period (16151868), Mokujiki Shnin (Japanese, 17181810), 1805, Japan, Hanging scroll; ink on paper, Image: 31 1/2 ? 8 1/8 in. (80 ? 20.7 cm), Overall with ...
EditorialNicolas Henry Tardieu, Book 2, Fable 1: the two oracles (Les deux oracles), Fables Nouvelles, Nicolas Henry Tardieu (French, Paris 16741749 Paris), After Charles Antoine Coypel (French, Paris 16941752 Paris), Jean de La Fontaine (French, Ch?teau-Thierr...
EditorialAmphiaraios, the physician, treats the shoulder of a young man. The same young man on a bed, while a snake licks his shoulder. Votiv relief offered by Archinos to Amphiaraios, to whom god-like honours were given for his oracles and cures. 49 x 54.5 cm ...
EditorialTurkey. Didyma. Temple of Apollo. It was built in the 6th century BC and destroyed by the Persians to punish the Milletans for their rebellion. In 334 BC Alexander the Great liberated the cities of Ionia and ordered the enlargement of the temple. Parti...
EditorialTurkey. Didyma. Temple of Apollo. It was built in the 6th century BC and destroyed by the Persians to punish the Milletans for their rebellion. In 334 BC Alexander the Great liberated the cities of Ionia and ordered the enlargement of the temple. Chres...
EditorialChinese oracle bone. Diviners of the Shang dynasty (16th-10th centuries B.C.) produced oracles by reading cracks on ox bones. Such bones bear the earliest writing known in China. China, 16th-10th century BC. Source: Or. 7694, 1593.
EditorialChinese oracle bone. China, 16th-10th century BC. Diviners of the Shang dynasty (16th-10th centuries B.C.) produced oracles by reading cracks on ox bones. Such bones bear the earliest writing known in China. Originally published/produced in China, 16t...
EditorialChinese oracle bone. China, 16th-10th century BC. Diviners of the Shang dynasty (16th-10th centuries B.C.) produced oracles by reading cracks on ox bones. Such bones bear the earliest writing known in China. Originally published/produced in China, 16t...
EditorialChinese oracle bone. China, 16th-10th century BC. Diviners of the Shang dynasty (16th-10th centuries B.C.) produced oracles by reading cracks on ox bones. Such bones bear the earliest writing known in China. Originally published/produced in China, 16t...
EditorialBronze statuette of Apollo, Classical, ca. 500 B.C., Greek, Bronze, Overall: 4 3/8 x 5/8 x 2 in. (11.1 x 1.6 x 5.1 cm), Bronzes, Apollo was a youthful god who presided over a wide variety of activities, from the initiation of boys into manhood to the u...
EditorialThe lively oracles given to us; or, The Christians birth-right and duty, in the custody and use of the Holy Scripture : Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681.
EditorialTurkey. Didyma. Temple of Apollo. It was built in the 6th century BC and destroyed by the Persians to punish the Milletans for their rebellion. In 334 BC Alexander the Great liberated the cities of Ionia and ordered the enlargement of the temple. Parti...
EditorialTurkey. Didyma. Temple of Apollo. It was built in the 6th century BC and destroyed by the Persians to punish the Milletans for their rebellion. In 334 BC Alexander the Great liberated the cities of Ionia and ordered the enlargement of the temple. Chres...
EditorialAmphiaraios, the physician, treats the shoulder of a young man. The same young man on a bed, while a snake licks his shoulder. Votiv relief offered by Archinos to Amphiaraios, to whom god-like honours were given for his oracles and cures. 49 x 54.5 cm ...
EditorialTurkey. Didyma. Temple of Apollo. It was built in the 6th century BC and destroyed by the Persians to punish the Milletans for their rebellion. In 334 BC Alexander the Great liberated the cities of Ionia and ordered the enlargement of the temple. Parti...
EditorialTurkey. Didyma. Temple of Apollo. It was built in the 6th century BC and destroyed by the Persians to punish the Milletans for their rebellion. In 334 BC Alexander the Great liberated the cities of Ionia and ordered the enlargement of the temple. Chres...
