deem-data/ArtiFact huggingface dataset:
The Sauce-Pan Shop
Object type: print
Date: 1908 – 1908
Materials: paper
Techniques: woodcut
Location: united states
Artist: helen hyde
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1868 – 1919
Roundel with Allegorical Scene of Book Burning
Object type: roundel
Date: 1520 – 1530
Materials: glass, paint, pigment
Culture: dutch
Subjects: books,fire
Card Number 343, Mlle. Zephiry, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-5) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes
Object type: photograph
Date: 1880 – 1889
Techniques: albumen silver print
Artist: w. duke, sons & co.
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1870 – 1920
Subjects: portraits,women,actresses
Classicistische scène met een man op een sofa
Object type: print
Date: 1841 – 1874
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: the hague
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Een man ligt op een sofa met naast hem een kelk en een tros druiven in een schaal. Twee vrouwen zitten in een stoel tegenover hem.
Rapier
Object type: arm
Date: 1630 – 1630
Materials: iron, metal alloy, metal, steel, textile, wood
Culture: italian or spanish
Location: italy
Jonge vrouw onderuitgezakt in een stoel aan een tafel met daarop de resten van het diner
Object type: print
Date: 1877 – 1877
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching, intaglio
Artist: g. laguesse
Artist role: print maker
Subjects: evening meal, dinner, supper (+ lingering at table)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228, annotation: ‘1 Etat’

Sterfdatum prentmaker onbekend. Derhalve is voor bepaling van de rechten van dit object de vervaardigingsdatum aangehouden.
Monk’s Bowl with Chrysanthemum Motif
Object type: vessel
Materials: ceramic glaze, glaze, stoneware
Location: korea
Gezicht op de Ruïnekerk te Bergen
Object type: drawing
Date: 1868 – 1933
Materials: paper, pencil
Artist: jan hoynck van papendrecht
Artist role: draughtsman, painter
Artist dates: 1858 – 1933
Subjects: church (exterior)
Inscriptions: annotation: ‘toren veel hoger (...) Bergen’, collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Arrowhead
Object type: arrowhead
Date: 201 – 700
Materials: bronze
Culture: sasanian
Location: iran

This bronze arrowhead is flat with somewhat barbed sides and a tang. Weapons were often found at the Fortress at Qasr-i Abu Nasr. The small town and fortress of Qasr-i Abu Nasr is located near Shiraz in southern Iran at a strategic point at the intersection of defensive mountains, available water sources, and along roads entering the Shiraz plain. The site was excavated by archaeologists from The Metropolitan Museum of Art for three seasons from 1932-1935. The town was occupied, at least intermittently, from the Parthian period (3rd century B.C.–3rd century A.D.) to the Muzaffarid period (13th-14th century A.D.). The major occupation, including the extensive fortress, dates to the Late Sasanian period (6th-7th century A.D.). The eastern part of Qasr-i Abu Nasr is a raised plateau of a roughly triangular shape. During the Sasanian period the plateau was fortified by a wall and densely occupied. Archaeological finds from the fortress show a wide range of defensive and administrative practices.
Portaal der St. Joriskerk te Amersfoort / Afbeeldingen van oude bestaande gebouwen
Object type: print
Date: 1865 – 1907
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: amsterdam
Artist: richard bisschop
Artist role: draughtsman, painter
Artist dates: 1849 – 1926
Subjects: parts of church exterior and annexes: portal, architectural detail, church (exterior), plan ~ architecture
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 1641, collector's mark

Details en plattegrond van het portaal van de Sint-Joriskerk te Amersfoort. Onderaan een schaalstok. Architectuurvoorstelling. Plaat CII. Onderwerpsrubrieken binnen de Atlas Zeden en Gewoonten: Kerk en kerkwezen & Armwezen en liefdadige instellingen; Kerkgebouwen elders. A-E.
Grasshopper and Iris
Object type: print
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: woodblock print
Culture: japanese
Artist: katsushika hokusai
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1760 – 1849
Subjects: insects,flowers
Rugkussen
Object type: miniature
Date: 1690 – 1710
Materials: down, silk, wool
Location: amsterdam
Artist: Anonymous

Rugkussen, passend in de kinderkakstoel; vervaardigd van een rode geruwde stof (half zijde / half wol). Het boogvormige kussen is dun gevuld, gecapitonneerd een door gepit met geelgroene zijde kwastjes.
Martelaarschap van de H. Sebastiaan
Object type: print
Date: 1557 – 1564
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: antwerp
Artist: bartholomeus spranger
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1546 – 1611
Subjects: martyrdom, suffering, misfortune, death of st. sebastian
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

