A collection of artifacts from across Europe, spanning its diverse histories and cultures. This category reflects the continent’s role as a cradle of art, innovation, and conflict through the ages.
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.
This compact marble relief shield preserves the memory of one of the most celebrated images of Athena in the ancient world. Known as the Strangford Shield, it is a Roman copy of the shield..
This semicylindrical marble altar drum or base brings together architecture, ritual, and divine imagery in a single carefully composed object. Carved in high relief, it shows a solemn procession of draped gods and heroes moving across its curved surface.
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.
This marble sculpture presents Hecate in one of her most distinctive ancient forms: not as a single standing goddess, but as three joined female figures arranged around a central axis.
Asclepius, the Greek god of medicine, sits on an elevated chair with his hand resting on the head of a serpent, while Hygieia stands before him preparing a libation.