1401
Armlet of Queen Ahhotep I. Second Intermediate Period, 17th Dynasty, ca. 1560-1530 BC. From Dra’ Abu el-Naga’, West Thebes. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
1402
Last Supper in Pompeii: Skeleton Mosaic. This decorative mosaic which would have been set into the dining room floor in Pompeii shows a grinning skeleton holding two Askoi or wine jugs.
1403
Frieze of the Small Horses, Axial Gallery, Lascaux cave. c. 15.500 BC. Lascaux is often called the Sistine Chapel of Prehistory because of its richness of pictures. There are more than 600 paintings –mostly of animals -on the cave's interior walls in impressive compositions.
1404
Pair of ancient Egyptian rings (gold with glass, lapis lazuli, and carnelian inlay) depicting lotus flowers. Date: ca. 1400-1200 BC (18th or 19th Dynasty, New Kingdom). Collection & Credit: Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.
1405
Oedipus and the Sphinx of Thebes, Red Figure Kylix, c. 470 BC, from Vulci, attributed to the Oedipus Painter. Collection: Vatican Museums, Vatican.
1406
Detail from the Carthusian miscellany of poems, chronicles, and treatises in Northern English, including an epitome or summary of Mandeville's travels (c. 1460), British Library, UK.
1408
Orthodox Priest with little cat. Meteora Monasteries, Greece, 1954. Photographer: David Seymour.
1409
Princess Nirgidma of Torhut (or Princess Nirdzhidma), Mongolia. Photograph: The National Geographic Magazine July - December 1932.
1410
Sutton Hoo Anglo-Saxon Great Gold Buckle. A masterpiece of early medieval craftwork, the buckle is made from over 400 grams of gold and black niello. Date: Early 7th century. Collection: The British Museum, London.
1411
A Priestess of Bacchus by John William Godward, 1890.
1412
A man sits in front of the Great Sphinx, photograph by Donald Mcleish.
1413
Requiescat by Briton Rivière , 1888, oil on canvas, 191.5 x 250.8 cm. Collection: Art Gallery of New South Wales.
1414
Viking Iron Lock and Keys, 9th-11th Century AD. Private Collection.
1415
The Inca Fortress of Sacsayhuaman, Cusco, Peru. The complex was built by the Inca in the 15th century, particularly under Pachacuti and successors. They built dry stone walls constructed of huge stones. Photo: Stock Image.
1416
Amber, yellow-brown, carved and polished in the form of a skull, containing several small inclusions, from La Pimienta Mine, near Simojovel, Chiapas, Southern Mexico. Date: (?). Collection: National Museums Scotland, UK.
1417
Detail, Diadem of Princess Sithathoriunet, daughter of Senusret II, Medium: gold, lapis lazuli, carnelian and glass paste. The diadem was made to be worn above the princess wig. Date: Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty, ca. 1897-1878 BC. Collection: Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
1418
The lion hunts of Ashurbanipal - details from the hall reliefs of the Palace at Ninevah.
1419
Pectoral and necklace of Princess Sithathoriunet, Egypt 1887–1813 BC. Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
1420
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.
1421
Dolphin, Greece, 300 BC-AD 100. Medium: Bronze, Length: 13 5/16 in. (33.8 cm). Los Angeles Country Museum of Art.
1422
Greek Electrum Griffin Protome Brooch, c. 625-600 BC. From the necropolis of Kameiros, Rhodes, Greece.
1423
Wedding Scene by the Ancient Greek “Eretria Painter”, c. 425 BC.
1424
Interior of Hagia Sophia - Main dome and semi-domes. Photo date & photographer: unknown. Possibly 40s. Image via Australian National University.
1425
Bronze shield device in the shape of a winged Gorgon head. Date: c. first half of the 6th century BC. It was found during the excavations at Olympia and is kept at the Archaeological Museum of Olympia under the inventory number B 110. Photographer: Xocolatl.
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