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Boy and goose. Marble
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Boy and goose. Marble

Orpheus mosaic,Orpheus plays to the animals.
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Orpheus mosaic,Orpheus plays to the animals.

The Big Game Hunt, mosaic in the ambulatory of the Villa del Casale,Piazza Armerina,Sicily,Italy. (3rd-4th CE).Ostriches and gazelles are carried up to the sailboat,while hunters carry other captured animals in boxes and nets.See also 11-01-03,01-02-02.
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The Big Game Hunt, mosaic in the ambulatory of the Villa del Casale,Piazza...

Silver tetradrachm of Alexander the Great, mint of Amphipolis 336-323 BCE. The silver coins, with the head of Heracles on one side and a seated figure of Zeus on the other (as seen here), became one of the staple coinages of the Greek world. Inscription:"Alexandros". CM, 1921-1-9-6
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Silver tetradrachm of Alexander the Great, mint of Amphipolis 336-323 BCE. The s...

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...

Clay ground 'Hadra' hydria (water-jar), Greek, probably from Egypt, c200 BC. This vase is decorated in the black-figure technique, with a bull's head flanked by swans in a panel between the handles. The plunging dolphins on the shoulder are a popular Hellenistic motif. The Greek word Dorotheou, 'of Dorotheos', incised above the bull's head, is the name of the person whose ashes this vase originally contained. 'Hadra' hydriai are named after the Alexandrian cemetery of Hadra where large numbers of them have been excavated. Some were made locally, but analysis of the clay has demonstrated that many, including this example, were imported from Crete. Their principal use appears to have been as ash-urns to contain the remains of foreign dignitaries who became ill and died while on official visits to the Egyptian court. GR, 1995.10-3.1
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Clay ground 'Hadra' hydria (water-jar), Greek, probably from Egypt, c200 BC. Thi...

Attic red-figured kylix with Zeus and eagle abducting Ganymede; 470 BCE.
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Attic red-figured kylix with Zeus and eagle abducting Ganymede; 470 BCE.

White kylix showing Leda and the Swan.
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White kylix showing Leda and the Swan.

Red-figured ceramic skyphos with owl; 4th century BCE.
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Red-figured ceramic skyphos with owl; 4th century BCE.

Back wall of the Tomb of Hunting and Fishing, Tarquinia, Italy; around 530-520 BCE.
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Back wall of the Tomb of Hunting and Fishing, Tarquinia, Italy; around 530-520 B...

Tomb of the Augurs, Tarquinia, Italy; around 530-520 BCE. Detail of a priest with pointed shoes.
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Tomb of the Augurs, Tarquinia, Italy; around 530-520 BCE. Detail of a priest wi...

Bimaran Reliquary, from stupa 2 at Bimaran, Gandhara (Afghanistan). The inscription on the steatite casket in which the reliquary was kept, states that it contained some of the bones of the Buddha; when found in the 19th century, the bones were missing, but there were burnt pearls, beads of precious and semi-precious stones and four coins, which date the reliquary to about 50 CE. In the central arch the Buddha, with two figures facing him on either side. OA 1900.2-9.1
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Bimaran Reliquary, from stupa 2 at Bimaran, Gandhara (Afghanistan). The inscrip...