THE GALLERY OF ANCIENT ART

Mythology in the Art
981. TOREUTICS. Rome.
Silver handle of a large dish with a scene of a lioness hunting.
Silver, gold.
2nd — early 3rd century CE.
Inv. No. 06.1106.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
982. ADORNMENTS. Greece.
The Madytos Jewelry: pediment-shaped diadem.
Gold.
Ca. 330—300 BCE.
Inv. No. 06.1217.1.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
983. ADORNMENTS. Greece.
The Madytos Jewelry: pair of earrings with disk and boat-shaped pendants.
Gold.
Ca. 330—300 BCE.
Inv. No. 06.1217.11—12.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
984. ADORNMENTS. Greece.
The Madytos Jewelry: pair of earrings with disk and boat-shaped pendants.
Gold.
Ca. 330—300 BCE.
Inv. No. 06.1217.11—12.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
985. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Torso of a boy (Niobe’s son?).
Marble. Roman period (1st—2nd cent. CE) based on a Greek original ca. 425—400 BCE.
Inv. No. 07.286.108.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
986. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with the contest between the Muses and the Sirens.
Marble. Roman. Third quarter of the 3rd cent. CE.
Inv. No. 10.104.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
987. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with the contest between the Muses and the Sirens (close-up).
Marble. Roman. Third quarter of the 3rd cent. CE.
Inv. No. 10.104.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
988. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with the contest between the Muses and the Sirens (close-up).
Marble. Roman. Third quarter of the 3rd cent. CE.
Inv. No. 10.104.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
989. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with the contest between the Muses and the Sirens (close-up).
Marble. Roman. Third quarter of the 3rd cent. CE.
Inv. No. 10.104.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
990. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Torso of a youth.
Marble. Roman period (1st—2nd cent. CE) based on a Greek original from the 4th century BCE.
Inv. No. 13.229.1.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
991. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Marble torso of a boy (so-called Narcissus).
Marble. Roman copy of the 1st—2nd cent. CE of a Greek bronze original of the late 5th cent. BCE.
Inv. No. 13.229.2.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
992. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Marble torso of a boy (so-called Narcissus).
Marble. Roman copy of the 1st—2nd cent. CE of a Greek bronze original of the late 5th cent. BCE.
Inv. No. 13.229.2.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
993. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Demeter, Persephone and Triptolemos.
Fragment of the Great Eleusinian mysteries.
Ten marble fragments of a Roman copy are inserted into a cast from an original relief from the National Museum in Athens.
Marble, plaster.
Ca. 27 BCE — 14 CE.
Inv. No. 14.130.9.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
994. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Bust of a youth.
Marble. Roman copy of the 1st or 2nd cent. CE of a head of a Greek statue of the 4th cent. BCE.
Inv. No. 15.143.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
995. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Bust of a youth.
Marble. Roman copy of the 1st or 2nd cent. CE of a head of a Greek statue of the 4th cent. BCE.
Inv. No. 15.143.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
996. PAINTING, GRAPHICS.
Laocoon.
Marco Dente da Ravenna (1493—1527).
Engraving on copper plate. 1515—1527.
Inv. No. 17.50.16-99.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
997. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Death of Meleager (a piece of a front panel of a sarcophagus).
Marble. Roman, mid-2nd cent. CE.
Inv. No. 20.187.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
998. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Death of Meleager (a piece of a front panel of a sarcophagus).
Marble. Roman, mid-2nd cent. CE.
Inv. No. 20.187.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
999. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Torso of Eros.
Marble.
Roman period (1st—2nd cent. CE). Adaptation of a Greek bronze statue representing Apollo Sauroktonos (Lizard Slayer) of ca. 350 BCE by Praxiteles.
Inv. No. 24.97.14.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
1000. CERAMICS. Greece.
Pompe, the female personification of a procession, between Eros and Dionysos.
Oinochoe. Attic.
Mid-4th cent. BCE.
Inv. No. 25.190.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.