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
   

Greek horse and rider

Archaic Period, circa 550 BC
Terracotta
Height: 10.3 cm

Horses of this highly stylised kind, here merging horse and rider into a single entity, were a popular product of the coroplast's workshops of Boeotia in the sixth century BC. Like most terracotta figures, they are generally found in graves where they were deposited as gifts and also, perhaps, to provide comfort to the dead. They may well have been intended to underline the heroic character of the dead person as a warrior or hunter. This figure is an especially apt metaphor for Freud's theory of the ego riding the forces of the id.

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