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Cycladic Spedos-type female figure volcanic ash idol (2700-2400 BCE) from Syros at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Cycladic female figure marble idols (l) Kapsala-type (2700-2600 BCE) & (r) Spedos-type (2700-2500 BCE) both from Keros-Syros culture at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Cycladic female figure marble figurine Spedos-type (2700-2500 BCE) from Keros-Syros culture at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Head detail of Cycladic female figure marble figurine Spedos-type (2700-2500 BCE) from Keros-Syros culture at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. |
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Cycladic marble female figures (flanking) Dokathismata-type (2500-2300 BCE) & (central) Spedos-type (2700-2500 BCE) all from Keros-Syros culture at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Cycladic terracotta painted kernos offering ring (c2200-1800 BCE) from Phylakopi 1 culture over other Cycladic vessels at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Imported Cycladic terracotta painted Melian bird vase fragment (1700-1550 BCE) found at Minoan temple of Knossos at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Terracotta jug in form of griffin's head painted with lion mauling a stag, and two horses (675-650 BCE) made in the Cyclades at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. |
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Mycenaean pottery krater with cuttlefish (1400-1350 BCE) found in tomb, Enkomi, Cyprus at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Mycenaean pottery krater with bull & egret (1300-1250 BCE) found in tomb, Enkomi, Cyprus at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Minoan pottery globular flask with wheel & leaf patterns (1400-1350 BCE) found in Maroni, Cyprus at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Minoan pottery stirrup-jar with octopus (1300-1250 BCE) found in tomb, Kourion, Cyprus at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. |
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Proto Geometric amphora with checker board & wavy line design (950-900 BCE) plus amphora with concentric circles (975-950 BCE) both made in Athens at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Greek Geometric terracotta Pyxis with four horses on lid (760-750 BCE) made in Athens at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Greek terracotta black figure lekythos with centaur Nessos carrying off Deianeira (600-580 BCE) attrib. to Deianeira painter made in Athens found in Corinth at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Greek terracotta black figure olpe with Perseus, Hermes & Gorgon (c550-530 BCE) attrib. to Amasis painter made in Athens at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. |
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Greek terracotta black figure olpe with return of hunter & his dog (c550-530 BCE) attrib. to Amasis painter made in Athens found in Rhodes at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Greek terracotta white-ground oinochoe (wine jug) with Heracles & Nemean lion (c520-500 BCE) attrib. to painter of London made in Athens found in Vulci in Etruria at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Greek terracotta red figure & black figure plates with archers (c520-500 BCE) made in Athens by two painters (Epiktetos (l) & Psiax (r)) at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Terracotta red figure rhyton in form of Dionysus holding drinking cup (500-490 BCE) made in Athens at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. |
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Collection of red figure ancient Greek vessels at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Greek terracotta red figure kylix (wine cup) with Zeuxo pouring wine for Chrysippos (c490-480 BCE) attrib. to Brygos painter made in Athens at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Greek terracotta red figure oinochoe (wine jug) with Persian soldier mocked sitting on a mule (c470 BCE) made in Athens at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Greek terracotta red figure amphora with goddess Nike pouring libation for Trojan hero Lykaon (c440 BCE) attrib. to Lykaon painter made in Athens at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. |
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Ram-head ceramic rhyton (470-460 BCE) attrib. to Sotades made in Athens modeled on metal version captured from defeated Persians in 479 BCE at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Boar-head ceramic rhyton (c460 BCE) attrib. to Sotades made in Athens at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Side view of Boar-head ceramic rhyton (c460 BCE) attrib. to Sotades made in Athens at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Terracotta funerary urn with bull-griffins influenced by art of Persia (c300 BCE) made in Athens at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. |
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Details of bull-griffin on terracotta funerary urn influenced by art of Persia (c300 BCE) made in Athens at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Protocorinthian pottery skyphos (drinking cup) painted with running hour (680-650 BCE) made in Corinth from Camirus, Rhodes at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Middle Corinthian pottery Aryballos (oil or perfume bottle) with winged figure (600-575 BCE) from Corinth at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Terracotta scent bottle in form of hare (600-550 BCE) from Corinth at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. |
