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FRANÇOIS BOUCHER. El rapto de Europa, 1747.

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RAPHAEL. Rafael Sanzio / 'La escuela de Atenas', hacia 1510, Fresco.

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PETER PAUL RUBENS. Pedro Pablo Rubens / 'Saturno devorando a un hijo', 1636-1637, Escuela Flamenca, Óleo sobre Lienzo, 182,5 cm x 87 cm, P01678.

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CARAVAGGIO. Medusa. Date/Period: From 1597 until 1598. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 60 cm (23.6 in); Width: 55 cm (21.6 in).

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SALVADOR DALÍ. Salvador Dalí, 'Leda atómica', 1949, Óleo sobre lienzo, 61,1 × 45,3 cm.

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DIEGO VELÁZQUEZ. Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez / 'La fragua de Vulcano', 1630, Escuela Española, Óleo sobre Lienzo, 223 cm x 290 cm, P01171.

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Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres / 'Júpiter y Tetis', 1811, Óleo sobre lienzo, 327 x 260 cm.

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UNKNOWN. Mosaic of the theatrical masks. Date/Period: 2nd century. Mosaic.

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Felipe II de Macedonia 382-336 aC padre de Alejandro Magno, copia posterior al original griego del siglo cuarto antes de Cristo.

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Head of Christ. Mosaic from apse at Santa Sophia, Istanbul XIIth century a.D.

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DIEGO VELÁZQUEZ. Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez / 'Los borrachos, o El triunfo de Baco', 1628-1629, Escuela Española, Óleo sobre Lienzo, 165 cm x 225 cm, P01170.

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Hippocrates and Galen. Fresco, XIIIth century AD.

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Nicolas Poussin / 'El Parnaso', 1630-1631, Escuela Francesa, Óleo sobre Lienzo, 145 cm x 197 cm, P02313.

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EUGENE DELACROIX. Eugène Delacroix / 'La muerte de Sardanápalo', 1827, Óleo sobre lienzo, 392 x 496 cm.

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SANDRO BOTTICELLI. Idealized Portrait of a Lady (Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci as Nymph). Date/Period: 1480. Painting. Tempera. Width: 54 cm. Height: 81.8 cm (Complete).

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Edgar Degas / 'Jóvenes espartanos', hacia 1860, Óleo sobre lienzo, 109,5 x 155 cm, NG3860.

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REMBRANDT. Aristotle with a Bust of Homer. Date/Period: 1653. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 143.5 cm (56.4 in); Width: 136.5 cm (53.7 in).

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LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA. Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema / 'Escena pompeyana, o La siesta', 1868, Escuela Inglesa, Óleo sobre Lienzo, 130 cm x 360 cm, P03996.

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SIR LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA, R. A., O. M.. Sappho and Alcaeus. Date/Period: 1881. Oil paintings; panel paintings. Oil on panel oil on panel. Height: 104.14 mm (4.10 in); Width: 122 mm (4.80 in).

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Vecellio di Gregorio Tiziano / 'Dánae recibiendo la lluvia de oro', 1553, Escuela Italiana, Óleo sobre Lienzo, 129,8 cm x 181,2 cm, P00425.

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Terracotta skyphos (deep drinking cup). Culture: Greek, Attic. Dimensions: H. 6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm) diameter 8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm). Date: ca. 500 B.C.. The Pankration was an athletic contest that combined boxing, wrestling, and kicking. In the surviving representations, it is not always easy to distinguish the pankration from boxing or wrestling matches. Such is the case here where the competition takes place under the eyes of a trainer and an onlooker.

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JACQUES LOUIS DAVID. The Death of Socrates. Date/Period: 1787. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 129.5 cm (50.9 in); Width: 196.2 cm (77.2 in).

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Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres / 'La apoteosis de Homero', 1827, Óleo sobre lienzo, 386 x 515 cm.

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MICHEL CORNEILLE THE YOUNGER. Aspasie au milieu des philosophes de la Grèce / Aspasia surrounded by Greek philosophers. Date/Period: 1670s. Painting. Oil on canvas mounted on panel. Height: 100 cm (39.3 in); Width: 200 cm (78.7 in).

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TIZIANO. Bacchus and Ariadne. Date/Period: From 1520 until 1523. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 176.5 cm (69.4 in); Width: 191 cm (75.1 in).

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Marble statue of a Kore, c.540.

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KARL FRIEDRICH SCHINKEL y AUGUST AHLBORN. Blick in Griechenlands Blüte / View into the Heyday of Greece. Date/Period: 1836. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 94 cm (37 in); Width: 235 cm (92.5 in).

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Young Pharaoh Tutankhamun portrait head in lotus leaf painted wood 20th dynasty treasure of Tutankhamun.

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GUSTAVE MOREAU. Orphée / Orpheus. Date/Period: 1865. Painting. Oil on panel. Height: 154 cm (60.6 in); Width: 99.5 cm (39.1 in).

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alb3896565
EL GRECO. View of Toledo. Date/Period: Between ca. 1596 and ca. 1600. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 121.3 cm (47.7 in); Width: 108.6 cm (42.7 in).

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Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres / 'Tu Marcellus Eris o Virgilio leyendo la Eneida', 1814, Óleo sobre lienzo.

