976
The World’s First Known Female Author, Enhedu’anna.
This clay tablet from Babylonia is inscribed in Sumerian cuneiform and dates to the 20th-17th centuries BC. It mentions King Sargon’s daughter Enhedu'anna as the author of a hymn to the goddess Inanna.
977
A congenial task (detail), by John William Godward, 1915. Medium: oil on canvas.
978
Saint George Killing the Dragon (details) by Bernat Martorell c. 1434-1435.
979
Antonio Canova (1757-1822) – Adonis and Venus, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire in Geneva.
980
Anubis, Egyptian god of embalming and the dead, from a chest in the form of a shrine, from the Tomb of Tutankhamun (KV62). New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, reign of Tutankhamun, ca. 1332-1323 BC. Valley of the Kings, West Thebes. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
981
Fully articulated iron crab, Japanese, 18th century. Private Collection.
982
Hellenistic head of the goddess Aphrodite. Period: End of Hellenistic period or beginning of Roman period. Private Collection.
984
Detail, Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci by the Italian Renaissance painter Piero di Cosimo, dating from about 1480 or 1490. It is in the Musée Condé in Chantilly, France.
985
Savery Roelant - The Tower of Babel. 1602.
986
An embossed and gilt armor for King Henri III of France. Paris, France, ca. 1570. Now on display at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
987
Relief of a honey bee Detail of a wall painting from the Tomb of Seti I (KV17). New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, reign of Seti I, ca. 1290-1279 BC. Valley of the Kings, West Thebes.
988
Amulets and superstitions: Amuletic figures of Egyptian gods and goddesses, 1930.
989
Decorated human skulls dated to 9,500 years ago. Neolithic site of Tell Aswad, near Damascus. Image via Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée.
990
Ancient Egyptian frog ring, dated to the eighteenth to nineteenth dynasties of the New Kingdom, or c. 1543-1187 BC.
991
Louvre Museum, 1975. Photographer: Henri Cartier-Bresson.
992
Silver didrachm with crab, minted in Akragas, Sicily, c.500-490 BC.
993
Priest wearing the mask of Anubis; fresco, Temple of Isis, #Pompeii, Villa dei Misteri ~ II BC. Photo Credit: Planet Pompeii.
994
Golden Oak Crown, 4th c. BC, Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki.
995
Ring with unicorn, heart, lady, and clasped hands. Made in Germany or Italy, c.1550-1600. Source: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
997
Byzantine Mosaic, Stanza di re Ruggiero II, XII d.C. Palazzo dei Normanni (in English, Palace of the Normans), Palermo.
998
Silver drachm of Ephesos with image of a bee (Ephesos, Ionia). 480-450 B.C. Image and text courtesy MFA Boston.
999
Ancient Roman amethyst intaglio of Fortuna, dated to the 1st century BC to the 1st century AD.
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Bowl with bat, made in Japan, 1870. Collection: MFA, Boston.
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