"Orphic inscription. Mystery religions, emerging in Greece after 500 BC, gave a hope of better afterlife. The instruction from this golden plate found in Thessaly describe the path to be followed in the underworld to ensure salvation. The standard formula: the dead soul is thirsty. It is guided to the proper spring. In front of Persephone the soul repeats the formula 'I am the pure one amongst the pure', to show that it has been initiated in the Orphic mysteries and has received the gift of immortality. It ends with the expression ‘like a kid I threw myself towards the milk'. IV BC. Getty Museum."
"Though its provenance is unknown, this mask has been identified as belonging to the Teotihuacan culture (100 BC-AD 400) and clearly shows Olmec influence. The eye holes here, however, were once filled in and it probably served as a funeral mask or a pectoral (note the hole for hanging) for a VIP of the ruling class."
