1226
The Saffron Goddess (1600 B.C.) is a detail from a Minoan fresco depicting a saffron harvest, Akrotiri, Santorini island, Greece (National Archaeology Museum of Athens).
1227
Basalt Stele decorated with a bull’s head (Moon-god ?) from Bethsaida, Golan Heights. Date: c. 8th c. BC. Photo Credit: Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
1228
Fayum Mummy Portraits - Egypt, c. 200 AD. They belong to the tradition of wood painting. They are faces of men, women, young people and children, painted mostly on boards, fixed with the bandages of their mummies on their faces.
1229
Headdress in the form of a fox’s head. Date: c. 100 - 800 AD. Now on display at the Museo de Oro – Lima, Peru.
1230
Gold Stater of Alexander the Great ca. 336-309 BC.
1231
The Treasure by Carlos Barahona Possolo. Medium: oil on canvas, 90x67 cm, 1998.
1232
Reproduction of the "Saffron Gatherer" fresco from Knossos, 1914. Attributed to Emile Gilliéron fils (Swiss, b. Greece, 1885–1939). Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
1233
Statue based on Leonardo da Vinci’s famous concept for artificial wings. From the exhibition “Leonardo: 500 Years Into the Future”, at The Tech Museum of Innovation, 2020.
1234
A herd of wild Przhevalsky horses in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Photograph: Tatyana Deryabina/University of Porthmouth. & Horses in the 17,000-year-old cave paintings of Lascaux in South-West France.
1235
Detail from the Songbook of Zeghere van Male (1542 AD.) – This outstanding manuscript from Bruges contains local and international 500 years old songs and motets. Collection: Bibliothèque Universitaire de Cambrai.
1236
Pebble mosaic depicting Bellerophon killing Chimera. Archaeological Museum of Rhodes, Greece. circa 300-270 BC.
1237
A blue and white frog-form water dropper, Vietnam, circa 15th century AD. Private Collection.
1238
Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan (detail, 1827) Alexandre Charles Guillemot.
1239
Native American Painted Buffalo Robe, c. 1890-1900. Private Collection (??).
1240
A Marble Head of a Bull, Roman Imperial, circa 2nd Century A.D. Private Collection.
1241
Excavation findings in Pompeii (1st picture) and Herculaneum (2nd picture). Two towns close to the famous Vesuvius volcano (Italy) that erupt almost 1,933 years ago.
1242
Odalisque by Léon-François Comerre (1850 – 1916).
1243
Fall of Icarus after he flew too close to the Sun, scene from Greek mythology. Creator: Roger Payne, British (b.1934). Artwork medium: colour lithograph.
1244
“Tobias and the Angel Derail” by Filippino Lippi, 1482.
1245
Smiling bat. Detail from the Bestiary/Liber de natura bestiarum, England after 1236.
Collection: British Library, Harley 3244, fol. 55v.
1246
Silver drachm of Ephesos with image of a bee (Ephesos, Ionia). 480-450 B.C. Image and text courtesy MFA Boston.
1247
Road with Cypresses (detail) by Vincent van Gogh.
1248
Easter Island is famous for its stone statues of human figures, known as moai (meaning “statue”). The island is known to its inhabitants as Rapa Nui. Photographer: Michael Kenna.
1249
Citipati or ‘Lords of the Cemetery’ in Tibetan Buddhism. Their skeletal form is a reminder of the impermanence of life and eternal change.
1250
Dolls-house Ceiling-Painting of a Cloudy Sky with Birds attributed to Nicolaes Piemont, c. 1690-1709. Collection: Rijks Museum.
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