
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.

Handcrafted ceramic vessels and objects, shaped from clay and fired for durability. This category celebrates the ancient craft of pottery and its role in daily life and decoration.

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.

Fired between 515 and 510 BCE, this black-figure amphora from Attic Greece plots Herakles wrestling the Nemean Lion alongside Dionysos and followers.