Exhibition object provenance list for Ancient Greeks ...

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Ancient Greeks exhibition object provenance list 16-04-21

Exhibition object provenance list for Ancient Greeks: Athletes, Warriors and Heroes from the British Museum, at the WA Museum Boola Bardip from 19 June – 7 November 2021.

Image Registration number Object description Material Dates/periods Collection

Acquisition Date of acquisition

Field collector Place of production

Provenance/ findspot Country/place of origin

1857,1220.334 Figure of Nike (architectural sculpture)

Marble 1st century BCE Hellenistic Period

Acquired from Sir Charles

Newton’s excavations in

Bodrum on behalf of the

British Museum

1857 Excavated by Sir Charles Newton

Roman Villa, in Halicarnassus, Bodrum, Turkey

Turkey

1873,0820.544 Figure of Nike Terracotta 3rd century BCE – 2nd century BCE

Purchased from Alessandro Castellani

1873 Canosa di Puglia, Puglia, Italy

Italy

1892,0823.2

Pinhead in form of figure of Nike holding wreath

Silver and gold (gilded)

100–200 CE Roman

Purchased from Wolfgang Helbig

1892 No provenance

1867,0508.448 Earring in the form of a figure of Nike, holding a disk with the head of Helios at centre (1/2)

Gold (embossed and filigree)

4th century BCE – 3rd century BCE

Purchased from Louis, Duc de Blacas d’Aulps

1867 Same, Cephalonia, Greece Greece

1867,0508.449 Earring in the form of a figure of Nike, holding a disk with the head of Helios at centre (2/2)

Gold (embossed and filigree)

4th century BCE – 3rd century BCE


1867 Same, Cephalonia, Greece Greece

1867,0508.1120 Red-figured neck-amphora with Nike

Pottery 470–460 BCE


1867 Attributed to the Greek vase painter Hermonax

Nola, Campania, Italy Italy

1842,0728.928 Red-figured chous (small jug) with a scene of two boys at play

Pottery 420–400 BCE

Purchased from Thomas Burgon

1842 Athens, Greece Athens, Greece

1837,0609.65 Black-figured amphora

Pottery 540–520 BCE Attic-Archaic Greek

Purchased from Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino and Musignano

1837 Attributed to the Swing Painter

Eturia, Italy

Attica, Greece

1927,1115.16 Knucklebone Bronze 500–100 BCE Donated by Sir Walter Leo Hildburgh

1927 Athens, Greece Greece

1846,0217.180 Knucklebone Bronze 500–100 BCE Purchased from Lieutenant Colonel Ross

1846 Cephalonia, Greece Greece

1927,1115.19 Knucklebone Bronze 500–100 BCE Donated by Sir Walter Leo Hildburgh


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1927,1115.18

Knucklebone Steatite 500–100 BCE Donated by Sir Walter Leo Hildburgh


1927,1115.17 Knucklebone Alabaster 500–100 BCE

Donated by Sir Walter Leo Hildburgh


1856,1226.8 Red-figured bell-krater showing Eros playing knucklebones

Pottery about 420–400 BCE Lucanian

Bequeathed by Sir William Temple

1856 Attributed to the Amykos Painter

Capua, Italy Lucania, Italy

1867,0510.1 Terracotta group of two women playing knucklebones

Terracotta 330–300 BCE Campanian


1867 Capua, Italy Campania, Italy

1923,0212.306 Dice Terracotta about 500–540 BCE

Donated by the British School at Athens

1923 Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia, Sparta, Greece

Greece

1884,0615.2 Dice Alabaster about 200–100 BCE

Purchased from the Reverend Greville John Chester

1884 Smyrna, Izmir, Turkey Turkey

1874,0710.303 Marble Variegated marble about 100 BCE – 100 CE

Donated by the Ephesus excavation Committee

1874 John Turtle Wood Sanctuary of Artemis, Ephesus, Turkey

Turkey

1873,0820.745 Head from a statue (likely a representation of a god, hero or poet)

Marble 1st century BCE Roman


1873 Formia, Lazio, Italy Italy

RPK,p9B.41.Eli Coin showing an eagle and a head of Zeus

Silver about 200–100 BCE

Payne Knight Collection

Bequeathed by Richard Payne Knight

1824 Elis, Greece Greece Greece

EH,p483.13.Eli Coin showing an eagle and a head of Zeus

Silver about 200–100 BCE

From the catalogue of Greek coins acquired before 1837 made by Edward Hawkins

Before 1837 Elis, Greece Greece Greece

1847,0806.26 Black-figured ‘Tyrrhenian’ amphora

Pottery 540 BCE Archaic Greek

Purchased from James Millingen (executors of)

