Mythology


Mythology



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Monsters

MONSTERS

Mythological Animals

MYTHOLOGICAL ANIMALS

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Wounded Amazon (from the Artemis temple in Ephesus).   
Marble figure (original 440-430 BCE).                  
Roman copy                                             
Height 183 cm
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Wounded Amazon (from the Artemis temple in Ephesus). Marble figure (original...

Centaurus hunting tigers.                              
Mosaic (1st-3rd CE).
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Centaurus hunting tigers. Mosaic (1st-3rd CE).

Statuette of a man with a bull's head, Minotaur.       
The figure belonged to the ornaments of a tripod       
carrying a nailed vessel. Attic style.                 
Bronze, H: 18 cm                                       
Br 104
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Statuette of a man with a bull's head, Minotaur. The figure belonged to t...

Heracles seated, modern copy after a work by Lysippos. 
Probably Atelier de Valladier, end 18th.               
Bronze, H: 4,2 cm                                      
Br 659
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Heracles seated, modern copy after a work by Lysippos. Probably Atelier de Vall...

Battle of the giants against the Olympian gods.        
Red-figured skythos.
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Battle of the giants against the Olympian gods. Red-figured skythos.

Lutrophora, Attic, from Athens. Around 690 BCE.        
The vase marks the transition from geometric to an     
"orientalizing" style, in which bands of floral        
ornaments alternate with sphinges and men on chariots. 
H: 80 cm            CA 2985
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Lutrophora, Attic, from Athens. Around 690 BCE. The vase marks the trans...

Perseus pursued by the Gorgons.                        
Detail of a binos.                                     
Inv. E 874
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Perseus pursued by the Gorgons. Detail of a binos....

The Judgement of Paris, third scene on the three-      
legged exalaiptron (pyxis) for cosmetics. Paris,       
here as a bearded youth,seems overawed by the presence 
of the three goddesses. From Thebes, 570-560 BCE.      
H: 14 cm   CA 616   See also 10-01-09 8,9.
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The Judgement of Paris, third scene on the three- legged exalaiptron (pyxi...

Relief in honour of Euripides. The poet, with long hair
and a thick beard, is seated in a chair and hands a    
mask of Heracles to a young woman. Behind Euripides    
another tragic mask and a statue of Dyonisos. Marble   
from Smirna,late Hellenistic,H: 60 cm Inv. 1242 T
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Relief in honour of Euripides. The poet, with long hair and a thick beard, is se...

The "Lykian Sarcophagus" from the Phoenician royal     
necropolis in Sidon.Long face:boarhunt; short face:    
two centaurs fighting over a deer; lid:two seated      
sphinges. End 5th BCE                                  
Marble from Paros, 296,5x253,5x137 cm  Inv.369 T
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The "Lykian Sarcophagus" from the Phoenician royal necropolis in Sidon.Long...

The "Lykian Sarcophagus" from the Phoenician royal     
necropolis in Sidon. Two seated sphinges, guardians    
of the tomb, on the lid. End 5th BCE                   
Marble from Paros, 296,5x253,5x137 cm                  
Inv. 369 T
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The "Lykian Sarcophagus" from the Phoenician royal necropolis in Sidon. Two...

The "Lykian Sarcophagus" from the Phoenician royal     
necropois in Sidon. A Sphinx as guardian of the tomb.  
Detail of 10-01-09/46. 5th BCE                         
Marble from Paros, 296,5x253,5x137 cm                  
Inv. 369 T
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The "Lykian Sarcophagus" from the Phoenician royal necropois in Sidon. A Sp...