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Decorated pottery askos

Canosa was an important town in ancient Apulia (modern Pugli…
Discus-thrower (discobolus)

This marble statue is one of several copies of a lost bronze…
Glass bowl

This glass drinking vessel was made by slumping a preformed …
Glass cremation urn

This glass vessel still contains cremated bones and a fragme…
Glass cylindrical box

Only a shallow dish of similar greenish-blue glass in the Co…
Glass footed cup (skyphos)

This glass skyphos (winged-handled cup) belongs to a series …
Glass jug (oinochoe)

This blue glass oinochoe (jug) is a typical product of Etrus…
Glass perfume jar (alabastron)

The body of this glass alabastron was formed on a core. The …
Glass window pane

This bluish-green window pane is made up of several pieces. …
Gold alabastron (perfume bottle)

This elegant perfume phial with a long narrow body and point…
Gold box-bezel ring

This lightweight but elaborate ring is made of sheet gold an…
Gold earrings from the Kyme Treasure

These elaborate earrings are among a group of nearly a hundr…
Gold libation bowl (phiale) with six bulls

This shallow gold bowl is decorated with six bulls in relief…
Gypsum statue of woman

Large-scale stone sculpture first appears in Etruria in the …
Limestone cinerary urn in the form of seated man

This limestone figure of a seated man was used as an urn to …
Limestone cippus with relief showing musicians

This is one side of a limestone cippus , or marker, which wo…
Limestone reliefs showing two men leading a horse

This pair of limestone reliefs, which probably come from a t…
Marble bust of an old man

The bust shows an old man, clean-shaven and with closely-cro…
Marble bust of 'Clytie'

This sculpture was acquired from the family of the Principe …
Marble bust of Hercules

The bust represents the Greek hero Herakles (Roman Hercules)…
Marble cinerary urn of Vernasia Cyclas

The urn contained the ashes of Vernasia Cyclas, and was comm…
Marble funerary relief of Lucius Antistius Sarculo and Antistia Plutia

This relief originally formed part of the funerary monument …
Marble funerary slab decorated with a skeleton

The slab originally covered the front of a loculus , a small…
Marble group of Mithras slaying the bull

The cult of Mithras originated in Persia, but he was one of …
Marble head of a companion of Odysseus

This marble head with its very distinctive attitude and expr…
Marble inscription with damnatio memoriae of Geta, son of Septimius Severus

The inscription was dedicated by Antonius, a libertus or fre…
Marble portrait bust of Homer

Homer is thought to have lived in Greece around 750 to 700 B…
Marble portrait bust of Perikles

Perikles (died 429 BC) led the democracy of Athens at the he…
Marble portrait of a young boy as a worshipper of Isis

The boy's hairstyle suggests he was a worshipper of Isis, th…
Marble statue of a pair of dogs

These dogs were found with another similar pair near Civita …
Marble statue of Dionysos

Dionysos is heavily draped, and his hair bound with an ivy w…
Marble statue of Hermes

Together with a statue of Apollo, this sculpture once framed…
Marble statue of the spinario

This figure type, known as the spinario or thorn-puller, is …
Marble statue of Venus

This sculpture was one of a dozen or so found at the Roman v…
Marble statues of Pan, signed by M. Cossutius Cerdo

The two statues, one in Proconnesian marble from the Aegean,…
Objects from a tomb at Trebbia

During his long residence in southern Italy (1764-1800), the…
Painted plaques

These five painted terracotta plaques were found in a tomb i…
Painted roundel with portraits of a man and a woman

This roundel or medallion originally formed part of the deco…
Painted sarcophagus of Seianti Hanunia Tlesnasa

The name of Seianti Hanunia Tlesnasa is inscribed on the che…
Pair of bronze headrest supports (fulcra) from a couch

These bronze attachments would originally have decorated the…
Panel from a mosaic showing a lion and cupids

The scene shows a bound lion taunted by four cupids. In the …
Part of a marble sculpture of two boys fighting over a game of knucklebones

This sculpture represents a boy biting the limb of his oppon…
Pottery cinerary urn shaped like a hut

The Early Iron Age people of Etruria during the Villanovan p…
Pottery mug in the form of the wreathed head of a boy

Drinking vessels shaped like human or animal heads became po…
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 …
Sandwich gold-glass bowl

This bowl of sandwich gold-glass shows a fine floral design …
Sarcophagus lid with the portrait of a woman

This sarcophagus lid bears a portrait figure of the woman wh…
Shell cosmetic container

This shell, from a clam ( Tridacna squamosa ) was used as a …
Sigillata jug

The lower body of the jug is decorated with motifs in sharp …
Silver medallion with Aphrodite seated on a rock

This silver medallion may have originally ornamented a bowl.…
Stand and bowl with griffin's heads

Wine-drinking as a part of large social events seems to have…
Terracotta antefix of a Gorgon's head

Temples and some secular buildings in ancient Etruria, Campa…
Terracotta antefix, satyr's head and female head

This painted head was actually a terracotta antefix, a type …
Terracotta ash-urn with a lid in the form of a woman lying in bed

This enchanting terracotta ash-urn from Cerveteri shows a de…
Terracotta head of a young man

This head represents a young man with curling locks of hair.…
The Arcisate Treasure

The jug ( oinochoe ), two-handled cup (the handles now missi…
The Piranesi Vase

The celebrated Italian architect and engraver Giovanni Batti…
The Portland Vase

The scenes on the Portland Vase have been interpreted many t…
The Townley Vase

What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad purs…
Three bronze strigils with scenes from the Roman Circus

These three strigils or cleaning blades would have hung from…
Wall painting of Ulysses and the Sirens

The interior walls of wealthy Roman houses were often covere…
Young satyr on an altar with Bucrania and garlands

Among the works of the famous fourth-century BC Greek sculpt…
Giovanni Machion, Plants from the garden at Padua, an album

This volume of plants used in medicine is one of four prepar…
Rocks and minerals from Mount Vesuvius

The study of volcanoes was central to eighteenth-century dis…
Glass vessel (amphoriskos)

This glass vessel, known as an amphoriskos , was discovered …
Gold bracelet or diadem

This diadem or bracelet was found in a rich tomb at Tharros …
Gold earrings

These earrings, in the form of an ankh cut out of sheet gold…

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