2401
Wild Goat style pitcher. Culture: Greek. Orientalizing Period about 625–600 BC. Currently located: Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
2402
The Fisherman Frescoes from Akrotiri on the Aegean island of Thera (Santorini). The male may actually be a youth offering fish as part of a religious ceremony rather than a fisherman. From Room 5 of the West House, c. 17th century BC. (National Archaeological Museum, Athens)
2403
Ink tablet in the form of a turtle (China, Han dynasty, 206 BC - 220 AD) Earthenware with modelled and incised decor including the Eight Trigrams of the I-Ching (The Book of Changes). Image and text information: Minneapolis Institute of Art.
2404
Comb - ibex with a knee. New Kingdom, Eighteenth Dynasty (c . 1550-1425 BC.) . © Musée du Louvre.
2405
Cave lion carved from mammoth ivory dating to 35,000 to 40,000 years from the Aurignacian period. This figurine was found at the Vogelherd Cave, Germany.
2406
Faience cosmetic spoon in the form of a swimming girl, derived from a type of Egyptian ointment spoon. Place of Origin: Rhodes. Date: c.600 BC. Now on display at the Royal Collection, UK.
2407
Eye of Horus ring in carved faience, c. 1539 - 1975 BC, New Kingdom Egypt.
2408
Greek heroes from the Iliad by Tischbein, from left to right -Menelaus, Paris, Diomedes, Odysseus, Nestor, Achilles and Agamemnon.
2409
Coiled Trumpet in the Form of a Snarling Feline Face. Culture: Moche. Place or origin: Chimbote, Santa Valley, north coast, Peru. Date: 100 B.C.-A.D. 500. Medium: Ceramic and pigment. Collection: The Art Institute of Chicago.
2410
Clay tablet with a drawing of a house plan. Date: Sumerian, c. 2000 BC. Now on display at the Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin
2411
The Fall of Icarus by Carlo Saraceni ( Italian 1579-1620). Medium: oil/canvas.
2412
Stucco Relief Panel from a 1st century AD Roman Villa depicting a woman with a griffin. Photo Credit: Mary Harsch at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
2413
Youth riding a rabbit - Canosan terracotta group, Apulia, Italy; ca. early 3rd century BC.
2414
Felt Swan. Date: 5th-4th century B.C., black and white felt filled with reindeer wool, 30 cm. Culture: Pazyryk Culture. Photograph: State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg.
2415
The Minotaur. The surrounding inscription reads ὁ παῖς καλός (”The boy is handsome/beautiful”). Tondo of an Attic black-figure kylix. Date: ca. 515 BC. Now in the National Archaeological Museum of Spain, Madrid. Photo credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons.
2416
Orpheus Laments by Alexandre Seon, 1896. Medium: oil on canvas. Now on display at the Musee d'Orsay, Paris.
2417
Man’s headgear, from the Pazyryk valley, Altai mountains, southern Siberia, late 4th–early 3rd century BC. Photograph: State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg.
2418
Askos in the form of a duck. Culture: Etruscan, 350-325 BC. From Vulci, ancient Etruria (now in Lazio, Italy). Collection: The British Museum.
2419
A depiction of the priestess of Delphi from an ancient krater. The priestess of Delphi would engage in divination by sitting on the tripod in the foreground and perhaps inhaling gases coming up from a crack in the earth below.
2420
Roman gold snake bracelet, dated to the 1st century BC to the 1st century AD. Private Collection.
2421
Study for Triumph of Icarus by Bryan Larsen, oil on masonite.
2422
Clytemnestra by John Collier, 1914. Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Worcester City Museum and Art Gallery.
2423
Apulian mouse vessel, c. 400–300 BC. Culture: Greek. Medium: Terracotta. Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
2424
Lobster Effigy Vessel. Geography: South Coast, Peru. Culture - Date: Nazca. c. 300-600 AD. Now on display at the Walters Art Museum.
2425
Artist’s Trial Piece. Place of origin: Egypt Period: Late Period, 26th Dynasty, reign of Amasis or later. Date: ca. 570-525 BC. Now on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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