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Antiquities
Small two-handled wine jar (amphoriskos) decorated with bards of animals. It features goats, panthers, a ram and a bird. 590-570 BC.
This oil bottle (aryballos) features two sirens facing each other over a lotus flower. Sirens were mythical half-women, half-bird creatures.
Oil bottle (aryballos) depicting a swan. Approximately 600 BC.
This head of a woman was once believed to be part of a figure from one of the sculptured frieze panels decorating the Parthenon on the Acropolis in Athens. It is now recognised that the type of marble and the style of carving indicate a different origin. The current thought is that this head may be a later Roman copy from the late 1 st century BC or early 1 st century AD.