De heilige Sebastiaan is aan een boom vastgebonden.
Portret van Henri Etienne van Swinden
Object type: print
Date: 1821 – 1836
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Subjects: amsterdam, historical persons (+ (full) bust portrait)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Woman before a Mirror
Object type: painting
Date: 1897 – 1897
Materials: cardboard, oil
Artist: henri de toulouse-lautrec
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1864 – 1901
Subjects: female nudes,prostitutes,mirrors
Fotoreproductie van La Sorrentina
Object type: carte de visite
Date: 1870 – 1890
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Subjects: adult woman, painting, drawing and the graphic arts
Inscriptions: annotation: ‘die [...]’, inscription: ‘Buckner./ 1794./ La Sorrentina.’
Vultures on a Tree
Object type: drawing
Date: 1810 – 1875
Materials: watercolor, paper
Location: france
Artist: antoine-louis barye
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1795 – 1875
Subjects: birds,trees

Best known as an animal sculptor, Barye also made numerous finished watercolors. This is one of a series that the Havemeyer family bequeathed to the Metropolitan in 1929 and is notable as the first drawing by the artist to enter their collection. Signs of death and decay dominate. The vultures perch on a leafless tree with their distinctive shapes outlined against a sky reddened by the setting sun. At lower right a stripped animal skull and bones testify to a recent meal. These details have been freely painted upon textured paper to create an image both expressive and naturalistic.
Gezicht op een kapel in de bergen, vermoedelijk bij de Sint-Bernardpas in Zwitserland
Object type: print
Date: 1876 – 1876
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: mountain-range, snow peaks, church (exterior) - qq - small church, chapel, switzerland

Onderdeel van Fotoalbum van Robert Daniel Crommelin (1841-1907).
Italiaanse landschappen
Object type: print
Date: 1643 – 1666
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: herding, herdsman, herdswoman, shepherd, shepherdess, cowherd, etc., rocks, herd, flock
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Prent uit serie van zes landschappen naar ontwerp van Pieter Nicolaesz. Berchem.
Le Goût du Jour, No. 21: Les Modernes Incroyables, from "Caricatures Parisiennes"
Object type: print
Date: 1815 – 1815
Techniques: etching
Artist: georges jacques gatine
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1773 – 1824
Subjects: men,fashion,caricature
Pedestal
Object type: pedestal
Date: 1751 – 1775
Materials: gilt, wood
Heuvellandschappen
Object type: print
Date: 1759 – 1784
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: paris
Subjects: river, herding, herdsman, herdswoman, shepherd, shepherdess, cowherd, etc., rural housing, e.g. country-house, villa, cottage, (high) hill, sheep, sunset, 'en route', traveller under way

Op een pad langs de rivier lopen enkele wandelaars. Een wandelaar steekt de rivier over en in de verte ligt een gebouw op een heuvel. Bij het gebouw hoedt een herder een kudde schapen.
Gezichten in en nabij Spa
Object type: print
Date: 1778 – 1782
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: liège
Subjects: watering-place, spa, spring, source of river or stream (+ landscape with figures, staffage)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

De baden nabij de bronnen van Sauveniere en van Groesbeek bij Spa. Op de voorgrond enkele bezoekers. De prent is deel van een serie met landschappen in en nabij Spa
Obelisk Grave Monument, No. 84
Object type: drawing
Date: 1840 – 1880
Materials: graphite
Artist: alexander maxwell
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1838 – 1880
Subjects: obelisks

Alexander Maxwell designed and made grave monuments for New York area clients in the mid-nineteenth century (a fine example is a Butterfield family mausoleum of ca. 1875 at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx). They likely were related to the marble and granite suppliers Alexander Maxwell & Co. of East Canaan, Connecticut, who provided marble for New York City Hall in 1838, and for a hundred columns used in an extension of the United States Capitol, Washington DC in 1860. This drawing comes from a group of designs for private memorials.
Pin
Object type: pin
Date: 1867 – 1900
Materials: glass, metal
Culture: american or european
Christus in gesprek met Nicodemus
Object type: book illustration
Date: 1485 – 1491
Materials: paper
Techniques: hand coloring
Location: low countries
Artist: the first antwerp woodcutter
Artist role: print maker
Subjects: christ talking with nicodemus at night (john 3:1-21)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228a

