EditorialVz: hero (?) With ax and demon, lying jackal, character with sword, star, fish and naked goddess, coil seal, hematite, Color: black, Form: cylinder, Processing:, Method of manufacture :, L. 19 mm, diam. 10 mm, 1st Dynasty Babylon, ca. 1850 BC.
EditorialStar fish, Peprilus paru 78, and swordfish, Xiphias gladius 79. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm's Encyclopedia of Natural History: Fish, Augsburg, 1804. Wilhelm (1758-1811) was a Bavarian clergyman and naturalist known as...
EditorialSlender-limbed star fish, Asteroschema oligactes (Asterias oligactes). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalist's Miscellany, London, 1804.