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...
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.
EditorialDepiction of Hercules' fourth labour. Hercules in lion skin brings the Erymanthian boar and shows it to a terrified Eurystheus, who cowers in a storage jar or pithos. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichit...
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...
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.
EditorialDepiction of Hercules' fourth labour. Hercules in lion skin brings the Erymanthian boar and shows it to a terrified Eurystheus, who cowers in a storage jar or pithos. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichit...
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.
EditorialDepiction of Hercules' fourth labour. Hercules in lion skin brings the Erymanthian boar and shows it to a terrified Eurystheus, who cowers in a storage jar or pithos. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichit...
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...
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.