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A goat sacrifice, India, ca. 1906 (IMP-CSCNWW33-OS14-58)

A goat sacrifice, India, ca. 1906 (IMP-CSCNWW33-OS14-58)

A goat sacrifice, India, ca. 1906 Tinted lantern slide showing a group of men and women gathered around the sacrifice of a goat. The goat's head sits in a wooden rest, whilst its body lies a distance away on t... More

Opening of the mouth ceremony - Egypt

Opening of the mouth ceremony - Egypt

This is an excellent example of one of the many fine vignettes (illustrations) from the Book of the Dead of Hunefer. The centrepiece of the upper scene is the mummy of Hunefer, shown supported by the god Anubi... More

Pausanias offering sacrifice to the Gods before his great battle

Pausanias offering sacrifice to the Gods before his great battle

Pausanias offering sacrifice to the Gods before his great battle

Odyssey Nestor

Odyssey Nestor

Illustrations of Odyssey

Sect IV ELWH

Sect IV ELWH

The illustration prefacing Section IV ("Into his Religion: Origin of the Grecian Rites"). A priest and two men beside a sacrifice outside a Greek temple. Identical to the illustration used for the 1st ed.

Paul and Barnabas at Lystra Adriaen van Stalbemt

Paul and Barnabas at Lystra Adriaen van Stalbemt

Public domain scan of 17th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cretan hunters Louvre Br93

Cretan hunters Louvre Br93

Bearded archer greeting a young hunter bearing a chamois, an offering for Hermes Kedritēs. Bronze sheet cut, embossed and chased, Cretan artwork, ca. 670–650 BC. From the Temple of Hermes at Syme Viannou, Cret... More

Adriaen van Stalbemt - Paul and Barnabas at Lystra (1610s)

Adriaen van Stalbemt - Paul and Barnabas at Lystra (1610s)

Public domain scan of 17th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bourdon, Sébastien - Le Sacrifice de Noe a la sortie de l'Arche - c. 1640

Bourdon, Sébastien - Le Sacrifice de Noe a la sortie de l'Arche - c. 1...

Public domain photo of French art painting, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Opening of the mouth ceremony (cropped)

Opening of the mouth ceremony (cropped)

This is an excellent example of one of the many fine vignettes (illustrations) from the Book of the Dead of Hunefer. The centrepiece of the upper scene is the mummy of Hunefer, shown supported by the god Anubi... More

Johann Heinrich Füssli 063 -  The Yorck Project Masterpieces of Painting

Johann Heinrich Füssli 063 - The Yorck Project Masterpieces of Painti...

Public domain reproduction of artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sebastiano Ricci 051 -  The Yorck Project Masterpieces of Painting

Sebastiano Ricci 051 - The Yorck Project Masterpieces of Painting

Public domain photo of an Italian art painting, 18th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Sacrifice of a bear (10795600014)

Sacrifice of a bear (10795600014)

Japan – Ainu. Originates from Mr Ludvig Munsterhjelm’s expedition to Sachalin (Sakhalin) 1914. No. es_b_00524a

Mesopotamian - Cylinder Seal with a Seated Deity, Figures and Inscription - Walters 42599 - Side D

Mesopotamian - Cylinder Seal with a Seated Deity, Figures and Inscript...

The scene on this seal depicts a seated, bearded deity with one arm raised. In front of the seated deity is an inverted crescent, and below the crescent, a bird. Standing before the deity is a second figure in ... More

Stalbemt Allegorical composition

Stalbemt Allegorical composition

Public domain image of painting, 17th-18th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Poussin The Triumph of Pan

Poussin The Triumph of Pan

Public domain image of a mythological scene, classic mythology, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Vignette by Loutherbourg for the Macklin Bible 2 of 134. Bowyer Bible Old Testament. Headpiece to Exodus

Vignette by Loutherbourg for the Macklin Bible 2 of 134. Bowyer Bible ...

Head-piece to Exodus. Exodus cap 13 v 12: “ . . . thou shalt set apart unto the Lord all that openeth, and every firstling that cometh that cometh of a beast which thou hast; the males shall be the LORD’S.” Th... More

Master of the Mars and Venus Plaque - Sacrifice of a Lion - Walters 4450

Master of the Mars and Venus Plaque - Sacrifice of a Lion - Walters 44...

Two nude bearded men, wearing helmets and followed by a third helmeted warrior bearing a shield, lead a lion secured by a double leash before a nude man (Mars (?)), who sits on a rock to the left and is armed w... More

König Attalus - Public domain scan / engraving

König Attalus - Public domain scan / engraving

Deutsch: König Attalus drückt beim Opfer der Leber des geschlachteten Tieres zwei Worte ein. Radierung von Bernhard Rode, um 1780. English: During a sacrifice, King Attalus presses two words into the liver o... More

Ainu Bear Sacrifice Circa 1870 - A painting of a group of people on horseback
Master of the Mars and Venus Plaque - Sacrifice of a Boar - Walters 4431

Master of the Mars and Venus Plaque - Sacrifice of a Boar - Walters 44...

A priest draped in a short garment, holds in his left hand the hind legs of a boar and the culter (a knife) in his right. Behind a round altar rises the image of the god, or more probably of the hero, to whom t... More

Champollion - Panthéon égyptien, 1823 (page 259 crop)

Champollion - Panthéon égyptien, 1823 (page 259 crop)

Français : Illustration de File:Champollion - Panthéon égyptien, 1823.djvu

Schnorr von Carolsfeld Bibel in Bildern 1860 019

Schnorr von Carolsfeld Bibel in Bildern 1860 019

Woodcut for "Die Bibel in Bildern", 1860. Deutsch: Holzschnitt aus "Die Bibel in Bildern", 1860. Noachs Brandopfer, der Regenbogen als Zeichen des ersten Bundes. Français : Gravure en bois pour «Die Bibel in... More

Vitral com representação de Samuel e a batalha entre Israelitas e Filisteus (1728), Palácio da Pena

Vitral com representação de Samuel e a batalha entre Israelitas e Fili...

A stained-glass window (German, 1728) at Pena Palace, in Sintra, Portugal. It includes a depiction of the Israelites defeating the Philistines, after Samuel has offered a sacrifice at Eben-Ezer (1 Samuel 7:2-... More

Theosophia revelata, das ist, Alle göttliche Schriften (1730) (14595714860)

Theosophia revelata, das ist, Alle göttliche Schriften (1730) (1459571...

Identifier: theosophiarevela03bohm (find matches) Title: Theosophia revelata, das ist, Alle göttliche Schriften Year: 1730 (1730s) Authors: Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624 Gichtel, Johann Georg, 1638-1710 Walther, B... More

Nicolas Poussin - The Triumph of Pan, 1636

Nicolas Poussin - The Triumph of Pan, 1636

Public domain image of painting, 18th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Luca Giordano - Psyche's Parents Offering Sacrifice to Apollo - WGA09016

Luca Giordano - Psyche's Parents Offering Sacrifice to Apollo - WGA090...

This painting is the second in a set of twelve in the Royal Collection depicting part of the story of Cupid and Psyche. The subject of this series comes from The Metamorphoses or Golden Ass by the second-centu... More