1651
John William Waterhouse, Miranda, 1916.
1652
Ancient Greek gold and carnelian earrings with duck-shaped pendants. C. 323-30 BC. From the collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
1653
Reconstruction of ancient Babylon. Credit: Layard.
1654
A child’s toy (?) - Elephant, . Culture & Geography: Iran, probably Nishapur, 10th century AD. Medium: stone - (6.6 x 8.9 cm). Collection: Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
1655
Female Figurine. Place of finding: Southern Turkmenia, Site of Altyn-Depe. Material: clay. Technique: modelling. Period: Bronze Age. Date: 2nd Millennium BC. Now on display at the Hermitage Museum.
1656
Roman ring with snake heads; found in Pompeii. Collection: National Archaeological Museum, Naples. Photo Credit: Mondadori Portfolio / Electa - Sergio Anelli.
1657
Greek Gold Sphinx Earrings, 3rd-1st century BC. The sphinx was a female monster with the body of a lion, the breast and head of a woman, eagle’s wings and, according to some, a serpent-headed tail.
1658
The statue of Goddess Athena is highlighted by the moon, Athens. Photographer: Kostas Tsironis/Associated Press.
1659
Le soleil de Rome / The sun of Rome (1865) by Pelle Swedlund (Swedish).
1660
Parade burgonet of Emperor Charles V by Filippo and Francesco Negroli, Milan, 1545. Medium: steel, gold 25 x 23 x 35.7 cm.
1661
Dancing Maenads Roman, 1st century AD. Private Collection.
1662
Agnes Tait (1894-1981), "Bacchanalian Scene",Medium: n/d, oil on canvas, 99,1x99,1 cm. Private Collection.
1663
Black Cats. Detail from the Bestiary, England. Date: c. 13th century. Collection: Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 533, fol. 13r.
1664
Adam Elsheimer - The Flight into Egypt, c. 1609, detail.
1665
Mask - Guatemalan (Mayan style) Period: AD 250-850 (?). Medium: Jadeite. Geography: Guatemala (Place of Origin). Collection: The Walters Art Museum.
1666
Johann Melchior Dinglinger (German goldsmith, 1664 - 1731) - Sun mask with facial features of August II (the Strong) as Apollo, the Sun God, 1709. Rüstkammer, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, Germany.
1667
Crowned Cat. Detail from the Scheibler Armorial, Germany ca. 1450-1480. Collection: München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod.icon. 312 c, p. 258
1668
Bowl of Stars by Tim Storrier (b.1949), 1994, Lithograph.
1669
Roman bakery in Ostia Antica, near Rome, Italy.
1670
Acropolis , Greece, c. 1964-1966. Photographer: Kees Scherer.
1671
Ippolito Caffi (1809 - 1866) The Pantheon by Moonlight.
1672
Burgonet: A mermaidlike siren forming the helmet’s comb holds a grimacing head of Medusa by the hair. The sides of the helmet are covered with acanthus scrolls inhabited by putti,a motif derived from ancient Roman sculpture and wall paintings.Dated 1543.Collection: The Met.
1673
Bead Bracelet of Queen Ahhotep I. Material: Gold, Semi-precious stones. Second Intermediate Period, 17th Dynasty, ca. 1560-1530 BC. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. It is decorated with hieroglyphs of polished gold set in lapis lazuli.
1674
"Allegoria Della Primavera / Allegory Of Spring" by Cesar Philipp (German, b.1859).
1675
Panoramic view of Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus, Greece (1955).
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