Eén van 46 houtsnedes uit Ludolphus de Saxonia "Tboeck vandan leven ons heeren Jesu Christi", een anonieme Nederlandse vertaling. Deze versie van het werk van Ludolphus bevat houtsneden van de Meester van Gouda (II), de Meester van Antwerpen (I) en de Meester van Haarlem. Botke, K. Boek van Ludolphus is voor het eerst uitgegeven in 1487 door Geeraert Leeu te Antwerpen. In 1488 uitgegeven door Claes Leeu te Antwerpen, in 1495 en 1499 en 1519 door Peter van Os te Zwolle en in 1510 door A. van Berghen te Antwerpen. Deze 46 houtsneden komen waarschijnlijk uit een uitgave van Peter van Os. Botke, K. Oorspronkelijke blok voor deze prent was groter. Zie "De gulden passer" (1951), cat.nr. 27.
Heidelberg, Mannheim, Speyer en Worms door de Fransen verwoest
Object type: copy
Date: 1689 – 1689
Materials: silver
Techniques: striking
Location: nuremberg
Subjects: speyer, heidelberg, mannheim, worms, negenjarige oorlog
Belgii Faederati Nova Descriptio
Object type: print
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Inscriptions: stamp: ‘Atlas Ottens’

Kaart een van de Nederlanden. Linksboven een engel met bazuin waarop de titel 'Belgii Faederati Nova Descriptio'en naam van maker en uitgever: Auctore Jodoco Hondio / by Clemendt de Jonghe exc. Aan een koord in zijn hand hangen de wapens van de 7 provincien.
Commandant te paard met een hond ervoor
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1874 – 1884
Materials: paper
Techniques: photoaquatint
Subjects: riding a horse, ass, or mule; rider, horseman, (military) uniforms, dog
Inscriptions: number: ‘21’, inscription: ‘Commandant de Sancy’
Piece
Object type: piece
Date: 1701 – 1900
Materials: silk
Culture: japanese
Subjects: dragons,peacocks
Gezicht op het Palace of Whitehall, gezien vanaf het water
Object type: print
Date: 1748 – 1748
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Subjects: palace
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Gezicht op 'Natural Bridge' in Rockbridge County, Virginia, met reclame voor een hotel nabij
Object type: photograph
Date: 1850 – 1915
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: virginia
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: advertising, rock-formations, hotel, hostelry, inn
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘(...)’
Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris
Object type: drawing
Date: 1830 – 1890
Materials: graphite, watercolor
Artist: eugène cicéri
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1813 – 1890
Subjects: buildings,stage design
Zwart gespikkeld geelbruin papier
Object type: sprinkled paper
Date: 1750 – 1900
Materials: paint, paper
Techniques: kievitsmarmer
Artist: Anonymous
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2760
Aurora en Cephalus
Object type: print
Date: 1642 – 1642
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: france
Subjects: aurora carrying off cephalus
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240
Handschoen van donkerbruin glacéleer
Object type: glove
Date: 1900 – 1900
Materials: leather, metal
Location: western europe
Artist: Anonymous

Rechterhandschoen van donkerbruin glacéleer. Op de rug versierd met vijf zwarte lijnen. Bij de pols een split met vier metalen knopen. Met extra slanke vingers.
Portret van Max Waldau
Object type: print
Date: 1855 – 1892
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: leipzig
Artist: august weger
Artist role: print maker, printer
Artist dates: 1823 – 1892
Subjects: poland, historical persons, portrait of a writer
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Lantaarnopsteker
Object type: print
Date: 1635 – 1694
Materials: paper
Techniques: woodcut
Location: netherlands
Artist: dirck de bray
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1625 – 1694
Subjects: oil-lamp (+ kindling a light; lit, burning light, lamp, candle), ladder, street lighting, street
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Een lantaarnopsteker loopt door de straten met een ladder op zijn schouder en een lantaarn in zijn hand.
Compositiestudie en figuren
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1650 – 1799
Materials: ink, paper, pencil
Techniques: pen
Location: italy
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: anatomy (non-medical)
Inscriptions: annotation: ‘[...] moglie porta[...] ... sol[...] píu vita’

