~ Head of a statue of Dionysos.
Culture: Greek
Period: Late Hellenistic
Date: 150–50 B.C.
Place of origin: Nubia (Sudan), Meröe (Begrawiya), Pyramid N 5
Medium: Bronze, silver, shell
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~ Head of a statue of Dionysos.
Culture: Greek
Period: Late Hellenistic
Date: 150–50 B.C.
Place of origin: Nubia (Sudan), Meröe (Begrawiya), Pyramid N 5
Medium: Bronze, silver, shell
~ Aphrodite and Eros Finger Ring.
Culture: Greek
Period: Hellenistic
Date: 4th-3rd century B.C.
Place of origin: Lower Italy , "in the provinces of the Kingdom of Naples in a tomb".
Medium: Gold
~ Gold Oak Wreath with a Bee and Two Cicadas.
Culture: Greek
Period: Hellenistic
Date: 350-300 BC.
Place of origin: Turkey, Marmara Region: Çanakkale (province), Dardanelles
Medium: Gold
~ Tetradrachm of Kingdom of Parthia with bust of Mithradates II.
Culture: Greek
Period: Hellenistic Period
Date: 123–88 B.C.
Mint: Parthia (Kingdom), Seleukeia-on-the-Tigris (Babylonia)
Medium: Silver
~ Ibis figurine.
Place of origin: Egypt, Alexandria (?)
Period: Hellenistic Period (Ptolemaic Dynasty)
Date: 305–30 B.C.
Medium: Gold sheet over core; blue enamel
~ Tetradrachm of Lokroi Epizephyriori with head of Zeus, struck under Pyrrhos of Epiros.
Culture: Greek
Period: Early Hellenistic
Date: 280–277 B.C.
Medium: Silver
~ Bronze handle attachment in the form of a mask.
Period: Late Hellenistic or Early Imperial
Date: 1st century B.C.–A.D. 1st century
Culture: Greek or Roman
Medium: Bronze
~ Idealized head of a veiled woman.
Culture: Greek
Period: Early Hellenistic
Date: 300–280 B.C.
Medium: Black basalt probably from the Fayum oasis (traces of red paint in the hair).
▪︎ Silver-gilt wreath.
Period: Classical Greek
Culture: Hellenistic
Date: 4th-3rd century B.C.
Medium: Silver
~ Skull of a girl with golden earrings and a wreath of myrtle fruits.
~ Skull of a girl with a wreath of fruits and myrtle flowers.
Period: Hellenistic
Date: 300-275 B.C.
Provinience: Patras, New Archaeological Museum (Πάτρα, Νέο Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Πάτρας).
~ Gold ring.
Period: Hellenistic
Date: late 4th–3rd century B.C.
Culture: Greek
Medium: Gold
~ Tetradrachm of Syracuse with head of Persephone, struck under Agathokles.
Culture: Greek
Period: Early Hellenistic
Date: 310–305 B.C.
Mint: Sicily, Syracuse
Medium: Silver
~ Snake ring.
Place of origin: Egypt
Culture: Hellenistic
Date: 200-1 B.C.
~ Ptolemaic Cameo.
Culture: Greek
Period: Hellenistic
Date: 278-269 B.C.
Medium: Ten-layered Arabic Onyx, dark brown and bluish white. Setting: gold ring, enamel, 4th quarter of the 16th century.
~ Bronze statuette of a veiled and masked dancer.
Period: Hellenistic
Date: 3rd–2nd century B.C.
Culture: Greek
Medium: Bronze
~ Head of Medusa.
Place of origin: Greece
Period: Hellenistic period
Date: 3rd-2nd century B.C.
Medium: Bronze
~ Pitcher (oinochoe).
Place of origin: Greek, South Italian
Period: Early Hellenistic Period
Date: ca. 320–310 B.C.
Place of origin: Apulia, Italy
Medium: Ceramic, Red Figure