~ Drinking cup (kylix).
Culture: Greek, South Italian
Period: Late Classical
Date: 350–330 B.C.
Place of origin: Italy, Paestum
Mwdium: Ceramic, Red Figure
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~ Drinking cup (kylix).
Culture: Greek, South Italian
Period: Late Classical
Date: 350–330 B.C.
Place of origin: Italy, Paestum
Mwdium: Ceramic, Red Figure
▪︎ Silver-gilt wreath.
Period: Classical Greek
Culture: Hellenistic
Date: 4th-3rd century B.C.
Medium: Silver
~ Gold earrings with pendant vase and ring.
Period: Classical
Date: 4th century B.C.
Culture: Etruscan
Medium: Gold
~ Bronze cuirass (breastplate).
Period: Classical
Date: 5th-4th century B.C.
Culture: Etruscan
Medium: Bronze
~ Covered drinking cup (kylix) with Apollo and a Muse.
Culture: Greek
Period: Classical Period
Date: ca. 460 B.C.
Place of origin: Greece, Attica, Athens
Medium: Ceramic, white ground with traces of gilding and traces of a red undercoat for the gilding.
~ Gilt silver phiale mesomphalos.
Period: Classical period
Date: late 5th century B.C.
Culture: Greek
Medium: Silver-gilt
~ Red-figure kylix (Achilles killing Penthesilea)
Culture: Attic
Artist: Attributed to the Penthesilea Painter
Period: Early Classical
Date: ca. 470-460 B.C.
Medium: Clay
Provenience: Munich, State Antique Collection (München, Staatliche Antikensammlunge
~ Horse Head.
Culture: Classical Greek
Date: ca. 470 B.C.
Medium: Limestone
~ Scaraboid gem with a head of a bearded man.
Culture: Greek
Period: Classical
Date: 450–430 B.C.
Artist: Dexamenos
Medium : Jasper
~ Reclining naked man.
Artist: Pheidias
Cultures/Period: Classical Greek
Date: 438-432 B.C.
Place of origin: Acropolis, Parthenon
Medium: Marble
~ Tetradrachm of Carthage with head of Persephone-Tanit.
Culture: Greek
Period: Classical or Early Hellenistic Period
Date: 4th century B.C.
Mint: Zeugitania, Carthage
Medium: Silver
~ Scaraboid gem with a dolphin.
Culture: Greek
Period: Classical Period
Date: 450–400 B.C.
Medium: Chalcedony
~ Stater of Kroton with head of Hera Lakinia.
Culture: Greek
Period: Classical Period
Date: ca. 400–325 B.C.
Mint: Bruttium, Kroton
Medium: Silver
~ Bracelet (the backs of which are filled with a solidified ash-like substance, probably lava).
Place of origin: Pompeii, Italy
Period: Classical
Date: 1st century
Culture: Roman
Medium: Gold
~ Gold ring with intaglio of a naked woman.
Period: Classical
Date: ca. 400–380 B.C.
Culture: Greek
Medium: Gold
~ Tetradrachm with laureate head of Apollo and reverse of lion and barley kernels.
Place of origin: Mint of Leontinoi, (modern Lentini) Sicily, Italy
Date: ca. 460 B.C.
Culture: Greek
Period: Classical period
Medium: Struck silver, striking crack and slight wear
~ Marble head of a woman wearing diadem and veil.
Period: Classical
Date: 425–400 B.C.
Culture: Greek
Medium: Marble