Pegasus. Attic red-figure plate, artist unknown; 420s BCE. Now in the Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome. Photo credit: Carole Raddato.
A youthful Eros places a wreath as an offering on a pillar. Apulian red-figure plate, attributed to the Ascoli Satriano Painter; ca. 340-320 BCE. Now in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. Photo credit: Walters Art Museum.
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Fish and other marine life. Apulian red-figure plate, attr. to the Painter of Karlsruhe 66/140; ca. 340 BCE. Now in the Altes Museum, Berlin.
Two warriors (Achilles and Ajax?) playing a board game. Attic black-figure plate, artist unknown; ca. 520 BCE. From Olympia; now in the Antikensammlung Berlin. Photo credit: Marcus Cyron/Wikimedia Commons.
Apulian red-figure fish plate. Attr. to the Group of Karlsruhe 66-140; ca. 350-325 BCE. Now in the Louvre.
Safavid Dynasty plate with a youth amid foliage. Artist unknown; ca. 1600-30. From Isfahan, Iran; now in the Sackler Museum, Cambridge, MA.
Ancient Corinthian black-figure plate with facing horses. Artist unknown; ca. 600-575 BCE. Now in the Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich.
Heracles, armed with bow, club, and sword. Attic black-figure terracotta plate, artist unknown; ca. 500 BCE. Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The head of a woman. Tondo of an Etruscan plate, variously attributed to the Genucilia Group or the Ostia Genucilia Painter; ca. 350-300 BCE. Now in the Musée des beaux-arts de Rennes, France. Photo credit: © Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY 2.5.
Gilded silver plate from the Sasanian Empire, depicting youths with winged horses. The iconography is adapted from Greco-Roman depictions of the Dioscuri. Artist unknown; 5th/6th cent. CE From Iran; now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photo credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen/Wikimedia Commons.
A warrior in armor, bearing a shield with a Gorgon’s head. Detail of an Attic black-figure plate, attributed to the painter Psiax; ca. 510 BCE. Found at the sanctuary of Zeus at Olympia; now in the Antikensammlung Berlin. Photo credit: Marcus Cyron.
A man wearing the conical cap known as a pilos. Tondo of an Apulian red-figure plate, artist unknown; 3rd quarter of 4th cent. BCE. Now in the Louvre. Photo credit: © Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons.
Menelaus (left) and Hector fight over the body of the Trojan hero Euphorbus. Ancient Greek plate in the “Middle Wild Goat” style, artist unknown; ca. 600 BCE. Found at Camirus, Rhodes; now in the British Museum.
Apulian red-figure terracotta fish plate. Attributed to the workshop of the Darius Painter; ca. 340-320 BCE. Now in the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas.
Black-figure terracotta plate with a Gorgon’s head surrounded by bands of mythical animals. Attributed to the Gorgon Painter; ca. 600 BCE. Thought to come from Attica; now in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. Photo credit: Walters Art Museum.
The Sphinx. Plate by an unknown Rhodian artist, late 7th cent. BCE. Found at Kameiros, Rhodes; now in the Cabinet des Médailles, Paris.