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The surface has a central tondo, in which is displayed a female head in profile, with hair tied in a bun and held in place by a kekryphalos (hair net) highlighted with white and ochre paint. Below her chin is a small libation bowl, behind her head, a…

The surface has a central tondo, in which is displayed a maenad in profile seated on what appears to be a rocky outcropping (heavily stylized), with hair swept up, and partly covered and held in place by a jeweled sakkos. She wears a diaphanous…

Red Figure kantharos with volute handles. On each side a generic composition associated with the cult of Dionysus (Bacchus). One side depicts a satyr approaching an altar, holding an offering dish in his left hand and a torch in his right hand. A…

A black-glaze bowl; interior adorned with a notched pattern which radiates from a central tondo.

Black-glaze oinichoe with a trefoil lip; body is adorned with incised foliate pattern.

The Greek heroes Ajax and Achilles are shown engaged in a board game with dice; the goddess Athena stands in the center behind the figures, presiding. The border above the composition is adorned with a pattern of dots, and the shoulder with a pattern…

Attic Type B skyphos with thin walls and ring foot; two handles one horizontal, one vertical both attached below rim. Light, thin black slip typical of this class. Resting surface of foot and base are reserved except for a ring painted around the…

Rhys Tushingham: Ceramic disc with engraved symbols in a spiral pattern, made to replicate the Phaistos disc exhibited at the Heraklion museum (https://www.heraklionmuseum.gr/en/collections/#collections, accession number Π-Ν1358). Unlike the…

Leaf shaped javelin point bearing a Greek inscription. Short tang.

Loose interpretation, a miniature of the Roman statue, the Dancing Faun, in the garden of the House of the Faun in Pompeii.

A small clay cylinder with a hollow middle for attachment to a necklace or bracelet. Engraved with a design along the surface for the purposes of rolling onto fresh clay in order to create a seal. Light blue in colour, with a deeper blue present in…

A small clay cylinder with a hollow middle for attachment to a necklace or bracelet. Engraved with a design along the surface for the purposes of rolling onto fresh clay in order to create a seal. Slightly greenish-beige in colour.

A small clay cylinder with a hollow middle for attachment to a necklace or bracelet. Engraved with a design along the surface for the purposes of rolling onto fresh clay in order to create a seal. Black in colour with brown spots due to wear.

Terracotta tablet with cuneiform impressed on both sides. Inscription has not been translated.

Black painted plaster, rectangular with one rounded side. There is a hole in the back for hanging. Cuneiform script. Translation: "To the goddess Inanna, the mistress of Eanna, his mistress, Ur-Nammu, the mighty man, the king of Ur, king of Sumer and…

White plaster block shaped in an oval, with an impression of a closed-body lamp in the middle. The decorated rim has concentric, geometric designs, and the discus features a bird and a vessel.

Bronze arrowhead with two barbs/spurs on the end facing away from the arrow tip, which has been broken off. Round base with a socket.

Cylindrical shape with tapered and painted ends; green colouring. Possibly used to apply eyeliner or as an eyebrow pencil.

Circular, closed bracelet; etched pattern around exterior of band; with four indentations (1.5 cm long) equally spaced around band.

Round body; clay with ocre-reddish colour. Eros with torch in right hand and indeterminate object in left hand. Slightly projecting heart shaped nozzle with rounded termination. Underside of the nozzle is decorated with a single band of tongues…

Colour: Dark orange clay. Moldmade. Elongated round-tipped volute-nozzle; plain unadorned shoulder. One wick hole; one filling hole located at the lower right corner of the discus, near the ridge; two incised rings around discus.
Discus…

Colour: Red with black (slipped or/and burnt). Round-tipped nozzle; one wick hole; curved unpierced handle. A worn leaf pattern decorates the shoulder.
Discus iconography: Artemis standing with bow in her left hand; her head is depicted in profile,…

Colour: orange-brown. Miniature lamp; two round-tipped nozzles; one central filling-hole; incised ring surrounding the filling-hole.
Discuss iconography: a series of petal-like shapes radiates from the incised ring surrounding the filling-hole.…

Obverse legend: CONSTANTINVS IVN(ior) NOB(ilissimus) C(aesar), translation: Constantinus the Youth, Most Noble Caesar; draped, cuirassed, and laureate bust of Constantine II facing right. Reverse legend: CAESARVM NOSTRORVM, translation: of our…

Obverse legend: MAXIMINVS NOB(ilissimus) CAES(ar), translation: Most Noble Caesar Maximinus; laureate head of Maximinus II facing right. Reverse legend: SAC(ra) MON(eta) VRB(is) AVGG(=Augustorum) ET CAESS(=Caesarum) NN(=Nostrorum), translation: The…