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Antiquities
Ceramics
Jug for wine or oil (askos), late Minoan period, octopus decoration
Ceramic rhyton (for pouring liquid offerings) in shape of a bull. Cyprus. Late Bronze Age.
The Alabastron or cylindrical jar is a Mycenaean form adapted from Minoan Crete. Cyprus. Late Helladic period.
Shallow handled cup. Mycenae. Late Helladic period.
Antiquities, Archaeology
Fragment of tile with inlay. Tell-el-Amarna. Egypt. Wall decoration from a room in the Palace., 18th Dynasty
Containers for cosmetics or trinkets (pointed pyxides). These containers were suspended by a cord threaded through the two holes in the lid and rim. 9th century BC.