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Terracotta Panathenaic prize amphora. Culture: Greek, Attic. Dimensions: H: 25 in. (63.5 cm). Date: ca. 500 B.C.. Obverse, Athena Reverse, pankration (athletic contest) and judge After the mid-sixth century B.C., artists' signatures do not appear on Panathenaic prize amphorae. It seems, however, that certain artists used their own "trademark" shield devices. The Kleophrades Painter favored Pegasos, the winged horse. The reverse of this vase depicts the pankration, which combined wrestling, boxing, and kicking. The inclusion of the judge may highlight the particular danger of the event to the competitors.

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CHARLES LE BRUN. Les reines de Perse aux pieds d'Alexandre dit aussi la tente de Darius / The Queens of Persia at the feet of Alexander, also called The Tent of Darius. Date/Period: 17th century. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 298 cm (117.3 in); Width: 453 cm (14.8 ft).

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alb330814
Greek black figure vase. Charioteer and horses.

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PIETRO TESTA. The Symposium. Dated: 1648. Dimensions: sheet: 31.2 × 43.6 cm (12 5/16 × 17 3/16 in.) plate: 45.8 × 38 cm (18 1/16 × 14 15/16 in.). Medium: etching.

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alb2069167
Sebastiano Conca / 'Alejandro Magno en el Templo de Jerusalén', 1736, Escuela Italiana, Óleo sobre Lienzo, 52 cm x 70 cm, P00101.

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JEAN AUGUSTE DOMINIQUE INGRES. La maladie d'Antiochus, ou Antiochus et Stratonice. Date/Period: 1840. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 770 mm (30.31 in); Width: 610 mm (24.01 in).

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Marble bust of Herodotos. Culture: Roman. Dimensions: H. 18 3/4 in. (47.6 cm). Date: 2nd century A.D.. Copy of a Greek bronze statue of the first half of the fourth century B.C. Herodotos (ca. 484-424 B.C.) of Halikarnassos achieved fame in his lifetime for his Histories, which chronicle the Greek wars with Persia in the first quarter of the fifth century B.C. and the years surrounding those momentous events. His most brilliant and original accomplishment was his conception of a narrative that interweaves local traditions in a span of more than seventy years and encompasses much of the world known to the ancient Greeks through fact and fiction. Cicero called him the father of history. This work is one of numerous extant Roman copies that stem from a Greek statue, probably of the first half of the fourth century B.C. Portraits of Herodotos also appear on Roman bronze coins from Halikarnassos.

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alb2037672
'Heinrich Schliemann', Fotografía publicada en el libro "Schliemann's Excavations", 1891.

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Vessel terminating in the forepart of a fantastic leonine creature. Culture: Achaemenid. Dimensions: H. 17 cm. Date: ca. 5th century B.C.. Horn-shaped vessels ending in an animal's head have a long history in the Near East as well as in Greece and Italy. Early Iranian examples are straight, with the cup and animal head in the same plane. Later, in the Achaemenid period, the head, or animal protome, was often placed at a right angle to the cup, as in this piece. In the manufacture of this gold vessel, several parts were invisibly joined by brazing, which demonstrates superb technical skill. One hundred and thirty-six feet of twisted wire decorate the upper band of the vessel in forty-four even rows, and the roof of the lion's mouth is raised in tiny ribs. Typical of Achaemenid style, the ferocity of the snarling lion has been tempered and restrained by decorative convention. The lion has a crest running down his back; his mane has the disciplined appearance of a woven material; and his flanks are covered by an ostrich plume. The inclusion of the plume, a departure from convention, suggests that this lion is winged and has some supernatural significance.

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DIEGO VELAZQUEZ. Diego Velázquez / 'Menipo', 1639-1640, Óleo sobre lienzo, 179 × 97 cm, P01207.

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Female Musicians. Artist: Charles K. Wilkinson. Dimensions: facsimile:H. 41 × W. 64.8 cm (16 1/8 × 25 1/2 in.) scale 1:1 framed: 42.9 × 66.7 cm (16 7/8 × 26 1/4 in.). Dynasty: Dynasty 18. Reign: reign of Thutmose IV. Date: A.C. 1920-1921, original ca. 1400-1390 B.C.. This facsimile painting copies a detail of entertainers in a banquet scene in the tomb of Djeserkaraseneb (TT 38) at Thebes. Shown here is the troup of female musicians who entertain the guests.

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LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA. A Reading from Homer. Date/Period: 1885. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 91.8 cm (36.1 in); Width: 183.5 cm (72.2 in).

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SANDRO BOTTICELLI. La Primavera .Detail of Spring c.1477-1490.

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PIETRO DA CORTONA. Battle of Alexander versus Darius. Date/Period: 1644 - 1650. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 1,730 mm (68.11 in); Width: 3,750 mm (12.30 ft).

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alb330808
Greek hydria from Rhodes, c.440-430 b.C. showing woman seated on chair playing lyre.

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PETER PAUL RUBENS. Romulus and Remus. Date/Period: 1615 - 1616. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 2,130 mm (83.85 in); Width: 2,120 mm (83.46 in).

