Objects from the cradle of Western civilization, featuring pottery, sculptures, and other creations from Ancient Greece. These artifacts highlight the Greeks’ contributions to art, philosophy, and democracy during their golden age.
The Funerary Stele of Silenis is a moving Attic grave monument that turns a moment of stillness into an enduring image of memory. Carved in marble around 360 BCE, it commemorates a young woman named Silenis.
This funerary stele of Polyxena transforms a single standing figure into a quiet but richly layered image of memory, identity, and female transition in the Greek world.
An Attic funerary relief dedicated to Mynno, now in the Altes Museum in Berlin, turns a seemingly intimate domestic scene into an image of death, memory, and social identity.
This frieze at Delphi is one of the most vivid surviving images of divine combat from ancient Greece. Carved around 530–525 BCE, it shows the Gigantomachy, the mythic battle in which the Olympian gods confront the Giants.
High in the mountains of Arcadia, far from the great urban centers of classical Greece, the Bassai Frieze once unfolded inside the Temple of Apollo Epikourios as a ring of marble violence, heroism, and divine order.
Seated on a throne and holding a feline companion, Cybele appears not as an ordinary woman but as a divine presence marked by authority, protection, and command over the natural world.
The figure is a so-called Phi-type, named after the resemblance of its silhouette to the Greek letter Φ, and it offers a revealing glimpse into how femininity, care, and cult practice could be expressed in the Mycenaean world.
This ceramic plank idol was made in Boeotia in the middle of the 6th century BC, though its type reaches back to traditions formed after the middle of the 7th century BC.
The high and elaborate headdress and crown is unlikely to be merely fashionable adornment. It most probably represents a mural crown, the crown of city walls and towers, which in the Greek and Roman world marked a female figure as divine.