626
Standing female figure. Place of origin: Colima, West Mexico. Period: Late Formative, Shaft Tomb era. Date: 100 B.C.- A.D. 300 Medium: Earthenware. Collection: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
627
Head of Mars. The French School, 1800s. Private Collection (?)
628
Bronze helmets. Culture: Urartian, c. 9th to 8th century BC. Geography: Probably from North-Western Iran. The pointed shape was designed to deflect arrows. Holes around the edges are for attaching a leather or a felt lining. Collection: British Museum, London, UK.
629
Illustration from beekeeping manuscript. From a Bestiary by Manuel Philes, 1566.
630
Small glass cathead amulet with a hole for wearability. Culture: Egypt, c. 500-300 BC. Collection & Credit: Sadigh Gallery.
631
Owl Mask. Culture: Nisga’a (Niska). Place of origin: British Columbia, c. 1850-1880 AD. Collection: National Museum of the American Indian.
632
Embroidered textile feline with long tail, multi-colored. Date: ca. 200 B.C.–A.D. 400 Period: Early Intermediate. Culture: Nasca. Medium: Camelid fiber. Now on display at the Princeton University Art Museum.
633
Aphrodite Anadyomene. Culture: Greek, Hellenistic Period. Date: c. 3rd-1st century BC. (Photo Credit: Axel Vervoordt from TEFAF Maastricht 2011)
634
Roman Bronze Hand with Iron Dagger. Date: 1st-3rd Century AD. The wrist is hollow and socketed, with a hole, presumably because it was once attached to a larger figure by a pin or nail. Dimensions: 9.4 cm x 9.1 cm. Collection: Artemis Gallery.
635
Diana the huntress (Diane chasseresse) by Lucien Charles Edouard Alliot, ca.1920/30. Medium: bronze. Collection: Carnegie Museum of Art.
636
Statue of a female devotee. Medium: sandstone, 75 cm / 29 in high. Geography: Mathura, India, early 2nd century AD. Collection: Cleveland Art Museum.
637
Dance headdress representing an eagle and its chicks. Geography: Tsimshian, British Columbia, circa 1875. Collection: National Museum of the American Indian.
638
Blind Girl of Pompeii by Herbert Gustave Schmalz-Carmichael (1856-1935) .
639
Punishment of the Envious. Detail from the Compost et calendrier des bergers, Paris, Guy Marchant, 1493. Collection: Angers, Bibliothèque municipale, SA 3390, fol. 34r
640
Golden ivy wreath, discovered in a tomb on Cyprus, dating to the 5th-4th centuries BC. Photographer: Kadir Kaba.
641
Crowned Cat. Detail from the Scheibler Armorial, Germany ca. 1450-1480. Collection: München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod.icon. 312 c, p. 258
642
"The Goddess of the Chase" by the Teresa Cerutti-Simmons, 1934, etching. Private Collection: Roving Sands Gallery.
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643
Gold earrings, dated to the 11th century AD. Culture: Persian. Collection: Khalili Collections.
644
Heart; Love. Wood engraving, London, 1792. Credit & Collection: Michael Moons Book Shop.
645
Spiral finger ring. Period & Date: Hellenistic, C. 200 BC- 100 BC. Medium: Gold. Now on display at the Museum of Cycladic Art.
646
Detail, Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci by the Italian Renaissance painter Piero di Cosimo, dating from about 1480 or 1490. It is in the Musée Condé in Chantilly, France.
647
Detail, Ophelia by Sir John Everett Millais, 1851–2 | Tate Gallery, UK.
648
Glass eye in gold pendant, Egypt, c.1550-1070 BC. Private Collection.
649
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.
650
Armour of King James II (1686) by Richard Hoden. Place: England, London, Tower of London. Collection: Royal Armouries.
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