EditorialGroup of Vase Fragments (3,668), Antiphon Painter (Greek), Berlin Painter (Greek (Attic), active about 500 - about 460 B.C.), Brygan, Brygos Painter (Greek (Attic), active about 490 - 470 B.C.), Douris (Greek (Attic), active 500 - 460 B.C.), Epeleios P...
EditorialGreece. Creta. The palace of Malia. Middle Bronze Age. On the north side of the courtyard were storage rooms with giant earthenware pithos jars, up to two metres tall. These were used for holding grain, olive oil and other liquids. Detail Pithos. Minoa...
EditorialCycladic relief. Pithos. Depiction of Potnia Theron, the Mistress of the Animals. Goddess of nature, crowned with flowers and shotts, flanked by two rampant lionesses and two submissive women. Second half 7th century BC. Island of Delos. National Archa...
EditorialIberian culture. Grave goods. Attic lekythos of black figures depicting two satyrs running after a woman, perhaps a nymph; Attic cup (kylix) of red figures, attributed to the painter of Pithos, depicting a naked young man jumping or dancing before a st...
EditorialGreek Art. Archaic period. Greek pithos decorated with the great nature goddess flanked by lions and birds. It comes from Thebes (Boeotia) and is dated between 680-670 B.C. Oriental style. National Archaeological Museum. Athens. Greece.
EditorialGreek Art. Archaic period. Greek pithos decorated with the great nature goddess flanked by lions and birds. It comes from Thebes (Boeotia) and is dated between 680-670 B.C. Oriental style. National Archaeological Museum. Athens. Greece.
EditorialPerseus (left, wearing a hat, winged boots and the kibisis slung over his shoulder) averts his gaze as he kills Medusa, figured here as a female centaur. Detail from an orientalizing relief pithos. Louvre Museum. Paris. France.