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Greek Orientalizing-Archaic period, ca. 620-580 BCE
Made in Laconia/Sparta
Archaeological provenience unknown
In the collection of, and photographed on display at, the British Museum, London
Caryatid Fund
Inv. 1995,0622.2 (GR 1995.6-22.2)
Orientalizing period, ca. 675-625 BCE
Produced at Cerveteri (ancient Caere; see on Pleiades)
No archaeological provenience (possibly from Cerveteri-Banditaccia necropolis); former Castellani collection
In the collection of the École française de Rome.
Gift of Augusto Castellani, March 1879.
Photographed on display in the exhibit "Un museo per l'École" (École française de Rome, piazza Navona 62, 29 May-20 December 2024, extended until 31 January 2025)
www.efrome.it/it/attualita/exposition-un-musee-pour-lecole
Late Orientalizing-Archaic period, late 7th-early 6th c. BCE
Found at Orvieto (ancient Velzna/Volsinii; see on Pleiades) in 1878
In the collection of the École française de Rome. Gift of Augusto Castellani.
Photographed on display in the exhibit "Un museo per l'École" (École française de Rome, piazza Navona 62, 29 May-20 December 2024, extended until 31 January 2025)
www.efrome.it/it/attualita/exposition-un-musee-pour-lecole
Greek Orientalizing/Archaic period, ca. 660-640 BCE
Local ("colonial") production
Found at Pisticci, loc. Incoronata (see on Pleiades), settlement, oikos in Saggio S
Photographed on display at, and in the collection of, the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Metaponto
Greek Orientalizing/Archaic period, ca. 660-640 BCE
Local ("colonial") production
Found at Pisticci, loc. Incoronata (see on Pleiades), settlement, oikos in Saggio S
Photographed on display at, and in the collection of, the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Metaponto
Greek Orientalizing/Archaic period, ca. 660-640 BCE
Local ("colonial") production
Found at Pisticci, loc. Incoronata (see on Pleiades), settlement, oikos in Saggio S
Photographed on display at, and in the collection of, the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Metaponto
Ceramic
Orientalizing/Protoarchaic period, 7th c. BCE
Found at Chania (ancient Kydonia; see on Pleiades), East Cemetry, pithos burials
Photographed on display in the Archaeological Museum of Chania, Crete, Greece
Orientalizing/Archaic period, ca. late 7th c. BCE
Found at Lucus Feroniae (see on Pleiades in the territory of ancient Capena
Probably an applique from a bronze vessel.
Photographed on display in the Antiquarium of Lucus Feroniae, Fiano Romano, Italy
Orientalizing/Archaic period, ca. late 7th c. BCE
Found at Lucus Feroniae (see on Pleiades in the territory of ancient Capena
Probably an applique from a bronze vessel.
Photographed on display in the Antiquarium of Lucus Feroniae, Fiano Romano, Italy
Greek Orientalizing/Archaic period, 7th c. BCE
Found at Thera (see on Pleiades) on Santorini
Photographed on display in the exhibit "L'istante e l'eternità. Tra noi e gli antichi" (The Instant and Eternity. Between us and the ancients"), Museo Nazionale Romano, Terme di Diocleziano, Rome (4 May- 30 July 2023)
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In the collection of the Archaeological Museum of Thera, Ephoria of Antiquities of the Cyclades
One griffin has a bone or ivory inlaid eye
Greek Archaic period, ca. 625-575 BCE
No archaeological provenience; probably Samos
Photographed on display in the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA
Katherine K. Adler Memorial Fund, 1994.38.1-2