1526
Yazilikaya - Midas Monument (Currently located in Yazili Village, Eskisehir, Turkey)
The most important and the most spectacular structure in Yazılıkaya is called the Midas Monument.
1527
Amethyst bottle, made in Egypt, c.2.675-2.130 BC - National Museum of Asian Art. This small container made of beautifully veined stone would have been a luxury item, most probably filled with an expensive, fragrant oil. The container would have had a stopper.
1528
Sinners in the hell. Detail from the Dirk Bouts (Haarlem, ca.1410): Last Judgement, Hell Panel. Date: ca.1450. Collection: Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France.
1529
Greek Gold Wreath of Oak Leaves and Flowers, possibly from Attica, Greece, late 2nd - early 1st century BC.
In ancient Greece, oak leaves symbolized wisdom, and were associated with Zeus, who according to Greek mythology made his decisions while resting in an oak grove.
1530
Shaman Transforming into Polar Bear by Abraham Anghik Ruben (b. 1951).
1531
Under a sacred sycamore the sun god Ra, in the form of a cat, slays the snake Apep , god of the underworld and symbol of the forces of chaos and evil. Detail of a wall painting from the tomb of Inherkhau . New Kingdom, 20th Dynasty, ca. 1080 BC. Deir el-Medina, West Thebes.
1534
Landscape with a Roman Temple by Hubert Robert (French 1733-1808). Medium: oil-canvas.
1535
“The Grapplers”, by Jean Peter Molin, 1862. Collection: Philadelphia Museum of Art, US.
1536
High-Relief Owl Hieroglyph Late Period – Ptolemaic Period, c. 400 – 30 B.C. Purchased in Egypt from Panayotis Kitycas, 1907, now on view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 134, NY.
1537
Orpheus’s Sorrow by Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret (1852-1929).
1538
Maya jade necklace with a pendant of a dignitary’s head, dated to c. 550-950 AD.
1539
Gold Dagger and Sheath of Tutankhamun.
Tutankhamun’s mummy was provided with two daggers encased in gold sheaths, one with an meteorite iron blade and the other with a blade of hardened gold. It is the latter specimen which is shown here. Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
1540
Interior of Hagia Sophia. The Hagia Sophia was the largest cathedral in the world for nearly a thousand years, until the completion of the cathedral of Seville in Spain in 1511.
1541
Gerard Mas - The Philosopher’s Stοne, 2008.
1542
Mycenaean gold ring: A seated goddess before a procession of seahorses. Date: 15th cent. BCE. From Tiryns; now in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Photographer & Credit: Zde/Wikimedia Commons.
1543
Pendant in the shape of a dolphin. Place of manufacture: Germany (possibly) Dating: ca. 1600. Technique: enameling. Dimensions: h 10,2 cm × w 7,8 cm Collection: Rijksmuseum.
1544
A gold wreath in the shape of an ivy plant discovered at a 2,400-year-old tomb complex in Cyprus, dating to the 5th-4th centuries BC. (Photo Credit: Kadir Kaba)
1545
Coin from Eretria, Euboea, Greece, ca. 500 BC. The coin shows a bull scratching its head on one side, and an octopus on the other. Images of octopuses show up on many pieces of Greek art because of the culture’s depend.
1546
Amethyst intaglio warship, Roman, 1st century AD. Photo Credit: Bertolami Fine Arts.
1547
Georges Antoine Rochegrosse, The End of Babylon, c. 1890.
1548
In a Rose Garden, 1890, by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (Dutch, 1836-1912).
1549
Eva Green as Isabelle in ‘The Dreamers’, 2003, and the ‘Venus de Milo’ by Alexandros of Antioch 130 BC.
1550
A sumerian dagger and sheath from the Royal Cemetery at Ur. Date: c.2600 - 2400 BC Now located in the National Museum of Iraq.
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