1251
Fully articulated iron crab, Japanese, 18th century. Private Collection.
1252
Pair of leopard mat weights, China, Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 220). Made of bronze, gold, silver and agate, from the tomb of Lady Dou Wan in Mancheng County, Hebei. Hebei Provincial Museum.
1253
Sigiriya - ancient palace located on a massive column of rock nearly 200 metres (660 ft) high, Sri Lanka. Built by King Kasyapa (477 – 495 AD), later used as a Buddhist monastery until the 14th century.
1254
Standard of Ur from the Royal Tombs at Ur (modern Tell el-Muqayyar, Iraq). Sumerian. c. 2600–2400 B.C. Medium: Wood inlaid with shell, lapis lazuli, and red limestone. Now on display at the British Museum, UK.
1255
Fresco of a ship procession - Room 5 of the West House, c. 17th c. BC (National Archaeology Museum of Athens). Discovery Place - Greek Pompeii: Akrotiri on Thera.
1256
Dream Cloud - The winged female bust is a personification of The Dream, close to Beaux Arts traditional style with hints of late Art Nouveau. c. 1915, Photo: Maia Now on display at the © Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.
1257
Replica of the helmet from the Sutton Hoo ship-burial 1, early 7th century. England. Image: British Museum. The Sutton Hoo helmet was buried around 625 and is widely believed to have been the helmet of King Rædwald of East Anglia.
1258
Scarabeoid Intaglio - Griffin and Astragal. Place of origin: Ionia. Date: 5th century B.C. Medium: Rock crystal, gold. Private Collection (?)
1259
The Confusion of Tongues, 1868, Gustave Dore. Medium: engraving.
1260
Detail: Devils bite and scratch the damned, Livre de la Vigne nostre Seigneur. France, c. 1450-1470. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 134, f. 100r
1261
Rock Crystal Dish in the Form of a Temple. Period: Roman or Byzantine, 3rd–5th century AD. Found in a cistern in Carthage (now in Tunisia, North Africa) . On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 301.
1262
Detail, Pieta by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905).
1263
Panel with a Griffin, c. 1250–1300 AD, made in Greece or the Balkans. Culture: Byzantine. Medium: marble.
1264
Syria by the Sea, by Frederic Edwin Church (1873).
1265
The Lady of Elche, Spain, c. 300 BC. The Lady of Elche is a limestone sculpture of the bust of a woman, dated to the 5th or 4th century BC, discovered on August 4, 1897 on an ancient Roman site, the Alcudia, 2 km south of Elche, near Alicante, Spain.
1266
Gargoyle on the Freiburg's Cathedral (Freiburg Münster), Germany.
1267
Silence is also conversation by Balaji Ponna. Medium:acrylic on canvas, 2017.
1268
Crow tipi village, Montana 1906. Joseph Henry Sharp Photograph Album.
1269
Detail, Tomb of the Diver, Salerno, Italy c. 470 BC. This fresco gave the tomb its name: "a young man diving into the curving waves in the waters."
1270
The Diver's Tomb is the only surviving example of Greek painting with figurative scenes from the Orientalizing, Archaic, or Classical periods. This is the only tomb decorated with frescoes depicting humans among thousands of Greek tombs (700 - 400 BC) known today.
1271
he diver depicted in this tomb, isolated against the sky, symbolizes the intensity of the moment of death. This man and his leap are the visual metaphor for the transition to eternity from earthly life.
1272
This 7th century helmet was discovered inside a ship burial at Vendel, Uppland, Sweden. Photo: Swedish History Museum (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
1273
By the Waters of Babylon by Arthur Hacker (1858-1919).
1274
Stela D (also known as Monument 4), dated AD 766, Quiriguá, Guatemala. Quiriguá is an ancient Maya archaeological site along the lower Montagua river in south-eastern Guatemala. Photographer: Alfred Maudslay, 1890.
1275
Horace in the villa - Camillo Miola (1877). Naples, National Museum of Capodimonte.
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