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Relief depicting Hermes, Orpheus, and Eurydice. It depicts the moment at which Orpheus, having struck a deal with Hades to retrieve Eurydice from the underworld, has turned around to look at his wife and thereby loses her forever. The relief was…

Bust of emperor Antoninus Pius

Bust of Faustina the Elder, wife of Antoninus Pius

Statue of a hound. Roman copy after an early Hellenistic original. The sculpture was discovered in Santa Marinella, near Rome, in March 1777.

Statue of a seated Nymph, holding her foot.

Statue of the muse Anchiroe, Arcadian nymph and nurse of Zeus, standing with a chiton

Front of a sarcophagus with a Dionysiac ceremonial procession (thiasos). On the lid, there is a banquet scene with Dionysus and Ariadne. The sarcophagus was discovered in Rome, in a tomb on via Aurelia Antica in 1956.

Front slab of a sarcophagus depicting some cherubs riding chariots

Statue of a naked gladiator (the so-called Vulneratus deficiens) standing. He had a sword in his right hand. The head is restored.

Horsehead from the east pediment of the Parthenon, north side.

Male bust in profile.

Male torso depicted dynamic tension. It was formerly considered to be the torso of a satyr when it was in the Gaddi collection, Florence, the sculpture is now thought to represent a centaur straining against his bonds. It was probably discoverd in…

Decorated hydria with Hercules' last labor, the capture of the three-headed hound Cerberus, Hercules is depicted while bringing the animal to Eurystheus who hid in a jar for the fright, begging Heracles to leave and take the dog with him. The vase…

Statue of a priestess velato capite holdin a paten

Statue of Ganymede with the eagle

Statue of Ganymede with the eagle.

Statue of the so-called Spinario, a boy withdrawing a thorn from the sole of his foot. Roman copy of a late Hellenistic original. The sculpture was found in Rome, on the Palatine .

Male bust

Fragmentary statues from Athens (excavations of the Acropolis)

Grave stele of Aristion from the necropolis of Agia Triada