1376
“Memento mori”. Mosaic from Pompeii (House cum workshop I, 5, 2, triclinium). Date: 30 BC — 14 AD. Now on display at the Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
1377
Ancient Greek gold and garnet earrings, dated to the 4th century BC. Image: Jewels of the Ancient World - Private Collection (?).
1378
Statuette of Daphne by Abraham Jamnitzer (late 16th c.) - It tells the story recounted by the classical poet Ovid of the nymphe Daphne who transformed herself into a bay tree to escape the approaches of god Apollo. Photographer: Jürgen Karpinski.
1379
Artemis (1st century BC), amethyst gem, National Archaeological Museum, Naples.
1380
15th – early 16th Century gold signet ring shows an engraved owl with a crescent moon. Collection: Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, UK.
1381
Weight in shape of frog. Date & Culture: ca. 2000–1600 B.C, Babylonian. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 406, NYC.
1382
Stater: Pegasus (obverse). Date: Greece, Corinth, 4th century BC. Now on display at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Size: Diameter: 2.2 cm (7/8 in.) Medium: silver.
1383
Minoan Decorated Jug. Medium: Ceramic, slip. Geographical Locations: Place found: Egypt, Place made: Crete, Greece. Dates: ca. 1575-1500 B.C. Period: Late Minoan IB. Collection: Brooklyn Museum.
1384
Ancient Egyptian relief sculpture (painted limestone) of a porcupine. Detail of a wall fragment from the grave of Penhenuka at Saqqara, ca. 2500 BC. Now in the Neues Museum, Berlin. Photo credit: @OsamaSMAmin - Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP/Wikimedia Commons.
1385
Mantle, ca 1805. Culture: Spanish. Medium: silk, metal thread. Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC.
1386
A small portable book containing the Psalms and a portrait of Henry VIII. It was designed to be worn on the belt by the king's second wife, Anne Boleyn (?). London, British Library, Stowe MS 956 (c. 1540). Photo Credit: British Library @britishlibrary
1387
Ferdinand Keller - Selene thrown down by Argus, 1886.
1388
Amethyst intaglio warship, Roman, 1st century AD. Photo Credit: Bertolami Fine Arts.
1389
The goddess Thetis, riding a hippocampus (seahorse), delivers newly forged arms to her son Achilles. Mosaic from the main andron of the House of the Mosaics, Eretria; Greece. ca. 400-350 BC. Photo: Stock Image / Alamy.
1390
Bottles in the Form of a Pomegranate Egypt, ca. 1295–1070 B.C. - New Kingdom, Ramesside. Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
1391
Details, Circe Invidiosa by John William Waterhouse (1892).
1392
Mould-made pottery lamp with a grasshopper feeding (likely on fruit). Dimensions: 7.5 cm long. Date: Roman Period Egypt, 1st-2nd century AD, found at Alexandria. Now on display at the British Museum.
1393
Sleeping Cat by Kaigyokusai Masatsugu (Japan, 1813-1892). Currently on public view: Pavilion for Japanese Art, floor 2, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, US.
1394
Apollo and Daphne is a life-sized Baroque marble sculpture by Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, executed between 1622 and 1625. Housed in the Galleria Borghese in Rome, the work depicts the climax of the story of Apollo and Daphne in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
1395
The Bewitched Man (also known as The Devil's Lamp) is a painting completed c. 1798 by Francisco Goya. The painting shows the protagonist, Don Claudio, who believes he is bewitched and that his life depends on keeping a lamp alight.
1396
Helmet in the form of a sea conch shell, 1618. Work of Nagasone Tojiro Mitsumasa (Japanese, Nagasone School, Echizen Province). Collection: the Worcester Art Museum.
1397
Snail attack. Detail from the Gorleston Psalter. Collection: The British Library, ms 49622, f. 180v.
1398
Mycenaean bronze daggers, Greece, 2nd millennium BC. Photo Credit: © Georges Millet. Collection: The National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
1400
Greek ring dating to c. 350 BC depicting an image of the goddess Aphrodite weighing two figures of Eros. Medium: Gold. Collection of the Getty Museum.
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