901
Elliot Erwitt’s 1959 photo of an adorable cat proudly standing atop a garden statue of the ancient Egyptian dwarf-god Bes.
902
Gargoyle on the Salisbury Cathedral. Photographer: Akoliasnikoff via Wikimedia Commons.
903
The Temple of Aesculapius located in the gardens of the Villa Borghese, in Rome, was built in the ionic style between 1785 and 1792 by Antonio Asprucci and his son Mario Asprucci, with help from Cristoforo Unterperger.
904
A group of kittens dancing and making the circle during a witches’ Sabbat. Detail from The Witches’ Cove, Attrib. to Jan Mandijn or anonymous follower ~ 16th century.
906
#HappyMothersDay
Mother & Child Figurine, Ancient Greece, ca. 400 BC. Medium: Marble.
Collection/Credit: National Archaeological Museum of Athens, by Aleksandr Zykov on Flickr (cc).
907
Le Chat Momifié - The Mummified Cat; found in the excavations of Saint-Germain-en-Laye ~ ca.1862 Photo by Charles Marvilles, Met Museum.
908
Portal of the Sun, Tiahuanaco, Bolivia circa 1877.
909
Wall painting on black background from the Roman Imperial villa at Boscotrecase, depicting an aedicula and miniature landscape. Artist unknown; last decade of the 1st cent. BC. Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
910
Detail of an ancient Roman statue of Bacchus, dated to the 1st to 2nd century AD. The statue is a marble copy of a Hellenistic original (323 BC - 30 AD). Currently located in the Vatican Museums/Musei Vaticani.
911
Vue vers les pyramides de Giseh (View Towards the Pyramids of Giza), ca. 1880. The New York Public Library Digital Collections.
912
Hans Erni (Swiss, 1909-2015), Europa and the Bull. Lithograph in colours on paper, 27 x 19 ½ in. Edition of 150. @ClassicalMyths
913
John Beasley Greene, Ramesseum with the Head from a Colossus of Ramesses II, 1855.
914
Breastplate. Date: A.D. 1000/1470. Culture: Chimú. Place of origin: North coast, Peru. #precolumbian
915
Hieronymus Bosch - detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights, ca. 1490 - 1510.
916
Fresco Fragment. Culture: Roman. Place: Italy (Place created). Date: 1st century. Medium: Fresco. Now on display at the Getty Museum.
917
Relief Panel with Two Griffins Drinking from a Cup. Date: late 9th–early 10th century AD. Geography: Campania, Southern Italy. Medium: South Italian Marble, polychromy. Collection: The Met.
918
Tripod base of a table with lion heads and paws. Medium: Marble. Date: c. 1st half of 1st cent. BC. Pompeii, Naples, Italy. Photo: Ilya Shurygin © 2015.
919
Stater of Metapontion with head of Apollo Karneios. Culture: Greek Period: Classical Period Date: 430–410 B.C. Mint: Metapontion, Lucania.
920
Demon in Chains; Illustrated Single Page Manuscript. Date: ca. 1453. Artist: style of Muhammad Siya Qalam (Iranian). Collection: Cleveland Art Museum.
921
Pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacán. Photo by Edward Weston, 1923. Gelatin silver print 7 9/16 x 9 ½ in. San Francisco Museum of Modern art, gift of Brett Weston.
922
Garden of Eden by Suad Al-Attar (Iraq, b. 1942) Medium: oil on canvas. Dimensions: 183 x 153 cm. Private Collection.
923
Acrobat. Geography/Culture: Mexico, Guerrero, Xochipala style, 900-500 B.C. Medium: Slip-painted ceramic. Now on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
924
Spiral Bracelet in the Shape of a Snake.
Culture: Greek. Date: 3rd century B.C. Place of finding: Russia, Krasnodar Territory. Taman Peninsula, on Vasurinskaya Mountain. Material: gold. Collection: Hermitage Museum.
925
On this day in 330, Constantine I dedicated Byzantium (Constantinople; now Istanbul) as the new capital of the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire), an act that helped transform it into a leading city of the world. #11may330
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