1726
Mycenaean gold ring: A seated goddess before a procession of seahorses. Date: 15th cent. BCE. From Tiryns; now in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Photographer & Credit: Zde/Wikimedia Commons.
1727
Jerboa figurine. Date: ca. 1850–1640 B.C. Period: Middle Kingdom - Egypt. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 111, NY. #MuseumWeek
1728
‘my ❤️ and 👁 until I die’ / 18th century.
1729
Detail, Baths of the Forum, Pompeii, 1895 survey expedition photographs. Photo Credit: Brooklyn Museum Archives, Goodyear Archival Collection.
1730
Unknown tourist poses in the Strommeyer and Heymann photographic studio in Cairo (c. 1885)
1731
"Allegoria Della Primavera / Allegory Of Spring" by Cesar Philipp (German, b.1859).
1732
Vampire bat. Woodcut from “Natural history picture book”, 1869, Internet Archive.
1733
Gold bracelet in the form of a coiled snake. Date: c. 1st century AD, Place of origin: Pompeii. Collection: The British Museum.
1734
Sarcophagus and lid with husband and wife, Etruscan, 350–300 B.C. Made of marble, found Vulci, Lazio, Italy. Courtesy & currently located at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
1735
View of the Colosseum by Oswald Achenbach. (German, 1827-1905). Medium: oil-canvas.
1736
Ahasuerus at the End of the World by Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl, 1888. (Hungarian, 1860–1933).
1737
Chalice of Saint John the Evangelist. Hans Memling ~ ca.1470/1475. National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
1738
Serpent Labret with Articulated Tongue. Date: 13th-16th century AD. Culture: Aztec. Place of origin: Mexico, Central Mexico. Collection: The Met, NYC.
1739
A Greek yellow jasper ringstone with a crocodile. Alexandria, Hellenistic period, circa 2nd-1st century B.C. Private Collection
1740
Apollo, illustration by Donn P. Crane. Apollo is one of the most complex and important gods, and is the god of many things, including: music, poetry, art, oracles, archery, plague, medicine, sun, light and knowledge.
1741
Wall-painting of an amorous scene. The woman is holding a kithara. (a type of lyre). From Pompeii, Roman period, 50-79 AD. Collection: The British Museum, London).
1742
A Priestess of Apollo by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1888.
1743
Hermes leads a goat to the sacrifice. Side A of a Campanian red-figure bell-krater. ca. 360-350 BC. Found in Campania, Italy. Now on display at the Musée du Louvre.
1744
The Calvatone Victory. Medium: Guilded bronze. c. 2nd cent. AD. Torso, head and sphere wit inscription are of ancient origin. The rest parts were reconstructed and added in 1844 according to the then views of the iconography of Victory. ©Photo: Ilya Shurygin.
1745
Detail from Bruegel’s The Suicide of Saul, 1562.
1746
Detail, Diadem of Princess Sithathoriunet, daughter of Senusret II, Medium: gold, lapis lazuli, carnelian and glass paste. The diadem was made to be worn above the princess wig. Date: Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty, ca. 1897-1878 BC. Collection: Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
1747
Conjoined Man and Woman (Curing Ritual Narrative), Jalisco, dates to 100 BC-AD 300, from Jalisco, Mexico. Currently located at the Walters Art Museum, Balitmore, USA.
1748
Detail, Roman mosaic, Basilica of Aquileia - crypt of excavations. Udine, Italy.
1749
Reconstruction of the “Queen of the Night” relief depicting the goddess Ištar-Inanna, ***or*** Lilītu, female demon in ancient Sumerian religion. Credit: British Museum. Date: 1800-1750 BC., Old Babylonian.
1750
Shark Pendant, Costa Rica or Panama, Burica Peninsula, Period: 11th–16th century AD , Medium: Gold. Now on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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