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Basin with a Horseman Spearing a Serpent, 1390–1400, Spanish (Valencia?), Lustered earthenware (41.100.173) |
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Carved Bowl, 6th century, Mexico or Guatemala; Maya, Ceramic (2000.60) |
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Coiled Serpent, 15th–early 16th century, Mexico; Aztec, Stone (00.5.32) |
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Crozier with Serpent Devouring a Flower, ca. 1200–1220, French, made in Limoges, Gilded copper; champlevé enamel; glass cabochons (17.190.833) |
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Eagle Pendant, 11th–16th century, Costa Rica (Chiriquí), Cast gold (1977.187.22) |
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Head of a cobra, Dynasty 12–13 (ca. 1981–1640 B.C.), Egyptian; Lisht North, Carnelian (09.180.2455) |
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Hydria (water jar) with the infant Herakles strangling snakes sent by the goddess Hera, ca. 460–450 B.C.; red-figure,
Greek; Attic,
Attributed to the Nausicaä Painter,
Terracotta (25.28) |
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Incense burner, mid-1st millennium B.C., Southern Arabia, Bronze (49.71.2) |
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Intaglio with the head of Asklepios, 1st century B.C.–3rd century A.D.,
Roman,
Carnelian (81.6.94) |
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Magical stela, Late Period, Dynasty 30, reign of Nectanebo II, ca. 360–343 B.C., Egyptian, Greywacke (50.85) |
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Modern Impression of a stamped seal: hunters and goats, rectangular pen(?), early 2nd millennium B.C., Gulf region (ancient Dilmun), Steatite or chlorite (1987.96.22) |
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Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family, 1537, Master of the Dinteville Allegory (Netherlandish or French), Oil on wood (50.70) |
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Pair of armbands, Hellenistic, ca. 200 B.C.,
Greek,
Gold (56.11.5–.6) |
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Pair of sauceboats, 1815–20, Anthony Rasch (American, born Germany), Silver (59.152.1-.2) |
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Pendant with Serpent Design, 13th–14th century, Mississippian peoples; Tennessee, Shell (1979.206.446) |
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Portrait Head Bottle, 5th–6th century,
Peru; Moche,
Ceramic (64.228.21) |
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Pyxis, ca. 1400–1100 B.C.; Late Minoan IIIB, Minoan; Greece, Crete, Terracotta (1999.423) |
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Serpentine Brooch, 6th century B.C.; Iron Age, Halstatt period, Copper alloy (1992.280.3) |
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Snake Charmer at Tangier, Africa, 1872,
Louis Comfort Tiffany (American),
Oil on canvas (21.170) |
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Snake Head, 1928, Albert Renger-Patzsch (German), Gelatin silver print (2005.100.147) |
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Stirrup-spout bottle with snake, 2nd–3rd century,
Peru; Moche,
Ceramic (1992.60.9) |
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Strigilated vase with snake handles and lid, second half of 2nd century A.D.; Antonine,
Roman,
Marble (2007.31a,b) |
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Three Serpents (Tunjos), 10th–16th century, Colombia; Muisca, Gold (1979.206.740) (1992.92.1,.2) |
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Tunic, 7th–9th century,
Peru; Nazca-Wari,
Camelid hair (29.146.23) |
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Twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac, Qing dynasty, 19th century, China, Jade (nephrite) (02.18.730) |
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Two Flat Stamps, 1st–7th century, Costa Rica; Atlantic Watershed, Ceramic (1979.206.1181,1183) |
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Funerary Carving (Malagan), late 19th–early 20th century,
Northern New Ireland,
Wood, paint, shell opercula (1979.206.1474) |
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Cento favole morali (One Hundred Moral Tales): The Crow and the Serpent (page 35),
Author and illustrator: Giovanni Maria Verdizotti,
Venice: Giordano Ziletti, 1570,
Printed book with woodcut illustrations (48.165) |
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