1276
Fresco from Pompeii, depicting a man with a theater mask and a garlanded woman playing the lyre. Now in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples. Photo: Alamy / Stock Image.
1277
Gustave Doré (1832 - 1883), Rosa Celeste (Dante and Beatrice gazing upon the highest Heaven, from Dante’s Divine Comedy).
1278
Antique leaded glass (c. 1900s) Spider Web window. Collection & Credit: Milleabros Auctioneers.
1279
The Fall of the Tower of Babel by Cornelis Anthonisz, 1547.
1280
Figured Vessel in the Form of Achilles’ Head in a Helmet. Place of origin: Asia Minor. Date: c. 2nd century AD. Now on display at the State Hermitage Museum.
1281
Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius, AD. 176-177 Gilded bronze, h. 424 cm. Now on display at the Capitoline Museums, Rome.
1283
Aztec Sun Stone, c. 1890s. The Aztec Sun Stone – also known as the Aztec Calendar Stone – is an enormous circular stone carved from basalt, covered with hieroglyphic carvings, weighing 25 tons, 3.60 meters in diameter and 98 cm thick.
1285
Pompeii, view of the Forum and the Street of the Tombs. Color photo lithograph, taken c. 1900.
1286
King Midas by Andrea Vaccaro (1604-1670).
1287
A creature (?) detail from the Book of hours, Flanders c. 1300-1310. Collection: Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, W.37, fol. 187v.
1288
Hadrian's Villa (Rome) was built from 118 to 134 AD. It had a building area of 120 hectares, in which Hadrian had built miniatures of famous buildings and facilities as he had seen them on his travels inGreece andEgypt. Photography by @carolemadge via lifo.gr
1289
Nereid riding dolphin, Apulian red-figure plate. Date: c. 4th B.C. Collection: State Hermitage Museum. Nereid, in Greek religion, any of the daughters (numbering 50 or 100) of the sea god Nereus and of Doris, daughter of Oceanus.
1290
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.
1291
Nubians with a Giraffe and a Monkey, Tomb of Rekhmire ca. 1504–1425 B.C. Artist: Nina de Garis Davies (1881–1965). Original from Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Tomb of Rekhmire. Collection: The Met.
1292
Stone weight (Haematite) in the shape of a grasshopper. Culture: Babylon. Date: 18th-17th c. BC. (Private Collection)
1293
Virtual reconstruction of the city of Ephesus. Ephesus, Greek Ephesos, the most important Greek city in Ionian Asia Minor, the ruins of which lie near the modern village of Selƈuk in western Turkey.
Illustration Credit: Ádám Németh - virtualreconstruction.com
1294
The Seated Woman of Çatalhöyük is a 8,000-year-old Neolithic baked-clay figurine unearthed at Çatalhöyük, a Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia which existed from approximately 7100 BC to 5700 BC. Photographer: Nevit Dilmen.
1295
Fede silver ring, 15th century. Italy. This ring combines the ancient fede - faith motif of two hands clasped together, with another motif depicting two hands holding a heart.
1296
Workers in a fullonica (dyer’s shop), Fresco from the fullonica of Veranius Hypsaeus, Pompeii; now in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples. Photo Credit: Alamy/Stock Image.
1297
Torso of the goddess Venus Anadyomene (“Venus Rising From the Sea”). Faience, Egyptian blue, 12 cms. Graeco-Roman Period, ca. 30 BC - 300 AD. Now in the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon.
1298
The Wrestlers (also known as The Two Wrestlers, The Uffizi Wrestlers or The Pancrastinae) is a Roman marble sculpture after a lost Greek original of the third century BC. It is now in the Uffizi collection in Florence, Italy.
1299
A small ivory sculpture of a polar bear found on Igloolik Island (Canadian eastern Arctic). Culture: Dorset culture. Date: Middle Dorset period, 1st-6th century AD, now on display at the Canadian Museum of History.
1300
Mosaic of Neptune riding a chariot pulled by two seahorses - Hadrumetum (modern Sousse, Tunisia), 3rd century AD.
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