476
Great Hymn to the Aten. Pharaoh Akhenaten and his family adoring the Aten. Amarna Period, ca. 1353-1336 BC. Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
477
Roman Sapphic Erotic Lamp, 1st Century AD. Romans to encounter sexual scenes in everyday life; after all, sexual activity was seen as a gift from the goddess Venus rather than something sinful or guilt causing.
478
Apollo in his chariot with hours / John Singer Sangent.
479
Greek Terracotta Pig Rattle, 6th-3rd Century BC, possibly from Cyprus. A child’s toy in the shape of a pig, probably mold made and with a pebble sealed within.
480
Portrait Vessel of a Ruler. Date: 100 B.C.-A.D. 500. Culture: Moche. Place of origin: North coast, Perú. Medium: Ceramic and pigment.
481
Statue of the goddess Bastet. Late Period ~ ca.600 BC. Neues Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
482
Stater from Abdera, Thrace, C. 346-336 BC. The obverse: A griffin crouching and raising its forepaw; EΠI above, ΠAYΣANI[Ω] (for Pausanias, the magistrate) in exergue. The reverse: ABΔHPI-TEΩN around the laureate head of Apollo, all within shallow incuse square.
483
Mycenaean Gold Earring, Late Helladic II, 13th Century BC.
484
Nero’s Torches by Henryk Siemiradzki, 1876, oil on canvas. The National Museum, Krakow.
485
Greek Silver Kylix Depicting Helios and a Chariot. Found in Panticapaeum in Crimea, dating to the first half of the 3rd century BC.
486
Gold Ring with Aphrodite. Culture: Greek, c. 4th Century BC
487
2300 Year Old Scythian Chariot. Pazyryk Culture, c. 5th-4th century BC, found in the Fifth Pazyryk mound, Big Ulagan, Pazyryk valley, Gorny Altai, Russia. Made of leather and wood. Photo via Hermitage Museum.
488
A Young Priestess of Bacchus by Max Nonnenbruch, 1899.
489
Deer skulls with carved eyeholes dating to 11,000 years ago have been discovered at Star Carr Mesolithic archaeological site, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England. Photographer: Josh Murfitt / MAA - via Haaretz.
490
Roman Mosaic of a Wounded Equine, c. 3rd-4th Cen. AD.
491
Arched Egyptian Harp, New Kingdom, 16th-11th Century BC During the 4th Dynasty (2613 to 2494 BC) harps became popular in Egypt. Two types were common; the curved or arched-neck like this one and angular models with a perpendicular neck.
492
Medieval Gold Ring with Rare Pink Sapphire, 15th Cen. AD. Pink sapphire was very rare in Medieval Europe. It probably arrived with a batch of blue sapphires from Myanmar. Private Collection.
493
A Bronze Age stone ship said to be the grave of the mythical founder of Gotland: Tjelvar’s Grave, Gotland, Sweden, photo date unknown. Archeologists have dated the burial monument from between 1100 and 500 BC.
494
Cobra Pefume Bottle by René Lalique, 1920.
495
Sumerian Silver Lyre, from Ur, southern Iraq, c. 2600-2400 BC. Collection: British Museum.
496
Gold bracelet with colored glass and emeralds. Period: Roman, Late Imperial Period, c. A.D. 379-395. Collection: Getty Museum.
497
The First Kiss (of Adam and Eve) (1891) by Salvador Viniegra.
498
The comet Donati over Paris on 4th October 1858, from “Le ciel” by Amédée Guillemin, 1877.
499
Painted wood funerary stele of an ancient Egyptian noblewoman named Taperet, showing her worshiping the god Horus. Date: ca. 1000-800 BC (22nd Dynasty, Third Intermediate Period). Now in the Louvre. Photo credit: Rama/Wikimedia Commons.
500
Roman Carnelian Ring Stone, c. Mid to Late 1st Century BC. The oval stone depicts Mercury, deeply engraved and superbly modeled, a mantle along the neckline and a petasos in his short wavy hair, perhaps based on a sculpture of the god by Polykleitos.
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