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The centaur Nessos and Heracles' wife Dejaneira. Attic red-figured vase, 5th BCE
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The centaur Nessos and Heracles' wife Dejaneira. Attic red-figured vase,...

Siren (Mermaid).Overall view. Attic red-figured stamnos (5th BCE).
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Siren (Mermaid).Overall view. Attic red-figured stamno...

Oenochoe Levy,oriental style,Ionian,H:39,5 cm Terracotta from Rhodes (?),around 650 BCE E 658
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Oenochoe Levy,oriental style,Ionian,H:39,5 cm...

Red-figured cup,made in Athens,Greece, 490-480 BCE. Scenes of symposia were a popular subject for painted pottery vessels used on such occasions. Here, a young man reclines on a couch while a girl dances before him. The young man holds a pair of flutes,perhaps removed from the spotted skin-case hanging behind him. GR 1848.6-19.7
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Red-figured cup,made in Athens,Greece, 490-480 BCE. Scenes of symposia were a p...

Vase, porphyry,red,black and white marble. As of the second half of the 18th century, vases were made according to the fashionable antique style;the marble pedestal imitated Roman altars, while the two personages on the vase play Greek aulos flutes. OA 6620
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Vase, porphyry,red,black and white marble. As of the second half of the 18th ce...

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...

Pottery jug with high spout, Cycladic, Milos, Aegean Sea, 1800-1550 BCE. Characteristic of the Cyclades in the Middle Bronze Age, with dark, matt paint applied to a white background. Nipples link these pots, with their upward tilted spouts,to the human form. GR 1920.10-15.1
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Pottery jug with high spout, Cycladic, Milos, Aegean Sea, 1800-1550 BCE. Charac...

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...

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...

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...