2251
Seal, Griffin-demon tearing branch from tree. c. between 1200 BC. and 1050 BC. Place: Southern Mesopotamia. Period: Middle Assyrian. Collection: Morgan Library & Museum.
2252
Parthenon, Athens, Greece, 1907. Photo: Underwood & Underwood.
2254
Dancing dogs. Culture: Colima. Place of Origin: Colima, Mexico. Medium: Blackware ceramic. Now on display at the Princeton Universty Art Museum.
2255
Ancient Egyptian carved siltstone figure, inlaid with shell ring-beads, is more than 5,000 years old (. 3600–3500 BC.) and is just 8cm tall. It was excavated at Naqada by Egyptologist Flinders Petrie. Now on display at the Ashmolean Museum.
2256
Achaemenid Gold and Cloisonné Duck Bracelet, c. 5th-4th Century BC. Private Collection. The ribbed, solid gold bangle has overlapping terminals, one in the form of a duck with it’s head and beak inlaid with carnelian.
2257
Male anti-masturbation device, British
This metal device is one of a number of similar devices which were invented in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries to prevent masturbation. A leather strap which would have kept it in place is now missing. The Science Museum, UK.
2258
Nasca Vessel. Culture: Nasca. Place of origin: Perú, south coast. Date: 100 B.C. – A.D. 800. Medium: Ceramic. Collection: Fowler Museum at UCLA.
2259
Falcon Shaped Vessel. Nasca Culture, c.100 BC - AD 600. (Collection: The British Museum)
2260
Gameboard. Place of origin: Iraq, Ur. Materials: Shell, limestone, lapis. Now on display at the Penn Museum.
2261
Ivory figure of a griffin-headed demon. Date: 799-600 B.C. Place of origin: Toprakkale, Eastern Anatolia region, Turkey. Period/culture: Urartian. Medium: Ivory. Now on display at the British Museum, UK.
2262
Floor mosaic fragment depicting Bacchus. Culture: Roman Date: A.D. 325-330 Medium: Limestone tesserae. Collection: Risd Museum, Denmark.
2263
The photographer Antoin Sevruguin (1880) on a wall of a ruin with cuneiform inscription in Persepolis. Collection: Museum Volkenkunde, Leiden.
2264
From Khorsabad - Ancient Mesopotamia. Detail of hands from relief sculptures that once lined the throne room façade in the palace of the Assyrian king Sargon II, who ruled from 721-705 B.C.
2265
Maya Stela, Quirigua. Quiriguá in southeastern Guatemala has an impressive array of eighth-century Maya stelae, monuments carved from red sandstone. The site was inhabited beginning in the second century.Photograph by Jacob J. Gayer, National Geographic.
2266
Ancient Egyptian wooden box with swivel lid in the shape of a bound gazelle. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1550-1292 BC. Now in the Louvre. Photographer: Hervé Lewandowski.
2267
St. Catherine’s Monastery, almost 1,500 years old, stands at the base of Mount Sinai on Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. Built between 527 and 561 on the orders of Emperor Justinian.
2268
The Visit of the Pacha of Mossoul to the Excavations at Khorsabad, formerly Niniveh. Félix Thomas (1815-1875).
2269
Dome of HagiaSophia.It was believed that originally there was a huge cross and later a mosaic of Christ Pantocrator which is thought to have collapsed in a earthquake. During the Fossati Restoration, a verse from Quran was inscripted in the center of dome.
2270
Profile Warrior Ornament. Date: 390–450 AD. Geography: Peru. Culture: Moche. (Loma Negra). Medium: Silvered copper, shell. Collection: The Met.
2271
Whale effigy, ca. 1000/1700. Culture: Chumash (coast of California). Medium: soapstone and clam-shell beads. Now on display at the Portland Art Museum.
2272
Black-figure neck-amphora with Heracles battling an Amazon (left) and Theseus and the Minotaur with Ariadne (right), attributed to the Edinburgh Painter Attic Greece, c. 500 B.C. terracotta. Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
2273
Abu Simbel, Egypt. Photographer: Thibaud Chosson.
2274
Stone sculpture of a celestial dancer (Apsara), Hindu mythological creature, India, 1100s .
2275
David Boye, 1956 Greek Girl in Corinth with her goat at Apollo’s temple, Greece.
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