Serpent Collection (page 3)

Greek warrior. Hellenistic. 1st century BC. From Rhodes. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom

Fresco of Adam and Eve. Barbera del Valles. Catalonia. Spain
Romanesque art. 12th c. Church of Saint Mary. Fresco of Adam and Eve. Barbera del Valles. Catalonia. Spain

Roman mosaic. Child Heracles with snakes. Antioquia. Turkey
Heracles. Divine hero in Greek mythology. Roman mosaic. Child Heracles with snakes. Antakya. Turkey

Pergamon Altar. The Titan Phoebe with a torch fighting again
Pergamon Altar. Built by order of Eumenes II Soter. 164-156 BC. Marble and limestone. Gigantomachy. South frieze. The Titan Phoebe with a torch fighting against a winged giant. Pergamon Museum

Egyptian hieroglyph engraved in stone. National Archaeologic
Egyptian art. Detail of a hieroglyph. Engraved in stone. National Archaeological Museum. Madrid. Spain

Pre-Columbian art. Lintel 15 from Yaxchilan, Late Classic Ma
Pre-Columbian art. Central America. Maya. Lintel 15 from Yaxchilan, Late Classic Maya. 8th century. British Museum, London

Aaron throwing her stick, which became in serpent. Colored
Aaron. High Priest of the Israelites. Aaron throwing her stick, which became in serpent, in front of the Pharaoh. Exodus. Colored engraving

Tula. Coatepantli or Serpent Wall
Pre-Columbian Art. Tula. Coatepantli or Serpent Wall. Toltec civilization. Post-Classic Period. 900-1200 A.C. Back of the Temple of Quetzalcoatl. Museum of Anthropology. Mexico

Rasputin as Ruin of Tsar
GRIGORI RASPUTIN Caricatured as The ruin of Tsardom, a lesson to all good people, the story of the serpent, a warning to Russian children Date: 1872 - 1916

Egyptian architecture. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalarts Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages. 1798

Hunting horns, serpent, French horn, bugle and trombone.. Hunting horns (1, 2), serpent (3), French horn (4), bugle (5) and sacbut or trombone (6). Brass and woodwind musical instruments

Trocortesian or Madrid Codex. s. XIV. Detail. Maya
Trocortesian or Madrid Codex. s.XIV. Detail. Maya art. Miniature Painting. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Americas Museum

Brazil - Sao Paulo - Serpentarium of the Instituto Butantan, a Brazilian biomedical research centre affiliated to the Sao Paulo State Secretary of Health

Adam and Eve - Garden of Eden - The First Love. Eve takes of bite out of the forbidden fruit, whilst her temptor (the serpent) also tucks in to a shiny fruit. Date: circa 1910s

Adam, Eve & Fig-Tree
ADAM AND EVE TEMPTED Eve invites Adam to have a fig from the tree, while a very feminine-looking serpent watches

Rest of a pennate pillar - warriors temple, Chichen Itza
Rest of a pennate pillar of the Temple of Warriors at the Yucatec Maya site of Chichen Itza on the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. Date: circa 1910s

Sea Serpents
Two explanations for the sighting of sea serpents: the first, a school of porpoises; the second, the tentacles of a giant squid

Startling Stories - Gateway to Paradise by Jack Williamson. Two men (one wielding an axe), a woman and an old man in a small rowing boat are attacked by a fearsome sea serpent monster. Date: 1941

Metamorphoses 2-8 AD. Book I. The Creation, The Battle of th
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) (43 BC-17 AD). Latin poet. Metamorphoses 2-8 AD. Book I. Engraving depicting The Creation, The Battle of the Giants, Decaulion and Pyrrha and Apollo and the serpent

Fantastic Adventures - The serpent has five fangs
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, December 1945, featuring the story The serpent has five fangs by Don Wilcox. A man in safari suit is hiding in the jungle

Crosier of Bishop of Barcelona, Arnau de Gurb. Limoges. Before 1284. Detail of the body of the serpent. Treasure of Cathedral of Barcelona. Spain

Pre-Columbian Art. Teotihuaca?n. Mexico. The Temple of the F
Pre-Columbian Art. Teotihuacan. Mexico. The Temple of the Feathered Serpent, also known as the Temple of Quetzalcoatl, and the Feathered Serpent Pyramid

Male torso in Egytianesque dress. Cyprus
Male torso in Egytianesque dress. The uraeuss snakes on the loincloth, are a egyptian rulers icon. Limestone. 6th century BC. Idalion (Dali). Neues Museum. Berlin. Germany

