1752
Decapitator (a mythological being) Plaque. Date: A.D. 390–450. Geography: Perú. Culture: Moche (Loma Negra). Medium: Silvered copper, shell. Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
1753
“The Great Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius” by Desprez, Louis Jean (French, 1743-1804).
1754
Detail from the Carthusian miscellany of poems, chronicles, and treatises in Northern English, including an epitome or summary of Mandeville's travels (c. 1460), British Library, UK.
1755
A Marble Head of a Bull, Roman Imperial, circa 2nd Century A.D. Private Collection.
1756
Silver mirror on a bronze stand. Period/date: Roman, 200 BC-200 AD. Now on display at the Science Museum, London. Photo: Wellcome Images / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 4.0
1757
Detail of a bronze statuette. The Goddess Bastet in Her form of sacred cat playing with her kitten. Date: c. 664-332 BC. Collection: Louvre Museum. Photographer: Rama via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
1758
Inscribed brick in Akkadian from Ešnunna, Iraq which a dog once walked over, leaving behind their paw prints. Circa 2000-1900 BC.
1759
Eve by Gislebertus, detail of the lintel of the north portal of Saint-Lazare, Autun, France, ca. 1120–1135 AD.
1760
Fame escorting Pegasus by Eugene Louis Lequesne, 1875. Photographer: Louis-Emile Durandelle, Musee D’Orsay, Paris. @ClassicalMyths
1761
Man’s headgear, from the Pazyryk valley, Altai mountains, southern Siberia, late 4th–early 3rd century BC. Photograph: State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg.
1762
Detail, the Adolescent Bacchus by Caravaggio.
1763
Bridal Crown c. 1520. Collection: Nationalmuseet, Denmark. Photographer: Lennart Larsen.
1764
Viking Gold & Rock Crystal Pendant, c. 9th-12th Century AD. Private Collection.
1765
Owl Mask. Culture: Nisga’a (Niska). Place of origin: British Columbia, c. 1850-1880 AD. Collection: National Museum of the American Indian.
1767
The Venus of Brassempouy (or Lady of Brassempouy) is one of the earliest representations of the human face. It was sculpted in mammoth ivory about 25,000 years ago. It was discovered in a cave at Brassempouy, France in 1892.
1768
Mosaic mask of Quetzalcoatl. Date: 1400-1521. Place of origin: Mexico. Period/culture: Aztec, Mixtec. Medium: Cedrela wood, turquoise, conch shell, gold, beeswax, pine resin. Collection: British Museum.
1769
Otter statue. Date: c. 664-30 B.C. The pose of raised paws signifies the otter's adoration of the sun god when he rises in the morning. In myth otters were attached to the goddess of Lower Egypt Wadjet, whose cult was centered in Buto, in the northern Delta. Coll: The Met.
1770
Snailcat, Bible, Paris ca. 1485 (Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine, ms. 62, fol. 70v). Image via Discarding Images.
1771
Roman Marble Dog Columbarium Panel. Date: c. 1st-2nd Century AD. Depicting a dog wearing a collar, with short ears and incised fur, the tail curling upwards, with two lines of carved Latin text: “For darling Metilianus, Lucius Novius Aprilis made (this)”
1772
The Slave Market by Boulanger Gustave Clarence Rudolphe, oil on canvas, 1886.
1774
Head of a Markhor Goat. Medium: copper alloy, shell, and red stone. Culture: Sumerian, Early Dynastic III, c. 2550–2250 BC. Photo: University Of Pennsylvania Museum Of Archaeology And Anthropology.
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