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Minoan pottery teapot of Vassiliki Ware with exaggerated spout (2500-2300 BCE) from Isthmus of Ierapetra, Crete at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Minoan pottery jug with relief (barbotine) decoration (2100-1950 BCE) from Crete at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Minoan pottery jug with butterfly pattern (2100-1850 BCE) found at Knossos, Crete at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Minoan pottery cups (1950-1700 BCE) found at Knossos, Crete at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. |
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Minoan clay tablet inscribed with Linear B script (1450-1375 BCE) found at Knossos, Crete at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Minoan bronze bull with acrobat performing on its horn (1550-1450 BCE) found on south west, Crete at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Minoan bronze bull with acrobat performing on its horn (1550-1450 BCE) found on south west, Crete at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Minoan pottery stirrup-jar painted with fish (1400-1200 BCE) from Crete at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. |
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Three Minoan sheet gold ornaments showing bee, lions, goat (1700-1550 BCE) from Crete at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Mycenaean pottery rhyton in form of bull's head (1300-1200 BCE) found in tomb on Karpathos at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Corinthian pottery bowl painted with gorgon's head ringed by frieze of deer & mythical animals (610-590 BCE) attrib. Medallion Painter from Kamiros, Rhodes at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Oinochoe jug with animal frieze (610-580 BCE) from Kamiros, Rhodes at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. |
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Terracotta flask in form of siren with feather (c600 BCE) perhaps made in Crete from Kythera at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Greek terracotta scent-bottle in shape of sandaled foot (c575-550 BCE) said to be from Samos at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Amphora with running man (540 BCE) made in Miletos found Kamiros, Rhodes at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Greek terracotta hydria water jar with gorgon's head, sphinxes & cranes (540-530 BCE) made in Sparta from Vulci in Etruria at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. |
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Relief wild fowl from stone frieze (c470-460 BCE) from Xanthos in Antalya at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Terracotta plaque shows Bellerophon riding Pegasus raising sword against Chimera lion with goat emerging from back (450 BCE) made on Melos at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Terracotta group of two seated women, perhaps Demeter & daughter Persephone (c100 BCE) made in Myrina, Asia Minor at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Glass bowl with band of bosses & with rosette cut on bottom (c225-200 BCE) made in eastern Mediterranean at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. |
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Glass bowl with band of bosses & with rosette cut on bottom (c225-200 BCE) made in eastern Mediterranean at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Terracotta flattened goddesses (600-550 BCE) made in Boeotia at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Terracotta horse & rider (580-550 BCE) made in Boeotia at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Faience vase in form of Eros riding a goose (300-250 BCE) from tomb in Tanagara, Boeotia perhaps made in Egypt at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. |
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Mycenaean gold stemmed goblet with one handle (1500 BCE) at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | East Greek bronze griffin heads once attached to cauldron (7thC BCE) from Rhodes (larger) & Samos (smaller) at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Greek bronze siren once attached to cauldron rim (700 BCE) at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Greek bronze banqueter figure (c530-500 BCE) prob. Laconian from Dodna at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. |
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Corinthian type bronze helmet (c650-570 BCE) from Dodna at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Attic type bronze helmet with satyr's head (5thC BCE) prob. Athens at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Corinthian type bronze helmet (c500 BCE) from Corinth at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Bronze head of Hypnos (sleep) Roman copy of Greek original (c325-275 BCE) from Perugia at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. |
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Bronze mask of horned Dionysus once handle for wine bucket (200-100 BCE) at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Bronze head of woman (150-100 BCE) from Mersin, Cilicia at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Silver coins from Corinth & Athens (c500-520 BCE) after new technology allowed Greeks to separate silver from lead ore at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Gold & bronze coins minted under Alexander III (c336-330 BCE) at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. |
