Hellenistic Period Gallery

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Marble bust of the Greco-Egyptian deity Serapis.  Roman copy after a Greek original (4th cent. BCE)
hellenismo:Figurine of a girl holding a tambourine (tympanon) Greek, Early Hellenistic Period, about
Askos (oil-jar) in the shape of a sandal-wearing foot.  Greek (thought to have been made in Athens),
ancientpeoples:Gilded silver roundel with Apollo The god is shown as a musician, his lyre is shown o
thegetty:Three favorite objects selected by our new curator of antiquities.Head of a Bearded Man, 16
Athenian funerary relief of a couple. Artist unknown; ca. 330-320 BCE. Now in the Pergamon Museum, B
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:
Terracotta applique in the form of a griffin.  From Taranto (ancient Taras/Tarentum), artist unknown
Ancient Greek necklace with the “Heracles knot”.  Artist unknown; ca. 230-210 BCE.  From Taras/Taren
Fragment of a terracotta head of a satyr.  Artist unknown; 4th cent. BCE.  From Taranto (ancient Tar
odys-seus:Marble statue of Odysseus, from the Antikythera shipwreck, Late Hellenistic period, circa
Ancient Greek gold ring with a garnet intaglio, depicting either the god Dionysus himself or Ptolemy
Limestone head, identified as the Ptolemaic queen Arsinoe II. Artist unknown; 278-270 BCE (reign of
Askos in the shape of a woman’s head, surmounted by an eagle.  Artist unknown; ca. 270-200 BCE.  Fro
South Italian painted rhyton in the shape of a goat’s head.  Artist unknown; 4th cent. BCE.  Now in
Ancient Greek bronze coin, believed to have been issued by the city of Apollonia in Macedon.  On the
Drachm of the Indo-Greek king Philoxenos Aniketos (”Invincible”), who ruled a kingdom in present-day
Stater of Kingdom of Syria with laureate head of Zeus (obverse) and elephant with spear above (rever
Statue of a seated poet (Orpheus?)Greek (from Tarentum), Early Hellenistic Period, 330-300 B.C.terra
Terracotta figurine of the healing deity Asclepius, with his caduceus.  Artist unknown; 1st cent. BC
Ancient Greek painted terracotta statuette, depicting a dancer who holds a castanets-like percussion
kriemhildsrevenge:Gold necklace, Hellenistic Period (323 - 31 BC)
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