Part 14 (1/2)
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24. Indo-Greek silver tetradrachm, c c. 150135 bc, with bust of Menander, a truly great conqueror from Bactria through India to the river Ganges: he was remembered in Buddhist tradition.
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25. Silver tetradrachm from Sardis, c c. 213190 bc, with head of the Seleucid King Antiochus III, defeated by Rome in 188 BC.
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26. Portrait bust of Seleucus I, Alexander's commander of the Royal s.h.i.+eld-bearers and eventual Successor in Asia. Cast of Roman replica, Herculaneum.
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27. Big column-capitals, removed from Ai Khanum in Afghanistan, site of the Greek city, by origin (probably) an Alexandria on the river Oxus. Reused since 1980 in this nearby tea-house.
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28. Portrait bust of Demetrius the Besieger, the most flamboyant of Alexander's successors, showing small bull's horns, attributes of the G.o.d Dionysus. Cast of Roman replica, Herculaneum.
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29. South facade of the court of Tomb I in the Moustapha Pasha necropolis, Alexandria. The painting showed Macedonian cavalrymen and standing ladies. c c. 280260 BC.
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30. The most distant known Ionic Greek column-capital: from the big temple at Takht-i-Sangin on the further bank of the Oxus, in Tadjikistan. c c. 300280 BC.
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31. Foot of a colossal Greek statue, surely of a G.o.d, from the Greek city at Ai Khanum, Afghanistan, c c. 250150 BC.
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32. Portrait head of Pompey, an imperial Roman copy, combining the realism of small eyes and expression with a hairstyle recalling the great Alexander's.
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33. Portrait head of Julius Caesar, probably posthumous, c c. 4030 BC.
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34. Marble portrait, also posthumous, believed to represent Cicero, c c. 4030 BC.
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35. The Portland Vase, (blue and white cameo-gla.s.s), probably depicting mythological Peleus and Thetis (left) and maybe Aeneas and unhappy Dido (right). Reference to Antony and Cleopatra (left) and Octavian and rejected Octavia (right) has been suggested. Perhaps c c. 35 BC.
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36. Lavish amphitheatre mosaic, showing named hunters in the arena killing named leopards ('The Roman'; 'Luxurious'). Floor-mosaic from house of Magerius, near Thysdrus, Tunisia. Perhaps c c. AD 26080.
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37. Colour reconstruction of the so-called 'Peplos Kore' from Athens, a 'Maiden in a Robe'. Most Greek marble statues were painted brightly. Original c c. 530 BC.
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38. Colour reconstruction of the grave-stele of Aristion by Aristocles. Original c c. 510 bc, found at Marathon in Attica. Aristion was possibly the famous sculptor from Paros.
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39. The 'Lady in Blue', one of five painted terracotta 'Tanagra' figurines from a tomb just north of Tanagra, central Greece. The lady with her fan, robe and covered head is perhaps a courtesan. c c. 330300 BC.
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40. Silver plate with gilding: a G.o.ddess, perhaps Cybele, drawn by lions to an altar. From the Greek city at Ai Khanum, Afghanistan, c c. 300 BC.
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41. Aerial view of the most remote Greek city, at Ai Khanum, Afghanistan, by the rivers Oxus and Kokcha, probably an Alexandria by origin. The lower city area has been devastated by plundering during the recent wars.
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42. Wall painting from the earliest tomb excavated under the Great Mound at Vergina (Aigai), the Macedonian dynastic centre: the G.o.d Pluto abducts Persephone to the underworld. c c. 340 BC.
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43. From the hunt-painting on the facade of the double royal tomb at Vergina, correctly ascribed to King Philip II. Details of rider identified as young Alexander.
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44. Detail of the older King Philip, matching his own coin-portraits, as he attacks a lion with the young Royal Pages whom he inst.i.tuted.
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45. Reconstruction of a section of the hunt painting on the tomb: young Alexander, after killing a boar, rides to the lion being attacked by King Philip and the Pages. Similar in style, perhaps the same artist, as Plate [image]
46. Tomb painting at Agios Athanasios (probably Chalastra) near Thessalonica, showing Macedonian males processing with torches and drinking vessels; dining, and standing as infantrymen. Arguably c c. 340335 BC.
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47. Painting of drunken Silenus, with a similar big 'griffin' drinking horn to the one in figure 46. From a marble tomb-bed found in Potidaea, south-west Macedonia, late fourth century BC.
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48. Wall-painting of Terentius Neo, holding a book-scroll, and his wife, holding a stylus-pen and a folded writing-tablet. Pompeii, c c. AD 60.
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49. Venus in a seash.e.l.l, pushed and pulled by cherubs, in a trompe l'aeil painting of the sea which thus seems to lie out beyond the adjoining garden paintings. Her hairdo was fas.h.i.+onable in Nero's reign. Pompeii, 60s ad.