1847 Caere, Lazio, Italy Italy

1843,1103.87 Red-figured amphora type with three sportsmen

Pottery 520–500 BCE Attic

Purchased from Alexandrine Bonaparte, Princess of Canino

1843 Attica, Greece Vulci, Lazio, Italy Greece

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1882,0422.1 Statue of an athlete with a discus

Marble about 160 CE Roman

Previously in the collection of Marchese Giovanni Pietro Campana

Purchased from Mansell

1882 Hadrian’s Villa, Tivoli, Lazio, Italy

Italy

1867,0508.1139 Red-figured hydria with athletes and musicians

Pottery about 500 BCE Attic

Previously in the collection of Louis, Duc de Blacas d’Aulps


1867 Attica, Greece Attica, Greece

Greece

1867,0508.959 Panathenaic amphora with boxers

Pottery 480–460 BCE Classical Greek

Previously in the collection of Louis, Duc de Blacas d’Aulps


1867 Nola, Campania, Italy Greece

1824,0427.1 Head from the statue of an athlete

Bronze 300–250 BCE

Etruscan-Faliscan


1824 Faliscan territory, Italy Italy

1867,0508.1060 Red-figured kylix with boxing and pankration


Previously in the collection of Alexandrine Bonaparte, Princess of Canino


1867 Attributed to the Douris Painter Attica, Greece

Vulci, Lazio, Italy Greece

1979,0101.869 Coin showing wrestlers on the obverse

Silver 420–370 BCE Greek

Previously in the von Aulock Collection

Purchased from Hans Von Aulock

1979 Minted in Aspendus, Antalya, Turkey

Turkey

1979,0101.884 Coin showing a man using a sling on the reverse


Previously in the von Aulock Collection

Purchased from Hans Von Aulock

1979 Minted in Aspendus, Antalya

Turkey

1856,1001.1 Panathenaic amphora

Pottery 333–332 BCE Classical Greek

Purchased from FHS Werry

1856 Attica, Greece Banghazi, Liby, Africa Greece

1965,0816.5 Lid belonging to Panathenaic amphora

Pottery Purchased from FHS Werry but not immediately registered with amphora (1856,1001.1)

1965 Attica, Greece Greece

1824,0489.2.a Statuette of a runner (vase fitting, 1/5)

Bronze 480 BCE Western Greek


1824 Campania Cumae, Italy Italy

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1824,0489.2.b

Statuette of a runner (vase fitting, 2/5)




1824,0489.2.c Bronze statuette of a runner (vase fitting, 3/5)




1824,0489.2.d Bronze statuette of a runner (vase fitting, 4/5)




1824,0489.2.e Bronze statuette of a runner (vase fitting, 5/5)




1863,0430.1 Black-figured Panathenaic amphora

Pottery 520 BCE Attic

Purchased from August Salzman

1863 Kamiros, Rhodes, Greece Attica, Greece

1836,0224.193 Panathenaic amphora showing horse racing

Pottery about 500–490 BCE

Purchased through Chevalier Bröndsted and purchased from Edmé Antoine Durand

1836 Attributed to the Eucharides Painter

Vulci, Lazio, Italy Italy

1978,0615.1 Bell krater with anabates and Nike

Pottery about 390–370 BCE Lucanian (Greek)

Purchased from Charles Ede Ltd Previously owned by W Hope From the collections of Sir William Hamilton

1978 Attributed to the Anabates Painter

Lucania, Italy Italy

1839,0806.3 Votive relief Marble (with paint residue)

400 BCE Classical Greek

Donated by Colonel Leake

1839 Crannon, Thessaly, Greece Greece

1866,1201.1024 Coin showing a laureate head of Zeus on the obverse

Silver about 359–336 BCE Greek

Woodhouse Bequest 1866 Minted in Pella, Macedonia, Greece

Pella, Macedon, Greece Greece

1866,1201.1018 Coin showing victorious horseman on the reverse

Silver about 359–336 BCE Greek

Woodhouse Bequest 1866 Minted in Pella, Macedonia, Greece

Pella, Macedon, Greece Greece

1947,0406.85

Coin showing a mule cart on the obverse

Silver minted after 484 BCE Greek

Previously owned by Sir Charles Oman Collection

Purchased from Sir Charles Oman’s after his death

1947 Minted in Messana, Sicily

Messana, Sicily, Italy

Italy

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RPK,p239A.4.Mes

Coin showing a hare on the reverse

Silver minted after 484 BCE Greek


1824 Minted in Messana, Sicily

Messana, Sicily, Italy

Italy

1857,1220.3 Alabastron Alabaster (or possibly calcite)

