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Antiquities, Metalwork
Bronze Corinthian helmet. Greece. Approximately 700 BC
Antiquities
Greek lamp
Antiquities, Archaeology
One-handled jug (squat lekythos) from Paestum. The scene is of a cloaked woman seated beside an altar and making an offering from a plate. Attributed to the workshop of the artists known as Asteas and Python. Approximately 350-325 BC
Terracotta dog from Schlieman's excavations at Troy. Hellenistic period (330-30 BC)
World, Decorative Art, Antiquities
Gold earring
Wine jug (oinochoe). A boy is depicted playing a lyre to a woman while a satyr, a mythical creature, moves off to the right. There are traces of white paint on the woman. Women are conventionally portrayed as having white skin on Greek vases.
One-handled jug (squat lekythos). This has a simple decoration of impressed lines and semi-circles in a petal pattern. 450-400 BC
Antiquities, Numismatics
Obverse: Head of Apollo (?) l.; Border of dots. Reverse: Wheel of four spokes; M and A in adjacent compartments.
Obverse: Head of Artemis r., wearing wreath, necklace, and earring of three drops; top of bow and quiver behind (whole modelled on Persephone of Syracuse by Euaenetus); border of dots. Reverse: ΜΑΣΣΑ (above). On base line, lion prowling r.; beneath, Φ. Plain border.
Obverse: Bust of Artemis r., wearing stephane, necklace and earring of three drops; shoulders draped; long tresses on neck; top of bow and quiver behind. Border of dots. Reverse: ΜΑΣΣΑ (above). On base line, lion prowling r.; beneath, L; between hind legs [Δ with inverted T or Δ with I]; before lion, small wreath or Ω; traces of inscription in exergue, mostly off flan. Plain border.
Obverse: Wheel of six spokes. Plain border. Reverse: Double axe, with handle; above > (Concave).
Obverse: Wheel of six spokes; between two of them, pellet; double line border. Reverse: Head of double axe; on either side, pellet and crescent; plain border.
Obverse: Wheel of six spokes. Plain border. Reverse: Head of double axe; double line border.
Obverse: Wheel of six spokes; between two of them, pellet. Reverse: Anchor with two rings; on either side, pellet and crescent; plain border.
Obverse: To l., VOLCANOM. Head of Vulcan, l., wearing laur. pilos; behind, tongs. Border of dots. Reverse: Jupiter in biga galloping r., hurling fulmen. Above, Nike flying r., crowning horses. (Ex. off flan).