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Storage jar decorated with black painted geometric motifs
Middle Bronze Age (2000-1600 BC). From Orchomenos in Boeotia Typical example of 'matt painted' pottery painted with matt paint.
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Hut pyxis of green steatite
Elongated figure of eight - shaped with saddle - shaped lid and incised spiral decoration. These hut pyxides have been interpreted as houses shrines or granaries. Naxos.
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Ritual vase
From Graves IV and V, Grave Circle A, Mycenae, 16th century BC. National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
Jewellery
From Graves IV and V, Grave Circle A, Mycenae, 16th century BC. National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
Gold and silver tableware
From Graves IV and V, Grave Circle A, Mycenae, 16th century BC. National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
Gold male death mask
From Graves IV and V, Grave Circle A, Mycenae, 16th century BC. National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
Horse protome
Representation of a horse protome. National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
Clazomenian black-figure sarcophagus
On the head end, lions and a boar. on the foot end lions and a wild goat. 530-515 BC. National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
Mycenaean lady
The reconstruction is based on a picture from Axel W. Persson's book , "New tombs at Dendra near Midea", Lund 1942. National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
Terracotta model of a wagon
The carrying out of the body to the grave (ekphora). Found on the 1936-1937 excavations in the tumuli cemetery of the ancient deme of Anagyrous , to the east of Vari (Attica). 7th cent. BC. National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
Funerary statue of a dog
Pentelic marble. Found in Piraeus. 375-350 BC. National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
Part of a grave stele
Pentelic marble. Found in Piraeus. 375-350 BC. The figure of a nude youth practicing wit a ball in the palaestra is depicted in low relief on the belly of the vase. His folded himation can be seen on a pillar behind him. 400-375 BC. National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
Funerary lekythos
Found in the ancient cemetery of the Kerameikos, Athens. The relief depicts a young woman seated on a stool, suffering the pains of childbirth. The two figures supporting her, possibly the midwife and her husband, cannot avert the tragedy, as is suggested by her hands, now lifeless, and the lamentation of her husband. The name of the dead woman, Theophante, is inscribed toward the top. The lekythos was probably placed on a funerary mensa found in the Kerameikos, on which the same name is inscribed and which comes from the grave enclosure of a distinguished Athenian, Olympiodoros of Anaphlystos. About 340 BC. National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
Terracotta figure
From the Sanctuary of Hephaistia. 7th cent. BC. National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
Seal stones
From the Mycenae chamber tombs 15-14th. cent. BC. National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
Storage jar decorated with black painted geometric motifs
Middle Bronze Age (2000-1600 BC). From Orchomenos in Boeotia Typical example of 'matt painted' pottery painted with matt paint.
National Archaeological Museum of Athens