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The Parthenon. Artist: Frederic Edwin Church (American, Hartford, Connecticut 1826-1900 New York). Dimensions: 44 1/2 x 72 5/8 in. (113 x 184.5 cm). Date: 1871. Church visited Greece in 1869 and spent several weeks in Athens. There, he painted numerous studies and oil sketches of the ruins of the Parthenon that later served as the basis for this work. Although he intended to paint a large canvas of the Parthenon while still in Greece, it was not until 1871 that a commission from the financier and philanthropist Morris K. Jesup permitted Church to begin this large canvas. By February of that year, he was already at work on "a big Parthenon". By May, he had apparently finished the painting and wrote of his concern for its proper lighting in Jesup's home. The picture was first exhibited in New York at Goupil's Gallery in 1872 where it was highly acclaimed. It appeared subsequently in many major exhibitions, including the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1878.

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Oedipus and the Sphinx. Artist: Gustave Moreau (French, Paris 1826-1898 Paris). Dimensions: 81 1/4 x 41 1/4 in. (206.4 x 104.8 cm). Date: 1864. The legendary Greek prince Oedipus confronts the malevolent Sphinx, who torments travelers with a riddle: What creature walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs in the evening? Remains of victims who answered incorrectly litter the foreground. (The solution is the human, who crawls as a baby, strides upright in maturity, and uses a cane in old age.) Moreau made his mark with this painting at the Salon of 1864. Despite the growing prominence of depictions of everyday life, he portrayed stories from the Bible, mythology, and his imagination. His otherworldly imagery inspired many younger artists and writers, including Odilon Redon and Oscar Wilde.

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AFTER CHARLES LE BRUN. Entry of Alexander the Great into Babylon, or The Triumph of Alexander. Dated: 18th century. Dimensions: overall: 30.8 x 22.9 cm (12 1/8 x 9 in.) framed: 43.4 x 35.6 cm (17 1/16 x 14 in.). Medium: bronze.

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alb330984
Attic red figure vase with detail of Amazon fighting cavalry, IVth century b.C.

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alb331669
Copa "hoplita".

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ANTONIO ALLEGRI, CALLED CORREGGIO. Jupiter and Io. Date/Period: 1520 - 1540. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 1,620 mm (63.77 in); Width: 735 mm (28.93 in).

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ANCIENT GREEK. Helmet. Greek, Macedon. Date: 400 BC-301 BC. Dimensions: 35.6 × 19.4 × 30.5 cm (14 × 7 5/8 × 12 in.). Bronze. Origin: Macedonia.

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alb3623547
Terracotta statuette of a dancing girl. Culture: Greek, Corinthian. Dimensions: H. 4 15/16 in. (12.5 cm). Date: 4th century B.C.. Female dancer, toes touching base, propped up by support in back. Right foot advanced, right arm raised, left hand on hip. Wearing a flaring, striped headdress (a kalathiskos) with two fillets falling to shoulders in back. Garment is a knee length chiton. Red stripe on right leg suggests boots. Round, flat base.

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Terracotta statuette of a doll. Culture: Greek, South Italian, Tarentine. Dimensions: H. 6 5/8 in. (16.8 cm). Date: 3rd century B.C.. Nude, wearing earrings and diadem.

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alb3625238
Harvest Scenes, Tomb of Menna. Artist: Charles K. Wilkinson. Dimensions: facsimile: h. 76 cm (29 15/16 in); w. 186 cm (73 1/4 in) scale 1:1 framed: h. 78.7 cm (31 in); w. 188 cm (74 in). Dynasty: Dynasty 18. Reign: reign of Thutmose IV-Amenhotep III. Date: ca. 1400-1352 B.C..

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Chalcedony scaraboid. Culture: Greek. Dimensions: 5/8 × 1/2 × 11/16 in. (1.5 × 1.3 × 1.7 cm). Date: ca. 500 B.C.. Archer testing arrow Epimenes signed his name on a gem now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He was probably trained on one of the Aegean islands.

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FRANÇOIS BOUCHER. El baño de Diana. Museo de Louvre. Paris.

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Mosaico de la Virgen flanqueada por el emperador Juan II y la emperatriz Irene Commenus que gobernó el Imperio Bizantino (1118-1143).

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Sphinx of Hatshepsut. Dimensions: H: 164 cm (64 9/16 in.); L: 343 cm (135 1/16 in.); Wt: 6758.6 kg (14900 lb.). Dynasty: Dynasty 18. Reign: Joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III. Date: ca. 1479-1458 B.C.. This colossal sphinx portrays the female pharaoh Hatshepsut with the body of a lion and a human head wearing a nemes headcloth and royal beard. The sculptor has carefully observed the powerful muscles of the lion as contrasted to the handsome, idealized face of the pharaoh. It was one of at least six granite sphinxes that stood in Hatshepsut's mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahri. Smashed into many fragments at the order of Hatshepsut's nephew and successor Thutmose III and dumped in a quarry close by, this beast was recovered by the Museum's Egyptian Expedition and reassembled. It weighs more than seven tons. Part of a second sphinx of Hatshepsut (31.3.164) is on display in gallery 115. The sphinx has a long history in Egyptian art, the most famous example being the great sphinx at Giza which represents the Fourth Dynasty King Khafre who lived almost a thousand years before Hatshsepsut. Sphinxes representing other pharaohs may be seen throughout the Egyptian galleries.

