7981. SCULPTURE. Rome. Discobolus. Marble. Roman copy ca. 140 CE from an original by Myron of the 5th century BCE. Inv. No. 126371. Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme. | |
7982. SCULPTURE. Rome. Narcissus at the fountain. From the villa of Petraro, near Stabiae. Inv. No. 61002. Naples, National Archaeological Museum. | |
7983. PAINTING, GRAPHICS. Rome. Phoenix. Fresco from Pompeii (Caupona of Euxinus, I. 11. 10—11). Inv. No. 41671. Naples, National Archaeological Museum. | |
7984. CERAMICS. Greece. Bellerophon, Pegasus, and the Chimera. Black-figure kylix. Lakonia. Attributed to the Boreads Painter (Greek (Lakonian), active 575—550 BCE). Terracotta. Ca. 570—565 BCE. Inv. No. 85.AE.121. Los Angeles, John Paul Getty Museum, Getty Villa in Malibu. | |
7985. CERAMICS. Greece. Symposiasts (banqueters). Interior of the black-figure eye-cup (type A). Attic. Attributed to Andokides as potter and painted in the manner of the Lysippides Painter. Clay. Ca. 520 BCE. Inv. No. 87.AE.22. Los Angeles, John Paul Getty Museum, Getty Villa in Malibu. | |
7986. CERAMICS. Greece. Heracles fighting the Lernaean Hydra. Aryballos. Corinth. Terracotta. Ca. 600—575 BCE. Inv. No. 92.AE.4. Los Angeles, John Paul Getty Museum, Getty Villa in Malibu. | |
7987. CERAMICS. Greece. Eros and youth. White-ground bobbin (side B). Attic. Attributed to the Penthesilea Painter. Ca. 460—450 BCE. Inv. No. 28.167. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art. | |
7988. CERAMICS. Greece. Tekmessa covering the corpse of Ajax. Red-figured kylix (type B). Attic. Attributed to Brygos Painter (active about 490—470 BCE). Terracotta. 490—480 BCE. Inv. No. 86.AE.286. Los Angeles, John Paul Getty Museum, Getty Villa in Malibu. | |
7989. SCULPTURE. Rome. Septimius Severus. Detail. The head is marble, the bust is yellow-greenish alabaster. 200—210 CE. Height 85 cm. Inv. No. S 461. Rome, Capitoline Museums, Palazzo Nuovo, Hall of the Emperors. | |
7990. SCULPTURE. Rome. Septimius Severus. The head is marble, the bust is yellow-greenish alabaster. 200—210 CE. Height 85 cm. Inv. No. S 461. Rome, Capitoline Museums, Palazzo Nuovo, Hall of the Emperors. | |
7991. PAINTING, GRAPHICS. Etruria. Tuchulcha, the demon of the underworld. Etruscan funeral picture. 4th—3rd centuries BCE. | |
7992. SCULPTURE. Rome. Dacians with the battle standard in the form of dragon filled with warm air. Marble. 107—113 CE. Rome, Column of Trajan. | |
7993. INSTRUMENTS. Rome. Instruments of alchemists for distilling. 1 and 2 — distillation retorts; 3 — retort for evaporator; 4 — retort for condensation; a — copper head, b — receivers, c — burner, d — protection sheath preventing the loss of warm. | |
7994. CERAMICS. Greece. Youth with a diptych. Red-figure vase. By the Douris Painter. Clay. 500—470 BCE. Inv. No. F 2285. Berlin, State Museums, Old Museum. | |
7995. INSTRUMENTS. Greece. Dioptra. Draft by Heron. | |
7996. SCULPTURE. Rome. Head of the statue of Diocletian. Marble. Late 3rd — early 4th cent. CE. Inv. No. 4864 T. Istanbul, Archaeological Museum. | |
7997. SCULPTURE. Rome. Statue of Demosthenes. Marble. Roman copy of the Greek original of ca. 280 BCE. Inv. No. 2782. Copenhagen, New Carlsberg Glyptotek. | |
7998. CERAMICS. Greece. Cassandra and Hector. Red-figure kantharos. Attic. By the Eretria Painter. Clay. Ca. 425—420 BCE. Inv. No. Ta 177009. Gravina in Puglia, Ettore Pomarici-Santomasi Foundation. | |
7999. SCULPTURE. Rome. Myth about Medea. Side of a sarcophagus. Fragment. Marble. Ca. 170 CE. Berlin, State Museums, Pergamon Museum. | |
8000. MOSAIC. Rome. Advice of the sorceress. Mosaic from Pompeii (so-called Villa of Cicero). Signature above: Dioskourides of Samos. 150—125 BCE. Inv. No. 9987. Naples, National Archaeological Museum. | |