ALT The Met photo shows a mould-blown translucent dark blue hexagonal-shaped flask (amphoriskos) signed in Greek with the name of the glassmaker ‘Ennion’ (not seen in image). Displayed against a graduated dark to light grey background. The flask has a short cyclindrical neck, hexagonal sloping shoulders curving inwards towards the hexagonal straight-sided body which tapers downwards towards the base. It has two thin handles attached at the top of the shoulders and top of the rim. The mould blown glass has relief decoration associated with the god Dionysus and his retinue on the shoulders and five of the six body panels; double flutes, pan pipes, wine cup, wine jug, and vine leaves and grapes. On the sixth panel is the Greek inscription in three lines of parallel text ENNIWN/EΠWH/CEN translated as ‘Ennion made me/it’. The bottom of the flask is broken in places and the body has patches of creamy brown weathering with faint iridescence. Height: 14.3 cm, width 7.9 cm, depth: 7.2 cm

ALT Met Museum photo of an Ancient Egyptian artist’s painting of a swallow on a flake of limestone, dated to the New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III, c. 1479-1458 BC. The sparrow stands in profile with head to the right. It is delicately painted with a pinkish body. The outline and details are highlighted in a reddish/brown pigment. Its legs, eye, and beak are painted black. Limestone flake dimensions Height 6.6 cm x Width 10.6 cm. This may have been a practice drawing of the sparrow hieroglyph which was used for words meaning ‘small’, ‘poor’, or ‘bad’.

ALT Vintage black and white photo showing four people sitting in front of beach huts. Two adults and two children each hold a small shovel and pose for the photograph.

ALT Black and white portrait of a woman, featuring a close-up of a smiling individual in a knitted top.