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This terracotta statuette depicts a woman. The woman is recumbent and is naked and wears an elaborate headdress. She looks forward, as if she is talking to someone or looking at something. From Mesopotamia, Iraq. The Hellenistic period, 334-139...

Themis and Aegeus. Attic red-figure kylix, from Vulci, 440-430 BCE. Antikensammlung, Altes Museum, Berlin, Germany.

Medea killing one of her sons, side A from a Campanian (Capouan) red-figure neck-amphora, from Cumae, c. 330 BCE. Louvre, Paris.

The Tetrapylon of Aphrodisias in Caria (now Turkey) was a monumental gateway leading from the main north-south street of the town into a large forecourt in front of the Temple of Aphrodite. It was built c. 200 CE.

The Stadium is one of Aphrodisias' most remarkable surviving buildings. It was 270 m long and 59 m wide with 30 rows of seats. It had the capacity of 30,000 spectators. It is one of the best preserved ancient stadiums and also one of the...

The most imposing building of Roman Sardis is the (much reconstructed) courtyard of the Bath-Gymnasium complex. Its design reflects the elaborate architecture of the Severian dynasty, late 2nd - early 3rd century CE.

The goddess Juno, from the first half of 2nd century CE. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen

This rock-relief lies on the cliff side of mountain Rabana. The mountain looks over the modern village of Qarachatan, Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan. The relief is about 4 km away from a very similar rock-relief, the relief of...

The Atalante Hermes from Atalante, Phthiotis, 2nd century CE. The figure is a funerary statue of a youth in the guise of the god Hermes. (National Archaeological Museum, Athens)

A Greek youth named Kleonikos wearing a himation robe. From the Gymnasium at Eretrea, Euboea, 1st century BCE. (National Archaeological Museum, Athens)