arthc 304 greek artworks

Folded Arm Figurine (FAF), front view, Marble, Keros-Syros culture, 2600-2400 BCE

Ceremonial vessel (rhyton) in the form of a bull’s head, from Knossos, Serpentine shell, crystal, and wood, Late Minoan, 1500-1100 BCE

So-called snake goddess from the Temple Repositories in the Palace of Knossos, Faience, Middle-Late Minoan

Throne Room in the Palace of Knossos, Late Minoan

Bull leaper fresco from Knossos, Fresco, Late Minoan

Attic Late Geometric I krater: funeral processions, 760-735 BCE

Late Minoan goddess head reused as a cult image of Dionysus at the site of Ayia Irini on Island of Kea, Reuse: mid 8th Century BCE

Animal figurines from the sanctuary of Zeus at Olympia, bronze, 8th century BCE

small figurine of apollo dedicated by Mantiklos said to be from Boiotia, bronze, 700 BCE

Drawing of a Syrian-Cretan shield from the sacred cave on Mt. Ida on Crete, “The Hunt Shield”, bronze, 8th Century BCE

Open work plaque with standing sphinx from Nimrud in what is now Iraq, Neo Assyrian period, Phoenician style, ivory, 9-8th century BCE

Kore Statuette (“the Lady of Auxerre”), limestone, 7th Century BCE

Kouros from a grave near Phoinikia in Attica, Marble, 590 BCE

Kouros from a grave near Phoinikia in Attica, Marble, 530 BCE

Calf Bearer dedicated to Athena by Rhonbos son of Palos from Athenian Akropolis, Marble, 560 BCE

Grave Stele, probably from Anavysos in Attica (“The Brother and Sister Stele”), 530-520 BCE

Running Girl, 520 BCE, Laconia

Olympia, so-called temple of Hera, 590 BCE

Golden crown of oak leaves and acorns from Vergina, 336 BCE

Terracotta Panathenaic prize amphora depicting Athena (obverse), footrace (reverse), painted by the Euphiletos Painter, ca. 530 BCE

Head of Artemis or Leto from Delphi, before 548 BCE

Greek Red-figure Painting of King Aigeus Consulting the Oracle or Priestess Pythia at Delphi, by the Codrus Painter from Vulci (Italy), 440-430 BCE

Colossal vase with reliefs of oxen, Temple of Aphrodite, Amathus, Cyprus, limestone, 6th century BCE