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Glass conical bowl. Culture: Greek, Syro-Palestinian. Dimensions: H.: 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm) Diam.: 6 in. (15.2 cm). Date: mid-2nd-early 1st century B.C.. Translucent honey brown. Upright rounded but uneven rim; undulating side, tapering diagonally downward; convex bottom. On interior, a single horizontal groove below rim, cut irregularly. Broken and repaired, with one hole and several chips in side; internal strain cracks around rim; some bubbles; one patch of whitish iridescent weathering below rim on exterior, and dulling and faint weathering on interior. Rotary grinding marks on interior; some irregular tooling marks below rim on exterior.

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JEAN-BAPTISTE HILAIR. Yeni Camii and The Port of Istanbul. Date/Period: Late 18th century. Painting. Watercolor on paper. Height: 405 mm (15.94 in); Width: 575 mm (22.63 in).

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alb2068972
Vecellio di Gregorio Tiziano / 'La bacanal de los andrios', 1523-1526, Escuela Italiana, Óleo sobre Lienzo, 175 cm x 193 cm, P00418.

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VERNEDA GIACOMO MILHEAU. The bombardment of the Parthenon on 26 September 1687. Date/Period: 17th century. Painting. Watercolor. Height: 250 mm (9.84 in); Width: 720 mm (28.34 in).

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Plate 3: The Age of Gold (Aetas aurea), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'. Artist: Antonio Tempesta (Italian, Florence 1555-1630 Rome). Dimensions: Sheet: 4 1/8 × 4 5/8 in. (10.4 × 11.8 cm). Date: 1606.

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ANCIENT GREEK. Tetradrachm (Coin) Portraying King Ptolemy I. Greco-Egyptian. Date: 253 BC-252 BC. Dimensions: Diam. 2.7 cm; 14.14 g. Silver. Origin: Tyre.

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alb3625996
Faience polyhedron inscribed with letters of the Greek alphabet. Culture: Roman. Dimensions: Width (Point to point, greatest): 2 11/16 in., 7.2oz. (6.8 cm, 204.9g) Width (Point to point ,smallest): 2 1/2 in. (6.3 cm) Width (Side to side, greatest): 2 3/16 in. (5.6 cm) Width (Side to side, smallest): 2 3/16 in. (5.5 cm). Date: 2nd-3rd century A.D.. A number of polyhedra made in various materials are known from the Hellenistic and Roman periods. They may have been used in conjunction with an oracle inscribed on a pillar set up in a public place. The polyhedron was thrown in order to choose a letter at random. One consulted the inscription to find the matching letter and read the oracle's response. There would be twenty oracular messages, each beginning with a letter of the alphabet that corresponded to one side of the dice.

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Greek canthare with double head of woman one white and the other black or negro, c.540 b.C.

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PADOVANINO (ALESSANDRO VAROTARI). 'Eumenos and Roxana'. Italy, 1630s. Dimensions: 73x124,5 cm.

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alb331462
Attic red figure krater with dionysian scene by Master of Niobids, 460 b.C.

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GERARD HOET (I). The Marriage of Alexander the Great and Roxane of Bactria. Dating: 1670 - 1733. Measurements: h 32 cm × w 41 cm.

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alb3284844
Acropolis de Atenas. Partenón. Conjunto exterior de las ruinas, 447-432 a.c.

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Giambattista Tiepolo (Venecia, 1696-Madrid, 1770). La muerte de Jacinto (hacia 1752 - 1753). Óleo sobre lienzo. 287 x 232 cm.

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Filipo II de Macedonia 382-336 aC padre de Alejandro Magno.

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alb3624133
Terracotta Panathenaic prize amphora (jar). Culture: Greek, Attic. Dimensions: H. 25 in. (63.5 cm). Date: ca. 510 B.C.. Obverse, Athena Reverse, horse race This representation of a horse race includes the post marking the turn in the course.

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alb4150893
Winged Victory of Samothrace (Victoire de Samothrace). Artist Unknown. Date: 1860-1869. Dimensions: 45.4 × 36.8 cm (image/ paper/ mount). Albumen print. Origin: .

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Fresco of detail of procession of gift-bearers from Minoan Palace of Knossos Crete XVIth century b.C.

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FRANCISCO DE ZURBARAN. Francisco de Zurbarán / 'Hércules y el Cancerbero', 1634, Escuela Española, Óleo sobre Lienzo, 132 cm x 151 cm, P01247.

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ANCIENT GREEK. Drachm (Coin) Depicting the Goddess Hera. Greek; minted in Knossos, Crete. Date: 350 BC-220 BC. Dimensions: Diam. 1.9 cm; 5.30 g. Silver. Origin: Knossos.

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Calliope. Artist: Joseph Fagnani (1819-1873). Dimensions: 43 1/2 x 33 1/2 in. (110.5 x 83.8 cm). Date: 1869.

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Apollo, Attic marble figure known as the Munich Kouros, Greek, 540-30 BC.

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CORNELIUS VAN POELENBURGH. The Goddess Calypso rescues Ulysses. Date/Period: 1630. Oil on Copper. Oil on copper. Height: 205 mm (8.07 in); Width: 170 mm (6.69 in).

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alb3632229
Gold earring with a sphinx. Culture: Greek. Dimensions: Overall: 2 3/4 x 1 3/16in. (7 x 3cm). Date: 4th-3rd century B.C.. The sphinx and her base, including the six loops, are modeled in one piece in repoussé and chasing.

