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The celebrated Portland vase, one of the finest examples of Roman glassware. The vase was made during the reign of Augustus (27 BCE - 14 CE) and displays gemcutting techniques used to create a cameo-like depiction of the marriage of Peleus...

A detail from the celebrated Portland Vase, one of the finest examples of Roman glassware. The vase was made during the reign of Augustus (27 BCE - 14 CE) and displays gemcutting techniques used to create a cameo-like depiction of the marriage...

A detail form the celebrated Portland vase, one of the finest examples of Roman glassware. The vase was made during the reign of Augustus (27 BCE - 14 CE) and displays gemcutting techniques used to create a cameo-like depiction of the marriage...

Different cultural traditions met in Hellenistic Egypt, as this small silver wine vase illustrates (11 cm in height; ca. 200-150 BCE; APM inv. no. 3397). It is decorated with acanthus and lotus leaves, floral motifs from respectively Greece...

A red-figure vase depicting Scylla, the monster who preyed on victims going through the Straits of Messina. Boeotian, 450-425 BCE. Louvre Museum, Paris.

A Mycenaean vase (1300-1200 BCE) in the pictorial style depicting stylized bulls and birds. From a tomb in Enkomi, Cyprus. (British Museum, London)

Red-figure vase depicting an artist painting a statue of Hercules, identified by his club and lion-skin cape. Greek and Roman statues were frequently painted in Antiquity, to impart a more impressive and life-like appearance. Images of artists...

A Jomon vase, Japan. Jomon Period, 4000-3000 BCE. (Tokyo National Museum)

Fragment of an Apulian vase painting depicting Hercules with the Amazonian queen Hippolyte. Terracotta volute-krater attributed to the Baltimore Painter. c. 330–310 BCE. 19.4 cm (7.5 in). (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Late Minoan polychrome vase, mid-15th century BCE, from Isopata. (Archaeological Museum, Heraklion)