2226
Floor mosaic with parrots, Roman, 5th-6th c. AD, Musée du Louvre.
2227
The Trier Gold Hoard containing more than 2650 aurei (Roman gold coins), hidden in 196 AD during the revolt of Clodius Albinus against emperor Septimius Severus. Discovered in September 1993 near Trier, Germany. Now on display at the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier.
2228
Pair of earrings with Eros riding a dove. Place of origin: Greek. Date: 299-200 B.C. Medium: Gold. Collection: Risd Museum, Denmark.
2229
Gold pendant in the form of a hawk. Date: early 18th dynasty (attribution according to style) (-1550 -1425), Egypt. Place of origin: treasure of Tell el Ajjoul, Palestine. Collection: The Louvre.
2230
Women rest at the Parthenon. Photograph by Maynard Owen Williams, December 1930, National Geographic.
2231
The Imdugud (also Zu or Anzu) Relief from the Temple of Ninhursag Iraq, c. 2500 BC. Collection: British Museum.
2232
Carnelian amulet with gold loop. Culture: Egypt, c.1500 - 1070 BC. Collection & Credit: Timeline Auctions.
2233
Granite statue depicts the god Horus as a falcon. Dimensions: 52 x 37 cm. Date: Ptolemaic Period, ca. 305-30 BC. Private Collection.
2234
Aztec/Mixtec sacrificial knife depicting a crouching eagle warrior holding a flint blade, bound together with agave fiber and resin. Date: circa 1400 - 1521.Now on display at the British Museum.
2235
Bracelet in the form of a snake. Culture: Greek. Period: Hellenistic Period Date: late 4th–early 3rd century B.C. Medium: Silver. Collection: MFA, Boston.
2236
Mourning ring with lock of hair inside, made in England in 1661. Collection: Victoria and Albert Museum, England.
2237
Statuette of the Goddess Taweret. Culture: Egypt, Ptolemaic Period. Date: 332–30 B.C. Medium: Glassy faience. Geography: Northern Upper Egypt, Qena area. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 134.
2238
Crazy Woman with Cats by Pablo Picasso, 1901.
2240
Black and white photograph depicting two elderly ladies walking in profile in an Athens street. The facade of the shop has two caryatid ornaments with folded arms, at the front of a recessed balcony of the first floor of the shop.
Photographer: Henri Cartier-Bresson,1953.
2241
Detail of a miniature of Mars and Venus being discovered in bed by Vulcan, from the ‘Roman de la Rose’, France (Paris?), c. 1380, Egerton MS 881, f. 126r.
2242
Tiles with repeat pattern. Date: circa 1580. Product place: Turkey, probably Iznik. Now on display at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK.
2243
Mosaic: A philosopher sitting on a rock. Byzantine art, c. 6th century AD. Great Palace Mosaics, Istanbul, Turkey.
2244
Rock crystal duck-shaped vase. Mycenaean or Minoan craftsmanship. Found in Grave Circle B, Mycenae. 16th cent BC. Nat Arch Mus Athens.
2245
Octopus by Ulisse Aldrovandi, Animali, vol 4,16th century. Watercolor. Collection: Universita di Bologna.
2246
Jonah. Detail from the Pamplona Bible, Navarre, c. 1197. Collection: Amiens, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 108, fol. 146r
2247
Stater of Taras (Tarentum) with Taras on dolphin.Date: Greek Early Classical Period, c. 473–460 B.C. Collection: MFA Boston.
2248
Crown of Louis XV of France♕ Collection: Louvre Museum. The crown was created for King Louis XV in 1722. It was used at his coronation and was embellished with diamonds from the Royal Collection.
2249
Detail of Caravaggio’s Judith Beheading Holofernes (c. 1607)
2250
Detail, The Adoration of the Kings by an Brueghel the elder (1568-1625). Collection:
National Gallery, UK.
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