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Mytological Animals


Mythological animals.



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A sphinx. Early 6th BCE. H: 53 cm
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A sphinx. Early 6th BCE. H: 53 cm

A companion of Ulysses devoured by Scylla. Marble,from a group from a fountain in Emperor Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli.Copy of a Hellenistic original from the period of Hadrian (117-138 CE).
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A companion of Ulysses devoured by Scylla. Marble,from a group from...

Cinerary urn; Scylla on the piedestal. NI 8492
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Cinerary urn; Scylla on the piedestal. NI 8492

Cinerary urn;Scylla on the piedestal. NI 8484
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Cinerary urn;Scylla on the piedestal. NI 8484

Cinerary urn;Scylla on the piedestal. NI 8497
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Cinerary urn;Scylla on the piedestal. NI 8497

Cinerary urn;detail:Scylla on the piedestal. NI 8497
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Cinerary urn;detail:Scylla on the piedestal. NI 8497

Cinerary urn;a battlescene on the piedestal. H: 37 cm NI 12295
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Cinerary urn;a battlescene on the piedestal. H: 37 cm NI 122...

Jug with a griffin-head spout, 675-650 BCE. Made on one of the islands of the Cyclades, perhaps Paros, found on Aigina. The potting, the modelling of the griffin's head and the painted decoration of the vase are of the highest quality. Griffins, fabulous animals, come from the Near East. Like sphinxes, the are guardians and protetors of the dead. GR 1873.8-20.385
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Jug with a griffin-head spout, 675-650 BCE. Made on one of the islands of the Cy...

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...

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...

Capital carved from alabastre from Volterra. H: 40 cm
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Capital carved from alabastre from Volterra. H: 40 cm

Flanged silver bowl from the Mildenhall treasure, Roman Britain, 4th century AD. The decoration on the flat rims shows a variety of animals in hunting and pastoral scenes, themes which fall into the general category of Bacchic imagery. The inclusion of griffins, a mythical species, alongside real animals, is a common feature. The central medallion on this bowl shows a huntsman confronting a bear. Bowls of this shape were popular in late Roman table services. P&EE, 1946 10-7 5
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Flanged silver bowl from the Mildenhall treasure, Roman Britain, 4th century AD....