Thursday, January 6, 2022

Ancient Greeks: Athletes, Warriors and Heroes Exhibition Part Five

 


Gold and garnet earrings with amphorae
about 200 BCE


Gold medallion with Aphrodite and Eros
Egypt, about 200-100 BCE


Greeks versus Amazons
Marble frieze block from the tomb of King Mausolus
Halikarnassos (modern Bodrum), Turkey, about 350 BCE


Women at a fountain house Hydria (water jar)
made in Athens, about 510 BCE
attributed to the Antimenes Painter
found at Vulci, Lazio, Italy


Marble head from a statue of a Greek warrior
Halikarnassos (modern Bodrum), Turkey, about 350 BCE


Marble head from a statue of a Persian warrior
Halikarnassos (modern Bodrum), Turkey, about 350 BCE



Racing charioteer marble fragment of a sculpted frieze
Halikarnassos (modern Bodrum), Turkey, about 350 BCE


Marble head from a statue of a lion
Halikarnassos (modern Bodrum), Turkey, about 350 BCE


Marble votive relief of two mounted youths, possibly hippeis (knights)
about 330-300 BCE


Symposion (drinking together) Kylix (drinking cup)
red figure pottery
made in Athens, about 490-480 BCE
attributed to the Painter of the Paris Gigantomachy
found at Vulci, Lazio, Italy


Terracotta figure of a young soldier 
made in Boeotia, Greece, about 300-250 BCE
found at Tanagra, Boeotia, Greece


Terracotta figure of a young soldier 
made in Boeotia, Greece, about 300-250 BCE
found at Tanagra, Boeotia, Greece


Terracotta women playing knucklebones (astragaloi)
Capua, Campania, Italy about 330-300 BCE


Bronze, steatite and calcite astralagoi (knucklebones)
Athens and Kefalonia, Greece, about 500-100 BCE


Marble toy marble, terracotta and calcite dice
Left  about 100 BCE -100 CE
found in the Sanctuary of Artemis, Ephesos, Turkey
Centre about 540-500 BCE
found in the Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia, Sparta, Greece
Right about 200-100 BCE
found in Izmir, Turkey


Terracotta slave and his pupil reading
Myrina, Turkey, about 100 BCE


Boys playing knucklebones Chous (jug)
red figure pottery
Athens about 420-400 BCE



Playing to win Amphora
black figure pottery
made in Athens, about 540-520 BCE
attributed to the Swing Painter
probably found in central Italy


Ganymede and Eros Bell Krater
red figure pottery
made in Lucania (modern Basilicata), Italy about 420-400 BCE
attributed to the Amykos Painter
found at Capua, Campania, Italy


Terracotta moving model of a woman rolling dough
made in Rhodes, Greece about 450 BCE
found at Kamiros, Rhodes, Greece


Terracotta figure of a cheese seller
made in Corinth, Peloponnese, Greece, about 390-370 BCE
found at Tanagra, Boeotia, Greece


Terracotta figure of a boy butchering a pig
Boeotia, Greece, about 440-400 BCE



African head Oinochoe (jug)
black glazed pottery
made in Athens, about 470 BCE
attributed to the Class of Louvre H62
found in central Italy





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