1351
Theatre Masks of Ancient Greece. Image credit: The Kennedy Center Arts Edge.
1352
Cosmetic box. Place of origin: Egypt, c. 600–500 B.C. Medium: Faience. Now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
1353
“Sfumato,” painted in 1972 by Salvador Dalí. Dalí developed a new technique here, where he embellished the image after first taking paper and scorching and smoking it with a candle.
1354
Apulian Askos in the Shape of a Dog, 320–290 BC. Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
1355
Mask for a Horse’s Head. Period: Early Iron Age. Culture: Pazyryk. Date: 5th-4th century B.C. Place of origin: Altai Territory, Pazyryk Boundary, the Valley of the River Bolshoy Ulagan. Medium: Felt and leather.
1356
Stater of Aptera with head of Artemis. Culture: Greek. Period: Early Hellenistic Period. Date: ca. 280 B.C. Mint: Aptera, Crete. Medium: Silver.
1357
Bathtub (Larnax). Date: mid 14th Century B.C. Period: Late Minoan IIIA.Culture: Minoan Medium: Ceramic. Image & Collection: Michael C. Carlos Museum, Atlanta.
1358
Men with fireworks, ca. 1730-40, Rajasthan, Mughal India. Artist Unknown
1359
Ivory plaque of lioness mauling an African. Culture: Phoenician. Date: 900-700 B.C. Place of origin: Iraq, Nimrud: North West Palace. Medium: Ivory, gold, cornelian, lapis lazuli. Now on display at the British Museum, UK.
1360
The Seated Scribe statue is one of the masterworks of Ancient Egypt. Egyptologist Auguste Mariette discovered the scribe in 1850 at Saqqara, an ancient burial ground in Egypt, serving as the necropolis for the Ancient Egyptian capital, Memphis.
1361
Glazed Brick with Bird Man. Culture: Assyrian Place of origin: Mesopotamia Date: ca. 900-650 B.C. Medium: Ceramic. Collection: Detroit Institute of Arts.
1362
Eve by Gislebertus, detail of the lintel of the north portal of Saint-Lazare, Autun, France, ca. 1120–1135 AD.
1363
Charles Landelle, “Juive de Tanger” (1812-1908). Collection: Museum of Fine Arts of Reims.
1364
Conch-Shell Trumpet. Date: 300-550. Medium: Conch shell | hematite. Culture:Maya , Guatemala. This Early Classic period conch-shell trumpet has four drilled holes so that a scale can be played. When the spire is at the bottom, the piece forms the head and headdress of a god.
1365
Reconstruction of Hecataeus’ world map. Hecataeus of Miletus ( c. 550 BC – c. 476 BC), was an early Greek historian and geographer.
1366
Shaman's mask with human features and a removable bird's beak. Haida people, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada. c. 1880s(?) Photo Credit: Wellcome Collection, UK.
1367
Greek terracotta perfume-bottle in the shape of a siren, circa 570 BC. From the British Museum's collection.
1368
Nanai & Goldi shaman priest and assistant, 1895. Photographer: William Henry Jackson. "Nanai" means person of the Earth. In a total population of 12,000 people, a majority of the Nanai live on the territory of Khabarovsky Krai, in Nanaisky, Ulichisky, Solnechny.
1369
Griffin. Culture: Roman. Date: AD. 14-37. Medium: Fresco; tempera. Collection: Risd Museum, Denmark.
1370
Red deer antler head-dress. Date: 8000 B.C. Period/culture: Mesolithic. Medium: Antler. Now on display at the British Museum. Excavated/Findspot: Star Carr, North Yorkshire.
1371
Door knocker. Place of origin: Southern Italy. Date: 11th century AD. Medium: Cast and engraved bronze, inlaid with niello. The David Collection.
1372
Nicolás de Tolentino (detail) by Juan Pantoja de la Cruz, 1601
1374
Egyptian gold snake ring, dated to the Ptolemaic period, and more specifically to 332-330 BC. Private Collection (?)
1375
Gold signet ring- on the bezel Athena seated with an owl. The Greek inscription reads Anaxiles. 5th century B.C. ca., excavated in Polis-tis-Chrysokhou, Cyprus. Now on display at the British Museum, London.
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