1701
Circe transforms Odysseus’ men into swine in Homer’s Odyssey.
*Circe is an enchantress and a minor goddess in ancient Greek mythology and religion. She is either a daughter of the Titan Helios and the Oceanid nymph Perse or the goddess Hecate and Aeëtes.
1702
Parthenon, Athens, Greece, 1907. Photo: Underwood & Underwood.
1703
A group of schoolchildren stand in front of the Erechtheion, Athens, Greece. Date: 1968. Photo Credit: Rolls Press / Popperfoto.
1704
A collection of various rings, ca. 1295-1070 B.C, 19th Dynasty (Ramesside period), New Kingdom. Collection & Credit: The Met, NYC.
1705
Pandora’s Box by Charles Edward Perugini (19th Century)
1706
Hermes leads a goat to the sacrifice. Side A of a Campanian red-figure bell-krater. ca. 360-350 BC. Found in Campania, Italy. Now on display at the Musée du Louvre.
1707
Dionysus holding a kantharos (wine-cup). Interior from an Attic black-figure plate by the painter Psiax; ca. 520-500 BC. Found at Vulci, Italy; now in the British Museum.
1709
Ruins of Babylon in 1913. Babylon was excavated between 1899 and 1917 by a German team under Robert Koldewey.
1710
An ancient Syriac manuscript showing the Jericho labyrinth, Library of Beirut, Lebanon.
1711
“The Fanatiques” by René Magritte, 1955.
1712
Hi, followers! Can you read the inscriptions around it?
1713
Fish and ducks, Roman mosaic from Pompeii, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli.
1714
The Imperial Crown. Place of origin: West Germany.Date: 2nd half of the 10th century; Crown cross addition of the early 11th century.Medium: Gold, enamel, gemstones, pearls. It is now kept in the Imperial Treasury at the Hofburg in Vienna, Austria.
1715
Detail, Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian c, 1520-1523.
1716
Hedgehog toy from 1500-1200 BC. Date: between 1500 and 1200 BC. Found at the temple of Inshushinak in the city of Susa, capital of the ancient Elamite civilization (modern day Iran). Now on display at the Louvre Museum, Paris.
Photo Credit: Rama / Wikimedia Commons.
1717
Detail, Man with pinks by Follower of Jan van Eyck (circa 1390 –1441). Now on display at the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin.
1718
Two bracelets in the form of a snake (gold), from Egypt. Dated back to the Roman Period, ca. 30 BC - 395 AD. Now in the Louvre.
1719
Ahasuerus at the End of the World by Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl, 1888. (Hungarian, 1860–1933).
1720
Thot-Baboon. Place of origin: Egypt Date: 664-332 BC. Period: Late Period Medium: Egyptian faience with light green glaze. Now on display at the Walters Art Museum.
1721
Night and Her Daughter Sleep by Mary L. Macomber (American, August 21, 1861 – February 4, 1916), 1902.
1722
Lobster Effigy Vessel. Place of origin: South Coast, Peru. Culture: Nazca. c. 300-600 AD. Collection: The Walters Art Museum.
1723
The discovery of the bust of Nefertiti, 1912.
1724
Rings from Anglo-Saxon England. Date: c. 8th-10th century AD. Excavated/Findspot: Aberford, British Isles, UK. Inscription transliteration: + EA⃒ÐELSVIÐ⃒REGNA. Inscription translation: Queen Æthelswith. Materials: gold and niello. Collection: British Museum.
1725
Anglo-Saxon Gold Ring of Aedelfled, 10th Century With owner’s inscription in Insular script ’+ÆDELFLED+MIE+Ah’ (for Æðelflæd me ah ‘Æ. owns me’).
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