Objects
Mythology & Storytelling in the Warbeke Gallery
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11.
Panathenaic Prize Amphora
Athena in full armor between two Doric columns surmounted by roosters
13.
Hydria
Athena stepping into a chariot as Herakles, Apollo, a female goddess (head now missing), and Hermes look on
14.
Lekythos
Apollo mounting a chariot drawn by lions and boars, accompanied by Hermes and two women
15.
Lekythos
Poseidon riding on a hippocamp (half winged horse, half sea serpent) alongside dolphins
16.
Squat Lekythos
Aphrodite with Poseidon and his loves: Amymone (the Danaid) seated at center and Amphitrite (his wife) standing at right
20.
Pelike in the Early Kerch Style
Herakles in the Garden of the Hesperides with Eros, three Hesperids, and Pan
21.
Olpe
Herakles fighting the Amazons in his 9th labor (stealing the belt of the Amazon Queen, Hippolyta)
27.
Tripod pyxis
Achilles ambushing Trojan prince Troilos; his sister, Polyxena, fleeing (Leg B: Male courtship scene; Leg C: Four Youths and a woman, possibly Helen)
66.
Archaistic relief fragment
Procession of five divinities: Apollo, Venus, Minerva, Juno, Jupiter
Theatricality & the Ancient Interior in the Gump Family Gallery
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Representations of Women in the Evans Gallery
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87.
Cinerary urn with lid
Scene from Aeschylus’ "Seven Against Thebes", with Eteocles, son of Oedipus, attacking his brother Polynices; figure of the deceased reclining on top
96.
Pelike
A woman extends a bunched garment to a nude woman at right; Side B: A man extends a phiale
98.
Squat lekythos
Woman seated on a diphros (four-legged stool) while holding a wreath
99.
Tripod pyxis with lid
Three figures in domestic scene: woman seated before a kalathos (basket of wool); man offering wool and leg of meat; woman holding mirror
100.
Tripod pyxis with lid
Four women in a domestic setting; a tainia (headband) hangs behind them
135.
Statuette
Isis, Egyptian goddess of fertility worshipped in the Graeco-Roman world
137.
Relief fragment
Triple-bodied Hekate, goddess of crossroads, the moon, and nocturnal sorcery
