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Ancient Greek Art


1 - lk19m037.jpg - Glass perfume pots. 5th-4th century B.C. [Archaeological Museum of Abdera]

2 - lk17m047.jpg - Head of a Mycenaean figurine. [Archaeological Museum of Aiane]

3 - lk18m01a.jpg - Golden wreath from a male burial. Dated to the 4th century BC. - [Archaeological Museum of Amphipolis]

4 - lk4m7a03.jpg - Shield with the representation of a dying rider. Height 21 cm. [Museum of Corinth]

5 - 84.jpg - Geometric bronze figurine portraying a mounted kourotrophos (suckling) goddess, the horse and base restored. An extremely rare image drawn from the Mycenaean pantheon and reflecting the seasonal appearance and disappearance of the great mother-goddess of Nature. There are certain indications that this object may have come from the sanctuary of Zeus at Dodoni. About mid 8th c. BC. H. 0.07 m. Gift of Maria Chorafa. (Benaki Museum, 31475). Photo Makis Skiadaressis

6 - lk06m012.jpg - Mycenaean kylix: Conical, footed cup, decorated with cross-hatched triangles. It was found at the Mycenaean cemetery of Lakkithra and dates from the 12th century B.C. - [Archaeological Museum of Argostoli]

7 - lk06m013.jpg - Bronze fibula: The bow is shaped as a row of eight-figured loops. It was found at the Mycenaean cemetery of Diakata and dates from the 12th century B.C. - [Archaeological Museum of Argostoli]

8 - lk08m018.jpg - Head of a small kouros (nude youth). It is made of Kerkyraean poros and was found in 1966, during excavations at the estate of Mon Repos. Dated to 535-530 B.C. [Archaeological Museum of Corfu]

9 - lk11m019.jpg - Archaic relief pithos. Fragment decorated with representations of birds devouring bodies. Dated to the 7th century B.C. - [Archaeological Museum of Eretria]

10 - lk21a08g.jpg - Seated Goddess

11 - lm05m056.jpg - Gold mask from Mycenae. Funerary gold mask known as "Schliemann's Agamemnon", found in Shaft grave V of Grave Circle A at Mycenae. Dated to the second half of the 16th century B.C. Inv. no. 624. [National Archaeological Museum of Athens - Prehistoric Collection]

12 - lm05m058.jpg - Rock-crystal vase. Oval bowl made of rock crystal, with an open spout and a handle in the form of a duck's head. It is a true masterpiece of Minoan stonework, found in Grave O of Grave Circle B at Mycenae. Dated to the 16th century B.C. Inv. no. 8638. [National Archaeological Museum of Athens - Prehistoric Collection]

13 - sk01a025.jpg - The stoa of Eumenes. It is dated to the Hellenistic period and is attributed to Eumenes II, the king of Pergamos (197-159 B.C.). The stoa was constructed along the "peripatos", the road which runs above it and runs around the bot of the hill. It was built of conglomerate, poros stone, Hymettian marble and Pergamene marble, imported in cut blocks. [The South Slope of the Acropolis ]

14 - l2151255.jpg - Wall-painting with partridges and hoopoes. Knossos, Caravanserai. 15th-14th century B.C. [Knossos]

15 - lk19m01a.jpg - Galene. Votive relief from Galene. It represents a Thracian horseman-hero and bears an inscription with his name: "Jason". Dated to the 1st century B.C. [Archaeological Museum of Komotene]\