1702
Coin of the Macedonian king Perdiccas II (r. ca. 451-413 BC). On the obverse, a galloping horse; on the reverse, a helmet surrounded by the letters: ΠΕΡΔΙΚ.
1703
Eagle Relief. Date: 10th–13th century AD. Geography: Mexico, Mesoamerica. Culture: Toltec. Medium: Andesite/dacite, paint. Now on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC.
1704
Mosaic of Neptune riding a chariot pulled by two seahorses - Hadrumetum (modern Sousse, Tunisia), 3rd century AD.
1705
A small ivory sculpture of a polar bear found on Igloolik Island (Canadian eastern Arctic). Culture: Dorset culture. Date: Middle Dorset period, 1st-6th century AD, now on display at the Canadian Museum of History.
1706
The Wrestlers (also known as The Two Wrestlers, The Uffizi Wrestlers or The Pancrastinae) is a Roman marble sculpture after a lost Greek original of the third century BC. It is now in the Uffizi collection in Florence, Italy.
1707
Torso of the goddess Venus Anadyomene (“Venus Rising From the Sea”). Faience, Egyptian blue, 12 cms. Graeco-Roman Period, ca. 30 BC - 300 AD. Now in the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon.
1708
Workers in a fullonica (dyer’s shop), Fresco from the fullonica of Veranius Hypsaeus, Pompeii; now in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples. Photo Credit: Alamy/Stock Image.
1709
Fede silver ring, 15th century. Italy. This ring combines the ancient fede - faith motif of two hands clasped together, with another motif depicting two hands holding a heart.
1710
The Seated Woman of Çatalhöyük is a 8,000-year-old Neolithic baked-clay figurine unearthed at Çatalhöyük, a Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia which existed from approximately 7100 BC to 5700 BC. Photographer: Nevit Dilmen.
1711
Virtual reconstruction of the city of Ephesus. Ephesus, Greek Ephesos, the most important Greek city in Ionian Asia Minor, the ruins of which lie near the modern village of Selƈuk in western Turkey.
Illustration Credit: Ádám Németh - virtualreconstruction.com
1712
Stone weight (Haematite) in the shape of a grasshopper. Culture: Babylon. Date: 18th-17th c. BC. (Private Collection)
1713
Nubians with a Giraffe and a Monkey, Tomb of Rekhmire ca. 1504–1425 B.C. Artist: Nina de Garis Davies (1881–1965). Original from Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Tomb of Rekhmire. Collection: The Met.
1714
Fresco depicting the battle at the amphitheater of Pompeii between Pompeians and Nucerians in 59 AD, which, according to Tacitus(Annals XIV.17), led to the Roman Senate’s banning gladiatorial games at Pompeii for ten years. Now in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples.
1715
Nereid riding dolphin, Apulian red-figure plate. Date: c. 4th B.C. Collection: State Hermitage Museum. Nereid, in Greek religion, any of the daughters (numbering 50 or 100) of the sea god Nereus and of Doris, daughter of Oceanus.
1716
Hadrian's Villa (Rome) was built from 118 to 134 AD. It had a building area of 120 hectares, in which Hadrian had built miniatures of famous buildings and facilities as he had seen them on his travels inGreece andEgypt. Photography by @carolemadge via lifo.gr
1717
A creature (?) detail from the Book of hours, Flanders c. 1300-1310. Collection: Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, W.37, fol. 187v.
1718
King Midas by Andrea Vaccaro (1604-1670).
1719
Pompeii, view of the Forum and the Street of the Tombs. Color photo lithograph, taken c. 1900.
1721
Aztec Sun Stone, c. 1890s. The Aztec Sun Stone – also known as the Aztec Calendar Stone – is an enormous circular stone carved from basalt, covered with hieroglyphic carvings, weighing 25 tons, 3.60 meters in diameter and 98 cm thick.
1723
Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius, AD. 176-177 Gilded bronze, h. 424 cm. Now on display at the Capitoline Museums, Rome.
1724
Figured Vessel in the Form of Achilles’ Head in a Helmet. Place of origin: Asia Minor. Date: c. 2nd century AD. Now on display at the State Hermitage Museum.
1725
The Fall of the Tower of Babel by Cornelis Anthonisz, 1547.
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