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Object imagery: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. All six collection records identify the corresponding images as Public Domain, available through Open Access.

• HOMEHead from a Statue of King Amenhotep Ica. 1525–1504 BCE · Deir el-Bahri, Thebes, Egypt · MMA excavations, 1921–22Rogers Fund, 1926 · Public Domain
• EXPLOREFigure of a man with an oryx, a monkey, and a leopard skinca. 8th century BCE · Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), Mesopotamia · AssyrianRogers Fund, 1960 · Public Domain
• ARTICLESJaharis Byzantine Lectionaryca. 1100 · Made in Constantinople · ByzantinePurchase, Mary and Michael Jaharis Gift and Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 2007 · Public Domain
• OBJECTSMask3rd–7th century · Mexico, Mesoamerica · TeotihuacanBequest of Jane Costello Goldberg, from the Collection of Arnold I. Goldberg, 1986 · Public Domain
• KIDSMarble grave stele of a little girlca. 450–440 BCE · Greek · Parian marble; findspot not recorded in the overviewFletcher Fund, 1927 · Public Domain
• ABOUTTekoteko (gable figure)1820s · Aotearoa New Zealand · Māori, Te ArawaThe Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Bequest of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1979 · Public Domain

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