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Salon #2

Greek Geometric Orientalising

Greek Geometric Orientalising

Menaleus, clay & red purple gloss, Blinding of Polyphemus and Gorgons, 675-650 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Eleusis

Byzantine

Byzantine

N/A, silver, Plate with the Presentation of David to Saul, 629-630 AD, Cyprus Treasure, found at Karavas, Cyprus, 1902; J. Pierpont Morgan, London and New York (until 1917)

Archaic

Archaic

N/A, marble and Parian, Marble capital and finial in the form of a sphinx, 530 BC, Credit Line: Munsey Fund, 1936, 1938 Accession Number: 11.185d, x

Classical

Classical

N/A, marble, discobolus, 440 BC, From Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli, Lazio, Italy

Etruscan

Etruscan

N/A, alabaster, Cinerary Urn, 650 BC, Credit Line: Purchase, 1896 Accession Number: 96.9.225a, b

Hellenistic

Hellenistic

N/A, Laocoon and His Sons, interlocking pieces of white marble, Laocoon and His Sons, 42 BC,

Roman

Roman

N/A, bronze, Bronze statue of an aristocratic boy, 27 BC- 14 AD, Said to be from Rhodes (MMA 1938, fig. 24). Acquired November 12, 1914, purchased from Theochares through E.P. Triantaphyllos.

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