2076
Hellenistic head of the goddess Aphrodite. Period: End of Hellenistic period or beginning of Roman period. Private Collection.
2077
Ceremonial knife. Date: ca. 13th Century AD. Medium: Obsidian, Turquoise, Spondylus Shell, Resin. Object Type: Ritual Object. Culture/People: Mixtec - Mexico. Collection: Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco.
2078
Bird, Roman fresco, garden from Villa Livia, Rome, 5th c. A.D, National Roman Museum, Rome.
2079
On this day in 330, Constantine I dedicated Byzantium (Constantinople; now Istanbul) as the new capital of the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire), an act that helped transform it into a leading city of the world. #11may330
2080
Spiral Bracelet in the Shape of a Snake.
Culture: Greek. Date: 3rd century B.C. Place of finding: Russia, Krasnodar Territory. Taman Peninsula, on Vasurinskaya Mountain. Material: gold. Collection: Hermitage Museum.
2081
Acrobat. Geography/Culture: Mexico, Guerrero, Xochipala style, 900-500 B.C. Medium: Slip-painted ceramic. Now on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
2082
Garden of Eden by Suad Al-Attar (Iraq, b. 1942) Medium: oil on canvas. Dimensions: 183 x 153 cm. Private Collection.
2083
Pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacán. Photo by Edward Weston, 1923. Gelatin silver print 7 9/16 x 9 ½ in. San Francisco Museum of Modern art, gift of Brett Weston.
2084
Demon in Chains; Illustrated Single Page Manuscript. Date: ca. 1453. Artist: style of Muhammad Siya Qalam (Iranian). Collection: Cleveland Art Museum.
2085
Stater of Metapontion with head of Apollo Karneios. Culture: Greek Period: Classical Period Date: 430–410 B.C. Mint: Metapontion, Lucania.
2086
Tripod base of a table with lion heads and paws. Medium: Marble. Date: c. 1st half of 1st cent. BC. Pompeii, Naples, Italy. Photo: Ilya Shurygin © 2015.
2087
Relief Panel with Two Griffins Drinking from a Cup. Date: late 9th–early 10th century AD. Geography: Campania, Southern Italy. Medium: South Italian Marble, polychromy. Collection: The Met.
2088
Fresco Fragment. Culture: Roman. Place: Italy (Place created). Date: 1st century. Medium: Fresco. Now on display at the Getty Museum.
2089
Hieronymus Bosch - detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights, ca. 1490 - 1510.
2090
Breastplate. Date: A.D. 1000/1470. Culture: Chimú. Place of origin: North coast, Peru. #precolumbian
2091
John Beasley Greene, Ramesseum with the Head from a Colossus of Ramesses II, 1855.
2092
Hans Erni (Swiss, 1909-2015), Europa and the Bull. Lithograph in colours on paper, 27 x 19 ½ in. Edition of 150. @ClassicalMyths
2093
Vue vers les pyramides de Giseh (View Towards the Pyramids of Giza), ca. 1880. The New York Public Library Digital Collections.
2094
Detail of an ancient Roman statue of Bacchus, dated to the 1st to 2nd century AD. The statue is a marble copy of a Hellenistic original (323 BC - 30 AD). Currently located in the Vatican Museums/Musei Vaticani.
2095
Wall painting on black background from the Roman Imperial villa at Boscotrecase, depicting an aedicula and miniature landscape. Artist unknown; last decade of the 1st cent. BC. Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
2096
Portal of the Sun, Tiahuanaco, Bolivia circa 1877.
2097
Le Chat Momifié - The Mummified Cat; found in the excavations of Saint-Germain-en-Laye ~ ca.1862 Photo by Charles Marvilles, Met Museum.
2098
#HappyMothersDay
Mother & Child Figurine, Ancient Greece, ca. 400 BC. Medium: Marble.
Collection/Credit: National Archaeological Museum of Athens, by Aleksandr Zykov on Flickr (cc).
2100
A group of kittens dancing and making the circle during a witches’ Sabbat. Detail from The Witches’ Cove, Attrib. to Jan Mandijn or anonymous follower ~ 16th century.
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