1451
Pietro Befulco - Coronation of the Virgin Between Saint John the Baptist and Saint Jerome. Detail. 1492.
1452
In Mesoamerican myth Quetzalcóatl was the god of winds and rain, and the creator of the world and humanity. The name of Quetzalcóatl comes from the ancient Nahuatl word quetzalli, meaning “long green feather”.
1453
Hermes leads a goat to the sacrifice. Side A of a Campanian red-figure bell-krater. ca. 360-350 BC. Found in Campania, Italy. Now on display at the Musée du Louvre.
1454
Ancient brick wall fragment of famous Ishtar Gate covered by cuneiform. Currently located at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. c 604 BC - 561 BC. Image via Alamy.
1455
Jerusalem in the ancient times, illustration by Rocío Espín Piñar.
1456
Book covers. 1st image: Felix Schloemp. Das unheimliche Buch. Munich: Georg Mueller, 1914. 2nd image: Les chauves-souris, Robert de Montesquiou, 1892.
1457
Gem with the Bust of Athena / Minerva. Culture : Roman, Period : 1st – 2nd century A.D. Material : Amethyst Dimensions : Dim: 2.5 x 1.8 cm. Source: Private Collection.
1458
Omphalion of Hagia Sophia, photo my own (2017). Omphalion, which literally means ‘’little omphalos’’ (navel of earth), is an opus sectile panel in Hagia Sophia. It was used to crown the Byzantine Emperors.
1459
Scarabeoid Intaglio: Griffin and Astragal. Place of creation: Ionia. Place of finding: Crimea, the environs of Kerch. Date: c5th century B.C. Medium: Rock crystal, gold. Now on display at the Hermiatage Museum.
1460
Snail and strawberries. Detail from the book of hours, Bruges. ca. 1510-1525. Rouen, bibliothèque municipale, ms. 3028, fol. 58v.
1461
Winged Victory of Samothrace. Marble Hellenistic sculpture of Nike, discovered on the island of Samothrace. Currently located at Louvre Museum, Paris.
1462
Georges Antoine Rochegrosse, The End of Babylon, c. 1890.
1463
Feeder in the shape of a mouse. Culture: Greek. Date: Classical Period about 450–410 B.C. Place of Creation: Italy, Sicily. Now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, US.
1464
Relief with a trireme. Date: Last decades of the 1st century B.C. Medium: Fine-grained marble with grey veins. Provenance: Baia, Archaeological Museum of the Phlegraean Fields. Collection: Museo Archeologico dei Campi Flegrei.
1466
Ancient Roman garnet intaglio inscribed with the head of Sirius, the Dog Star. The gem dates to the 1st century BC. Around the body, a collar inscribed with artist's signature in Greek ["Gaios epoiei"]. Now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
1467
Fragment of a piece of roof of a destroyed ancient building, Hierapolis ancient city, currently located in Pamukkale, Turkey. Photographer: Tkach Anastasiya via Shutterstock.
1468
Savery Roelant - The Tower of Babel. 1602.
1469
In 1790 workers repaving near the Cathedral in Mexico City discovered a stone eleven and one-half feet in diameter inscribed with the Aztec calendar.
1470
Ippolito Caffi (1809 - 1866) The Pantheon by Moonlight.
1471
Green glazed steatite amulet in the form of a tiny, squatting frog with large eyes. Date/Period: Egyptian, Middle Kingdom, c 2061–1640 BC. Height: 1 cm. Now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, US.
1473
Late Hellenistic silver tetradrachm of the island of Tenedos (off the northwestern coast of Anatolia). Obverse: a janiform head of Zeus and Hera; reverse: a double axe. Ca. 100-70 BCE. Photo credit: Exekias/Wikimedia Commons.
1474
Caspar van Wittel - Rome- View of the Arch of Titus 1710s, oil on canvas. Private collection.
1475
Hagia Sophia, interior to East, 1940s.
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