1351
Rebecca at the well by Francesco Hayez (Italian. 1791 - 1882).
1352
10th-century gold and enamel Byzantine icon of St Michael, in the treasury of the St Mark’s Basilica. Photograph: Stock Image/Alamy.
1353
Scythian gold torque in the form of dragons, dated to the 2nd century BC to the 1st century AD. Private Collection (?) via Gemma-Antiqua.
1354
The Three Fates by Alexander Rothaug (1910).
1355
Tournament Scenes by Azzo di Masetto, 1289. Medium: fresco. Collection: Fondazione Musei Senesi.
1356
The Gandersheim Casket is a small Anglo-Saxon chest from the 8th century, now in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum in Braunschweig, Germany.
The panels of the casket are decorated with interlace carvings of animals, plants and abstract shapes.
1357
A window in St. George’s Collegiate Church in Tübingen, Germany, depicts a medieval execution on the Catherine wheel. The window is said to have been installed by the Duke of Wuerttemberg as atonement after he mistakenly ordered such an execution of an innocent man.
1358
The Caryatides, 1860-1865. Photographer: Dimetrius Constantine.
1359
Pan and Venus by Adolphe-Alexandre Lesrel (1865).
1360
Henri Lehmann - Ophelia (detail), 1847-1848.
1361
Trajan’s Column (in Italian Colonna Traiana) – its 18 drums of Greek marble are carved with a spiralling frieze of some 2,500 figures, actors in battle scenes which have provided a wealth of documentary detail about Roman arms and modes of warfare.
1362
Lune de Miel perfume by Depinoix, circa 1926, in opaque turquoise glass with silver gilt detail and label. Private Collection.
1363
The 2100-year-old clothes of the Huldremose Woman (or Huldre Fen Woman), a bog body recovered in 1879 from a peat bog near Ramten - Jutland in Denmark. It consists of a checked woollen skirt, a checked woollen scarf and two skin capes.
1365
Dragon detail from Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany by Jean Bourdichon. c1503-1508. Collection: Gallica - BnF.
1366
Sea horse from the Roman baths at Bath, England, UK. Photo credit: © Andrew Dunn/Andrew Dunn Photography/Wikimedia Commons.
1367
Mosaic from the impluvium of the House of Gometric Mosaics, Pompeii Roman, 1st century AD. Photo: Stock Image / Alamy.
1368
Dancing Owl, Palaya Qiatsuq, 2013. Private Collection (?).
1369
Gold fish amulet, Egypt, 1500 - 1070 BC. Private Collection (?) Photo Credit: Apollo Galleries.
1370
Detail, A View of an Ancient City by Hermann Burghart (Austrian, 1834 - 1901).
1371
Anglo-Saxon Gold Ring of Aedelfled, 10th Century With owner’s inscription in Insular script ’+ÆDELFLED+MIE+Ah’ (for Æðelflæd me ah ‘Æ. owns me’).
1373
Details from Pazyryk Rug, Pazryryk Valley, Siberia, c. 500 BC.
1374
Mantle, late 1860s. Culture: American Medium: wool, silk. Collection: The Met.
1375
Ancient loaves of bread from the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum that were carbonized in volcanic pyroclastic flows of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. The Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN).
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