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Black Figured Neck Amphora  510-500 BC Attic/Archaic Greek (Source: The British Museum) View high resolution

Black Figured Neck Amphora 

510-500 BC

Attic/Archaic Greek

(Source: The British Museum)

One of the Parthenon Sculptures 438-432 BC Classical Greek Marble statue from the East pediment of the Parthenon. The East pediment showed the miraculous birth of the goddess Athena from the head of her father Zeus. Many of the figures from the central scene are now fragmentary or entirely lost.A figure of a naked man reclines on a rock, leaning on his left arm in a relaxed attitude, facing towards the chariot of Helios in the left corner of the pediment. This statue is the only one to survive with the head intact, though the hands and feet are now lost. (Source: The British Museum) View high resolution

One of the Parthenon Sculptures

438-432 BC

Classical Greek

Marble statue from the East pediment of the Parthenon. The East pediment showed the miraculous birth of the goddess Athena from the head of her father Zeus. Many of the figures from the central scene are now fragmentary or entirely lost.
A figure of a naked man reclines on a rock, leaning on his left arm in a relaxed attitude, facing towards the chariot of Helios in the left corner of the pediment. This statue is the only one to survive with the head intact, though the hands and feet are now lost.

(Source: The British Museum)

Bronze Muzzle/Horse Armour Western Greek Puglia, Italy c.400-300 BC Source: British Museum View high resolution

Bronze Muzzle/Horse Armour

Western Greek

Puglia, Italy

c.400-300 BC

Source: British Museum

A lekythos, or oil jug, from olive green spun glass.  Greece, Classical Period.  Source: Leiden Museum of Antiquities View high resolution

A lekythos, or oil jug, from olive green spun glass. 

Greece, Classical Period. 

Source: Leiden Museum of Antiquities

Tetradrachm of Naxos (Sicily), with a depiction of Dionysos. Greece, Early Classical Period, ca. 460 BC. Source: Boston Museum of Fine Arts View high resolution

Tetradrachm of Naxos (Sicily), with a depiction of Dionysos.

Greece, Early Classical Period, ca. 460 BC.

Source: Boston Museum of Fine Arts

Earthenware oil lamp depicting Europa seated on a bull. The lamp has an anchor-shaped nozzle and a concave disk. The depiction is likely a reference to the Greek myth of Zeus abducting Europa while in the shape of a white bull, making her the first Queen of Crete.  Roman, Early Imperial Period, ca. first century AD.  Source: Boston Museum of Fine Arts View high resolution

Earthenware oil lamp depicting Europa seated on a bull. The lamp has an anchor-shaped nozzle and a concave disk. The depiction is likely a reference to the Greek myth of Zeus abducting Europa while in the shape of a white bull, making her the first Queen of Crete. 

Roman, Early Imperial Period, ca. first century AD. 

Source: Boston Museum of Fine Arts

Bronze Statuette of an Artisan with silver eyes 1st Century BC Late Hellenistic This statuette is remarkable for its synthesis of Hellenistic immediacy and Classical composure. The figure can be identified as an artisan by his dress and muscular build. Particularly telling is the pair of wax tablets tucked in his belt—the equivalent of a note pad—on which he would have written or drawn with a pointed stylus. The portrait is imbued with great psychological power and may represent a famous, even mythological, figure. For example, he may portray the Homeric hero Epeios, who with Athena’s help carved the Trojan horse. It has also been proposed that he is the legendary master craftsman Daidalos, who built the labyrinth at Knossos, or even the famous fifth century B.C. Athenian sculptor Phidias, creator of the chryselephantine cult statue of Zeus at Olympia and master craftsman of the sculptures of the Parthenon on the Athenian Akropolis. (Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art)  View high resolution

Bronze Statuette of an Artisan with silver eyes

1st Century BC

Late Hellenistic

This statuette is remarkable for its synthesis of Hellenistic immediacy and Classical composure. The figure can be identified as an artisan by his dress and muscular build. Particularly telling is the pair of wax tablets tucked in his belt—the equivalent of a note pad—on which he would have written or drawn with a pointed stylus. The portrait is imbued with great psychological power and may represent a famous, even mythological, figure. For example, he may portray the Homeric hero Epeios, who with Athena’s help carved the Trojan horse. It has also been proposed that he is the legendary master craftsman Daidalos, who built the labyrinth at Knossos, or even the famous fifth century B.C. Athenian sculptor Phidias, creator of the chryselephantine cult statue of Zeus at Olympia and master craftsman of the sculptures of the Parthenon on the Athenian Akropolis.

(Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art) 

Gold Earrings with Cornelian Doves From a grave in Apulia 2nd Century BC Source: Benaki Museum View high resolution

Gold Earrings with Cornelian Doves

From a grave in Apulia

2nd Century BC

Source: Benaki Museum

Gold Bracelets with Intertwined Snakes and terminating in figures of Isis and Serapis Each god holds a cornucopia. Instead of a crown they wear a modium which is a unit of measurement symbolising fertility. c. 1st BC Source: Benaki Museum View high resolution

Gold Bracelets with Intertwined Snakes and terminating in figures of Isis and Serapis

Each god holds a cornucopia. Instead of a crown they wear a modium which is a unit of measurement symbolising fertility.

c. 1st BC

Source: Benaki Museum

Silver Stater from Thasos depicting a Satyr abducting a Nymph c. 520 BC Source: Benaki Museum View high resolution

Silver Stater from Thasos depicting a Satyr abducting a Nymph

c. 520 BC

Source: Benaki Museum

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