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Lead figure of a warrior with a helmet and shield. Culture: Greek, Laconian. Dimensions: Height: 2 1/2 in. (6.4 cm). Date: 6th-5th century B.C.. Small flat votive figurines of cast lead have been found in great quantities at the ancient sanctuaries of Laconia; over one hundred thousand, dating from the seventh century B.C. to the Classical period, were dedicated to the goddess Artemis Orthia in Sparta.

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alb3894906
CORREGGIO. Leda and the Swan. Date/Period: Ca. 1532. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 156.2 cm (61.4 in); Width: 195.3 cm (76.8 in).

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Model Cattle stable from the tomb of Meketre. Dimensions: l. 72.5 cm (28 9/16 in); w. 57 cm (22 7/16 in); h. 28.5 cm (11 1/4 in) average height of cattle: 18 cm (7 1/16 in.). Dynasty: Dynasty 12. Reign: reign of Amenemhat I, early. Date: ca. 1981-1975 B.C.. This model of a stable was found with twenty three other models of boats, gardens, and workshops in a hidden chamber at the side of the passage leading into the rock cut tomb of the royal chief steward Meketre, who began his career under King Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II of Dynasty 11 and continued to serve successive kings into the early years of Dynasty 12. Cattle are being fattened for slaughter in this stable. Four oxen feed from a manger in the large stall; two others are being hand fed by the stablemen from a pile of fodder and a sack of grain in the room in front. One of the cattle is so fat he can no longer stand. By the door sits an overseer with a baton in his hand. All the accessible rooms in the tomb of Meketre had been robbed and plundered already during Antiquity; but early in 1920 the Museum's excavator, Herbert Winlock, wanted to obtain an accurate floor plan of the tomb's layout for his map of the Eleventh Dynasty necropolis at Thebes and, therefore, had his workmen clean out the accumulated debris. It was during this cleaning operation that the small hidden chamber was discovered, filled with twenty-four almost perfectly preserved models. Eventually, half of these went to the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, and the other half came to the Metropolitan Museum in the partition of finds.

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alb3675724
Reconstruction of a Cartouche of Amenhotep III. Dimensions: H. 52.1 cm (20 1/2 in); w. 15.4 cm (6 1/16 in); d. 5.4 cm (2 1/8 in.). Dynasty: Dynasty 18. Reign: reign of Amenhotep III. Date: ca. 1390-1353 B.C.. The blue faience tiles in this reconstruction were discovered during the Museum's excavations at Malqata, the site of a festival city built by Amenhotep III for the celebration of his three rejuvination festivals, or <i>heb seds</i>. The original cartouche was made of faience tiles and gilded plaster set into wood that was badly decayed and could not be preserved (see the excavation photograph above). In this reconstruction, the tiles have been set into plaster that has been painted to imitate gold leaf. The cartouche containes the king's throne name, <i>Nebmaatre</i>. The original cartouche decoration was found in the Temple of Amun, which was built for the king's second heb sed. The excavators also found a long section of cornice decoration, and a group of tiles that had been used to create a geometric pattern, probabaly on a piece of temple furniture made of wood. the cornice and cartouche were also probably decorative elements of temple furniture.

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NORMAND ALFRED NICOLAS. The northwest side of the Acropolis and the surrounding area. Date/Period: 1851. Photograph. Height: 600 mm (23.62 in); Width: 500 mm (19.68 in).

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alb2015444
El Greco / 'La Sagrada Familia con Santa Ana', hacia 1595, Óleo sobre lienzo, 106 × 127 cm.

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GELL SIR WILLIAM. The removal of the Sculptures from the Pediments of the Parthenon by Elgin. Date/Period: 1801. Painting. Watercolor on laid paper. Height: 200 mm (7.87 in); Width: 310 mm (12.20 in).

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alb3891673
ANTON VON MARON. The Return of Orestes. Date/Period: 1786. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 227.7 cm (89.6 in); Width: 151.1 cm (59.4 in).

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SALVATOR ROSA. 'Democritus and Protagoras'. Italy, 1663-1664. Dimensions: 185x128 cm.

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JUSEPE DE RIBERA. The Drunken Silenus. Dated: 1628. Dimensions: sheet (cut within platemark): 27.2 x 35.3 cm (10 11/16 x 13 7/8 in.). Medium: etching on laid paper.

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alb3906928
PAOLO VERONESE. The Family of Darius before Alexander. Date/Period: 1565. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 236.2 cm (92.9 in); Width: 474.9 cm (15.5 ft).

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PIETRO TESTA. Achilles Dragging the Body of Hector. Medium: etching.

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JOSÉ DE RIBERA. José de Ribera / 'Demócrito (¿?)', 1630, Escuela Española, Óleo sobre Lienzo, 125 cm x 81 cm, P01121.

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WILLIAM JAMES STILLMAN. Propylaea from the Southwest. Dated: 1882. Dimensions: image: 36.1 × 43.1 cm (14 3/16 × 16 15/16 in.) mount: 42.3 × 49.9 cm (16 5/8 × 19 5/8 in.). Medium: carbon print.

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alb3718421
WILLIAM JAMES STILLMAN. The Acropolis of Athens, plate 14. Dated: 1869/1870. Dimensions: image: 18.8 x 23.5 cm (7 3/8 x 9 1/4 in.) mount: 36.9 x 53.2 cm (14 1/2 x 20 15/16 in.). Medium: carbon print.

