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Related content for the world culture "Ancient Greece"
Related galleries
Room 13: Greece 1050-520 BC
Room 14: Greek vases
Room 15: Athens and Lycia
Room 77: Greek and Roman architecture
Room 16: Greece: Bassae sculptures
Room 17: Nereid Monument
Rooms 18, 18a and 18b: Greece: Parthenon
Room 19: Greece: Athens
Room 78: Classical Inscriptions
Room 73: Greeks in Italy
Room 20: Greeks and Lycians
Room 21: Mausoleum of Halikarnassos
Room 23: Greek and Roman sculpture
Room 69: Greek and Roman life
Room 82: Early Ephesus
Related highlight objects
Agate seal with a man leading a bull
Agate sealstone in the form of a scarab: a satyr with a wine-cup
Askos with painted scenes and applied figures
Black-figured amphora (wine-jar) signed by Exekias as potter and attributed to him as painter
Black-figured amphora decorated with a winged Nike
Black-figured bowl (dinos) and stand, signed by Sophilos as painter
Black-figured lip cup, attributed to the Phrynos Painter
Black-figured neck-amphora, signed by the potter Andokides; attributed to the painter Psiax
Black-figured plate, attributed to the painter Psiax
Black-figured 'Siana' cup, attributed to the Burgon Group
Black-figured water-jar (hydria) with a scene at a fountain-house
Black-glaze mug, showing Perseus beheading the Gorgon Medusa
Blue glass intaglio with a portrait of Cleopatra VII
Bone spectacle fibula (brooch)
Bowl with a gorgon's head
Bowl with basket-like handles and female heads on the rim
Bronze axe-head
Bronze bowl (lebes)
Bronze ceremonial axe head inlaid with silver
Bronze coin of Agathocles
Bronze coin of Cleopatra VII
Bronze coin of Cleopatra VII
Bronze dinos and a gold myrtle spray
Bronze figure of a horse
Bronze figure of a running girl
Bronze figure of Nike, goddess of victory
Bronze figurine of Hermes
Bronze griffin head
Bronze head from a full length portrait
Bronze head of a goddess, probably Aphrodite
Bronze head of Hypnos
Bronze horse and rider
Bronze mask of Dionysos
Bronze mirror case with Aphrodite and Pan
Bronze mirror with Eos and Kephalos in relief
Bronze portrait of a man
Bronze reclining banqueter
Bronze relief with Aphrodite and Anchises
Bronze statue of a young woman
Bronze statuette of a huntsman, perhaps Alexander the Great
Carnelian seal with a man driving a chariot
Caryatid from the Erechtheion
Central scene of the east frieze of the Parthenon
Chalcedony gem showing Nike, goddess of Victory, and a trophy
Chalcedony seal-stone with yellow jasper inclusions
Chalkidian black-figured column-krater, attributed to the Inscription Painter
Chariot group from the south frieze of the Parthenon
Clay ground 'Hadra' water-jar (hydria), attributed to the Dromeus Painter
Coin of the Greek poet Sappho
Colossal marble head of Asklepios
Conical glass bowl
Decorated pottery vase
Decorative reliefs from a cuirass
Discus-thrower (discobolus)
Elgin Amphora
Faience figure of a swimming girl
Faience perfume bottle (aryballos) in the form of a dolphin
Faience vase in the form of a duck
Faience vessel in the form of Eros riding a duck
Figure of a river-god from the west pediment of the Parthenon
Figure of Dionysos from the east pediment of the Parthenon
Figures of 3 goddesses from the east pediment of the Parthenon
Fikellura style amphora with a running man
Firman (letter of permission) for Lord Elgin
Fragment of a marble shield
Gilded silver bowl
Gold boat-shaped earrings
Gold box-bezel ring
Gold diadem of twisted ribbons with a Herakles knot
Gold earrings shaped like wild goat heads
Gold earrings with elaborate granulation
Gold libation bowl (phiale) with six bulls
Gold necklace with lion-headed terminals
Gold ring engraved with a woman at an altar
Gold wreath
Green plasma sealstone, attributed to the 'Semon Master'
Group of arsenical copper tools
Head from a statue of the god Dionysus
Head of a horse of Selene from the east pediment of the Parthenon
Horsemen from the west frieze of the Parthenon
Ionic column from the Erechtheion
Ivory figure of a hunchback
Ivory inset from a couch-end ornament in the form of a satyr's head
Ivory plaque showing Aristaios
Jug with a griffin-head spout
Juglet
Kotyle with a running hound, attributed to the Hound Painter
Lead-glazed pottery drinking cup (skyphos)
Lekythos showing Odysseus escaping from Polyphemos' cave
Letter by Philip Hunt describing the removal of sculptures from the Parthenon temple
Limestone figure of a 'temple boy'
Limestone statue of a female worshipper playing a lyre
Marble beaker
Marble block from the frieze of the Temple of Apollo Epikourios
Marble block from the frieze of the Temple of Apollo Epikourios
Marble block from the west frieze of the Temple of Athena Nike