Prague. St. Vitus Cathedral. The Golden Gate. Mosaic of Ada
Czech Republic. Prague. St. Vitus Cathedral. The Golden Gate. The Mosaic of Adam and Eve(1372), by Niccoletto Semitecolo, Italian painter of the early-Renaissance. 14th century. Castle complex

Pre-Columbian Art. Maya. Chac statue (rain god) or an offeror on a Feathered Serpent. It lies on the steps of the Temple of the Warriors. Maya-Toltec style. Classical period (late 900-1224)

Fountain of Neptune by Juan Pascual de Mena. 18th century. M
Fountain of Neptune. Designed by Ventura Rodriguez in 1782 and sculpted by Juan Pascual de Mena (1707-1784) between 1780-1784. White marble. Canovas del Castillo square. Madrid. Spain

Relief with an inscription in hieroglyphics. Deir el-Bahari
Relief with an inscription in hieroglyphics. Solar disk with snake (cobra) with the ankh around his neck and Falcon with double crown over a cobra. Temple of Hatshepsut. 18th Dynasty. New Kingdom

Vulture Nekhbet opening their protective wings. Temple of Ha
Vulture Nekhbet opening their protective wings. Polychrome relief in one of the walls of the Temple of Hatshepsut. 18th Dynasty. New Kingdom. Deir el-Bahari. Egypt

Relief depicting cobras. Temple of Hatshepsut. Deir el-Bahari. 18th Dynasty. New Kingdom. Egypt

Hieroglyphic. Relief depicting consonant sounds. The f (horned viper) and m (owl). Temple of Hatshepsut. Egypt

Floryane, snake dancer, with a pretend snake draped round her neck. Date: 1929

Moses Caduceus Healing
CADUCEUS: Symbol of brazen serpent, set up by Moses on divine instruction and heals all those who look at it Date: BC

Hippocrates / Louvre Bust
HIPPOCRATES. Greek medical: portrait bust in the Louvre Date: 460 - 357BC

Sea Serpent and Mermaid
A sea serpent mounted by a mermaid Date: 1897

Cardinal Gerdil
HYACINTHE SIGMUND GERDIL French cardinal, trampling on a serpent-ridden book - perhaps written by a theologian of a different persuasion, even a heretic ! Date: 1718 - 1802

Sea Serpent / 1875 Brazil
A sperm whale is attacked by a sea serpent off the coast of Brazil (witnessed by captain and crew of the Pauline ) Date: 13th July 1875

Folklore / Sea Serpent
The Sea-monk a marine monster which looks vaguely human, though probably not as much as Gesner would have us believe Date: 1558

Pauline Serpent
Travellers on the Pauline, en route to Zanzibar, see a whale encircled by this serpent-like creature : the ships chaplain sketches it and Captain Drevar confirms the sighting Date: July 1875

Snake, c. 1800 Date: C.1800

Naga statue at Wat Chiang Man Temple in Chiang Mai, Thailand Date: 2014

Steamers of the Fall River Line, Massachusetts, USA
The river steamer Puritan, leaving the pier at Fall River, Massachusetts, on the way to New York (above) and the river steamer City of Bellow at the landing place of the Fall River Line at Newport

Cartoon, Ten centuries have passed, WW1
Cartoon, Ten centuries have passed. An allegorical female representing the medieval period holds the famous sword named Durandal (or Durendal), from the time of Charlemagne

Illustration, A Song of the English, Deep Sea Cables
Illustration to A Song of the English, a patriotic set of poems by Rudyard Kipling (first published in the English Illustrated Magazine)

Serpent eel, Ophisurus serpens, and European moray eel, Muraena helena.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles 1816-1830. Illustration by J.G

Pyramid of the Moon. 4th c. MEXICO. STATE OF MEXICO. Teotihuacᮮ On the steps and at different levels of the pyramid are sculptural representations of Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent

Boerhaave, Hermann. Dutch botanist, humanist and physician of European fame. Ilustration of his book Methodus Studii Medici. Engraving. SPAIN. CATALONIA. Barcelona. Barcelona University Library

Cartoon, This Years Sea Serpent, WW1
Cartoon, This Years Sea Serpent, depicting the Russian allies in the early stages of the First World War as a sea creature with the head of a Cossack

Ladies orchestra, 1875
An orchestra of musical ladies delights an audience of gentlemen with their playing. In addition to the more usual stringed instruments

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