901
The Siren by John William Waterhouse.
The painting depicts a siren sitting at the edge of a cliff, lyre in hand, staring down at a shipwrecked sailor floating in water, who in turn is staring up at her.
902
Statue of a female devotee. Medium: sandstone, 75 cm / 29 in high. Geography: Mathura, India, early 2nd century AD. Collection: Cleveland Art Museum.
903
Plate with Wife Beating Husband, Made in Dinant or Malines, Netherlands, ca. 1480. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
904
Laconian hound scratching its head, painted pottery. The Euergides Painter (active c. 500 BC).
905
Stone relief of an Assyrian warrior and his lion. Palace of king Sargon II at Dur-Sharrukin, present day Khorsabad, northern Iraq ~ ca.713 BC. Louvre.
906
Gold Snake Armlet. Diameter: 10 cm. weight: 295 g. Place of origin: Egypt. Roman Period, 1st century AD. Private Collection..
907
The Great Mosque of Samarra and the Abu Dulaf Mosque were built in the 9th century and they testify the architectural innovations of the city.
908
Hellenistic Greek gold snake ring, dated to c. 100 BC. Currently located in the Benaki Museum in Athens, Greece.
909
Luristan bronze daggers - modern-day Iran, circa 9th-7th Century BC. Private Collection.
910
Ulisse Aldrovandi, Octopus, Animali, vol 4,16th century. Watercolor. Universita di Bologna.
911
Nocturne in Black and Gold The Falling Rocket by Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903). Medium: Oil on canvas. Collection: Detroit Institute of Arts.
912
Romulus, Remus, and their Nursemaid, by Jacques Laurent Agasse, 1805.
913
The Mermaid’s Rock by Edward Matthew Hale, 1894.
914
Owl Talisman. Art by bonegoddess on Devianart.
915
Devil says goodnight. Detail from the Jean Mansel, La fleur des histoires, Flanders. Date: ca. 1480. Collection: Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 64, fol. 297r.
916
917
A Young Priestess of Bacchus by Max Nonnenbruch, 1899.
918
The Acropolis at Athens - Leo von Klenze, 1846. (Neue Pinakothek, Munich).
919
Finger Ring with Figure of Nike Greek, 4th Century B.C. Private Collection (?)
920
Anonymous, The Dance of Death (Brown ink, watercolor, gouache and gold), 16th century, Germany. Collection: The Met, NYC.
921
Copying reliefs in the temple of Ramses, photography by Kees Scherer, 1968, in in Abu Simbel, Egypt.
922
A window on the Quai Voltaire, Paris, 1928. Photographer: André Kertész.
923
Persepolis of the Persians. Work & Credit: Persians on deviantart.
924
Sculptor’s limestone trial piece depicting an owl-hieroglyph, in elaborately detailed raised relief, 15 cm high. Ptolemaic Egypt. (Collection: British Museum EA38276)
925
Detail of Berenice’s Tresses, by Ambrogio Borghi, 1878.
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