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From Egypt. 5th-7th century CE. Made from bone and paint. (Hellenic Museum, Melbourne, Victoria).

From Egypt. 5th-7th century CE. Made from wood. (Hellenic Museum, Melbourne, Victoria).

Zeus is seated behind an eagle, one of the god's attributes. This iconographic type is unknown in Greece and draws its inspiration from a motif of oriental origin, of a god mounted on a bird. From Egypt. Mid-2nd century CE. Made from...

Magical gem depicting a pregnant woman squatting naked over a birthing stool. Late Roman Eastern Mediterranean, 3rd century CE. The British Museum, London.

Cybele, the Great Mother Goddess of Asia Minor, was holding a phiale (a shallow libation bowl) in her missing right hand. The lion and the drum, which was played during rites in Cybele's honour, were the attributes of the goddess. 3rd-century...

Paris, son of Troy's King Priam and Hecuba, is wearing a Phrygian cap, the characteristic headgear of shepherds. According to the myth, an interpreter of dreams foretold that the child of Hecuba would bring the destruction of Troy and must...

It renders the goddess in the pudica type that copies the famous state of the Capitoline Venus. From East Mediterranean. 1st-2nd century CE. Made from bronze. (Hellenic Museum, Melbourne, Victoria).

Gold wreaths that imitate natural ones come mainly from royal tombs in Macedonia, Asia Minor and southern Italy. The crowning of the dead with a wreath signified that they were worthy of being rewarded with eternal life after death. The...

The cover bears a relief representation of Dionysos flanked by two Maenads or Adonis flanked by Aphrodite and Persephone. The female figures wear silver jewellery. Folding mirrors consist of two two bronze discs connected by a hinge. Their...

A rare polychromatic terracotta version of the chryselephantine statue of Athena Parthenos, which stood in the Parthenon and was a work of Pheidias, of the years 447/6-438 BCE. Perhaps from Vathy, Avlis District, Boeotia. Boeotian workshop...