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Black-figure funerary plaque with scenes of prothesis (laying out of the dead) and chariot race
Greek (from Attica), Archaic Period, c. 520-510 B.C.
terracotta
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Source: metmuseum.org
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Black-figure pinax (plaque) with prothesis scene of the deceased lying in state
Attica, Greece, 6th century B.C.
terracotta
Walters Art Museum
Source: art.thewalters.org
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Heron Aryballos, used for perfume or oil
Greek, 6th century B.C.
Limestone male figure in Egyptian dress
Cypriot (from the Sanctuary of Golgoi–Ayios Photios), mid-6th century B.C.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Source: metmuseum.org
Detail of Dionysos, Hermes, and satyrs from a terracotta amphora, attributed to a member of the Bateman Group
Greek (from Attica), c. 530 B.C.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Source: metmuseum.org
Head of a horse
Greek (probably from Attica), Archaic Period, c. 515 B.C.
marble
Museo del Prado
Source: museodelprado.es
Black-figure column-krater depicting a charioteer in a quadriga and two youths on horseback (top) and two confronted youths with horsemen (bottom)
Greek (made in Rhegium in modern Calabria, Italy), Archaic Period, 540 B.C.
terracotta
British Museum
Source: britishmuseum.org
Black-figure neck-amphora with Odysseus and companions blinding Polyphemus, attributed to the Polyphemus Group
Greek (produced in Italy in the Chalcidian style), Archaic Period, 520 B.C.
terracotta
British Museum
Source: britishmuseum.org
Daric of Kingdom of Persia with the Great King in kneeling-running attitude (obverse) and oblong incuse (reverse), struck under Darius I or Xerxes I
Persian (minted at Sardis, Lydia), Late Archaic Period, c. 490-480 B.C.
gold
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Source: mfa.org
Detail showing a banquet scene from the tondo of a red-figure kylix, painted by Makron
Greek (manufactured at Athens), Late Archaic Period, 490-480 B.C.
terracotta
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Source: mfa.org
Votive statuette of Hermes Kriophoros (ram-bearer)
Greek (probably manufactured at Sicyon in the Peloponnesus), Late Archaic Period, c. 500-490 B.C.
bronze
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Source: mfa.org
Red-figure skyphos (drinking cup) with the departure and recovery of Helen, made by Makron and painted by Heiron
Greek (manufactured at Athens), Late Archaic Period, c. 490-480 B.C.
terracotta
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Limestone head of a beardless male with diadem
Cypriot, Archaic Period, first half of the 6th cent. B.C.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Source: metmuseum.org
Pair of gold baule-type earrings with symmetrical palmettes flanked by repoussé crouching hares
Etruscan, Archaic Period, 6th century B.C.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Source: metmuseum.org
Gold earring disks
Etruscan, Archaic Period
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Source: metmuseum.org
Fragment of a relief depicting Achilles standing over a fallen Amazon
Greek, Archaic Period, c. 600 B.C.
terracotta
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Source: metmuseum.org
Black-figure funerary plaque with scenes of prothesis (laying out of the dead) and chariot race
Greek (from Attica), Archaic Period, c. 520-510 B.C.
terracotta
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Source: metmuseum.org