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Antiquity


Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Imperial Roman Period, Ancient Middle East.



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Ancient Egypt

ANCIENT EGYPT

Ancient Greece

ANCIENT GREECE

Ancient Israel

ANCIENT ISRAEL

Ancient Jordan

ANCIENT JORDAN

Ancient Middle East

ANCIENT MIDDLE EAST

Imperial Roman Period

IMPERIAL ROMAN PERIOD

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Black-figured "Siana" cup, Greek, 575-550 BCE. Both sides of this cup show activities that may be interpreted as rituals in honour of Demeter, a goddess mostly concerned with women's lives, agriculture and fertility. The first man whom Demeter had taught to plough was Bouzyges and members of that Athenian family performed an annual ceremony at the foot of the Acropolis. GR 1906.12-15.1
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Black-figured "Siana" cup, Greek, 575-550 BCE. Both sides of this cup show activ...

White ground jug, attributed to the Brygos painter, around 490 BCE. The finely dressed woman is spinning woollen thread; she holds a distaff in her left hand, and draws out a strand of wooll with her right. The wooll is attached to a hook at the top of the weighted spindle. As the thread lengthens, the spindle sinks to the ground and the woman will have to stop, wind the thread around the spindle and start again. The vase represents an early experiment in the technique of painting in outline on a white ground. GR 1873.8-20.304
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White ground jug, attributed to the Brygos painter, around 490 BCE. The finely d...

Red-figured rhyton (driking horn), signed by the potter Sotades, 470-460 BCE, from the Brygos tomb at Capua, Campania, Italy. The sphinx was coated in fine,white slip. The red-figure scenes on the cup show Kekrops, the legendary, snake-bodied king of Athens. The spout between the front legs of the sphinx was closed, probably with a finger, while the cup was filled and the wine then allowed to flow out, from a considerable height, into a cup or bowl below. GR 1873.8-20,265
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Red-figured rhyton (driking horn), signed by the potter Sotades, 470-460 BCE, fr...

Limestone statue of a female worshipper playing a lyre, Cyprus, 300-280 BCE. She wears a chiton girded jyst below her breast, and a himation draped around her lower body and up ovr her head. This is the typical dress of the Ptolemaic period in Cyprus. GR 1917.7-1.171
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Limestone statue of a female worshipper playing a lyre, Cyprus, 300-280 BCE. She...

Head of a bearded worshipper, around 570-550 BCE. Head from a colossal statue; with its helmet, long beard and Cypriot facial expression it may have been carved locally. The limestone is of Cypriot origin, although the head was found in Byblos (Lebanon). GR 1885.10-13.4
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Head of a bearded worshipper, around 570-550 BCE. Head from a colossal statue; w...

Perfume bottle (aryballos) with lion-head made in Corinth, Greece; Protocorinthian, around 640 BCE. Despite its tiny size, the figure scene on this perfume bottle shows seventeen fully-armed warriors, each armed with plumed helmet,spear and blazoned shield. Scenes below show a horse-race and a hare-hunt. GR, 1889.4-18.1
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Perfume bottle (aryballos) with lion-head made in Corinth, Greece; Protocorinthi...

Terracotta chariot group from tomb 93, Enkomi, Cyprus, Mycenean, ca, 1300 BCE. A pair of horses pulls a chariot carrying a charioteer. The chariot has been simplified; it has no wheels and is attached to the hindquarters of the horses. GR 1897.4-1.535
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Terracotta chariot group from tomb 93, Enkomi, Cyprus, Mycenean, ca, 1300 BCE. A...

Limestone figure of a "temple boy" from the sanctuary of Apollo at Idalion (Dhali), Cyprus; Hellenistic, 300 BCE. Statuettes of crouching children were reglarly dedicated in Cypriot sanctuaries from about 450 BCE into the Hellenistic period. Their meaning is not obvious; the boy wears earrings and a band of amulets across his chest.The amulets comprise a demonic head, perhaps of the Egyptian god Besh, (used as an apotropaic figure - driving evil away), four pendant rings and four tubular beads. GR 1917.7 - 1.125
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Limestone figure of a "temple boy" from the sanctuary of Apollo at Idalion (Dhal...

Portrait statue of Socrates, Greek, ca. 200 BCE - 100 CE. According to both Plato and Xenophon, his pupils, Socrates was portly, pug-nosed with fleshy lips, resembling a satyr. His pursuit of true knowledge brought him into conflict with the piety laws od Athens, where his prosecution led to enforced suicide. The portraits that survive were all produced after his death. GR 1925.11-18.1
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Portrait statue of Socrates, Greek, ca. 200 BCE - 100 CE. According to both Pla...

Red-figured cup, Greek, made in Athens, 440-430 BCE. The decoration is dedicated entirely to the deeds of the Athenian hero Theseus. In the tondo he drags the dead or dying Minotaur from the Labyrinth of Knossos, its maze of passages suggested by the meander squares. Around this Theseus is shown attacings Kerkyon,Procrustes, Skiron, the Bull of Marathon, Sinis and the Krommyonian Sow. GR 1850.3-2.3
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Red-figured cup, Greek, made in Athens, 440-430 BCE. The decoration is dedicated...

Bowl with basket-like handles and female heads on the rim, Greek, ca.600 BCE. The message scratched into the rim records its dedication to Aphrodite by a man named Sostratos. The bowl was found in the Sanctuary of Aphrodite at Naukratis, a Greek trading settlement in the Nile Delta, where the Greeks were free to worship their own gods. Gr 1888.6-1.456
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Bowl with basket-like handles and female heads on the rim, Greek, ca.600 BCE. Th...

Bronze head of Hypnos, the god of sleep. Copy of a Hellenistic original, found at Civitella d'Arno, near Perugia, Italy. Hypnos was associated with poppies and sleep- inducing herbs. His wings allowed him to move swiftly over land and sea and to fan the foreheads of the weary until they fell asleep. GR 1868.6-6.9
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Bronze head of Hypnos, the god of sleep. Copy of a Hellenistic original, found a...