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The figure type of the Spinario (boy with a thorn) originated in Hellenistic art of the late 3rd century BCE. The popular genre motif of the shepherd or peasant boy is conveyed in several versions and different materials. This statue was...

This bowl is part of the so-called "Hildesheim Treasure" and depicts a medallion of Attis. This relief probably had been originally attached to a piece of decorative armor as a military medal. The Hildesheim Treasure, consisting of more...

This bowl is part of the so-called "Hildesheim Silver Treasure" and depicts a medallion of the baby Hercules battling snakes sent by Hera. The Hildesheim treasure, consisting of more than 70 pieces, is one of the most substantial and...

This bowl is part of the so-called "Hildesheim Silver Treasure" and depicts a medallion of Cybele. This relief probably had been originally attached to a piece of decorative armor as a military medal. The Hildesheim treasure, consisting...

A 1st century CE sundial decorated with the likenesses of Helios, Dionysus, and Athena. Sundials were set up both in the public and in the private sphere in ancient Greece. The reconstructed indicator (gnomon) of the conical sundial is...

A marble statue of Amor and Psyche, the lovers from the late 2nd Century CE novel "The Golden Ass" by Lucius Apuleius (125 - 170 CE). The two are depicted as winged children embracing each other. The sculptural group was styled after a Hellenistic...

This much-amended statue of the mythical hunter Meleager goes back to a Greek bronze sculpture from around 340-330 BCE. It was the only sculptural decoration in a hall with galleries that overlooked the sea. Its privileged placement and the...

This marble statue came from the Villa at Monte Calvo in Sabina, Italy. In the villa, the boyish satyr was part of a fountain, for the jug is pierced for receiving a water pipe. The Berlin statue belongs to a series of copies, which go back...

The motif of the seated young girl dates back to a late Hellenistic model, which in the Roman version, was supplemented by the game gesture. The knucklebones (astragalus) game are often also depicted on funerary reliefs and the portrait-like...

A Mongolian ovoo or sacred stone pile used as a point of prayer in the traditional animist religion of the steppe.