2451
Orpheus’s Sorrow by Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret (1852-1929).
2452
Attic Greek Black-Figure Cup representing Duel Scenes. ca. 530-520 B.C.
2453
The Iliad, cover illustration by husband and wife illustrator team Leo & Diane Dillon, 1969.
2454
Bronze shield rim from the Olympia Museum, Greece. Dated to the second half of the 6th century BC.
2455
Two Bracelets of Shoshenq II. Found on the mummy of King Shoshenq II, from his tomb at Tanis. Third Intermediate Period, 22nd Dynasty, ca. 945-720 BC. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
2456
The Archer, 1914. Original illustration for “Les chansons de Bilitis” by Pierre Louÿs, Paris. Watercolour heightened with gold on paper. 10.8 x 10.8 cm.
2457
Colossal Foot, 1st - 2nd Century AD, Roman Imperial Period. (Collection: The British Museum)
2458
Electrum stater from the Greek polis of Cyzicus, bearing the head of a Gorgon. Artist unknown; ca. 500-450 BC. Now in the British Museum. Photo credit: ArchaiOptix/Wikimedia Commons.
2459
Scaraboid of hedgehog. Date: Egyptian Late Period, Dynasty 25–30, 760–332 BC. Now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
2460
Greek Electrum Griffin Protome Brooch, c. 625-600 BC. From the necropolis of Kameiros, Rhodes, Greece.
2461
Stirrup-spout vessel in the form of a jaguar. Date: A.D. 50–100. Culture: Mochica. Place of origin: Perú, North coast. Medium: Ceramic with red and cream slip. Collection: Princeton University Art Museum.
2462
Marble Hand of Colossus of Constantine. Capitoline Museums in Rome, Italy. Photograph: Vogue Magazine, June 1956.
2463
Orestes Pursued by the Furies by William-Aldophe Bouguereau, c. 1862. Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Chrysler Museum of Art.
2464
Ritual Dance. Detail of a wall painting from the back wall of the Tomb of the Lionesses, Tarquinia. Date: 6th century BC. Culture: Etruscan.
2465
Achaemenid Winged Lion Rhyton, 5th-4th Century BC. Medium: Gold.
2466
Art Nouveau Bat Brooch ~ Gold, plique-à-jour enamel, diamond. Origin: European, c. 1905. #artnouveau
2467
The Birth of Venus - Charles Shannon, 1923.
2468
Achilles Dragging the Body of Hector. by Alexander Rothaug Austrian, 1870 - 1946. Medium: oil/canvas.
2469
Cameo, Theseus looks at the slayed minotaur, 1st c. BC. Collection: Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien.
2470
An Egyptian turquoise faience figure of a baboon sacred to the moon god Thoth. (15.5 cm). New Kingdom, 18th-20th Dynasty, ca. 1390-1075 BC. Private Collection.
2471
British archaeologist Leonard Woolley and his wife Catherine at the moment of the discovery of pottery pipes that were used as a sewage and rainwater network in what is considered the first water drainage system in history before about 4000 BC. Ur (Mesopotamia) in 1930.
2472
Pottery Rhyton in the form of an Eagle. Date - Period: 500-470 BC, Attic Culture. Now on display at the British Museum.
2473
Serpent Pectoral Pendant by René Jules Lalique (1860 – 1945), 1899. Medium: Gold and Enamel work. Part of Gulbenkian Collection.
2474
Scythian gold comb with the image of a battle scene, from the Solokha kurgan, 430-390 BC. From the tumulus of Solokha in Ukraine.
2475
Dionysus holding a kantharos (wine-cup). Interior from an Attic black-figure plate by the painter Psiax; ca. 520-500 BC. Found at Vulci, Italy; now in the British Museum.
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