1176
Women rest at the Parthenon. Photograph by Maynard Owen Williams, December 1930, National Geographic.
1177
Limestone relief of courtier Ay. Ay was pharaoh after the death of pharaoh Tutankhamun, who died prematurely. Date: c. 1360 BC. Medium: plaster on limestone with polychrome. Collection & Credit: Worcester Art Museum.
1178
Tiles with repeat pattern. Date: circa 1580. Product place: Turkey, probably Iznik. Now on display at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK.
1179
Lascaux Cave: the Sistine Chapel of Prehistory (article): archaeostore.com/blog/prehistor…
1180
Reconstruction of the palace of Knossos. Illustration: Mmoyaq - Wikimedia Commons.
1181
Pegasus/Bucephalus. Detail from the Armenian version of the Alexander Romance, 1544. Copied and illustrated at Sulu Manastir in Constantinople by Zakʿariay. Collection: Manchester, John Rylands University Library, Armenian MS 3, fol. 42v.
1182
Roman ring with snake heads; found in Pompeii. Collection: National Archaeological Museum, Naples. Photo Credit: Mondadori Portfolio / Electa - Sergio Anelli.
1183
Detail from a nude warrior with its original colour. From a Corinthian workshop, ca 490 BC.
1184
Detail, an Octopus fresco from the palace of Knossos, Crete. The palace is full of representations of marine animals, such as these tentacles that appear in another of its murals.
1185
The Tell Asmar sculpture hoard (also known as the Square Temple Hoard) is a collection of twelve human effigy statues, discovered in 1934 at the site of Tell Asmar, Iraq. Date: Early Dynastic I-II, ca. 2900–2550 BC.
1186
Kawanabe Kyosai (1831 - 1889) - Skeletons dancing - Painting on silk, hanging scroll.
1187
Maenad carrying a thyrsus and a leopard with a snake rolled up over her head. Tondo of an ancient Greek Attic white-ground kylix 490–480 BC from Vulci. Collection: Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich, Germany.
1188
Detail, Mummy Portrait of a Woman, about A.D. 100 - 110, Attributed to the Isidora Master. Collection & Credit: J. Paul Getty Museum.
1189
Iron helmet with silver inlay decoration of dragons chasing the flaming pearl. Place of origin: Korea, c. 1550-1560. Collection & Credit: The Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK.
1190
Medieval diagram shows the orbits of the Sun and Moon around the Earth, late 13th century, France, unknown illuminator. Collection & Credit: the Getty Museum.
1191
A cavalryman leads his horse beside a stream. Culture: Assyrian, ca. 704–681 B.C. Excavated at Nineveh in 1847-49 by Sir Austen Henry Layard. Medium: Gypsum alabaster. Now on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
1192
A devotional statue (a married couple ?) dating to 2600 BC. Found place: Nippur in Iraq. Dimensions: 3.5 inches. Medium: Gypsum (alabaster), resin, shell rock inlays. Now on display at the Iraq Museum, Baghdad.
1193
Early Bronze Age Stone Double-Headed Disc-Shaped Figurine and Child. Place of Origin: Central/Western Anatolia, modern-day Turkey. Medium: Stone. Date: c: 3000 BC to 2500 BC. Collection - Photo Credit: Private Collection & Barakat Gallery.
1194
Picture stone depicting a spiral motif and animals thought to be horses. Date: c. 1st-6th century AD. Collection: Gotlands Museum, Sweden. Photographer: Wolfgang Sauber via Wikimedia Commons.
1195
"Monkey riding a goat with a hunting owl". Detail from the Luttrell Psalter, England ca. 1325-1340. Collection: British Library via Discarding Images, Add 42130, fol. 38r.
1196
Aqueduct in Ruins by Hubert Robert (1733-1808).
1197
Excavations at Assyrian capital-Khorsabad in 1853. Group of workers in front of the fully exposed facade. City door no: 3.Dur-Sharrukin(Fortress of Sargon),present-day Khorsabad, was the Assyrian capital in the time of Sargon II of Assyria. Photographer: Gabriel Tranchard.
1198
Tile with rising griffin. Date: Second half of the 15th century. Origin: Kempten, Germany. Source: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Photo by Andreas Paasch, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
1199
Terrace of the Lions Delos, Greece. The original row of 9 to 12 (although there may have been as many as 16) stone lions was built around 600 BC by the people of Naxos in honor of the god Apollo. Illustration: Assassin's Creed Odyssey.
1200
Vincent Van Gogh; detail of Wheatfield With a Reaper.
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