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Gold boat-shaped earrings

These earrings came to the British Museum in the late ninete…
Caryatid from the Erechtheion

Caryatids are female figures serving as supports. The most l…
Chalcedony gem showing Nike, goddess of Victory, and a trophy

This beautifully carved gem is a scaraboid - a simplified fo…
Chariot group from the south frieze of the Parthenon

The Parthenon frieze shows racing chariots ahead of the cava…
Fragment of a marble shield

The Parthenon in Athens was built about 447-438 BC to house …
Gold box-bezel ring

This lightweight but elaborate ring is made of sheet gold an…
Gold ring engraved with a woman at an altar

In the fourth century BC, the Greek cities of Asia Minor beg…
Marble block from the west frieze of the Temple of Athena Nike

The Ionic Temple of Athena Nike was completed in the late 42…
Marble grave monument for a dead youth

This grave stone (stele) is more likely to have been discove…
Marble statue of a woman

Excavations on the Acropolis at Xanthos have revealed the fo…
Panathenaic prize amphora, signed by the potter Kittos

This vase belongs to a distinctive type given as a prize in …
Relief dedicated to the Thracian goddess Bendis

The goddess Bendis originated in Thrace, to the north of Gre…
Terracotta head shaped like a vase

This terracotta head of a fashionable lady from southern Ita…
Terracotta relief showing Skylla

Cut-out terracotta plaques with flat backs were a speciality…
White-ground lekythos with a scene at a tomb

A woman (the dead person, the occupant of the tomb) sits wit…
Parthenon sculpture: Centaur and Lapith

The Parthenon featured 92 sculptures known as metopes. They …
Black-glaze mug, showing Perseus beheading the Gorgon Medusa

The hero Perseus rashly promised to acquire the head of Medu…
Bronze dinos and a gold myrtle spray

These two objects were discovered by Lord Elgin's agent in 1…
Central scene of the east frieze of the Parthenon

The procession pictured in the Ionic frieze of the Parthenon…
Colossal marble head of Asklepios

This head comes from a colossal statue of the god Asklepios,…
Discus-thrower (discobolus)

This marble statue is one of several copies of a lost bronze…
Figure of a river-god from the west pediment of the Parthenon

The central feature of the west pediment of the Parthenon wa…
Figure of Dionysos from the east pediment of the Parthenon

The central section of the east pediment of the Parthenon sh…
Horsemen from the west frieze of the Parthenon

This block was placed near the corner of the west frieze of …
Ionic column from the Erechtheion

The Erechtheion was begun around 421 BC to house the cult st…
Lekythos showing Odysseus escaping from Polyphemos' cave

On his journey home from Troy, Odysseus found himself trappe…
Marble block from the frieze of the Temple of Apollo Epikourios

The Temple of Apollo Epikourios ('Apollo the Helper') was bu…
Marble block from the frieze of the Temple of Apollo Epikourios

The Temple of Apollo Epikourios ('Apollo the Helper') was bu…
Marble gravestone of Xanthippos, the shoemaker

The Athenian practice of setting up sculptured grave stelae …
Marble head of a member of the Hekatomnid dynasty

The architectural details of the Temple of Athena at Priene …
Marble head of a youthful god: the 'Aberdeen Head'

Much of what we know of Greek sculpture is based on copies o…
Marble metope from the Parthenon

The sculpted decoration of the Parthenon included ninety-two…
Marble statue of Demeter

The Sanctuary of Demeter at Knidos was laid out at about the…
Red-figured cup, attributed to the Brygos Painter

Scenes of symposia were naturally a popular subject for the …
Red-figured cup, attributed to the Foundry Painter

Athletic achievement was highly valued in ancient Greek soci…
Red-figured drinking horn (rhyton), signed by the potter Sotades

Sotades was an inventive potter. One of his specialities was…
Red-figured neck-amphora (jar), attributed to the Libation Painter

The elongated shape of this vase is characteristic of amphor…
Red-figured squat oil- or perfume-jar (lekythos), in the style of the Meidias Painter

The elegant faces of the women in this garden scene and thei…
Red-figured storage jar (pelike), attributed to the Marsyas Painter

In Greek mythology, Thetis was a Nereid (sea-nymph), loved b…
Red-figured water jar (hydria), attributed to the Lipari Painter

The Lipari Painter liked to enliven the traditional black-an…
Red-figured wine bowl (bell-krater), attributed to the McDaniel Painter

Scenes from drama are only occasionally found in Athenian va…
Red-figured wine bowl (calyx-krater)

After the sack of Troy, it took the Greek hero Odysseus ten …
Red-figured wine bowl (calyx-krater), attributed to the Niobid Painter

The Greek myth of Pandora, the first woman, expresses the am…
Red-figured wine bowl (volute-krater), attributed to the Baltimore Painter

The principal scene depicted on this wine bowl is dominated …
Red-figured wine-cooler (psykter), signed by Douris as painter

This mushroom-shaped vessel would have been filled with wine…
Ribbed black-glaze jug (oinochoe)

The goddess Hekate was closely connected with Artemis, the h…
Silver libation bowl (phiale) with chariots

Shallow bowls such as this, with a round central boss, were …
Slabs from the Amazonomachy frieze from the Mausoleum at Halikarnassos

This is one of the most interesting sections of the Amazonom…
Terracotta 'Tanagra' figure of an old nurse

This stooped old woman with hunched shoulders holds a large,…
White-ground cup, attributed to the Pistoxenos Painter

Aphrodite rides serenely through space, with the curling ten…
White-ground cup, attributed to the Sotades Painter

The story of Glaukos and Polyeidos is an old Cretan myth. Gl…
White-ground jug, attributed to the Brygos Painter

The finely-dressed woman on this vase is shown in the act of…
Young cow and herdsmen from the south frieze of the Parthenon

The procession of the Panathenaic festival accompanied cattl…
Bronze relief with Aphrodite and Anchises

This decorative relief from a mirror cover shows the goddess…
Figures of 3 goddesses from the east pediment of the Parthenon

The east pediment of the Parthenon showed the birth of godde…
Red-figured cup attributed to the Kodros Painter

The decoration of both the inside and the outside of this cu…
Red-figured volute-krater attributed to the Berlin Painter

The figure scenes on this volute- krater are confined to a n…
Red-figured water jar (hydria), signed by Meidias as potter

The figures on this hydria are divided into two zones. The u…
Red-figured wine bowl (bell-krater), signed by the painter Python

To seduce the virtuous Alkmene, Zeus assumed the form of her…

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