Tablet with Instructions for the Deceased in the Underworld.
350-300 B.C. Greek. Gold.
Paul Getty Museum
Helios in his chariot emerges from the sea.
Pottery: red-figured calyx-krater.
Made in Attica (Greece)
Excavated: Puglia, Italy.
430 BC
British Museum
Detail from a linen and wool hanging fragment.
Egypt, c. 200 - 642 AD
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Precise geometric pattern on a rams-head: terracotta pot.
East Greece, 6th BC.
Currently preserved at the Met Museum, New York.
“Villa dei misteri” (Villa of the Mysteries), Pompeii, Italy.
Fresco, I century BC.
Dionysian ritual.
Art of ancient Rome.
Double seat (bisellium) of Marcus Olconius Fufus in the Teatro Grande of Pompeii, Italy.
1st century AD.
Aeneas with Anchises, Ascanius and a cicada (?) between his legs.
Art of ancient Rome.
1st century AD.
Getty Museum.