2251
Bird Plaque. Date: AD 200-1520 (?). Dimensions: height: 6.4 cm, width: 4.1 cm. Place of origin: Peru. Collection: Walters Art Museum.
2253
Detail, an Octopus fresco from the palace of Knossos, Crete. The palace is full of representations of marine animals, such as these tentacles that appear in another of its murals.
2254
Group of terracotta scent/perfume bottles. Culture: Greek, Rhodian. Findspot: Kamiros, Rhodes, Greece. Date: c. 610-550 BC. Collection: British Museum.
2255
Leaving Hell (Inferno XXXIV). Detail from the Dante, Divina Commedia, Urbino and Ferrara, 1477-1478. Collection: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Urb.lat.365, fol. 95v.
2256
A sprinter runs a race in the amphora from the 500s BC. Image via blog.britishmuseum.org
2257
A Kashan pierced and incised underglaze-painted pottery Bowl. Geography-date: Persia, 12th Century AD.
2258
Aphrodite in a Shell. Place of origin: Southern Italy. Date: 3rd - 2nd century BC. Medium: Clay, polychrome painting. Now on display at the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2259
Poem of the Soul - Sunrays by Louis Janmot (1814–1892). Collection: Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon.
2260
Turkey quake: How you can help the victims
2261
Stairs into the Royal Tombs of Ur. 1920's, Iraq.
2262
Gold bracelet with colored glass and emeralds. Period: Roman, Late Imperial Period, c. A.D. 379-395. Collection: Getty Museum.
2263
The Wrestlers (also known as The Two Wrestlers, The Uffizi Wrestlers) is a Roman marble sculpture after a lost Greek original of the 3rd century BC. Collection: Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy.
2264
Gold Amulet of a Falcon Nubian, Napatan Period, reign of Taharqa (Ancient Sudan) 690–664 B.C. Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
2265
Statuette of the Goddess Taweret. Culture: Egypt, Ptolemaic Period. Date: 332–30 B.C. Medium: Glassy faience. Geography: Northern Upper Egypt, Qena area. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 134.
2266
Detail, The Adoration of the Kings by an Brueghel the elder (1568-1625). Collection:
National Gallery, UK.
2267
The Palace of Knossos is located just at the south of modern-day Heraklion near the northern coast of Crete. The palace is over 20.000 square meters and the largest of all Minoan palatial structures.
2268
Detail, the Temptation of Saint Jerome by Henryk Hektor Siemiradzki (1843-1902).
2269
Orpheus’s Sorrow by Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret (1852-1929). Collection: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Mulhouse.
2270
Scarabeoid Intaglio: Griffin and Astragal. Place of creation: Ionia. Place of finding: Crimea, the environs of Kerch. Date: c5th century B.C. Medium: Rock crystal, gold. Now on display at the Hermiatage Museum.
2271
Maenad carrying a thyrsus and a leopard with a snake rolled up over her head. Tondo of an ancient Greek Attic white-ground kylix 490–480 BC from Vulci. Collection: Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich, Germany.
2272
Depiction of wrestling scenes - Detail of a wall painting depicting wrestling techniques, from BH15, the Tomb of Baqet III, official and Great Chief of the Oryx nome (the 16th nome of Upper Egypt) during the 11th Dynasty, 21st century BC. Beni Hasan necropolis.
2273
"The Goddess of the Chase" by the Teresa Cerutti-Simmons, 1934, etching. Private Collection: Roving Sands Gallery.
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2274
Workers in a fullonica (dyer’s shop), Fresco from the fullonica of Veranius Hypsaeus, Pompeii; now in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples. Photo Credit: Alamy/Stock Image.
2275
Pyramid of Maydoom, 1870-82. Photograph of squat pyramid of two tiers: groups of Egyptians standing and sitting on dunes at base, known as Pyramid of Meidum, near Cairo, Egypt. Album compiled by the Reverend J N Dalton (1839-1931)
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