1026
The Sacred Way and Ionic stoa of Miletus Ancient City, modern-day Didim, Turkey. Photographer: Nejdet Duzen - Shutterstock.
1027
Pair of earrings with female figure. Culture: Greek. Date: late 4th century B.C. Medium: Gold. Collection: Dallas Museum o fArt.
1028
Crocodile effigy pendant. Period: A.D. 1–500. Object Place: Costa Rica, Atlantic Watershed region. Now on display at the MFA, Boston.
1029
Detail from The Tower of Babel, by Marten van Valckenborch the Elder, 1595.
1030
Statue of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, ca.1333-1328 BC, 18th Dynasty, New Kingdom.
1031
Detail, Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still (Josh 10-12) by Martin, John (1789–1854) circa 1840. Medium: Oil on canvas. Collection: Yale Center for British Art.
1032
Reconstruction model of ancient Jerusalem in the Museum of David.
1033
Atlas / or Silenus, Theater of Dionysus, Acropolis, Athens, c. 4th century BC.
1034
Detail, Roman Fresco with a boat decorated for a festival and marine life from the second quarter of the first century AD. ( National Roman Museum), Rome.
1035
Hunnic Bull-Bowl. Period: Early Medieval, 7th-10 c. AD. Photograph by Sandstein / Wikimedia Commons. Now on display at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
1036
Today’s Coin: Sicily, Akragas. 425 - 426 BC. Obv: eagle to the left, holding snake in talons; behind its back AKPA. Rev: crab, between its scissors A; below fish to the right.
1037
Floor mosaic with parrots, Roman, 5th-6th c. AD, Musée du Louvre.
1039
"Cave canem" (beware of the dog) mosaic. From Casa di Orfeo, Pompeii. Now on display at the National Archaeological Museum.
1040
Roman Meal in the Garden, House of Neptune and Amphitrite, Herculaneum – Reconstruction Credit: Archeo Libri.
1041
Maya two part effigy vessel of an armadillo. Early classic period. 250-450 AD.
1042
Snake with three heads. Medium: Fresco. Location: Etruscan tomb of the “Quadriga hellish”, Sarteano, Siena, Italy. Date: c. IV century BC.
1044
Sculpture of an eagle, unearthed in Mexico City, 1985. (Instituto Nacional de Anthropologia e Historia)
1046
Bracelet with Agathodaimon, Isis-Tyche, Aphrodite, and Terenouthis. Period: Roman Period. Place of Origin: Egypt. Date: c. 1st century BC.–AD. 1st century. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 137, NY.
1047
Reclining Pan Statue, 1535 attributed to Francesco da Sangallo (Italian, 1494-1576). Collection: The Saint Louis Art Museum, Louis, Missouri.
1048
The Sphinx by moonlight by Walter Tyndale (English, 1855-1943). From “An Artist in Egypt”, Hodder & Stoughton, 1912.
1049
Ancient Egyptian Hippopotamus Figurine. Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty, ca. 1991-1802 BC. Made of Egyptian faience. Now in the Louvre. E 7709.
1050
Medieval paintings of cats licking their butts.
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