Part 13 (2/2)
2. A slave-girl entertains male symposiasts with music: red-figure krater krater, or mixing-bowl, fourth century BC.
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3. Hunter, wearing the typical petasos petasos-hat, with his spears and hound, c c. 510500 bc, Edinburgh painter, Athens.
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4. A s.e.xually aroused older male fondles a young, probably prepubic, boy in a gym or wrestlings.p.a.ce (palaestra). Brygos painter, Athens, c c. 480 BC.
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5. Bronze figurine of a Spartan girl, from the rim of a bronze vessel. Her robe, cut away off the shoulder, suggests she is dancing. Late SIXTH century BC.
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6. Marble statue of a G.o.d or hero, found on the Spartan acropolis. The sides of the helmet are decorated with male rams. Late fifth century BC.
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7. Footguards of the Persian king, with pointed hats of Scythian style. From Persepolis, fourth century BC.
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8. Painting on the inner surface of the coffin-lid of the 'Tomb of the Diver', found in 1968 about a mile south of Paestum. Four other paintings of scenes from a symposium decorated the inner sides: the young boy dives, holding his head awkwardly, from a plinth of uncertain significance. Like the symposium scenes, the scene surely refers to worldly life, perhaps to something in the dead man's earlier life, rather than symbolizing his dive out into the 'unknown' s.p.a.ce of the underworld, a favoured but fanciful interpretation. Painting on white stucco surface.
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9. Small terracotta plaque from Locri, in the Greek West. A young woman handles a folded cloth at a decorated chest, beneath a mirror, a wool-basket, a flask and cup. c c. 470450 BC.
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10. 'Riace Bronze' statue, Warrior A, evidently a hero, who held a s.h.i.+eld. Fine cla.s.sical work, arguably Athenian, c c. 460 BC. s.h.i.+pwrecked, and thus preserved, off southern Italy.
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11. Marble relief of Athenian cavalryman, his gaze fixed on his fallen enemy. Possibly a reference to the first cavalry battle in the Peloponnesian War, c c. 431430 BC. If so, Pericles' Funeral Speech was spoken over the dead, including this warrior.
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12. A rare Athenian representation of a slave, ugly, chained at the ankles and collecting stones. Attic black-figure, c c. 490480 BC.
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13. A wreathed young boy, perhaps not a slave, fills his party-cup, or kylix kylix, with watered wine from the mixing-bowl. Attic red-figure cup, Cage painter c c. 490 BC.
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14. White-ground oil-flask, showing a female, playing as a Muse, captioned with the word 'Helicon', signifying the muses' mountain. Achilles painter, c c. 440430 BC.
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15. A pensive G.o.ddess Athena contemplates what is probably a grave monument; perhaps inscribed with names of Athenian casualties in war. Fine cla.s.sical marble relief, Athens Acropolis, c c. 460 BC.
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16. Gravestone of Sosias and Kephisodorus: two citizen-hoplites shake hands; a man in a priestly tunic at left. Athens, c c. 410 BC.
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17. A baby learns to crawl as its parents, surely, look on. Athenian red-figure jug, pelike pelike, c c. 430420 BC.
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18. Copy of the marble statue by Polyeuctus to honour the democratic orator Demosthenes in 280 bc at Athens, fortytwo years after his death.
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19. Legendary Alexander at the Last Judgement with Indian Porus, Cyrus the Persian and Nebuchadnezzar the Babylonian, two hundred years his senior. From Kastoria, in his home Macedonia. Late Byzantine wall painting, fourteenth c c. ad.
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20. Grave monument of husband and wife, Thraseas and Euandria, watched by a young slave girl. Attica, c c. 350340 BC.
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21. Reconstruction of a painting of a Macedonian lion- and boar-hunt, set in Asia. Alexander rides in to rescue what may be Lysimachus, a future Successor. Perhaps first painted in c c. 332/1 bc, and copied later in mosaic.
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22. Silver tetradrachm, c c. 310305 bc, showing Alexander, struck for Ptolemy I, his friend, historian and commander.
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23. Indo-Greek silver tetradrachm, c c. 170145 bc, with bust of King Eucratides the Great, ruler and conqueror in Bactria, Sogdia and north-west India long after Alexander.
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