Marble column drum from the later Temple of Artemis at Ephesos
Marble figurine of a woman
Marble figurine of a woman
Marble grave monument for a dead youth
Marble gravestone of Xanthippos, the shoemaker
Marble head of a companion of Odysseus
Marble head of a kore (maiden)
Marble head of a kouros (youth)
Marble head of a member of the Hekatomnid dynasty
Marble head of a youthful god: the 'Aberdeen Head'
Marble metope from the Parthenon
Marble portrait of Alexander the Great
Marble portrait of an unknown man
Marble statue of a charioteer
Marble statue of a kore (girl) holding a bird
Marble statue of a naked Aphrodite crouching at her bath
Marble statue of a woman
Marble statue of a woman seated in a chair
Marble statue of Chares, ruler of Teichioussa
Marble statue of Demeter
Marble statue of the spinario
Marble statuette of a woman
Miniature krater with ram's head handles
Model of a granary or beehive decorated with geometric patterns
Mosaic glass bowl
Mosaic glass plate
Mould-made bowl
Neck-handled amphora with two designs of concentric circles
Pair of disc and amphora earrings linked by a long chain
Panathenaic prize amphora, signed by the potter Kittos
Pedestalled krater
Perfume bottle (aryballos) with lion-head mouth, attributed to the Chigi Painter
Portrait of the Greek philosopher Antisthenes
Portrait statuette of Socrates
Pottery jug with high spout
Pottery perfume bottle (alabastron), attributed to the Pescia Romana Painter
Red-figured cup attributed to the Kodros Painter
Red-figured cup showing a Greek drinking party
Red-figured cup, attributed to the Brygos Painter
Red-figured cup, attributed to the Foundry Painter
Red-figured drinking horn (rhyton), signed by the potter Sotades
Red-figured neck-amphora (jar), attributed to the Libation Painter
Red-figured plate, signed by Epiktetos as painter
Red-figured squat oil- or perfume-jar (lekythos), in the style of the Meidias Painter
Red-figured storage jar (pelike), attributed to the Marsyas Painter
Red-figured volute-krater attributed to the Berlin Painter
Red-figured water jar (hydria), attributed to the Lipari Painter
Red-figured water jar (hydria), signed by Meidias as potter
Red-figured wine bowl (bell-krater), attributed to the McDaniel Painter
Red-figured wine bowl (bell-krater), signed by the painter Python
Red-figured wine bowl (calyx-krater)
Red-figured wine bowl (calyx-krater), attributed to the Niobid Painter
Red-figured wine bowl (volute-krater), attributed to the Baltimore Painter
Red-figured wine-cooler (psykter), signed by Douris as painter
Relief dedicated to the Thracian goddess Bendis
Ribbed black-glaze jug (oinochoe)
Ribbed loutrophoros, attributed to the Painter of the Louvre Bottle
Sandwich gold-glass bowl
Sculptured marble plinth
Seven gold plaques showing Artemis as 'Mistress of Animals'
Silver beaker
Silver decadrachm of Alexander the Great
Silver libation bowl (phiale) with chariots
Silver medallion with Aphrodite seated on a rock
Silver tetradrachm of Agathocles
Silver tetradrachm of Alexander the Great
Silver tetradrachm of Demetrius Poliorcetes
Slabs from the Amazonomachy frieze from the Mausoleum at Halikarnassos
Stone vase, known as a kandila
Terracotta alabastron with the top in the form of a female head and bust
Terracotta figure of a horseman
Terracotta figure of a seated goddess
Terracotta figure of a woman in Greek dress
Terracotta figure of winged Victory
Terracotta figurine of a woman riding on a pig
Terracotta funerary urn
Terracotta group of 'knucklebone' (astragalos) players
Terracotta group of two women
Terracotta head shaped like a vase
Terracotta mantle-dancer
Terracotta protome of Dionysos
Terracotta relief showing Skylla
Terracotta scent bottle in the form of a fat, squatting man
Terracotta scent-bottle in the form of a warrior's head
Terracotta 'Tanagra' figure
Terracotta 'Tanagra' figure of a woman
Terracotta 'Tanagra' figure of a woman wearing a sunhat
Terracotta 'Tanagra' figure of an old nurse
The pot-hoard from the Temple of Artemis at Ephesos
The Strangford Apollo
Torso of a statue of a nude kouros (youth)
Upper part of a marble male figure
'Violin' figurine
'West Slope' ware jug (oinochoe) with a gorgon's head on the neck
White-ground cup, attributed to the Pistoxenos Painter
White-ground cup, attributed to the Sotades Painter
White-ground jug, attributed to the Brygos Painter
White-ground lekythos with a scene at a tomb
Young cow and herdsmen from the south frieze of the Parthenon
Related research projects
Greek and Roman surgical instruments and medical objects in the British Museum
Pottery bowls from Miletos
Related themes
Animals
Related tours
The myth of the Trojan war
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