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Tankard decorated with the signs of the zodiac and the planet Lords
Astrological images were popular decorative motifs on luxury…
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'Tell el-Yahudiyeh ware' juglet
Vessels of this type were first identified by the excavator …
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Pottery cremation urn
When excavated, this pot was found to contain a burned assem…
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Pottery cremation urn
The urn has a narrow neck that falls to widely flaring shoul…
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Pottery urn
The urn has a poorly made rim and sloping shoulders decorate…
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Saintonge Jug
This jug is one of a group of pots and fragments retrieved f…
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Pottery mortarium
Roman tastes in food favoured the use of sauces, relishes an…
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Pottery oil lamp
This mould-made lamp belongs to a type known as a volute-lam…
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Pottery oil-lamp
This lamp is known as a volute-lamp, so called from the form…
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The Prunay Vase
This type of pottery vessel is called a pedestal jar because…
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The Stockbridge urn
This collared urn was found turned upside down covering a hu…
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Coptic ostrakon
People often used broken pieces of pottery or stone as a con…
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Painted wooden canopic jars
The Sons of Horus were minor deities who protected the inter…
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Burnished pots
Pottery making is carried out in the dry season in many part…
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Double spout and bridge vessel with hummingbirds
The double spout and bridge vessel is one of the oldest cera…
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Double spout and bridge vessel with pelican and fish
The body of the vessel is painted with a pelican holding a f…
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Group of pottery model temples
Most Mexica temples were razed to the ground by the Spaniard…
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Group of three pottery figurines
Many small pottery figurines have been recovered in Central …
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Pottery dog
This hollow figure represents a dog, the most commonly portr…
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Pottery figurine of a woman holding a dog
Large, hollow ceramic figures, sitting or standing, are foun…
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Pottery vessel
Located in the Puebla-Tlaxcala Valley, in the central Mexica…
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Spout and bridge vessel in the shape of a dog
Vessels modelled into animals or edible plants are a common …
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The Fenton Vase
Polychrome ceramic vessels were a symbol of status and power…
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Large neo-Jomon pot
This beautifully balanced pot has a wide mouth and comparati…
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Portable set for outdoor Tea Ceremony
Tea Ceremonies were often held outside, especially when comb…
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Tea-caddy, with its set of bags and containers
The pottery tea caddy (second from the left) was probably ma…
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The pot-hoard from the Temple of Artemis at Ephesos
Deciding which are the earliest coins, let alone when they w…
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Askos in the form of a duck
This type of ornate ceramic askos , in the form of a duck, w…
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Askos with painted scenes and applied figures
This vase is basically an askos , a simple globular spouted …
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Black Gloss boss-centred dish (phiale) with relief decoration
The phiale , with its distinctive bossed centre, was a shall…
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Black-figured amphora
A flourishing school of vase-painting at Vulci in Etruria pr…
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Black-figured amphora (wine-jar) signed by Exekias as potter and attributed to him as painter
Penthesilea brought her Amazon warriors to help the Trojans …
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Black-figured bowl (dinos) and stand, signed by Sophilos as painter
The animal friezes on this black-figured bowl recall contemp…
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Black-figured lip cup, attributed to the Phrynos Painter
This black-figured lip cup shows the birth of the goddess At…
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Black-figured neck-amphora, signed by the potter Andokides; attributed to the painter Psiax
Andokides was one of the most successful potters of late six…
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Black-figured 'Siana' cup, attributed to the Burgon Group
'Siana' cups are so-named because many examples of this spec…
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Black-glaze mug, showing Perseus beheading the Gorgon Medusa
The hero Perseus rashly promised to acquire the head of Medu…
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Bowl with a gorgon's head
A frieze of panthers, deer, two sphinxes and a siren surroun…
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Bowl with basket-like handles and female heads on the rim
This bowl is painted in the 'Wild Goat' style: wild goats an…
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Bucchero ware drinking-cup (kantharos)
This bucchero ware drinking-cup ( kantharos ) has an inscrip…
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Calyx-krater (wine bowl)
The vase shows a kithara -player mounting a platform, watche…
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Decorated pottery vase
The potters of Amathus produced vases decorated in a particu…
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Jug with a griffin-head spout
The potting, the modelling of the griffin's head, and the pa…
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Kotyle with a running hound, attributed to the Hound Painter
This cup is larger than most Protocorinthian vases, and the …
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Lead-glazed pottery drinking cup (skyphos)
This form of drinking cup, with deep body and ring handles w…
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Lekythos showing Odysseus escaping from Polyphemos' cave
On his journey home from Troy, Odysseus found himself trappe…
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Objects from a tomb at Trebbia
During his long residence in southern Italy (1764-1800), the…
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Perfume bottle (aryballos) with lion-head mouth, attributed to the Chigi Painter
Despite its tiny size, the main figure scene on this perfume…
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Pottery lamp in the form of a ship
This ornate, mould-made lamp could accommodate up to twenty …
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Pottery perfume bottle (alabastron), attributed to the Pescia Romana Painter
This perfume-bottle is decorated with polychrome painting re…
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Red-figured cup, attributed to the Brygos Painter
Scenes of symposia were naturally a popular subject for the …
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Red-figured cup, attributed to the Foundry Painter
Athletic achievement was highly valued in ancient Greek soci…
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Red-figured drinking horn (rhyton), signed by the potter Sotades
Sotades was an inventive potter. One of his specialities was…
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Red-figured neck-amphora (jar), attributed to the Libation Painter
The elongated shape of this vase is characteristic of amphor…
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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…
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Red-figured storage jar (pelike), attributed to the Marsyas Painter
In Greek mythology, Thetis was a Nereid (sea-nymph), loved b…
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Red-figured water jar (hydria), attributed to the Lipari Painter
The Lipari Painter liked to enliven the traditional black-an…
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Red-figured wine bowl (bell-krater), attributed to the McDaniel Painter
Scenes from drama are only occasionally found in Athenian va…
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Red-figured wine bowl (calyx-krater)
After the sack of Troy, it took the Greek hero Odysseus ten …
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Red-figured wine bowl (calyx-krater), attributed to the Niobid Painter
The Greek myth of Pandora, the first woman, expresses the am…
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Red-figured wine bowl (volute-krater), attributed to the Baltimore Painter
The principal scene depicted on this wine bowl is dominated …
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Red-figured wine-cooler (psykter), signed by Douris as painter
This mushroom-shaped vessel would have been filled with wine…
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Ribbed black-glaze jug (oinochoe)
The goddess Hekate was closely connected with Artemis, the h…
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Ribbed loutrophoros, attributed to the Painter of the Louvre Bottle
Gnathia ware is named after the Apulian town of Gnathia (Egn…
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Six pottery bowls containing different coloured pigments
These six cups were found stacked by the side of a mummy, wh…
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The 'Hunt krater'
This large Corinthian column- krater (bowl for mixing wine …
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White-ground cup, attributed to the Pistoxenos Painter
Aphrodite rides serenely through space, with the curling ten…
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White-ground cup, attributed to the Sotades Painter
The story of Glaukos and Polyeidos is an old Cretan myth. Gl…
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