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alb4129166
ANCIENT GREEK. Tertradrachm (Coin) Portraying Alexander the Great as Herakles. Greek, minted in Amphipolis, Macedonia. Date: 336 BC-323 BC. Dimensions: Diam. 2.7 cm; 16.96 g. Silver. Origin: Greece.

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Stele inscribed with Mitilene decree called Peace of Alexander 330-329BC.

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ANCIENT GREEK. Hydria (Water Jar). Greek; Apulia, Italy; Attributed to the Iliupersis Painter. Date: 360 BC-350 BC. Dimensions: 53 × 41.2 × 34.2 cm (20 7/8 × 16 1/4 × 13 1/2 in.). Terra-cotta, decorated in the red-figure technique. Origin: Puglia.

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alb3622791
Allegory of Music. Artist: Laurent de La Hyre (French, Paris 1606-1656 Paris). Dimensions: 41 5/8 x 56 3/4 in. (105.7 x 144.1 cm). Date: 1649. The allegorical figure tunes a theorbo. At her shoulder is a songbird, symbol of natural music, whereas by contrast she may be a representation of modern music theory and practice. To the right are various contemporary instruments and scores: a lute, a violin, two recorders, a vocal exercise, and a song in two parts. This canvas, originally flanked by two music-making putti (Musée Magnin, Dijon), belonged to a series of the seven Liberal Arts commissioned by Gédéon Tallemant (1613-1668) for his house in the Marais quarter in Paris.

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alb331446
Funerary relief with figure of warrior, Thracian, Stone, from Plovdiv.

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alb3904033
MATTIA PRETI. Diogenes and Plato. Date/Period: 1649. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 1,010 mm (39.76 in); Width: 1,510 mm (59.44 in).

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MAURICE DENIS. 'Panel 5. In the Presence of the Gods Jupiter Bestows Immortality on Psyche and Celebrates Her Marriage to Eros'. The Story of Psyche Series. France, 1908. Dimensions: 399x272 cm.

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alb331459
Greek red figure amphora. Woman playing "flute".

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alb331457
Marble statue of Kore dressed in Ionian style.

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alb331442
Marble funerary stele with inscription 4th century BC.

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alb4161188
Pale Grew Her Immortality, For Woe of All These Lovers. Will Hicock Low; American, 1853-1932. Date: 1885. Dimensions: 276 x 401 mm. Brown and white gouache on cream wood-pulp laminate board. Origin: United States.

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alb4146189
THéODORE CARUELLE D' ALIGNY. Corinth: Temple of Neptune and the Acrocorinth. Théodore Caruelle d'Aligny; French, 1798-1871. Date: 1846. Dimensions: 325 × 478 mm (image); 440 × 595 mm (plate); 335 × 483 mm (primary support); 500 × 640 mm (secondary support). Etching on ivory China paper, laid down on white wove paper. Origin: France.

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alb4137123
SPANISH SCHOOL. Heraclitus, the Weeping Philosopher. Spanish. Date: 1620-1640. Dimensions: 34 1/2 x 29 1/2 in. Oil on canvas. Origin: Spain.

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alb3640572
Death of Socrates. Artist: Anonymous, German, 19th century. Dimensions: 10 7/16 x 13 11/16 in. (26.5 x 34.8 cm). Date: 19th century.

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alb4129587
ANCIENT GREEK. Tetradrachm (Coin) Depicting the Goddess Athena. Greek, minted in Athens. Date: 514 BC-509 BC. Dimensions: Diam. 2.4 cm; 16.87 g. Silver. Origin: Athens.

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ANCIENT GREEK. Stater (Coin) Depicting Pegasus Flying. Greek, Corinth. Date: 400 BC-201 BC. Dimensions: Diam. 2 cm; 8.51 g. Silver. Origin: Corinth.

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alb331436
Attic krater fluted red figure with 2 handles 4th century BC with scene of hunting wild boar.

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CARAVAGGIO. El Dios Baco, (Detalle de las frutas), hacia 1596-1598, Óleo sobre lienzo.

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alb331469
The Panathenaica amphora black-figure by Berlin painter, 470 b.C with quadriga chariot race.

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alb4144550
Medallion with Plato. Wedgwood Manufactory; England, founded 1759. Date: 1775-1799. Dimensions: 7.1 × 6.2 × 1 cm (2 13/16 × 2 7/16 × 3/8 in.). Stoneware (jasperware). Origin: Burslem.

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alb330985
Protogeometric terracotta skyphos with painted cross and circles from necropolis at Dion, Macedonia.

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alb3735332
PIERRE WOEIRIOT. The Brazen Bull of Phalarus. Medium: engraving.

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Perseus liberates Andromeda fresco from Pompeii, 1st Century AD.

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alb330738
Attic red figure krater with figure of warrior by Master of Niobids, 460 b.C.

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ANCIENT GREEK. Denarius (Coin) Portraying Mark Antony and Queen Cleopatra VII. Romano-Greek, mint moving with Antony. Date: 51 BC-30 BC. Dimensions: Diam. 1.9 cm; 3.36 g. Silver. Origin: Ancient Greece.

