1626
Statuette of Daphne by Abraham Jamnitzer (late 16th c.) - It tells the story recounted by the classical poet Ovid of the nymphe Daphne who transformed herself into a bay tree to escape the approaches of god Apollo. Photographer: Jürgen Karpinski.
1627
Ancient Greek gold and garnet earrings, dated to the 4th century BC. Image: Jewels of the Ancient World - Private Collection (?).
1628
“Memento mori”. Mosaic from Pompeii (House cum workshop I, 5, 2, triclinium). Date: 30 BC — 14 AD. Now on display at the Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
1629
Ancient loaves of bread from the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum that were carbonized in volcanic pyroclastic flows of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. The Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN).
1630
Mantle, late 1860s. Culture: American Medium: wool, silk. Collection: The Met.
1631
Details from Pazyryk Rug, Pazryryk Valley, Siberia, c. 500 BC.
1633
Anglo-Saxon Gold Ring of Aedelfled, 10th Century With owner’s inscription in Insular script ’+ÆDELFLED+MIE+Ah’ (for Æðelflæd me ah ‘Æ. owns me’).
1634
Detail, A View of an Ancient City by Hermann Burghart (Austrian, 1834 - 1901).
1635
Gold fish amulet, Egypt, 1500 - 1070 BC. Private Collection (?) Photo Credit: Apollo Galleries.
1636
Dancing Owl, Palaya Qiatsuq, 2013. Private Collection (?).
1637
Mosaic from the impluvium of the House of Gometric Mosaics, Pompeii Roman, 1st century AD. Photo: Stock Image / Alamy.
1638
Sea horse from the Roman baths at Bath, England, UK. Photo credit: © Andrew Dunn/Andrew Dunn Photography/Wikimedia Commons.
1639
Dragon detail from Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany by Jean Bourdichon. c1503-1508. Collection: Gallica - BnF.
1641
The 2100-year-old clothes of the Huldremose Woman (or Huldre Fen Woman), a bog body recovered in 1879 from a peat bog near Ramten - Jutland in Denmark. It consists of a checked woollen skirt, a checked woollen scarf and two skin capes.
1642
Lune de Miel perfume by Depinoix, circa 1926, in opaque turquoise glass with silver gilt detail and label. Private Collection.
1643
Trajan’s Column (in Italian Colonna Traiana) – its 18 drums of Greek marble are carved with a spiralling frieze of some 2,500 figures, actors in battle scenes which have provided a wealth of documentary detail about Roman arms and modes of warfare.
1644
Henri Lehmann - Ophelia (detail), 1847-1848.
1645
Pan and Venus by Adolphe-Alexandre Lesrel (1865).
1646
The Caryatides, 1860-1865. Photographer: Dimetrius Constantine.
1647
A window in St. George’s Collegiate Church in Tübingen, Germany, depicts a medieval execution on the Catherine wheel. The window is said to have been installed by the Duke of Wuerttemberg as atonement after he mistakenly ordered such an execution of an innocent man.
1648
The Gandersheim Casket is a small Anglo-Saxon chest from the 8th century, now in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum in Braunschweig, Germany.
The panels of the casket are decorated with interlace carvings of animals, plants and abstract shapes.
1649
Tournament Scenes by Azzo di Masetto, 1289. Medium: fresco. Collection: Fondazione Musei Senesi.
1650
The Three Fates by Alexander Rothaug (1910).
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