1376
Sumerian Silver Lyre, from Ur, southern Iraq, c. 2600-2400 BC. Collection: British Museum.
1377
Male anti-masturbation device, British
This metal device is one of a number of similar devices which were invented in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries to prevent masturbation. A leather strap which would have kept it in place is now missing. The Science Museum, UK.
1378
Library of Ashurbanipal - Mesopotamia, 1500-539 BC. Now on display at the British Museum, London.
1379
Gold fish amulet, Egypt, 1500 - 1070 BC. Private Collection (?) Photo Credit: Apollo Galleries.
1380
Head of a Funerary Couch in the Form of a Cheetah or Lion, Thebes, Egypt. Tutankhamun Treasure.
1381
Golden ivy wreath, discovered in a tomb on Cyprus, dating to the 5th-4th centuries BC. Photographer: Kadir Kaba.
1382
Maya Funerary Urn. Date: c. 500-950 AD. Place of origin: Guatemala. Dimensions: 14 ¾ × 16 × 13 ½ in. Medium: Ceramic and pigment. The Menil Collection, Photo: Thomas R. DuBrock.
1383
Celtic Gold Ring with Mask Motif, 5th Century BC. Private Collection.
1384
Bronze turkey feet candle holders, ca. 1890.
1385
A small golden double head minoan axe. Votive jewel. Found in Archalokori cave, 1700 - 1450 BC. Now on display at the Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete, Greece. Photographer: Jebulon via Wikimedia Commons.
1386
Requiescat by Briton Rivière , 1888, oil on canvas, 191.5 x 250.8 cm. Collection: Art Gallery of New South Wales.
1387
“Caryatids and heads.” Illustrated catalogue of plastic ornaments cast in plaster for interiors and composition for exterior of theaters by Decorators Supply Co, 1913.
1388
Statuette of the Goddess Taweret. Period: Ptolemaic Period. Date: 332–30 B.C. Place of origin: Northern Upper Egypt, Qena area. Medium: Glassy faience. Collection: The Met, NY.
1389
Vase in the shape of a duck, Egypt, 3rd century BC. The vase is made of faience, a mixture made with powdered quartz, making it closer to glass than pottery. Multicolored faience objects like this one are rare because they were difficult to produce. Walters Art Museum.
1390
Scaraboid gem with a snake. Date: Greek Classical Period, 450–425 BC. Now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
1391
Portable vertical sundial, Rome, ca. 250 A.D. © Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford.
1392
Victory of Samothrace Samothrace, Greece, c. 200 BC. Found in Samothrace in 1863.
1393
Marble Hand of Colossus of Constantine. Capitoline Museums in Rome, Italy. Photograph: Vogue Magazine, June 1956.
1394
A Walk at Dusk (detail) Caspar David Friedrich ca.1830-35.
1395
A depiction of the priestess of Delphi from an ancient krater. The priestess of Delphi would engage in divination by sitting on the tripod in the foreground and perhaps inhaling gases coming up from a crack in the earth below.
1396
Archaic Greek Bronze Gorgon Figurine, c. mid-6th Century BC. Private Collection.
1397
Bronze shield device in the shape of a winged Gorgon head. Date: c. first half of the 6th century BC. It was found during the excavations at Olympia and is kept at the Archaeological Museum of Olympia under the inventory number B 110. Photographer: Xocolatl.
1398
Long considered a modern invention, animation has apparently been lying about its age. A 5,200-year-old bowl found in Iran’s Burnt City in the 1970s features a series of five images that researchers have only recently identified as being sequential, much like those in a zoetrope
1399
The Ghosts of Hellas, by Vasily Polenov, 1905.
1400
Ostrich Fan of Tutankhamun. From the Tomb of Tutankhamun (KV62), Valley of the Kings, West Thebes. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
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