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ANCIENT GREEK. Rhyton (Drinking Vessel) in the Shape of a Donkey Head. Greek; Athens; Attributed to the Painter of London E 55 (Manner of Douris). Date: 480 BC-470 BC. Dimensions: H. 20 cm (7 1/8 in.); diam. 9.3 cm (3 5/8 in.). Terra-cotta, decorated in the red-figure technique. Origin: Athens.

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alb330736
Painted pottery Rhyton with head of satyr from Trebbia Valley, 4th century b.C.

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alb1307940
Portada del libro 'El canto de las sirenas. Argumentos musicales' de Eugenio Trías.

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alb330734
Attic amphora red-figure by Peleo painter 440-430 b.C from Trebbia Valley showing philosophers in conversation.

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alb3737824
AGOSTINO DEI MUSI. Iphigenia Recognizing Her Brother. Medium: engraving.

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alb4129975
ANCIENT GREEK. Tetradrachm (Coin) Depicting the Goddess Athena. Greek, minted in Athens. Date: 530 BC-490 BC. Dimensions: Diam. 2.3 cm; 17.34 g. Silver. Origin: Greater Athens.

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alb3699126
JEAN AUGUSTE DOMINIQUE INGRES. Ulysses. Dated: 1827. Dimensions: overall: 25.1 x 19.2 cm (9 7/8 x 7 9/16 in.) framed: 43.2 x 37.5 x 4.4 cm (17 x 14 3/4 x 1 3/4 in.). Medium: oil on canvas on wood.

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alb4220856
JACQUES LOUIS DAVID. 'Sappho and Phaon'. France, 1809. Dimensions: 225,3x262 cm.

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GAETANO ZOMPINI, AFTER GIOVANNI BENEDETTO CASTIGLIONE. Chiron Teaches Geography to Achilles. Dated: 1758/1759. Dimensions: plate: 20.8 x 29 cm (8 3/16 x 11 7/16 in.) sheet: 27.9 x 37.9 cm (11 x 14 15/16 in.). Medium: etching in sanguine on laid paper.

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alb4129293
ANCIENT GREEK. Stater (Coin) Depicting a Crouching Dog. Greek. Date: 500 BC-401 BC. Dimensions: Diam. 1.9 cm; 16.05 g. Electrum. Origin: Mysia.

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ANCIENT GREEK. Tetradrachm (Coin) Portraying Alexander the Great. Greek, minted in Ephesus, Asia Minor. Date: 306 BC-281 BC. Dimensions: Diam. 3.1 cm; 16.78 g. Silver. Origin: Ephesus.

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alb4223936
ANTON RAPHAEL MENGS. 'Judgement of Paris'. Germany, Circa 1757. Dimensions: 226x295,5 cm.

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ANCIENT GREEK. Coin Depicting Silphium Plant. Greek. Date: 480 BC-435 BC. Dimensions: Diam. 1.4 cm; 3.19 g. Silver. Origin: Barce.

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alb4130171
ANCIENT GREEK. Tetradrachm (Coin) Portraying King Antiochus I Soter. Greek. Date: 281 BC-261 BC. Dimensions: Diam. 2.8 cm; 17.02 g. Silver. Origin: Ancient Near East.

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Ánfora, antigua Grecia. Heracles bringing the Erymanthian boar to Eurystheus. Attica, Greece. 540BC-530BC.

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ANCIENT GREEK. Tetradrachm (Coin) Portraying King Ptolemy II and Queen Arsinoë II. Greco-Egyptian. Date: 285 BC-247 BC. Dimensions: Diam. 2.1 cm; 13.85 g. Gold. Origin: Egypt.

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alb3746834
DONATO CRETI. Alexander the Great Threatened by His Father. Dated: probably 1700/1705. Dimensions: overall: 129.7 x 97 cm (51 1/16 x 38 3/16 in.). Medium: oil on canvas.

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alb3899262
GIOVANNI FRANCESCO ROMANELLI. The Elena kidnapping. Date/Period: 1630 - 1632. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 1,050 mm (41.33 in); Width: 1,490 mm (58.66 in).

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alb3674808
Terracotta amphora (jar). Culture: Greek, Attic. Dimensions: H. 10 9/16 in. (26.9 cm). Date: ca. 540 B.C.. Obverse and reverse, Herakles and the Nemean lion Within the elongated shape of the amphora, the panel has been stretched proportionately to accommodate the pair of combatants. Although we know the outcome of the struggle, the artist characterized it effectively by showing man and lion as equally matched.

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alb3625432
Terracotta hydria (water jar). Culture: Greek, South Italian, Lucanian. Dimensions: H. 18 1/16 in. (45.9 cm). Date: ca. 420-400 B.C.. Two women presenting gifts to two youths The Amykos Painter was a prolific artist who invented a repertoire of stock figural types for his less ambitious works. The youths here are characterized as athletes by their nudity, the gifts of a fillet and wreath, and the strigil (scraper) held by the rightmost figure.

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alb3656802
Terracotta Hadra hydria (water jar). Culture: Greek, Ptolemaic, Cretan. Dimensions: h. 18 1/4 in. (46.4 cm); d. 10 1/8 in. (25.7 cm). Date: late 3rd century B.C.. inscribed on neck "AR" This Hadra hydria is somewhat unusual: its shape is slightly more attenuated then most; its lower body is glazed to the foot; and it has a twisted back handle, a less common but not altogether rare variation, seen as well on 90.9.16 nearby. The inscription may be an abbreviation of "Architheoros," a title referring to the priest of a sacred embassy, and thus may allude to the vocation of the deceased whose remains were once contained within this vessel.