Bladzijde 23 uit een schetsboek met 72 bladzijden.
Une tireuse de cartes
Object type: print
Date: 1818 – 1861
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: unknown
Subjects: ornamental birds: parrot, fortune-teller ~ pleasure fair and circus, playing-cards, couple of lovers
Inscriptions: check stamp: ‘Lerendu editeur’, collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Laken. Merk: GS 12.
Object type: beddenlaken, laken object
Date: 1692 – 1735
Materials: linen
Location: northern netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Rape of Europa
Object type: pendant
Date: 1801 – 1900
Materials: diamond, gemstone, enamel, gold, pearl
Subjects: animals,europa,snakes
Meisje op een driewieler op straat
Object type: photograph
Date: 1925 – 1950
Materials: paper
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: tricycle, girl (child between toddler and youth)
Inscriptions: number: ‘3406’, inscription: ‘AQ’

Portret van een klein meisje op een driewieler op straat.
Portret van Frederik Willem III van Pruisen
Object type: book illustration
Date: 1812 – 1814
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching, engraving
Location: london
Subjects: berlin, frederik willem iii koning van pruisen, historical persons, king
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Prent ook gebruikt in: Gifford, C.H. History of the Wars occasioned by the French Revolution (...). Londen: S.A. Oddy, 1814.
‘Passion is the Fire of Naught but Straw’
Object type: drawing
Date: 1628 – 1628
Materials: paint, ink, paper
Techniques: brush, pen
Artist: adriaen pietersz van de venne
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1589 – 1662
Subjects: (scenes from) specific works of literature (with author, title), burning as process, female literary characters (with name), hay-cock, reason versus amorous lust; 'combattimento della ragione con l'appetito' (ripa) (+ situation or event (especially in genre-painting) with symbolical connotation)

Ontwerp voor een illustratie in Jacob Cats' "Hovwelyck ..." van 1628: twee vrouwen, Phyllis en Anna, bij brandend stro.
Boulder with Daoist paradise
Object type: boulder
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: jade
Culture: chinese
Subjects: men,mountains,landscapes,trees,daoism

This impressive jade sculpture represents a Daoist paradise where immortals, cranes, and deer move through a mountainous landscape punctuated by pines, a waterfall, and a pavilion that stands beside a peach tree laden with fruit. Lower down the slope, a servant offers a platter of these "peaches of immortality" to two bearded figures. The otherworldly atmosphere is further enhanced by the meandering clouds that encircle the crest of the mountain. Jade, which is sonorous when struck but is harder than steel, has long been associated with moral virtue and immortality. The theme of reclusion within misty, fantastic realms appears in youxian (Wandering in Transcendence) poetry of the Six Dynasties period (220–589), and was a very popular painting subject beginning in the Tang dynasty (618–906).
Kinderlaken. Merk: HW 18
Object type: beddenlaken, laken object
Date: 1852 – 1860
Materials: linen
Location: northern netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Upper Egypt and Ethiopia
Object type: book
Date: 1862 – 1862
Materials: cardboard, leather, linen, paper
Techniques: albumen print, letterpress printing
Location: london
Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)
Object type: kylix fragment
Date: 600 – 401
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Two black glazed fragments from kylikes, each with the bottom right corner of the handle patch
Portrait of Khaddir Bukhsh, a landholder in Sindh, Pakistan
Object type: page
Date: 1862 – 1872
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: sindh
Artist: henry charles baskerville tanner
Artist role: fotograaf
Artist dates: 1835 – 1898
Subjects: head-gear: turban, human races; peoples; nationalities
Inscriptions: number: ‘292.’, inscription: ‘KHADIR BUKHSH./ KHOSA BELOCH./ SOONNEE MUSSULMAN./ SIND.’
The Irish smugglers; or, the comical keg
Object type: book illustration
Date: 1825 – 1825
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: england
Subjects: projectiles, explosives, etc.: gunpowder, rocky coast, smuggler, political caricatures and satires

Een Ierse smokkelaar staande aan de kust roept naar een andere Ier die in de lucht zweeft met een vat buskruit. Spotprent bij een blad met de tekst van het lied: The Irish smugglers; or, the comical keg. Illustratie (p. 305/306) genomen uit een uitgave van de liederenbundel: The Universal Songster, or Museum of Mirth, vol. I., eerst verschenen in 1825.
Gehurkte man voor een spiegel
Object type: print
Date: 1698 – 1776
Materials: paper
Techniques: mezzotint
Location: northern netherlands
Artist: johannes de groot (ii)
Artist role: painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1688 – 1796
Subjects: mirror, owls, defecation - aa - female human figure
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

In een landschap doet een man, gehurkt voor een spiegel, zijn behoefte. Op zijn rug zit een uil.
Portret van Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Object type: print
Date: 1854 – 1854
Materials: paper
Techniques: letterpress printing, engraving
Location: leipzig
Subjects: historical persons, scholar, philosopher (+ portrait of scholar, scientist)

