Search Results: Tarentum

A two-handled glass cup from Roman Tarentum, southern Italy. 1st century BCE. (National Archaeological Museum of Taranto, Italy)

A chalcedony and gold seal depicting a griffin attacking a fawn. Tarentum, southern Italy. 300-275 BCE. (National Archaeological Museum of Taranto, Italy)

The ancient Mediterranean was a busy place with trading ships sailing in all directions to connect cities and cultures. The Greeks were so keen on the rewards of trade and commerce that they colonized large parts of the coastal Mediterranean...

A red-figure volute krater. 330 BCE, Tarentum. (Archaeological Museum of Taranto, Italy)

Greek mathematics, the study of numbers and their properties, patterns, structure, space, apparent change, and measurement, is said to have originated with Thales of Miletus (l. c. 585 BCE) but was clearly understood during the periods of...

A black-figure kylix (drinking cup) with Greek hoplite warriors. Tarentum, 550-520 BCE. (National Archaeological Museum, Taranto, Italy)

This small terracotta figurine is part of the so-called "Tanagra Figurines", which represent wealthy middle-class women. These statuettes served as votive and funerary objects, carrying a symbolic meaning connected with the status and role...

This small terracotta figurine is part of the so-called "Tanagra Figurines", which represent wealthy middle-class women. These statuettes served as votive and funerary objects, carrying a symbolic meaning connected with the status and role...

A nutcracker in the form of bronze hands with gold decoration. 4th-3rd century BCE, Tarentum. (Archaeological Museum of Taranto, Italy)

Terracotta gladiators, Tarentum, southern Italy, late 1st century BCE. National Archaeological Museum of Taranto, Italy.