400–350 BCE Greek

Acquired through British

Museum excavations at

Halikarnassos

1857 Sir Charles Newtown

Excavated in the Western side staircase in the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, Bodrum, Turkey

Turkey

1873,0820.126 Bath-oil flask with floral decoration

Bronze and iron 1st century BCE Purchased from Alessandro Castellani

1873 Taranto, Puglia, Italy Italy

1891,0424.1 Strigil Bronze 1st century – 3rd century CE

Purchased from Henry Wallis

1891 • Corinth, Greece Greece

2002,0927.1 Pair of strigils on a hoop

Bronze 1st century BCE – 3rd century CE

Previously owned by Nicholas Embiricos

Purchased through Christies, funded by Caryatid

2002 No provenance

1873,0820.349 Red-figured small jug with trefoil lip (chous) featuring decoration with three athletes



1873 Attributed to the Aison Painter

Capua, Campania Greece

1908,0410.1 Head of a boy, from a marble statue

Marble 400 BCE Classical Greek

Purchased from W Caudery & Co

1908 Apollonia, Albania Albania

1870,0712.1 Marble figure of an athlete tying a ribbon around his head. Vaison Diadumenos

Marble 118–138 CE Roman

Purchased from Eugene Raspail

1870 Found in the Roman Theatre in Vaison, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France

France

1987,0212.549 Intaglio with athlete

Cornelian 30 BCE – 100 CE Found unregistered. It may be from the collection of Charles Townley

No provenance Rome, Italy

1864,1007.222 Black-figured oinochoe

Pottery 500–480 BCE Donated to the Museum by Auguste Salzman and Sir Alfred Biliotti

1864 Excavated by Auguste Salzman and Sir Alfred Biliotti

Attributed to the Athena Painter

Fikellura Cemetery, Kamiros, Rhodes, Greece

Attica, Greece

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1907,0519.6 Figure of a youth

Terracotta Early 1st century BCE

Hellenistic

Purchased from Dr Christo Apostolides

1907 Myrina, Turkey Turkey

1864,0220.11 Pentelic marble relief showing a religious scene

Pentelic marble 400–360 BCE Greek

Previously owned by Percy Clinton Sydney Smythe, 6th Viscount of Strangford

Purchased from Percy Smythe, 8th Viscount of Strangford

1864 • Athens Attica, Greece

1934,1116.1 Figure of an athlete pouring a libation

Bronze about 470 BCE Classical Greek

Donated by J Orfanides 1934 Olympia, Elis, Greece Greece

1898,0716.3 Discus

Bronze 6th century BCE Archaic Greek

Purchased from Tyszkiewicz

1898 Cephalonia Greece

1975,0902.3 Votive wheel inscribed with a dedication to Herakles

Bronze made about 500 BCE, inscribed 300–200 BCE

Found unregistered in

the Department of

Greece and Rome, British

Museum

Unknown Object previously unregistered and provenance unknown

1824,0489.1 Deep bowl/ cauldron (lebes)



1824 Cumae, Campania, Italy

Italy

1852,0520.24 Statuette of Peleus and Atalanta

Bronze about 480–460 BCE Late Etruscan

Purchased from Major General CR Fox

1852 Italy Italy

1973,0327.2 Head of Apollo Marble about 320–280 BCE Hellenistic

Previously unregistered but catalogued as in the British Museum collections AH Smith, 1892, A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, no. 1552. In the British Museum since the 19th century, at least

1753–1903 Object previously unregistered and provenance unknown

1879,0712.2 Head of the young Dionysos

Marble 2nd century CE Roman


1879 Rome, Italy Italy

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1868,0405.159 Votive altar showing a group of Muses

Marble 150–50 BCE Hellenistic

Donated by Sir Alfred Biliotti

1868 Excavated by Sir Alfred Biliotti

Discovered in the Hadji Captan’s field, to the west of the site of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, in the area of the Roman Villa, in Bodrum, Turkey

Turkey

1879,0712.1 Portrait head of Euripides (of the Rieti type)

Marble 1st century CE Roman


1879 No provenance

1865,0103.21 Red-figured volute krater with sacrifice of Iphigeneia

Pottery about 370–350 BCE Apulian (Greek)

Purchased through Rollin & Feuardent Purchased from Comte James Alexandre de Pourtalès-Gorgier (sale)

1865 Basilicata, Italy Italy

1873,0820.347 Red-figured bell-krater (wine-bowl)

Pottery 360–320 BCE Paestan


1873 Attributed to the Python Painter

Capua, Campania, Italy Italy

1865,0720.27 Black-figured lekythos (oil-flask)


