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Ivory figure of a hunchback

This skilful ivory carving shows the sad and huddled figure …
Ivory inset from a couch-end ornament in the form of a satyr's head

Couches made of wood and bronze were often decorated with a …
Marble statuette of a woman

Small scale statuettes became extremely popular during the H…
Silver beaker

As the expansion of the Greek world opened new markets to ar…
Terracotta funerary urn

This elaborately decorated vase was used as a cinerary urn (…
Terracotta mantle-dancer

Figures of dancers are popular in terracotta and are occasio…
Firman (letter of permission) for Lord Elgin

This document is an Italian translation of the original Otto…
Letter by Philip Hunt describing the removal of sculptures from the Parthenon temple

This document is a copy made by the Reverend Philip Hunt of …
Bronze coin of Cleopatra VII

Cleopatra VII (reigned 51-30 BC) was the last ruler of the P…
Blue glass intaglio with a portrait of Cleopatra VII

Cleopatra was born in 69-68 BC. When Ptolemy XII Auletes (th…
Bronze figurine of Hermes

The wide-brimmed petasos (sun hat) probably identifies this …
Bronze head from a full length portrait

During the Hellenistic period portrait types were created to…
Bronze mirror with Eos and Kephalos in relief

Elaborate bronze mirrors were produced in large numbers in G…
Bronze statue of a young woman

This half life-sized bronze figure is said to have been foun…
Clay ground 'Hadra' water-jar (hydria), attributed to the Dromeus Painter

'Hadra' hydriai are named after the Alexandrian cemetery of …
Conical glass bowl

The 'slumping process' by which bowls such as this were made…
Faience vessel in the form of Eros riding a duck

This jug is the finest faience vessel surviving from the Hel…
Gilded silver bowl

Fine craftsmanship flourished in the Hellenistic age, as the…
Gold diadem of twisted ribbons with a Herakles knot

This unusual and lovely diadem is made up of three long shee…
Gold earrings shaped like wild goat heads

Animal-headed earrings were an extremely popular design duri…
Gold wreath

This naturalistic wreath of oak-leaves and acorns is support…
Limestone statue of a female worshipper playing a lyre

The female worshipper wears a chiton girded just below her b…
Marble head of a companion of Odysseus

This marble head with its very distinctive attitude and expr…
Marble portrait of an unknown man

The Hellenistic period saw the rise of the private portrait,…
Marble statue of a charioteer

This marble figure, with its air of quiet dignity, can be id…
Marble statue of the spinario

This figure type, known as the spinario or thorn-puller, is …
Mosaic glass bowl

About 80 BC, a small craft sank off the south-west coast of …
Mosaic glass plate

This large polychrome plate of mosaic glass heralds the star…
Sandwich gold-glass bowl

This bowl of sandwich gold-glass shows a fine floral design …
Sculptured marble plinth

This carved square plinth comes from the later Temple of Art…
Silver medallion with Aphrodite seated on a rock

This silver medallion may have originally ornamented a bowl.…
Terracotta figure of a woman in Greek dress

This terracotta belongs to the time when Cyprus was part of …
Terracotta figure of winged Victory

The ancient city of Myrina, half-way between the powerful ce…
Terracotta figurine of a woman riding on a pig

The figurine shows a large pig, bearing on its back a fat wo…
Terracotta group of two women

The two women lean together on their comfortable-looking cou…
Terracotta head shaped like a vase

This terracotta head of a fashionable lady from southern Ita…
Terracotta 'Tanagra' figure

'Tanagra' figures are named after the site in Boeotia, centr…
Terracotta 'Tanagra' figure of a woman

Tanagra figures are named after the site in Boeotia, central…
'West Slope' ware jug (oinochoe) with a gorgon's head on the neck

'West Slope' ware is named from early finds made on the west…
Askos with painted scenes and applied figures

This vase is basically an askos , a simple globular spouted …
Bronze head of a goddess, probably Aphrodite

In about 1872 a man digging his field on the site of ancient…
Bronze head of Hypnos

Hypnos first appears in mythology in the works of one of the…
Bronze portrait of a man

The thick-walled casting of this bronze portrait of a man su…
Bronze statuette of a huntsman, perhaps Alexander the Great

Throughout antiquity royal dynasts promoted an image of them…
Chalcedony seal-stone with yellow jasper inclusions

This portrait is of a heavy-looking man, clean-shaven and wi…
Colossal marble head of Asklepios

This head comes from a colossal statue of the god Asklepios,…
Lead-glazed pottery drinking cup (skyphos)

This form of drinking cup, with deep body and ring handles w…
Limestone figure of a 'temple boy'

Statuettes like this, of a crouching child, were regularly d…
Marble column drum from the later Temple of Artemis at Ephesos

This is the best preserved column drum from the Temple of Ar…
Marble head of a youthful god: the 'Aberdeen Head'

Much of what we know of Greek sculpture is based on copies o…
Marble portrait of Alexander the Great

Literary sources tell us, though perhaps not reliably, that …
Marble statue of a naked Aphrodite crouching at her bath

In the fourth century BC the sculptor Praxiteles created a l…
Pair of disc and amphora earrings linked by a long chain

Following the arrival of Alexander the Great in Egypt in 332…
Portrait of the Greek philosopher Antisthenes

Antisthenes (about 450-370 BC) came to be regarded as the fo…
Portrait statuette of Socrates

Socrates (469-399 BC) is considered to be the intellectual f…
Red-figured water jar (hydria), attributed to the Lipari Painter

The Lipari Painter liked to enliven the traditional black-an…
Ribbed loutrophoros, attributed to the Painter of the Louvre Bottle

Gnathia ware is named after the Apulian town of Gnathia (Egn…
Silver libation bowl (phiale) with chariots

Shallow bowls such as this, with a round central boss, were …
Terracotta group of 'knucklebone' (astragalos) players

The two figures play a game similar to the modern game of 'j…
Terracotta 'Tanagra' figure of an old nurse

This stooped old woman with hunched shoulders holds a large,…
Bronze coin of Cleopatra VII

Cleopatra VII (reigned 51-30 BC) was the last ruler of the P…
Bronze mask of Dionysos

This striking mask was originally one of a pair of supports …
Mould-made bowl

The scene on this vase illustrates the abduction of Persepho…

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