1676
Swedish wedding crown, early 18th century. Collection: The Walters Art Museum
1677
Relief depicting Emperor Trajan (53-117 AD) as a Pharaoh offering the barque. Temple of Hathor, Dendera.
1678
Mercury Attaching His Wings by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1744). Collection: The Louvre.
1679
Wall-painting of an amorous scene. The woman is holding a kithara. (a type of lyre). From Pompeii, Roman period, 50-79 AD. Collection: The British Museum, London).
1680
Head showing life and death. Culture: Mayan, Pre-Columbian. Collection: National Gallery of Victoria Vera Cruz. Date: c. 300-600 BC.
1681
Medieval diagram shows the orbits of the Sun and Moon around the Earth, late 13th century, France, unknown illuminator. Collection & Credit: the Getty Museum.
1682
Helios in his chariot, a relief sculpture excavated at Troy in 1872. Berlin, Pergamon Museum. Helios in ancient Greek religion and myth, is the god and personification of the Sun, often depicted in art with a radiant crown and driving a horse-drawn chariot through the sky.
1683
A Bronze Age stone ship said to be the grave of the mythical founder of Gotland: Tjelvar’s Grave, Gotland, Sweden, photo date unknown. Archeologists have dated the burial monument from between 1100 and 500 BC.
1684
Detail of a floor mosaic, Roman period. Delphi Archaeological Museum, Greece.
1685
The Calvatone Victory. Medium: Guilded bronze. c. 2nd cent. AD. Torso, head and sphere wit inscription are of ancient origin. The rest parts were reconstructed and added in 1844 according to the then views of the iconography of Victory. ©Photo: Ilya Shurygin.
1686
6 little ceramic pigs. 1 male, 1 female, and 4 piglets. Geography & Culture: China, Han Dynasty, c. 200 BC - 200 AD. Private Collection.
1687
Great Horned Owl and Fledgling at Dusk by Joseph Rusling Meeker (1827-1889).
1688
Fragments from Pair of Feet from Colossal Statue of Amenhotep III, Tenth Pylon, Photographer Unknown.
1689
Shaman’s Amulet. Carved in the form of an embryonic anthro/zoomorphic figure. Place of origin: Tsimshian, Northern British Columbia, around 1840. Photo Credit: The Thomson Collection © Art Gallery of Ontario.
1690
“Schlafende Diana (Sleeping Diana)”, 1913, “Emil Epple” (1877-1948).
1691
‘Οn the Sacred Rock of the Acropolis’, Athens,1903. Photographer: Fred Boissonnas.
1692
Hellenistic Greek gold earrings with pendants in the shape of Sphinxes, dated to the 3rd to 1st century BC. Private Collection (?)
1693
An egyptian blue chalcedony horus-behdet amulet. Date: Late period to Ptolemaic period, circa 664-30 BC. Collection & Credit: Christies.
1694
Askos in the form of a duck. Culture: Etruscan, 350-325 BC. From Vulci, ancient Etruria (now in Lazio, Italy). Collection: The British Museum.
1695
King Midas by Andrea Vaccaro (1604-1670).
1696
Francisco de Goya, Still Life with Golden Bream (Besugos), 1808-1812.
1697
Purity by Barry X Ball @BarryXBall. Sculpture: Translucent Pink Iranian Onyx, stainless steel. Pedestal: Macedonian Marble, stainless steel, wood, acrylic lacquer, steel, nylon, plastic.
1698
Serpent Labret with Articulated Tongue. Date: 13th-16th century AD. Culture: Aztec. Place of origin: Mexico, Central Mexico. Collection: The Met, NYC.
1699
Statuette of a Griffin with an Arimasp. Culture: Greek. Place of origin: Italy (?). Date: 125–75 BC. Medium: Bronze. Collection: Getty Museum.
1700
Medieval painting of a cat licking their butt. #middleages
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