1501
Seals of the Goddess Inanna. Inanna is the ancient Sumerian goddess of love, sensuality, fertility, procreation, and also of war.
1502
Clay mask of the demon Huwawa. Date: c. 1800-1600 B.C. Place of origin: Abu Habba, Iraq. Period: Old Babylonian. Medium: Fired clay. Now on display at the British Museum.
1503
Detail, Portrait of Elisabetta Gonzaga by Raffaello Sanzio - 1503.
1504
Pendant in the Form of a Spider. Culture: Possibly Chiriquí. Place of origin: Costa Rica. Date: c. A.D. 1000-1500. Medium: Gold. Collection: Brooklyn Museum.
1505
Map of the Earth according to Hecataeus of Miletus (c. 550 BC – c. 476 BC). © Ekdotiki Athinon. Besides his written works, Hecataeus is also credited with improving the map of Anaximander, which he saw as a disc encircled by Oceanus.
1506
Cycladic hedgehog statuette from Archaeological museum of Athens. Date: c. 2800-2300 BC. Photographer: by Matt Barrett athensguide.com/archaeology-mu…
1507
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Mother & Child Figurine, Ancient Greece, ca. 400 BC. Medium: Marble.
Collection/Credit: National Archaeological Museum of Athens, by Aleksandr Zykov on Flickr (cc).
1508
Gold ring, Roman, c. 100-200 AD. Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art.
1509
John Collier, Priestess of Delphi, detail, 1891.
1510
Reconstruction of ancient Babylon. Credit: Layard.
1511
Francisco de Goya, Still Life with Golden Bream (Besugos), 1808-1812.
1512
Egyptian stele of the lady Taperet and Atoum, 10th or 9th cent BC, 22nd Dynasty. Collection: The Louvre Museum. Taperet prays to the god Atoum. Above them, the sky is represented in the form of the goddess Nut.
1514
Stream of water under the Colosseum and tunnels.
1515
Myrtle wreath. Medium: Gold. Date: 330-250 BC. Place of origin: Peloponnese, Greece. Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
1516
25,000 year old structure made from the bones of 60+ mammoths. Russia, Paleolithic. Photo: A.E. Dudin.
1517
The Fall of Icarus by Carlo Saraceni ( Italian 1579-1620). Medium: oil/canvas.
1518
A late Viking or High Medieval Axe beautifully inlaid with silver. Length: 18.7 cm, Width: 19.1 cm. Weight: 520 g. Place of origin: Scandinavia, c. 11th-12th century AD. Collection:Metropolitan Museum of Art.
1519
High-Relief Owl Hieroglyph Late Period – Ptolemaic Period, c. 400 – 30 B.C. Purchased in Egypt from Panayotis Kitycas, 1907, now on view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 134, NY.
1520
Headdress in the form of a fox’s head. Date: c. 100 - 800 AD. Now on display at the Museo de Oro – Lima, Peru.
1521
Adam Elsheimer - The Flight into Egypt, c. 1609, detail.
1522
Woodcut print of the twelve signs of the zodiac, German, 1st half 16th century. Private Collection.
1523
Baroque Splendor - Column detail, St. Michael's Church, Munich, Germany. Photographer: Magnus Hagdorn via Flickr.
1524
Bella Hadid for Vogue Greece, shot by Txema Yeste, April 2019.
1525
Noah’s Ark. Detail from the Somme le Roi, Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand, c. 1294.
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