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Mytological Animals


Mythological animals.



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Heracles killing the lion. White-figured Lekythos from Attica, Greece, attributed to Diosphos painters (500 BCE). Height 31 cm L 31
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Heracles killing the lion. White-figured Lekythos f...

Hermes kills the hundred-eyed Argos who guards the cow Io, Zeus watching on the right. Red-figured Stamnos, Attic (beginning 5th BCE). Height 29.8 cm Inv. IV 3729
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Hermes kills the hundred-eyed Argos who guards the cow Io, Z...

Apollo riding a griffin while playing the lyre. Red-figured Attic cup, 1st half 4th BCE Terracotta Inv. IV 202
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Apollo riding a griffin while playing the lyre. Red-figured Attic cup, 1...

Oedipus solves the riddle of the Sphinx. Red-figured Attic pelike, 470-460 BCE Terracotta Inv.IV 3728
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Oedipus solves the riddle of the Sphinx. Red-figured Attic pelike...

Oedipus solves the riddle of the sphinx. Black-figured lekythos from Thebes, early 5th BCE Terracotta, height: 32.1 cm, diameter: 10.8 cm Inv. CA 1705
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Oedipus solves the riddle of the sphinx. Black-figured lekythos f...

Heracles fights the Nemean lion, one of the 12 labours. Black-figured Attic kalpis, early 5th BCE Terracotta, height: 21.9 cm, diameter: 16.2 cm Inv. IV 253
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Heracles fights the Nemean lion, one of the 12 labours. Black-figured Attic kalp...

Heracles fighting Cerberus, the hell-hound, one of his twelve labours. Black-figured hydria from Caere, 530-525 BCE Terracotta, height: 43 cm Inv. E 701
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Heracles fighting Cerberus, the hell-hound, one of his twelve labour...

Meleager kills the Caledonian Boar. Red-figured Attic pelike, mid 5th BCE Terracotta, height: 17.3 cm, diam.: 12.7 cm Inv. IV 781
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Meleager kills the Caledonian Boar. Red-figured Attic pelike...

Bellerophon, riding Pegasus, fights the Chimaira. Red-figured cup from Camiros (Rhodes), 6th BCE Terracotta, height: 13.3 cm, diameter: 24.3 cm Inv. A 478
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Bellerophon, riding Pegasus, fights the Chimaira. Red-figured cup from Cam...

Funerary stele of Parmeniskos. Gorgon head in the pediment to ward off evil; frieze with battle against Amazones; sirens standing on rosettes; griffins on each side of a krater. Limestone, H: 108 cm Inv. I 1024
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Funerary stele of Parmeniskos. Gorgon head in the pediment to ward off evi...

Black onyx seal of Emperor Agustus. Relief shows a sphynx.
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Black onyx seal of Emperor Agustus. Relief shows a sphynx.

Servant girl, tomb-relief from Virunum, Carinthia. The girls holds a mirror with a head of Medusa in the left hand, a small box in her right. Her clothes are typical of the women of Noricum: fibulae on the shoulders, an outer tunica tucked up below the knees.
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Servant girl, tomb-relief from Virunum, Carinthia. The girls holds a mirror...