1126
Winged Genie Wearing Fancy Bracelets - Room H, Northwest Palace, Nimrud (Kalhu), Iraq, Neo-Assyrian Period, reign of Ashur-nasir-pal II, c. 883-859 BC, alabaster - Brooklyn Museum - Brooklyn, NY.
1127
A silver tetradrachm from Kos, 300-190 BC. R- Crab. (Alpha Bank Numismatics Museum, Kerkyra, Corfu).
1128
The Temple of Edfu in 1849, Egypt.
Dedicated to the deity Horus and located on a hill overlooking the Nile, the spectacular Temple of Edfu is considered to be the best preserved of the Ancient Egyptian shrines.
1129
Gold myrtle wreath. Date: Greek, c. 350-200 BC. Private Collection.
1130
Antonio Canova (1757-1822) – Adonis and Venus, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire in Geneva.
1131
The Mouth of Truth (Bocca della Verità), Rome, Italy. The massive marble mask weighs about 1300 kg and probably depicts the face of the sea titan god Oceanus. The eyes, nostrils, and mouth are open. Historians aren't quite certain what the original purpose of the disc was.
1133
Tripod base of a table with lion heads and paws. Medium: Marble. Date: c. 1st half of 1st cent. BC. Pompeii, Naples, Italy. Photo: Ilya Shurygin © 2015.
1134
Mummified gazelle. Place of origin: Egypt. Date:c. 300 BC. Period: Late Period or early Ptolemaic Period. Medium: Animal remains and linen.Source: collections.rom.on.ca
1135
The Priestess of Bacchus by John Collier (1885-1889). Medium: oil on canvas, private collection.
1136
Fede silver ring, 15th century. Italy. This ring combines the ancient fede - faith motif of two hands clasped together, with another motif depicting two hands holding a heart.
1137
Subterranean room in the House of Amphitrite, Bulla Regia, Tunisia. (Image Credit: Getty Museum)
1138
Theseus and Minotaur by Maestro dei Cassoni Campana, Detail. Date: c. 1510 - 1515.
1139
Roman silver ring depicting Romulus, Remus, and the wolf 2nd century AD. Image via Gemma Antiqua. Private Collection (?).
1140
Head of Zeus-Ammon. Marble copy of a Greek original. Date: c. 5th c.BC. Collection & Photo Credit: Munich Glyptothek.
1141
Aerial view of the Forbidden City - Beijing, China.
The Forbidden City is the palatial heart of China. Constructed in 1420, during the early Ming Dynasty, it is China's best-preserved imperial palace, and the largest ancient palatial structure in the world.
1142
Detail from a nude warrior with its original colour. From a Corinthian workshop, ca 490 BC.
1143
Hedgehog figurine. Medium: Egyptian faience. Excavated from tomb 655 at Beni Hasan, Minya, Egypt. Date: Middle Kingdom, 12th to 13th Dynasty, ca. 1976-1793 BC. Now in the Fitzwilliam Museum.
1144
St. Stephen’s Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem, circa 1895. (Photograph: Library of Congress)
1145
Golden Oak Crown, 4th c. BC, Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki.
1146
Rock crystal statuette of the goddess Bastet in her form of sacred cat. Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
1147
The City of Troy from the Sea, an illustration from 'L'Odyssee', by Homer, translated by Victor Berard, 1929-33 (colour litho). Artist: Francois-Louis Schmied.
1148
Bracelet with Seated-duck Terminals, Place of Origin: Iran, Mid-6th to 4th centuries B.C. Now on display at the MIHO Museum, Japan.
1149
Statuette of Pazuzu, Assyrian, beginning of the 1st millennium BC. Now on display at the Musée du Louvre. Photo (C) Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Thierry Ollivier.
1150
A Letter written to his sister Ludmila by Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1905.
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