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.
EditorialAttributed to the Pithos Painter, Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup), Greek, Attic, Archaic, Date late 6th century B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; red-figure, Vases.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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.
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.
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...
EditorialCultura ib?rica. Ajuar funerario. L?cito ?tico de figuras negras con la representaci?n de dos s?tiros corriendo tras una mujer, quiz?s una ninfa; Copa ?tica (kylix) de figuras rojas, atribu?da al pintor de Pithos. Representa a un joven desnudo saltando...
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.
EditorialTerracotta fragment of a pithos (?) with impressed zigzag pattern, Early Helladic III, ca. 2300?2100 B.C., Helladic, Terracotta; Coarse ware, Overall: 2 11/16 x 1 3/4in. (6.8 x 4.5cm), Vases, From Zygouries, Greece. Fragment, incised designs.
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.
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.
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.