Seated Olmec Figure (1500-200 BCE)
This seated anthropomorphic ceramic figure, 8.5 cm high (3.3 inches), is catalogued as a probable Olmec figurine. It presents a compact human form in a seated pose.
Material Ceramic
Black-Figure Vessel for Incense (c.600-400 BCE)
This small black-figure incense vessel opens onto a world in which religion was experienced through smoke, fragrance, and image as much as through words or gesture.
Red-Figure Kylix (c. 480 BCE)
When lifting the kylix to drink, its painted interior reveals a lively encounter between the god and a dancing satyr, turning an everyday act of drinking into a moment of myth, humor, and reflection on excess and control.
Red-Figure Janiform Kantharos: Satyr and African (470-460 BCE)
A ceramic kantharos from 470–460 BCE, shaped with dual faces of a satyr and an African, formed in red-figure style.
Neck Amphora (515-510 BCE)
Fired between 515 and 510 BCE, this black-figure amphora from Attic Greece plots Herakles wrestling the Nemean Lion alongside Dionysos and followers.