576
Ostracon depicting a boy being tried by mouse and cat. Culture: Egyptian, Dynasty 20 (ca. 1189 BC to 1077 BC). Now at the Oriental Institute, Chicago.
577
Detail from a Fishing Scene, Tomb of Qenamun (TT93), reign of Amenhotep II. Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, West Thebes. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1427-1400 BC.
578
Frog Amulet. Date: c. 1540-1296 BC / Egypt, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18. Medium: carnelian. Now on display at the Cleveland Museum of Art. In Ancient Egypt the frog was a symbol of mortal life and fertility, Heqet being the goddess of child-birth.
579
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.
580
Lobster Effigy Vessel. Geography: South Coast, Peru. Culture - Date: Nazca. c. 300-600 AD. Now on display at the Walters Art Museum.
581
Apulian mouse vessel, c. 400–300 BC. Culture: Greek. Medium: Terracotta. Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
582
Clytemnestra by John Collier, 1914. Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Worcester City Museum and Art Gallery.
583
Study for Triumph of Icarus by Bryan Larsen, oil on masonite.
584
Roman gold snake bracelet, dated to the 1st century BC to the 1st century AD. Private Collection.
585
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.
586
Askos in the form of a duck. Culture: Etruscan, 350-325 BC. From Vulci, ancient Etruria (now in Lazio, Italy). Collection: The British Museum.
587
Man’s headgear, from the Pazyryk valley, Altai mountains, southern Siberia, late 4th–early 3rd century BC. Photograph: State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg.
588
Orpheus Laments by Alexandre Seon, 1896. Medium: oil on canvas. Now on display at the Musee d'Orsay, Paris.
589
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.
590
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.
591
Youth riding a rabbit - Canosan terracotta group, Apulia, Italy; ca. early 3rd century BC.
592
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.
593
The Fall of Icarus by Carlo Saraceni ( Italian 1579-1620). Medium: oil/canvas.
594
Clay tablet with a drawing of a house plan. Date: Sumerian, c. 2000 BC. Now on display at the Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin
595
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.
596
Greek heroes from the Iliad by Tischbein, from left to right -Menelaus, Paris, Diomedes, Odysseus, Nestor, Achilles and Agamemnon.
597
Eye of Horus ring in carved faience, c. 1539 - 1975 BC, New Kingdom Egypt.
598
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.
599
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.
600
Comb - ibex with a knee. New Kingdom, Eighteenth Dynasty (c . 1550-1425 BC.) . © Musée du Louvre.
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