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Tetradrachm coin with Attalos I, King of Pergamon (241-197 BCE) & with Orophernes, King of Cappadocia (159-157 BCE) at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Tetradrachm coin with Antiochos the Great, King of Syria (223-187 BCE) & with Mithradates VI, King of Pontos (120-63 BCE) at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Egyptian broad collar made of string of gold pendants (1400-1300 BCE) found in tomb, Enkomi, Cyprus at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Gold & silver jewelry found in tomb at Camirus on Rhodes (c660-620 BCE) at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. |
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Sheet gold pendant of Cretan nature god wearing Minoan kilt (1850 BCE - 1550 BCE) at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Minoan gold breast ornament with human profiles & pendant discs (1850 BCE - 1550 BCE) made in Crete(?) at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Minoan gold earring comprises snakes circling hounds & monkeys with pendant discs & owls at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Gold oak wreath with bee & two cicadas (350-300 BCE) said to be from Dardanelles at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. |
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Bronze portrait head (300-100 BCE) perhaps Sophocles (c496-406 BCE) prob. from Asia Minor at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Alexander the Great marble portrait head (2ndC-1stC BCE) said to be from Alexandria at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Pericles with helmet marble portrait head (2ndC Roman copy of lost Greek original 440-430 BCE) at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Homer marble portrait head (Roman copy of lost Greek original 2ndC BCE) from Baiae, Italy at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. |
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Demosthenenes marble portrait bust (Roman copy of original by Polyeuktos 280 BCE) from Athens at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Aischines marble portrait bust (Roman copy of Greek original) from Bitolia, Macedonia at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Detail of Amazon Frieze from Mausoleum at Halikarnassos (350 BCE) Bodrum, Turkey at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Detail of Amazon Frieze from Mausoleum at Halikarnassos (350 BCE) Bodrum, Turkey at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. |
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Detail of Amazon Frieze from Mausoleum at Halikarnassos (350 BCE) Bodrum, Turkey at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Horse detail of Chariot Group from Mausoleum at Halikarnassos (c350 BCE) Bodrum, Turkey at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Portrait head perhaps an ancestor of Mausollos from Mausoleum at Halikarnassos (c350 BCE) Bodrum, Turkey at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Statue of a woman perhaps wife of Mausollos & man perhaps Mausollos from Mausoleum at Halikarnassos one of seven wonder of ancient world (c350 BCE) Bodrum, Turkey at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. |
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Detail of head of Mausollos from Mausoleum at Halikarnassos (c350 BCE) Bodrum, Turkey at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Marble statue of Demeter (350-330 BCE) found in sanctuary of Demeter at Knidos at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Marble statue of pig (350-330 BCE) found in sanctuary of Demeter at Knidos at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Nereid Monument (390 BCE-380 BCE) from Xanthus, Antalya, Turkey at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. |
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Nereid Monument (390 BCE-380 BCE) with carvings along base which was originally higher than the British Museum can accommodate. London, United Kingdom. | Sculpture of a draped Nereid on Nereid Monument (390 BCE-380 BCE) at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Frieze of shield carrying soldiers on Nereid Monument (390 BCE-380 BCE) at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Relief of helmeted warrior on Nereid Monument (390 BCE-380 BCE) at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. |
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Frieze of shield carrying foot soldiers on pediment of Nereid Monument (390 BCE-380 BCE) at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Architrave frieze showing young men rushing forward with food & wine for a feast on Nereid Monument (390 BCE-380 BCE) at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Frieze of soldiers of two sides in different helmets fighting hand to hand on Nereid Monument (390 BCE-380 BCE) at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. | Crouching lioness sculpture guarding Nereid Monument (390 BCE-380 BCE) but may predate the building at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. |
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Gallery displaying Parthenon of Athens Classical Greek Frieze (447-438 BCE) by Pheidias at British Museum. London, United Kingdom. |
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