Pleasure gardens Assyrian kings filled their gardens, orchards, and game parks with plants and animals from across the empire. A lion strolls peacefully alongside two musicians playing a harp and lyre, next to a tree covered in grape vines and a date palm. Huntsmen with hounds also walk beneath the palms. The small fragment depicts another musician. Many palace events would have been accompanied by music.

Pleasure gardens

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Marble statue of Apollo holding a kithara Roman copy of the 2nd century AD of a Hellenistic original of about 200-150 BC From the temple of Apollo, Cyrene In this elaborately carved figure, the iconographical features of both Apollo and Dionysos, the wine-god, have been fused; the slipping himation and the sensual treatment of the flesh are typical of Dionysos, while the kithara and quiver characterise Apollo.

Statue of Apollo

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The goddess Hathor This bust comes from a triad statue that showed King Amenhotep Ill flanked by the god Osiris and the goddess Hathor. It is one of the numerous statues that adorned Amenhotep's mortuary temple at Thebes. Some 150 years later, when the building was destroyed by an earthquake, this and other statues were reused in the nearby mortuary temple of Merenptah.

The goddess Hathor

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Marble statue of a diskobolos (or discobolus), discus thrower, poised as if ready to throw his discus. This particular copy has an incorrectly restored head, that was allegedly found nearby when it was excavated in Hadrian’s Villa at Tivoli. It was common in the eighteenth century to “restore” ancient sculptures without proof that the restored elements actually belonged together: clients and collctors generally desired completeness rather than authenticity. That the original bronze athlete by Myron had its head turned to look back at the discus, rather than being lowered, is demonstrated by other versions of the statue that were discovered with their heads unbroken from the body. Restored: nose, lips, chin, part of discus and right hand, section of neck, left hand, part of right knee and parts of toes.

The Townley Discobolus

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Hoysala temples The Hoysala dynasty ruled the southwestern Deccan between AD 1006 and 1346. Inscriptions record the construction, renovation and maintenance of many temples by Hoysala kings, their wives and ministers. Most of these temples were dedicated to Hindu deities, such as Shiva and Vishnu, and famous examples can be seen at Halebid, Belur and Somnathpur in Karnataka. Hoysala temples are distinctive. Some are built on platforms that mirror the shape of the temple, and the exterior is decorated with elaborate sculptures carved in high relief. Devotees view this intricate embellishment as they walk around the temple. Individual figures are draped in jewellery and wear elaborate costumes. Bracket figures, including this example, were placed at an angle between the temple wall and roof.

Stone bracket figure from a Hoysala temple

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Shiva Nataraja In many parts of South Asia, abstract ideas have traditionally been imagined in human form. This gallery, filled with human imagery, demonstrates that idea. Here, the Hindu god Shiva embodies the concept of the cyclical nature of life. He is depicted in his most famous form - as Nataraja (Lord of the Dance). Although this image of the god is especially connected with the temple at Chidambaram in Tamil Nadu in south India, it is known throughout the world. The flames that surround him remind us that his dance ends one cycle and begins the next. He is both the lord of creation and of destruction. The sculpture was made using the lost wax process, a technique which south Indian bronze-casters mastered to a degree rarely seen since.

Shiva Nataraja

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King Ramesses I This is the upper part of a colossal seated statue, one of a pair flanking the entrance to the hypostyle hall in the king's mortuary temple (the 'Ramesseum'). The statue was carved from one block, quarried at Aswan almost 200 kilometres further south. Roughly shaped and weighing some 20 tonnes, it was transported on sleds over land and on a purpose-built boat down the river Nile. Once erected, the finer sculpting was completed. Like all Egyptian statues, this was originally painted. Traces of pigment remain: black for the eye pupils, red for the skin, and blue and yellow for the stripes on the headcloth.

King Ramesses I

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