1801
Spider, Date- 6th–7th century. Location: Peru. Culture: Moche (Loma Negra). Medium: Gilded copper, shell. Now on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
1802
Gold Ring with Aphrodite. Culture: Greek, c. 4th Century BC
1803
Green glazed steatite amulet in the form of a tiny, squatting frog with large eyes. Date/Period: Egyptian, Middle Kingdom, c 2061–1640 BC. Height: 1 cm. Now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, US.
1804
Dionysus holding a kantharos (wine-cup). Interior from an Attic black-figure plate by the painter Psiax; ca. 520-500 BC. Found at Vulci, Italy; now in the British Museum.
1805
Frog Effigy Pendant from northwestern Colombia. Dates from AD 900. Courtesy & currently located at the Walters Art Museum, via their online collections. Accession number: 2009.20.78.
1806
The Sacred Way and Ionic stoa of Miletus Ancient City, modern-day Didim, Turkey. Photographer: Nejdet Duzen - Shutterstock.
1807
An Audience At Agrippa's, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1876.
1808
Edgar Maxence (1871-1954) Fleurs du lac, 1900, (detail)
1809
Greek Gold Wreath of Oak Leaves and Flowers, possibly from Attica, Greece, late 2nd - early 1st century BC.
In ancient Greece, oak leaves symbolized wisdom, and were associated with Zeus, who according to Greek mythology made his decisions while resting in an oak grove.
1810
Renaissance fashions by Tom Tierney, 2000.
1811
Pegasus. Roman fresco of the 2nd cent. AD. Now in the National Museum of Rome - Palazzo Massimo alle Terme. Photographer: Carole Raddato @carolemadge
1812
Night; and Day by Edward Robert Hughes (English, 1851-1914).
1813
Bust of a woman, possibly the younger Antonia. Long identified as the nymph Clytie. Date: c. 40/50 AD. Excavated/Findspot: Naples. Now on display at the British Museum.
1814
Votive double ax (Gold), Culture: Early Aegean, Minoan. Period: Bronze Age, Late Minoan Period. Date: 1550–1500 BC. Now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, US.
1815
A farmer stands on the Nile floodplains near the pyramids of Giza (Cairo, 1936). Photograph via Rare Historical Photos.
1816
This skull, excavated from a tomb in Jericho in 1958, shows clear signs of the ancient surgical process of trephination. c. 2200–2000 BC. © Wellcome Collection
1817
Conch-Shell Trumpet. Date: 300-550. Medium: Conch shell | hematite. Culture:Maya , Guatemala. This Early Classic period conch-shell trumpet has four drilled holes so that a scale can be played. When the spire is at the bottom, the piece forms the head and headdress of a god.
1818
‘Wonders of the Seven Seas’ section of ‘Aja’ib al-makhluqat wa-ghara’ib al-mawjudat (Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing) by Abu Yahya Zakariya’ ibn Muhammad al-Qazwini; ca. 1203-1283 AD.
1819
River God by Mitch Shea (b. 1987). Florence Academy of Art, IT.
1820
Agnes Tait (1894-1981), "Bacchanalian Scene",Medium: n/d, oil on canvas, 99,1x99,1 cm. Private Collection.
1821
Roman Mosaic of a Wounded Equine, c. 3rd-4th Cen. AD.
1822
Early Christian silver ring with green glass intaglio. Period: Early Byzantine - Late Roman, 4th-5th century AD. Collection & Credit: Bertolami Fine Antiques.
1823
Bronze shaft-end from a carriage-shaft or fire-dog, decorated with a griffin’s head. Culture: Etruscan. Date: ca. 600 BC - 575 BC. Collection: The British Museum.
1824
Detail from View of Venice by Jacopo de’Barbari, c.1500.
1825
Baboon Applique From an Animal Mummy, possibly from Saqqara, Egypt. Ptolemaic Period. Now on display at the Brooklyn Museum.
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