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Images of antiquities, mostly Greek and Roman.
Painted funerary stele of Stratonikos, son of Straton
Demetrias, Thessaly
Late 3rd–early 2nd century BCE
Watercolor by Émil Gilliéron (père), 1907–1909

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March 15, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Pendant with chalcedony cameo of a Roman triumphal procession
4th century CE?
Venice, Museo Correr Cl. XXX1a no. 77
March 4, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Ice cream truck in the parking lot at Mycenae
November 1990
February 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Sassanian silver rhyton with gazelle protome
4th century CE
(Washington, D.C., National Museum of Asian Art, Sackler Gallery, S1987.33)

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February 14, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Funerary stele of Melisto, daughter of Ktesikrates, of Athens. In her left hand she hold a doll; in her right hand, a bird; a small dog jumps up at her feet.
Mid-4th century BCE
(Harvard, Sackler Museum 1961.86)

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February 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Painted plaster cast of kore 675 from the Athenian Acropolis, by Émil Gilliéron and son, based on watercolors made shortly after the excavation of the statue in the 1880s. Sold to the Metropolitan Museum in New York ca. 1924; now in the Museum für Abgüsse Klassischer Bildwerke in Munich (DL 118).
February 9, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Athenian red-figure cup with a symposium scene. A young man reclines on a couch, embracing a hetaira who holds a double-flute.
End of the 6th century BCE
(Yale University Art Gallery 1913.163)

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February 3, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Bronze oil lamp in the form of a panther
Roman
(Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts E 284-1)

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February 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Terracotta portrait bust of a Roman man
Late 1st century B.C.–early 1st century A.D
(Boston, Museum of Fine Arts 01.8008)

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January 31, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Votive relief of a goddess (Aphrodite?) with worshippers and a sacrificial ram
Late 5th–early 4th century BCE
Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale 126174

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January 30, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Mosaic of Hylas and the Nymphs
late 2nd–early 3rd century CE
(Musée gallo-romain de Saint-Romain-en-Gal)

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January 23, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Relief of Roman soldiers, from Glanum (Saint-Rémy-de-Provence)
1st century CE
Lyon, Lugdunum (Musée gallo-romain) 2001.0.308
January 20, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Athenian black-figure skyphos. A flute player leads a line of youths riding ostriches, usually interpreted as the chorus of an unknown Greek comedy.
Last quarter of the 6th century BCE
(Boston, Museum of Fine Arts 20.18)

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January 15, 2025 at 10:40 PM
"Athena Lemnia"
1st century CE, in the style of the 5th century BCE
Dresden, Skulpturensammlung Hm 49

The better preserved of the two versions of the so-called Athena Lemnia in Dresden, on which Adolf Furtwängler based his reconstruction of the statue type in 1891.

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January 14, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Athenian red-figure cup: youth holding a hare
ca. 500 BCE
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January 14, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Portrait head of a Roman man, mid-3rd century CE
(Worcester Art Museum 1915.24)
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January 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM