1376
Apollo, illustration by Donn P. Crane. Apollo is one of the most complex and important gods, and is the god of many things, including: music, poetry, art, oracles, archery, plague, medicine, sun, light and knowledge.
1377
A Masque for the Four Seasons, by Walter Crane, 1905-1909. Medium: oil on canvas. Collection:Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt - Darmstadt, Germany.
1378
Statue of Queen Arsinoe II identified with the Goddess Isis (black granite). Ptolemaic Period, ca. 305-30 BC. Collection & Credit: Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin.
1379
Myrtle wreath. Medium: Gold. Date: 330-250 BC. Place of origin: Peloponnese, Greece. Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
1380
Cat with Kitten, Egyptian, 1069–664 BC, Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri. Medium: Faience and gold leaf.
1381
Next to church, Slovakia 1940. Photographer: Štefan Tamáš.
1382
Stairs into the Royal Tombs of Ur. 1920’s. (Colorized Photograph).
1383
1973 Greece 2 Drachmai Athene noctua, symbol of goddess Athena which was first depicted on an ancient Greek tetradrachm (5th century B.C.),
1384
‘Lady of Baza’, Limestone sculpture (really a cinerary urn) from Grave 155, Baza (Granada). 4th cent. BC. Museo Arqueologico Nacional, Madrid. Photo via Alamy / Stock Image.
1385
Minotaur and Labyrinth. Minted in: Gortyn, Crete. c. 425-360 BC. Obverse: Minotaur in a kneeling-running stance to right, its head facing Reverse: Labyrinth, in the form of a swastika, five pellets in a floral pattern at the center, four sunken squares in the corners.
1386
Wooden cosmetic spoon in shape of a mouse. Egyptian used spoons to mix their eye make up on. Date: Egyptian, New Kingdom, 18th dynasty, 1525 - 1295 BC. Now on display at the Metropolitan Museum, NYC.
1387
Fig. 112. “Principal types of pottery in Ancient Egypt.” The Encyclopaedia Britannica. v.9. 1922.
1388
An Indigenous Woman and Owl, Blind River, Ontario, Canada. c. 1910. Postcard published by The Photogelatine Engraving Co., LTD, Toronto, Canada and edited by PECO c.1930-1940.
1389
Detail, The School of Venus, or the ladies delight: Reduced into rules of Practice, Michel Millot, 1680.
1390
Chichen Itza, Casa de Monjas, Mexico, circa 1898. Chichén Itzá, ruined ancient Maya city in south-central Yucatán state, Mexico. It is thought to have been a religious, military, political, and commercial centre that at its peak would have been home to 35,000 people.
1391
Head of the God Horus as a Falcon. Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty, ca. 2345-2181 BC. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
1392
Anubis. Date: 664-30 B.C. Place of origin: Saqqara, Egypt Period: Late Period to Ptolemaic Period, 26th Dynasty or later Medium: Wood, pigment. Collection: Brooklyn Museum.
1393
Ruins of the Temple of Bacchus at Baalbek byLouis Francois Cassas (French 1756-18279. Medium: watercolor.
1394
Relief of Eagle-Headed Winged Figure Standing Between Two Sacred Trees. Neo-Assyrian, from Nimrud (Iraq), dated to ca. 883-859 BC. Detailed post: instagram.com/archaeologyart
1395
Reconstruction of the “Queen of the Night” relief depicting the goddess Ištar-Inanna, ***or*** Lilītu, female demon in ancient Sumerian religion. Credit: British Museum. Date: 1800-1750 BC., Old Babylonian.
1396
Prometheus Bound by Peter Paul Rubens and Frans Snyders (1618).
1397
A view of Mount Vesuvius erupting near Naples, Italy, print dated to 1663.
1398
Queen Victoria, future King Edward VII, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Tsarina Alexandra, and their daughter Grand Duchess Tatiana, at Balmoral Castle, Scotland in 1896. Colorization & Photo Credit @marinaarts
1399
The Birth of Venus - Charles Shannon, 1923.
1400
Corinthian Capital by Giocondo Albertolli (Italian 1742-1839). Medium: pen and brown ink,brush and gray wash on laid paper.
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