1626
Diadem of King Tutankhamun. This gold diadem was designed to secure the wig of the king during ceremonies and to protect his forehead in the hereafter. Collection: Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
1628
The Loot by Carlos Barahona Possolo. Medium: oil on canvas, 60x80 cm, 2011.
1629
Archer Sculpture. Signed G Darny, 1930's.
1630
Opus sectile panel: tiger attacking a calf. Coloured marbles, Roman artwork from the second quarter of the 4th century AD. From the basilica of Junius Bassus on the Esquiline Hill. Now on display at the Capitoline Museums, Rome.
1631
Burial with skeleton and gold treasure. Date: Chalcolithic, 4600-4200 BC. Varna Archaeological Museum, Bulgaria. Photo Credit: Zde via Wikimedia Commons.
1632
Vampire bat. Woodcut from “Natural history picture book”, 1869, Internet Archive.
1633
Statuette of the Goddess Taweret. Period: Ptolemaic Period. Date: 332–30 B.C. Place of origin: Northern Upper Egypt, Qena area. Medium: Glassy faience. Collection: The Met, NY.
1634
Gold and carnelian swivel ring. Culture: Etruscan. Date: c.400-300 BC. Credit & Collection: Apollo Art Auctions.
1635
Classical Black-figure Octopus Jug,. Culture: Greek. Place of origin: Sicily. c. Late 5th Century BC.
1636
Apulian red-figure terracotta fish plate. Attributed to the workshop of the Darius Painter; ca. 340-320 BCE. Now in the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas. Photo via Alamy.
1637
The flight of a Maenad and a Satyr, ca. 62/79 AD, fresco from Pompeii (House of Dioscuri VI, 9, 6) National Archaeological Museum, Naples. Photograph: Alamy.
1638
Bronze helmet, Assyrian, 8th-7th century BC. Image: Private Collection / Hermann Historica.
1639
Egyptian Priest Entering a Temple. Oil on panel, 47 x 34.3 cm, 1892, Art by Ludwig Deutsch.
1640
Bella Hadid for Vogue Greece, shot by Txema Yeste, April 2019.
1641
A grotesque Burgonet for the armor of Guidobaldo della Rovvera, Duke of Urbino, attributed to Filippo Negroli, Milan, Italy, ca. 1535. Collection: State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.
1642
Hippopotamus, Roman, Date: AD 1–100; found in Rome, red marble. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen. Photo: Ole Haupt.
1643
Roman Carved Rock Crystal Fish, 1st Century AD. Photo Credit: Timeline Auctions - Private Collection.
1644
Sir Edward John Poynter (1836-1919): The corner of the villa.
1645
Egyptian revival Tutankhamun coral lapis turquoise gold bracelet made for the Tutankhamun exhibition in 1972. Credit & Collection: 1stDibs.
1646
Bilingual Sumerian Proverbs, Babylonia c. 2000-1700 BC. Written in Neo Sumerian and Old Babylonian cuneiform on clay, containing 42 proverbs, a folk tale and a fable.This is the only known major bilingual proverb tablet of Old Babylonian origin. More: schoyencollection.com/24-smaller-col…
1647
Recumbent Calf from Uruk. Made of limestone and lapis-lazuli, this small model of a recumbent calf may have been a votive object, intended as an offering to Inanna, the Sumerian goddess of love, fertil. Collection: Vorderasiatisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
1648
Macedonian olive wreath, dating to c. 323-30 BC. Medium: Gold. Collection: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
1649
Shark Pendant, Costa Rica or Panama, Burica Peninsula, Period: 11th–16th century AD , Medium: Gold. Now on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
1650
Christian Dior models under the Caryatids of the Erechtheion temple on the north side of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. Date: 1951.
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