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Fragment of an Early Corinthian oinochoe depicting a lion in profile.  Artist unknown; ca. 595-590 B
Votive steles from Carthage depicting priests or suppliants with their right hands raised in blessin
Askos (oil-jar) in the shape of a sandal-wearing foot.  Greek (thought to have been made in Athens),
Heracles battles the Amazons.  Interior of a Laconian black-figure kylix, attributed to the Arcesila
Mosaic (made of polychrome marble tesserae) depicting an amphora with doves perched on the rim, flan
Marble bust of the Roman emperor Gordian III (r. 238-244 CE).  Now in the Altes Museum, Berlin.  Pho
Odysseus listens to the song of the Sirens.  Attic black-figure oenochoe, artist unknown; ca. 525-50
A Maenad (female devotee of Dionysus), brandishing her thyrsos (staff tipped with a pine cone) and a
Fragment of a pebble mosaic floor from the ancient Greek polis of Sicyon, depicting Centaurs and var
Lycian Apollo.  Reconstituted ivory statue of the 3rd cent. CE, thought to be a copy of the original
Silenus or a satyr, holding a kantharos (drinking-cup) and lyre.  Tondo of an Attic red-figure kylix
The Death of Adonis by Giuseppe MazzuolaThe Large Italian Skylight Hall (room 238) State Hermitage M
Athenian funerary relief of a couple. Artist unknown; ca. 330-320 BCE. Now in the Pergamon Museum, B
Small Minoan pithos of the Kamares Ware type, depicting fish caught in a net.  Artist unknown; ca. 1
Small painted terracotta rhyton in the shape of a lion’s head.  Artist unknown; Mature Late Cycladic
historyfilia:Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld (details)by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Bronze portrait of a man, variously identified as Marcus Agrippa or Marcus Antonius.  Artist unknown
A lion.  Attic black-figure amphora, attr. to the Gorgon Painter; ca. 600-575 BCE. Now in the Louvre
The centaur Chiron teaches Achilles how to play the lyre.  Carved red jasper gemstone in a modern go
Portrait bust of Seleucus I Nicator (ca. 359-285 BCE), general of Alexander the Great and first rule
Hellenistic bronze sculpture of Hermes.  Now in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.  Photo credit:
Painted clay rhyton in the shape of a boar’s head.  Mature Late Cycladic I, ca. 1700-1600 BCE.  Now
Late Cycladic/Minoan jug with a painting of a bird.  Artist unknown; ca. 1600 BCE.  Now in the Natio
Terracotta aryballos in the form of an eagle’s head. Unknown Rhodian artist; late 7th or early 6th c
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