Images

A Minoan cup in the Kamares style, a polychrome decoration of bold lines in red/orange and white on a black background, prevalent from 2000 to 1700 BCE. (British Museum, London).

Painting by Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825), oil on canvas, 1799. On display at the Louvre Museum, Paris, France. The Abduction (or Rape) of the Sabine Women is an episode in the legendary history of Rome, traditionally said to have taken...

A squat alabastron, c. 1400-1375 BCE from Ialysus, Rhodes. These flat jars first appeared in the Minoan civilization on Crete and were used for storing creams and unctions. This three handled example is typically decorated with stylised rocks...

An Attic lekythos vase, c. 450 BCE. This type of vessel was used for storing fine oils and perfume and often dedicated in burials. Here, Charon is depicted, the boatman who ferried souls across the river Styx to Hades. To the right is Hermes...

A red-figure bell-krater from Paestum 360-340 BCE. In a scene from Greek comedy, Dionysos is depicted with a comic actor balancing a basket on his head. The actor is in typical costume - padded stomach, added phallus and bearded mask.

Romans in Archeon; to the left Legio II Augusta, to the right Legio XXX Ulpia Victrix.

Half-figure tombstone of Gaius Largennius of legio II Augusta from Strasbourg. General view of half-figure relief. Inv. Nr. 2431; Éspérandieu 5495 H: 1.48m; W: 0.655m; Th: 0.21m

Modern plaque showing the Capricornus emblem of the II Augusta.

An oil painting representing the ancient city of Rhodes by Frantisek Kupka (1906 CE). Probably a realistic representation of the Colossus of Rhodes which was a gigantic bronze statue, 32 metres high, of the island's patron god Helios, the...

A stone version of a mask from tragedy theatre representing a king, 1st century BCE - 1st century CE. (Ashmolean museum, Oxford, U.K.).