1726
‘my ❤️ and 👁 until I die’ / 18th century.
1727
Chalice of Saint John the Evangelist. Hans Memling ~ ca.1470/1475. National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
1728
Fresco of a bird eating figs from Villa Poppaea, Roman, 1st century BC.
1729
Relief showing four scribes writing on tablets. From the tomb of the general Horemheb, from Saqqara, 18th Dynasty. Medium: limestone. Now on display at the National Archaelogical Museum, Florence.
1730
Roman Marble Eagle, Roman Imperial, c. 1st-2nd Century AD. Private Collection.
1731
Vessel: fish with open mouth. Culture: Olmec. Date: 1150–550 B.C. Medium: Ceramic and slip. Now on display at the Dallas Museum of Art.
1732
Hypothetical reconstruction rendering of the Acropolis, Athens, 1876.
1733
Winged Scarab Amulet. Date: 664 B.C.–332 B.C. Medium: Faience. Collection: The Art Institute of Chicago.
1734
Fishing. Detail from the Pèlerinage de vie humaine by Guillaume de Deguileville, ca. 1490. Collection: Geneva, Library of Geneva. Ms. fr. 182, fol. 162v.
1735
Skull of a female attendant, with jewelry and headdress of gold and lapis lazuli. Found in royal cemetery of Ur.
1736
Head of Alexander the Great. Medium: Bronze. Period & Date: Late Hellenistic to Hadrianic, ca. 150 BC — 138 AD. Collection: New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
1737
The Serenade ~ Leonard Raven-Hill (British, 1867–1942).
1738
Jerboa figurine. Date: ca. 1850–1640 B.C. Period: Middle Kingdom - Egypt. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 111, NY. #MuseumWeek
1739
Sitting Minotaur by Bahman Mohasses (1931-2010), 1972, Iranian. Medium: bronze, Dimensions: 12cm.; 4 7/8 in.
1740
A Greek yellow jasper ringstone with a crocodile. Alexandria, Hellenistic period, circa 2nd-1st century B.C. Private Collection
1741
The Uraeus cobra that once adorned the crown of Pharaoh Senusret II, likely dropped when his pyramid was looted in antique. It’s made from Solid gold and adorned with black granite, Ultramarine pigment, Turquoise and carnelian inlays. Egypt, 12th Dynasty, 1991 to 1803 BC.
1742
Bowl with Leg Shaped Handle. Date - Culture: c. 850 BC & Attica Greek, Greece. Now on display at the Altes Museum, Berlin, Germany. Photographer: Gary Todd via Wikimedia Commons.
1743
Hummingbird Cup. Culture: Mixtec. Period: Postclassic. Place of origin: Zaachila, Zimatlán valley, Monte Albán. Date: A.D. 1225. Collection: Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico.
1744
Statuette of a centaur, ca. 530 B.C, Greek, possibly Athenian. Medium: Cast bronze. Now on display at the Princeton University Art Museum.
1745
Crowd of the damned. Pamplona Bible, Navarre, c. 1197 AD. Source: Amiens, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 108, fol. 254r.
1746
The Venus of Hohle Fels is 40,000 - 35,000 years old. She is one of oldest depictions of a human in the world. Unearthed in 2008 in Hohle Fels, a cave near Schelklingen, Germany. Photo: Ramessos via Wikimedia Commons.
1747
Orestes Pursued by the Furies by William-Aldophe Bouguereau, c. 1862. Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Chrysler Museum of Art.
1750
Replica of Minoan clothing by Bernice Jones, Archaeology Magazine.
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