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Replica of the Corbridge Lanx N081012

CORBRIDGE Roman Town Museum, Northumberland. Replica of the Corbridge Lanx. Rectangular Roman silver platter depicting Apollo, Artemis and Athena. The original was discovered in 1735 and is owned by the British Museum.
The raised rim is decorated with a running vine-scroll in relief, and forms a frame to the picture which depicts Apollo at the entrance to a shrine; his sister Artemis enters on the left, and Athena is also present

© Historic England

Nefertiti

Bust of Nefertiti (C.1370 BC C.1330 BC), chief consort of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten. The original from Tell el Amarna, attributed to the sculptor Thutmose, is in Berlin's Neues Museum. The bust is one of the most copied works of ancient Egypt; both the British Museum, London, and the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford have copies. Date: 14th Century B.C

© Mary Evans Picture Library 2015 - https://copyrighthub.org/s0/hub1/creation/maryevans/MaryEvansPictureID/10511430

The Bellman of London, 1616

The Bellman of London, 1616. London night-watchman going on his rounds with bell, lantern and pike, with his dog at his heels. Such a figure would have been a familiar one in late 16th and early 17th century cities. Title page of ballad in the Bagford Collection (British Museum)

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