Hellenistic Sculpture Gallery

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Marble bust of the Greco-Egyptian deity Serapis.  Roman copy after a Greek original (4th cent. BCE)
thegetty:Three favorite objects selected by our new curator of antiquities.Head of a Bearded Man, 16
3rd century BCE, Hellenistic, terracotta with white slip, traces of paint and gilt
Athenian funerary relief of a couple. Artist unknown; ca. 330-320 BCE. Now in the Pergamon Museum, B
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:
Fragment of a terracotta head of a satyr.  Artist unknown; 4th cent. BCE.  From Taranto (ancient Tar
Limestone head, identified as the Ptolemaic queen Arsinoe II. Artist unknown; 278-270 BCE (reign of
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
archaicwonder:The Three Graces, Hellenistic, c. 2nd-1st Century BCGraces (or Charites) are goddesses
Ancient Greek or Roman bronze statuette of a dwarf with silver eyes.  Artist unknown; 1st cent. BCE/
The great Athenian orator Demosthenes.  Roman copy (1st cent. BCE - 2nd cent. CE) in leaded bronze,
Marble portrait of the Hellenistic monarch and military commander Pyrrhus of Epirus (318-272 BCE). 
world-shards:AphroditeThis semi-draped rendering of Aphrodite was once painted and may have been mad
Statuette of the goddess Artemis/Diana. Unknown Anatolian artist; 1st cent. BCE. Now in the Getty Vi
Sardonyx cameo depicting a Ptolemaic prince as Hermes.  Artist unknown; 3rd cent. BCE.  Now in the C
archaicwonder:Alexander the Great by Evgeny Legedin on Flickr.Became king of Macedon 336BC…&h
Hellenistic copper-alloy bust of a man, thought by some scholars to depict Philip V of Macedon (r. 2
lionofchaeronea:Marble head of Hermes.  Hellenistic copy after a 5th cent. BCE herm.  Found in the T
The Stoa of Attalos, Agora of Athens, Greece. These two male statues were excavated in the archaeolo
Hellenistic Tanagra style statuette of the muse Thalia, 1st half of 3rd cent. B.C. from Apulia, Cano
Head (black bronze) of Ptolemy II or III.  Artist unknown; 246-222 BCE.  Now in the Metropolitan Mus
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