Roman snail (Helix pomatia), Kent, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Artemidora, A.D. 90-100. From Meir. Mummy. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. The mask portrays a young woman lying flat as if upon her bier. Her hair is arranged in tiers of snail curls over her forehead. Alongside her face flows a black Egyptian-style wig, the long locks bound with narrow rings of gold in pharaonic fashion.
A burgundy snail on a stone, family-hiking with a donkey in the Cevennes mountains, France