EditorialDemeter's Ladder, from Proscinomi, Oracles. Joe Tilson; English, born 1928. Date: 1978. Dimensions: 872 ? 402 mm (plate); 925 ? 650 mm (sheet). Soft ground etching, aquatint and screenprint on white wove paper. Origin: England.
EditorialCharles I. The Shepheards Oracles: delivered in certain Eglog. London, 1646. Allegorical drawing of Charles I raising a sword to a tree bearing the word 'religion'. Image taken from The Shepheards Oracles: delivered in certain Eglogues. Originally pu...
EditorialKing Charles I. The Shepheards Oracles: delivered in certain Eglog. London, 1646. Frontispiece depicting King Charles I raising a sword to a tree called religion. Various other figures. Image taken from The Shepheards Oracles: delivered in certain Egl...
EditorialChinese oracle bone. China, 16th-10th century B.C. Diviners of the Shang dynasty (16th-10th centuries B.C.) produced oracles by reading cracks on ox bones. Such bones bear the earliest writing known in China. The pit marks were produced by a hot poker....
EditorialChinese oracle bone. China, 16th-10th century BC. Diviners of the Shang dynasty (16th-10th centuries B.C.) produced oracles by reading cracks on ox bones. Such bones bear the earliest writing known in China. Source: Or. 7694, 1535. Language: Chinese.
EditorialAlexander the Great standing before the oracles of the two trees sacred to the Sun and the Moon. Li livre des ansienes estoires. Circa 1285. Source: Add. 15268, f.214v. Language: French.
EditorialChinese oracle bone. Diviners of the Shang dynasty (16th-10th centuries B.C.) produced oracles by reading cracks on ox bones. Such bones bear the earliest writing known in China. China, 16th-10th century BC. Source: Or. 7694, 1593.
EditorialChinese oracle bone. China, 16th-10th century BC. Diviners of the Shang dynasty (16th-10th centuries B.C.) produced oracles by reading cracks on ox bones. Such bones bear the earliest writing known in China. Originally published/produced in China, 16t...
EditorialChinese oracle bone. China, 16th-10th century BC. Diviners of the Shang dynasty (16th-10th centuries B.C.) produced oracles by reading cracks on ox bones. Such bones bear the earliest writing known in China. Originally published/produced in China, 16t...
EditorialChinese oracle bone. China, 16th-10th century BC. Diviners of the Shang dynasty (16th-10th centuries B.C.) produced oracles by reading cracks on ox bones. Such bones bear the earliest writing known in China. Originally published/produced in China, 16t...
EditorialAmphiaraios, the physician, treats the shoulder of a young man. The same young man on a bed, while a snake licks his shoulder. Votiv relief offered by Archinos to Amphiaraios, to whom god-like honours were given for his oracles and cures. 49 x 54.5 cm ...
EditorialBronze statuette of Apollo, Classical, ca. 500 B.C., Greek, Bronze, Overall: 4 3/8 x 5/8 x 2 in. (11.1 x 1.6 x 5.1 cm), Bronzes, Apollo was a youthful god who presided over a wide variety of activities, from the initiation of boys into manhood to the u...
EditorialBronze statuette of Apollo, Classical, ca. 500 B.C., Greek, Bronze, Overall: 4 3/8 x 5/8 x 2 in. (11.1 x 1.6 x 5.1 cm), Bronzes, Apollo was a youthful god who presided over a wide variety of activities, from the initiation of boys into manhood to the u...
EditorialSerpentine intaglio: Radiate lion-headed god, Imperial, ca. 2nd?3rd century A.D., Roman, Serpentine, Other: 1 x 1 1/4 in. (2.5 x 3.2 cm), Gems, Radiate lion-headed god.. [Group label], The use of spells, potions, fortune-telling, and other sorts of mag...
EditorialLimestone statue of an enthroned youth, Hellenistic, 3rd century B.C., Cypriot, Limestone, Overall: 15 1/8 x 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 in. (38.4 x 19.7 x 12.1 cm), Stone Sculpture, This seated figure holding a roll of manuscript across his knees and a stylus in hi...
EditorialAmphiaraios, the physician, treats the shoulder of a young man. The same young man on a bed, while a snake licks his shoulder. Votiv relief offered by Archinos to Amphiaraios, to whom god-like honours were given for his oracles and cures. 49 x 54.5 cm ...