Bladzijde uit: Bechstein, Ludwig. Zweihundert deutsche Männer in Bildnissen und Lebensbeschreibungen. Leipzig: Georg Wigand, 1854. Prent ook gebruikt in 'Dreihundert Bildnisse und Lebensabrisse berühmter deutscher Männer', waarbij op de titelpagina vermeld staat dat de prenten zijn gemaakt door Hugo Bürkner.
Schetsen van een hond, liggend op een stoel
Object type: drawing
Date: 1821 – 1890
Materials: chalk, paper
Artist: guillaume anne van der brugghen
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1812 – 1891
Subjects: dog
Beaker with Ruyi Head Handles
Object type: beaker
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: jade
Culture: chinese
Jachtscènes (deel 4)
Object type: print
Date: 1595 – 1595
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: italy
Subjects: stag-hunting, boar-hunting, hunter, hunters hunting (n.b.: in 1988-1990 this notation denoted the concept of 43c11421 'hunters resting during the hunt')
Inscriptions: number: ‘7’, collector's mark: Lugt 11, collector's mark: ‘Hinloopen’

Landschap met jagers te paard jagend op herten. Op de achtergrond links wordt er gejaagd op everzwijnen.
Portret van de commandant Don Álvaro de Bazán
Object type: print
Date: 1616 – 1657
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: antwerp
Subjects: álvaro de bazán, armour
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Zelfportret met snor
Object type: print
Date: 1915 – 1915
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Artist: jan mankes
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1889 – 1920
Subjects: painter, jan mankes, portrait, self-portrait of artist
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Shrine
Object type: shrine
Date: 1801 – 1900
Materials: gemstone, enamel, gold, pearl, quartz
Subjects: crucifixion
The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes
Object type: painting
Date: 1545 – 1550
Materials: canvas, oil
Artist: jacopo tintoretto (jacopo robusti)
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1518 – 1594
Subjects: bread,men,women,dogs,fish,landscapes,christ
Christ healing the paralytic
Object type: print
Date: 1540 – 1550
Techniques: woodcut
Artist: niccolò vicentino
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1510 – 1550

This print is from a scrapbook (album) containing woodcuts and chiaroscuro prints. It was presumably taken apart when it was acquired by The Met in 1922. On the front page of the volume there appeared a statement that this collection was made by the poet Samuel Rogers (1763-1855) and then bought by Angela Coutts (1816-1906) in memory of him at the sale of the collection at his house (28 April – 20 May, 1856). #1615a Rogers Sale. #146 Burdett Coutts Sale (Sotheby’s, May 1922). The prints from the original album have the range 22.73.3-1–22.73.3-161.
Side Chair
Object type: furniture
Date: 1722 – 1744
Materials: leather, wood
Location: newport
Artist: Anonymous
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1700 – 1799
Subjects: furniture

The reindeer hide that conservators used to reupholster this side chair in a period manner was salvaged from the Danish brigantine Frau Metta Catharina. Filled with hemp and leather from St. Petersburg, the ship sank off the coast of England in December 1786, and the cargo remained preserved in the mud of Plymouth Sound for nearly 200 years. Russian leather was readily available in the American colonies in the early 18th century and was favored for its flexible, rot- and insect-resistant surface. Here, stitches were threaded from the underside of the chair up through the leather. This technique, called double-stuff stitching, prevented the grass stuffing from shifting and formed a small well in the seat so that the cushions would stay in place. The felt tabs under the linen thread kept the stitching from tearing through the leather at its weakest points, the corners.
Portret van David Hendrik baron Chassé
Object type: print
Date: 1842 – 1887
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: the hague
Subjects: david hendrik baron chassé, knighthood order, historical persons (+ (full) bust portrait)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

De geportretteerde kijkt naar links, draagt een sjerp en twee ridderorden. Onder het portret zijn signatuur.
Composite Camel with Attendant
Object type: illustrated single work
Date: 1551 – 1575
Materials: ink, paper, watercolor
Location: iran
Subjects: men,camels

While composite animals such as this one are known from earlier periods of Persian art, they gained in popularity toward the end of the sixteenth century. Here, comprising the overall shape of a camel, are found images of demons (divs), dervishes, embracing couples, rabbits, dragons, and even a Buddhist monk, sporting an earring and carrying a khakkhara (sounding) staff. The meaning of such images is open to interpretation, but many scholars believe them to have mystical significance—likely referring to the unity of all creatures within God.