2226
Ancient Greek black figure pottery-inspired nails, featuring Theseus facing the Minotaur on one hand, and Oedipus pondering the riddle of the Sphinx on the other.
Photo Credit: Rjdae Blog on Tumblr - rjdaae.tumblr.com
2227
Selene thrown down by Argus (1886) by Ferdinand Keller.
2228
Artist’s Trial Piece. Place of origin: Egypt Period: Late Period, 26th Dynasty, reign of Amasis or later. Date: ca. 570-525 BC. Now on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
2229
Red deer antler head-dress. Date: 8000 B.C. Period/culture: Mesolithic. Medium: Antler. Now on display at the British Museum. Excavated/Findspot: Star Carr, North Yorkshire.
2230
Assyrian dog figurines with names carved on them, Neo-Assyrian Peridod, circa 650 BC. From the North Palace (Room S, door D) at Nineveh, Northern Mesopotamia, Iraq. Collection: The British Museum, London.
2231
The Oracle. Camillo Miola (1840—1919). Oil on canvas. 1880. 108 × 142.9 cm. Lower left the signature: “C. MIOLA”. Inv. No. 72.PA.32. Los Angeles, John Paul Getty Museum.
2232
A Writer’s Tools. Roman Terracotta Inkwell (1st or 2nd Century A.D.) Roman/Egyptian Papyrus Letter (early 3rd Century A.D.) Byzantine/Egyptian Wooden Tablet (500-700 A.D.) Roman Bronze Stylus (1st or 2nd Century A.D.). Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
2233
Snake. Culture: Greek. Period: Classical Period. Date: 400 B.C. Medium: Bronze. Now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
2234
Cosmetic dish in the shape of a dog. Date: New Kingdom, Egypt, ca. 1550–1295 B.C. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 117, NYC.
2235
Stater: Pegasus (obverse). Date: Greece, Corinth, 4th century BC. Now on display at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Size: Diameter: 2.2 cm (7/8 in.) Medium: silver.
2236
Detail from the Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch, 1490-1510.
2237
Gold memento mori ring uncovered from the Jamestown Historic Site in Virginia. Date: c. 1611 - 1617. © Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation.
2238
Fresco from Pompeii, depicting a man with a theater mask and a garlanded woman playing the lyre. Now in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples. Photo: Alamy / Stock Image.
2239
Pair of earrings with Eros riding a dove. Place of origin: Greek. Date: 299-200 B.C. Medium: Gold. Collection: Risd Museum, Denmark.
2240
Snail Houses. Detail from the Secrets de l’histoire naturelle by Robinet Testard. Cognac, c. 1480-1485. Collection: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Français 22971, f. 60v.
2241
Mosaic of the thief partridge, from House of the Labyrinth, Pompeii. Now on display at the Naples Archaeological Museum, Italy. Photo Credit: Jebulon (CC0)
2242
Spider Necklace Beads. Date: A.D. 300–390. Geography: Peru. Culture: Moche. Medium: Gold. Dimensions: (3 × 5.2 × 4.5 × 8.3 cm). Credit Line: Museo Tumbas Reales de Sipán, Lambayeque, Peru.
2243
The Pegasus Protome, c.339 BC. Collection: Regional Historical Museum, Razgrad, Bulgaria. The rhyton was accidentally discovered during ploughing in 1968 near the village of. Vazovo. Much damaged by its discoverers - much of it is missing.
2244
Ancient Roman gold ring with the head of the Gorgon, dated to the 1st century AD or later. The term gorgoneion refers to the head and face of Medusa, which was used often as a decorative motif.
2245
Running a great building like the Roman Colosseum needed a large staff and tireless managers to organize them. Some Colosseum staff could be seen by the spectators as they swept and cleaned, guarded the entrances, and lugged heavy safety fences into place.
2246
Carnelian amulet with gold loop. Culture: Egypt, c.1500 - 1070 BC. Collection & Credit: Timeline Auctions.
2247
Ear of barley on a stater of Metapontion in Lucania. Date: c. 530-510 BC, Archaic. Minted in Matera Province, Basilicata, Magna Graecia, modern-day Italy. Collection & Credit: Classical Numismatic Group.
2248
Satkunda Rock Paintings, c. 5.000 years old. Located near Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, India. The paintings here are predominantly pictographic and depict the life of forest-dwelling tribal communities of the region. Image via Shutterstock.
2249
Virtual reconstruction of the city of Ephesus. Ephesus, Greek Ephesos, the most important Greek city in Ionian Asia Minor, the ruins of which lie near the modern village of Selƈuk in western Turkey.
Illustration Credit: Ádám Németh - virtualreconstruction.com
2250
Mycenaean Gold Earring, Late Helladic II, 13th Century BC.
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