2451
Detail, Goddess sitting on the throne (Persephone?). Medium: Parian marble. Date: ca. 480 BC. Collection: Berlin, State Museums (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin). © Photo: G. R. Maier - G. Murza / Gosudarstvennye muzei Berlina. GDR. Albom.
2452
Mosaic floor in Pompeii depicting birds stealing(?) pearls from a jewelry box. Photographer: stocktributor/Adobe Stock.
2453
Mesopotamian limestone amulet in the shape of a turtle. Date: c. 3rd to 2nd millennium BC. Collection & Credit: Medusa Ancient Art.
2454
Heart; Love. Wood engraving, London, 1792. Credit & Collection: Michael Moons Book Shop.
2455
Sleeping Hermaphroditus. Date: Roman copy of the 1st-2nd century after a late Hellenistic original of the 2nd-1st century B.C. Medium: Parian marble. Provenience: Florence, Uffizi Gallery (Firenze, Galleria degli Uffizi).
2456
Snake pendant of the Ebrié people, Lagunes region, southern Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa. Date: c. 19th century. Collection & Credit: Brooklyn Museum.
2457
A Hoopoe, Goose, Partridge, Peacock, Heron, Caladrius Bird, Phoenix, Night Heron, and Swan from a Franco-Flemish bestiary from about 1270. Collection: The Getty.
2458
Study of the Parthenon, 1869, Sanford Robinson Gifford.
2459
Scarabeoid Intaglio: Griffin and Astragal. Place of creation: Ionia. Place of finding: Crimea, the environs of Kerch. Date: c5th century B.C. Medium: Rock crystal, gold. Now on display at the Hermiatage Museum.
2460
Fresco depicting the battle at the amphitheater of Pompeii between Pompeians and Nucerians in 59 AD, which, according to Tacitus(Annals XIV.17), led to the Roman Senate’s banning gladiatorial games at Pompeii for ten years. Now in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples.
2461
The Illusion, Sister of Icarus by Auguste Rodin, 1894-96. Medium: marble.
2462
Amulet and charm to protect against plague,. Place of origin: Bavaria, Germany, c. 1690-1710. Now on display at the Science Museum, London, UK.
2463
Lidded effigy container in the form of a diving god. Date: ca. A.D. 1500. Period: Late Postclassic, Maya. Place made: Maya area, Northern Belize or Quintana Roo, Mexico.
2464
The Swan Maiden, from Among Gnomes and Trolls No. 2 by John Bauer (1907). Among Gnomes and Trolls (Swedish: Bland tomtar och troll), is a popular Swedish folklore and fairy tales annual and children's fairy tale anthology published since 1907.
2465
Carved sard plaque from a bracelet. Depicting a sphinx with a cartouche of King Amenhotep III. Culture: Egyptian. Date: c. 1390-1352 BC. Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
2466
Central panel detail - The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch Date: ca.1500. Collection: Museo del Prado, Madrid.
2467
Facial Expressions. Detail from Luttrell Psalter, England. Date: ca. 1325-1340. Collection: British Library, Add 42130, fol. 104r.
2468
"Lion hugger" (Peleus and shape-shifting Thetis). Detail from the Ovide Moralisé, Paris ca. 1330 Paris, BnF. Image via discardingimages.
2469
Aulos player. Date: 5th century B.C. Provenaance: Tarquinia, Tomb of the Leopards. The Tomb of the Leopards is an Etruscan burial chamber so called for the confronted leopards painted above a banquet scene. The tomb dates to around 480–450 BC.
2470
Basalt Stele decorated with a bull’s head (Moon-god ?) from Bethsaida, Golan Heights. Date: c. 8th c. BC. Photo Credit: Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
2471
Ancient Egyptian metal shrine-shaped case for an animal mummy, topped by a sculpture of a lizard. Artist unknown; 664-30 BC (Late Period or Ptolemaic). Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
2472
Chandelier. Date: 15th century. Culture: German. Medium: Wood, bone, iron. Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
2473
Black-figure neck-amphora with Heracles battling an Amazon (left) and Theseus and the Minotaur with Ariadne (right), attributed to the Edinburgh Painter Attic Greece, c. 500 B.C. terracotta. Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
2474
Apollo on a swan, red figured bell krater. Date: 400 BC - 380 BC. Collection: British Museum.
2475
Wooden mask. Culture: Mixtec or Aztec. Period: Postclassic period Date: A.D. 1100–1521. Place of origin: Central or Southern Highlands, Mexico. Medium: Wood with turquoise, black stone, shell, and mother of pearl. Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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