1801
Bronze figure of a seated cat, From Saqqara, Egypt, Late Period, after 600 BC. Collection: The British Museum.
1802
The Bronze Runners/The Two Runners found at the Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum, Italy, in 1754. Date: c 1st century BC Roman copy of the Greek original that dated to the 4th century BC. Now on display at the Archaeological Museum of Naples, Italy.
1803
Archaic Greek Bronze Gorgon Figurine, c. mid-6th Century BC. Private Collection.
1804
Vyaghra Gumpha - Udayagiri and Khandagiri Caves, India, c. 1st century BC. The word vyaghra means "tiger". The inscription found here tells that this cave belongs to the city judge Sabhuti. Photographer: Balajijagadesh via Wikimedia Commons.
1805
The Complete Greek Tragedies (4 Volume Set) by David Grene (Editor), Richmond Lattimore (Editor). Hardcover, First Edition. Published 1960 by University of Chicago Press (first published 1942).
1806
The Kiss by Constantin Brâncuși (1908).
1807
Gold pendant in the form of a Cretan wild goat. ca. 1700-1550 BC. Culture: Minoan (Crete). Now on display at the British Museum.
1808
Mesopotamian Elephant. Period: Jemdet Nasr Period - c. 3000 BC. Carved of limestone in stylized form, the straight trunk hanging between forelegs, pierced at the top to represent its eyes, the ears carved as spirals, a short tail between its hind legs. Credit: Christies.
1809
Hercules Strangling the Nemean Lion by Peter Paul Rubens, 1639.
1810
Helmet. Culture: Thracian. Date: 4th century BC. Medium: Silver. Collection: Detroit Institute of Arts.
1811
Drowned by Josef Manes, 1867, oil on canvas.
1812
Pool in a private bath of Sbeitla (Tunisia) decorated with mosaics of fish and sealife, from 4th-5th century AD. Late Roman/Early Byzantine, 4th-5th century AD. Photographer: Dennis Jarvis via Wikimedia Commons.
1813
Eagle Relief. Date: 10th–13th century AD. Geography: Mexico, Mesoamerica. Culture: Toltec. Medium: Andesite/dacite, paint. Now on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC.
1814
"Monkey riding a goat with a hunting owl". Detail from the Luttrell Psalter, England ca. 1325-1340. Collection: British Library via Discarding Images, Add 42130, fol. 38r.
1815
Painted wood funerary stele of an ancient Egyptian noblewoman named Taperet, showing her worshiping the god Horus. Date: ca. 1000-800 BC (22nd Dynasty, Third Intermediate Period). Now in the Louvre. Photo credit: Rama/Wikimedia Commons.
1816
Seated quartz amulet of the lion-headed goddess Sekhmet on a gold throne, from the tomb of Wendjebauendjed, NRT III at Tanis, senior official of Psusennes I. The Egyptian Museum.
1817
John Collier, Priestess of Delphi, detail, 1891.
1818
Pair of Earrings with Tortoises. Geography: Pakistan, Taxila region (?). Date: c 1st-2nd AD. Collection: Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
1819
Killer Cat by Johannes Fijt aka Jan Fyt (Belgian-Flemish, 1611-1661, b. Antwerp, Belgium, d. Ibid).Medium: Oil on Canvas.
1820
Great helm, Heaume, Topfhelm, 14th century. Iron. Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg.
Hans Rieter zu Kornburg was the owner of this helm. It was designed for knights on horseback. Worldwide only 24 are obtained, this one is the best-preserved.
1821
Hercules Slays the Centaur Eurytion by Antonio Sasini (Italian 1558-1624). Medium: bronze.
1822
“Aurore boréale” by Frederick Edwin Church, 1865.
1823
Scythian Gold Sphinx Bracelet. Date: 400-350 BC. With sphinx protomes, stamped, filigreed and granulated. Found during excavations in 1830 in the Kul Oba Barrow located near Kerch, Crimea. Collection: Hermitage Museum.
1824
Ceremonial knife. Date: ca. 13th Century AD. Medium: Obsidian, Turquoise, Spondylus Shell, Resin. Object Type: Ritual Object. Culture/People: Mixtec - Mexico. Collection: Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco.
1825
“Flora” by Max Nonnenbruch (Detail, 1892).
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