This carnelian scarab ring is Hellenistic in date, inspired by an Egyptian original. The label states 'Scene of Heracles fighting Cerberus' Cerberus i (cont.)
Painted pedestal vase, perhaps Marnian (la Tene I). Similar to French types. European Iron Age. David Gill and Rosalyn Gees article states it is Etrus (cont.)
A figure of a man carrying a lamb, with two holes near the base. The upper part of the body is hand-made, but the lower part is wheel-made. It dates f (cont.)
A statue of a horse with rider with stripes painted on body. It is Greek, dating to the sixth or seventh century BCE. Similar figures have been found (cont.)
A hand-made pottery askos in the form of a quadruped (likely a bull) with a spouted mouth in place of a head. The animal has short stumpy legs, which (cont.)
A female figure with a flat body, and stumps for the arms and hands. She wears a polos (truncated cone) on her head. It is from Boeotia, and dates to (cont.)
A female figure from Beoetia with a board-like body, and pointed arms. Her hair is styled in a big curl over the nose,and she wears a polos (truncated (cont.)
A small stirrup jar from the Greek Mycenaean period. Such jars were the most common form of storage jars, often containing oils. They have a stirrup s (cont.)
Mycenaean medium shouldered jar. The vessel is made from a fine fabric, and is wheel-made. The vessel has a close stemmed base, an outside rolled ri (cont.)
A Corinthian Aryballos (oil flask). Painted on it are a siren (bird with human head) and a swan. It dates from the late seventh century BCE. According (cont.)
A Greek ceramic cup with a pedestal base, bulbous body, and two handles, dating to 7th-5th Century BC. This type of objects also known as greek 'skyph (cont.)
A black polished red-figured jar with handle (NOICUS). This is an oinochoe (wine jug) or chous. This piece was made in southern Italy around 400 BCE. (cont.)
A black-figured lekythos. Lekthoi were used for storing oil. Dancing satyrs and women are depicted around the vessel, and bulls are painted around the (cont.)
A black and red figured drinking cup with two handles and a pedestal beneath. The scene depicts a seated satyr facing right with drinking horn on his (cont.)
This terracotta depicts a woman riding on a sow. See a similar example in the British Museum (1926,0930.48). The figure may be Demeter or Baubo. The (cont.)
Pottery statue of a dog. See article by Gill and Gee in Journal of Hellenic Studies 1996, 259, no. 45.
A female head from the Eastern Mediterranean. There is a hole in the back of the head. This was used as a scent bottle. and dates to the sixth centur (cont.)
Goat white slip. 6th century BC 'From Thebes'. See article by Gill and Gee in Journal of Hellenic Studies 1996.
A wooden label in the shape of a tabula ansata with seven lines written in ink on the smooth surface of the recto. Translation: ""Hermiysis, [son] of (cont.)
A marble head of a bearded man, dating to the Roman Period. This item is published in Gill and Gee 1996, Journal of Hellenic Studies Supplement 'Class (cont.)