Trident and Tales

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Roman mosaic glass tile with Dionysian theater masks

1st century CE

MK&G collection 1969.115.a

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Roman workshop Grand Camée de France (Tiberius with the imperial family) ca. AD 25 sardonyx cameo Bibliothèque nationale, Paris

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the odyssey (2026)

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Greek krater showing an artist painting a Herakles statue

360 - 350 BCE

Metropolitan Museum of Art 50.11.4

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Greek sun dial, found in Pergamon

1st - 2nd century CE

Louvre ED 2721

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Roman dice tower (turricula), used to ensure that dice roll outcomes were random

Inscription on the front side: PICTOS VICTOS HOSTIS DELETA LVDITE SECVRI - "The Picts are defeated, the enemies destroyed, play with confidence."

Inscription on the other sides: UTERE FELIX VIVAS - "Have a happy life."

4th century CE

Rheinisches Landesmuseum

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Greek neck-amphora with Dionysos and Satyrs on one side, and a four-horse chariot on the other

530 - 500 BCE

British Museum 1980,1029.1

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Greek perfume bottle in the shape of a duck

6th century BCE

British Museum 1860,0404.31

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Red-figure kylix with youth and his lover (interior) and youths and men in athletic activities (exterior), attributed to the Carpenter Painter

Greek (manufactured at Athens) Archaic Period, c. 510-500 B.C.

terracotta

Getty Museum

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Egyptian vessel with a shell

1st century BCE

J Paul Getty Museum 79.AA.175

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Egyptian "Hounds and Jackals"-game board

The board features 58 holes (29 on each side), used for placing game pieces (either hounds or jackals). Some of these holes have hieroglyphs next to them, such as 𓄤 nfr - good and 𓍶 šn - protection, with the latter being the goal and lines connecting them. It is thought that the game would be played like Chutes and Ladders today, with two players moving their pieces according to the rolled number to reach the end.

Late period, Dynasty 26, 664 - 525 BCE

Louvre N 3043

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Egyptian mold for a Heron (a bird associated with the sun, the annual flooding of the Nile, and the afterlife)

2nd - 1st century BCE (Ptolemaic period)

Walters Art Museum 22.284

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Roman mosaic depicting Triton, a dolphin, and a fish, found in the Sanctuary of Artemis (Ephesus)

ca. 200 CE

British Museum 1872,0803.72

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Greek appliqué of a Maenad

3rd - 2nd century BCE

MK&G collection 1917.199

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Jewelry and stage costumes by Ilias Lalaounis, inspired by ancient and Byzantine Greek artwork.

Some of these are direct reproductions of archaeological pieces, others are more loosely inspired by antiquity.

All objects on display at the Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum. Photos by me, October 2022

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Greek mirror with a nymph washing her hair

ca. 280 BCE

Antiquity collection Berlin Misc. 8148

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Priestess Takushit from Bubastis, now in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, Greece