1076
Pandora (detail) by John William Waterhouse, 1896.
1078
A Cretan show based on theatrical dancing and acrobatic performances of the Minoan civilization.
1079
Nike, The Goddess of Victory, Ephesus, Asia Minor, modern-day Turkey (Photographer: Mithat Kara, bnmito on IG)
1080
Relief from Arch of Titus, Triumphal procession celebrating the crushing of the Jewish revolt in 70 AD. By Titus. Prominent among the spoils is the menorah, seven branched lamp-holder from the temple of Jerusalem. Rome, Italy.
1081
Statuette of the twin goddesses Marble, from Catalhoyuk. First half of the 6th millenium BC. Height 17.2 cm, Anatolia. Now on display at the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara, Turkey.
1082
Olmec Heads. For a period of some 250 or more years (1.200-900 B.C), the massive heads and other monuments were carved from basalt which was floated on huge rafts and then dragged from the Tuxtla Mountains.
1083
Then and Now. Piazza Navona, 1699, Rome, Italy. Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection on loan at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza.
1084
The Apocalypse of 1313. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.
1085
Detail, Low Ham mosaic.
This Roman mosaic is the oldest object in Britain to tell a complete story. It was made for the bath complex at Low Ham Roman villa in about AD 350. The mosaic records the tragic love story of Dido and Aeneas in five narrative panels.
1086
Minoan Bull’s Head Rhyton, ca. 1450 B. C. from the Little Palace of Knossos, Crete.
1087
Relief of a Baboon Relief depicting seated baboon in act of adoration, detail of a wall painting from the Tomb of Tomb of Irynefer (TT290). New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, ca. 1292-1189 BC. Deir el-Medina, West Thebes.
1088
Heqat, the Frog Goddess. Travertine, 15.4 x 14.7 x 15.5 cm. Predynastic Period to early first dynasty, ca. 2950 BC. Now in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio.
1089
The Birth of Venus by Charles Haslewood Shannon - 1923.
1090
Ancient Greece and Ancient Egypt, detail heads of Athena and Isis (Ceiling above the grand staircase, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna) Gustav Klimt (Austrian, 1862-1918).
1091
Model of a hedgehog from Tomb 416 at Abydos (Egyptian faience). New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1550-1292 BC. Now in the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford.
1092
A tiny Hellenistic gold statue of winged Eros holding a lyre, dated to the 1st century BC. Private Collection (?)
1093
Neptune's seahorses. Date: 19th century. Medium: marble. Italian work, not signed. Victor Werner Collection, Belgium.
1094
Colossal figure of Ramesses II at his Great Temple at Abu Simbel, Lower Nubia Photographed by Francis Firth (British, 1822-1898).
1095
The bust of Nefertiti is one of the best-known finds in the world dating back to ancient Egypt. Nefertiti was the wife of Akhenaten, the infamous pharaoh who introduced a new monotheistic religion of the sun god that supplanted the worship of all the other gods.
1096
Ohara Koson — Owl, early 1920s. Ohara Koson, Ohara Hōson, Ohara Shōson, (Kanazawa 1877 – Tokyo 1945) was a Japanese painter and woodblock print designer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, part of the shin-hanga ("new prints") movement.
1097
Construction of the Tower of Babel by Pieter Brueghel the Younger, 1595. Now on display at the Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain.
1098
Pirro Ligorio’s “Antiquae Urbis Romae Imago” (Image of the Ancient City of Rome), 1561.
1099
James Basire, egyptian & greek script of the Rosetta Stone, 1810. Engraving. Society of Antiquaries of London. Via NYPL.
1100
The Rosetta stone is dated 196 BC, made in Memphis, Egypt. The stone was brought to England in 1802 during the Napoleonic Wars and has since then been on display in the British Museum. It shows three scripts with the same text. The code of the hieroglyphs cracked in 1822.
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