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  1. Greek horse and rider / circa 550 BC
  2. Corinthian alabastron / circa 600 BC
  3. Greek sphinx / circa 400 BC
  4. Flask with two faces / circa 250 BC
  5. Athena / circa 100 AD
  6. Venus / circa AD 150
  7. Intaglio / circa 100 BC-AD 100

  • Corinthian alabastron
      Archaic Period, circa 600 BC
      Terracotta
      Height: 28.2 cm
    Corinthian alabastron The vase painting of Corinth in the Archaic Period was characterised by scenes of animals-some real, some fantastic, many originating in Near Eastern prototypes-prowling through dense thickets of ornament. The winged `mistress of animals' shown on this carefully painted alabastron (an oil or perfume flask) of the early Corinthian period is based upon a typical Near Eastern mother-goddess of a type associated by the Greeks with the huntress deity Artemis.



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