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alb3630276
Terracotta neck-amphora (jar). Culture: Greek, Attic. Dimensions: H. 15 1/8 in. (38.4 cm). Date: ca. 510 B.C.. On either side, four running warriors These four warriors running close together with overlapping shields illustrate the simple but effective tactical formation of the Greek infantry. Heavily armed soldiers were deployed in closely packed rows that moved as a unit, called a phalanx.

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alb3654539
Bag of Natron from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache. Dimensions: L. 8.5 cm (3 3/8 in.); W. 6.6 cm (2 5/8 in.); H. 3.6 cm (1 7/16 in.). Dynasty: Dynasty 18. Reign: reign of Tutankhamun. Date: ca. 1336-1327 B.C.. In December 1907 Theodore M. Davis, a wealthy American who was funding excavations in the Valley of the Kings, discovered a small pit near the tomb of Seti I. Inside the pit were approximately a dozen large sealed whitewashed storage jars (09.184.1). Among other things, the jars contained bags of natron (a kind of salt), pieces of linen with hieratic inscriptions dated to Years 6 and 8 of a king named Tutankhamun (throne name Nebkheperure). At the time, almost nothing was know about Tutankhamun, and Davis declared that he had discovered the king's tomb. Davis received a number of the jars and their contents in the division of finds and, in 1909, he gave most of his share to the Metropolitan Museum. It was only later that Herbert Winlock, the field director of the Museum's excavations at Thebes, realized that the natron and linen were embalming refuse from the mummification of Tutankhamun. Natron, a naturally occurring salt found in the Wadi el-Natrun which is located in the desert west of the Nile Delta. It was used as a dessicant in the mummification process. Tubular bags (1988.437.1) and small sacks (1988.437.2) of unused natron were found in the storage jars from Tutankhamun's embalming cache.

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alb3651523
Portrait of the Boy Eutyches. Dimensions: h. 38 cm (14 15/16 in); w. 19 cm (7 1/2 in). Date: A.D. 100-150. The young teenage boy in this remarkably lifelike portrait looks calmly at the viewer, his head in three-quarter view. He is dressed in a white Roman tunic with a narrow purple clavus (a vertical stripe) over the right shoulder. A mantle is draped over the left shoulder. The boy wears his dark brown hair short, with locks brushed to both sides of the forehead. The inscription in dark purple pigment below the neckline of the tunic is in Greek, which was the common language of the eastern Mediterranean at the time. Scholars do not completely agree on the inscription's translation. The boy's name ("Eutyches, freedman of Kasanios") seems indisputable; then follows either "son of Herakleides Evandros" or "Herakleides, son of Evandros." It is also unclear whether the "I signed" at the end of the inscription refers to the painter of the portrait or to the manumission (act of freeing a slave) that would have been witnessed by Herakleides or Evandros. An artist's signature would be unique in mummy portraits. Paintings of this type, often called Faiyum portraits (though not all of them come from the Faiyum oasis), are typical products of the multicultural, multiethnic society of Roman Egypt. Most of them are painted in the elaborate encaustic technique, in which pigments were mixed with hot or cold beeswax and other ingredients, such as egg, resin, and linseed oil. This versatile medium allowed artists to create images that in many ways are akin to oil paintings. The boy's head, for instance, stands out from the light olive-colored background, creating an impression of real depth. His face is modeled with flowing brushstrokes and a subtle blend of light and dark colors. Shadows on the left side of the face, neck, and garment and bright shiny spots on the forehead and below the right eye indicate a strong source of light on the boy's right. Most arresting are the dark brown eyes with black pupils reflecting the light with bright spots. This manner of painting, which is very different from the traditional Egyptian style but was well known in Graeco-Roman Egypt, originated in Classical Greece in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E. Although the painting techique on Faiyum portrait panels is Greek, their use is entirely Egyptian. When a person died, the portrait panel was placed over the face of the mummy with parts of the outermost wrapping holding it in place. This implies Egyptian beliefs about the afterlife. After having been ruled for three hundred years by a Greek (Macedonian) dynasty and a century or more by Roman administrators, Roman Egypt was an extremely diverse civilization. The population consisted of Roman citizens and citizens of Greek cities such as Alexandria (both of these groups made up of peoples of many different ethnicities) and native Egyptians. The subjects of the mummy portraits clearly were dressed and coiffed like Romans, and many of them bore Greek names or names that were Greek versions of Egyptian names. However, they and their families found consolation in the ancient Egyptian beliefs about the afterlife.

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alb3670764
Marble funerary relief. Culture: Roman. Dimensions: H.: 25 1/4 in. (64.1 cm) Other: 23 in. (58.4 cm). Date: 2nd-3rd century A.D.. Funerary reliefs in the shape of a circular tondo, depicting a man and a woman or, as in this case, the whole family, are known principally from Thrace, northern Greece, and the Danube provinces. Some are inscribed, but this example leaves the man, his wife, and his two sons unnamed.

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GIOVANNI ANTONIO PELLEGRINI. Alexander at the Corpse of the Dead Darius. Date/Period: 1708. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 860 mm (33.85 in); Width: 1,055 mm (41.53 in).

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