Purchased from Charles Merlin

1865 Attributed to the Marathon Painter

Thebes, Boeotia, Greece Greece

1894,0719.9 Figure of a comic actor portraying a woman, seated

Terracotta 350 BCE Attic

Purchased from William Talbot Ready

1894 Eretria, Greece Greece

1865,0720.43 Figure of a comic actor portraying a young woman

Terracotta 350 BCE Attic



1910,0106.16 Figure of a comic actor

Terracotta 330–300 BCE Hellenistic

Found unregistered in

the Museum. Probably

acquired in the 19th

century

Unknown Boeotia, Greece Greece

1839,0806.2 Portrait of an ageing man with curling beard and moustache

Pentelic marble 100 BCE – 100 CE Hellenistic-Roman

Donated by Colonel Leake

1839 Herakleia Lynkestis (modern Bitola), Republic of North Macedonia

Republic of North Macedonia

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1836,0224.175 Red-figured bell krater with Nike crowning a victorious actor

Pottery about 400 BCE – 380 BCE Apulian (Greek)

Purchased through Chevalier Bröndsted Purchased from Edmé Antoine Durand (sale)

1836 Attributed to the Tarporley Painter

Puglia, Italy Italy

1805,0703.451 Relief with tragic and comic masks

Marble 2nd century CE Roman

Charles Towneley Collection

Purchased from Peregrine Edward Towneley

1805 No provenance

1920,0613.2 Red-figured bell-krater with the satyr Marsyas playing the pipes before Apollo and two Muses


From the Deepdene sale of 1917

1920 Attributed to the Pothos Painter

Attica, Greece Greece

1864,1007.231 Red-figured jug (with boy and dog)


Donated by Auguste Salzmann and Sir Alfred Biliotti

1864 Excavated by Auguste Salzmann and Sir Alfred Biliotti

Fikellura Cemetery, Kamiros, Rhodes, Greece Attributed to Fikellura grave 179. Excavated 10 March 1864

Greece

1926,0628.7 Black-figured neck-amphora (with separate lid GR 1966,0428.7)

Pottery 510–500 BCE Archaic Greek

John Bateman Purchased through Sothebys, purchased from Spink & Son Ltd

1926 Attributed to the Leagros Group

Italy Italy

1966,0428.7 Lid for Black-figured neck-amphora (GR 1926,0628.7, above)

Pottery 6th century BCE – 5th century BCE

Previously unregistered but belonging to and acquired with 1926,0628.7. It was not earlier policy to accession vessels and lids with different registration numbers, and so some lids were later registered as individual items

Attica, Greece Italy

1867,0508.1125 Red-figured neck-amphora

Pottery 490–480 BCE Collection of Louis, Duc de Blacas d’Aulps


1867 Painted by the painter of the Paris Gigantomachy

Nola, Campania, Italy Italy

1910,0615.1 Red-figured handled vessel, showing two pipes players, with Nikai

Pottery 430–410 BCE Purchased from Jean P Lambros

1910 Attributed to the Painter of Athens, 1183

Attica, Greece Greece

1841,0301.13 Gold wreath with myrtle leaves and berries

Gold 400–300 BCE The Campanari Collection

Purchased from Campanari (NB: There were 4 Campanari, the father Vincenzo and 3 sons, Secondiano, Domenico and Carlo, all involved in excavating and dealing in antiquities. At all times people have

1841 Italy Italy

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tended to refer generically to Campanari without specifying or knowing which)

1976,0104.2 Flute Bone, bronze early 2nd century BCE

Previously unregistered but found during Charles Newton’s excavations in Halikarnassos

Halikarnassos, Bodrum, Turkey

Turkey

1836,0224.453 Terracotta figure of a dancing girl

Terracotta with glazing

3rd century BCE – 2nd century BCE


1836 Centuripe, Sicily, Italy Italy

1906,0412.1 Cymbals Bronze 4th century BCE – 2nd century BCE

Purchased from William Talbot Ready

1906 No provenance

1842,0728.975 Black-figured lekythos

Pottery 490–480 BCE Purchased from Thomas Burgon


1904,0703.1 The Armento Rider; Bronze statuette of a warrior on horseback

Bronze 560–550 BCE Previously in the collection of Gábor Fejérváry

Purchased from Messrs Canessa

1904 Armento, Potenza, Italy Italy

1842,0407.13 Black-figured amphora (hoplites and an archer)

Pottery 530–510 BCE Purchased through Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton Purchased from Signor Basseggio (also spelled Bassagio)


1860,0201.41 Scent-bottle in the form of a helmeted head

Terracotta 580 BCE Purchased from August Salzmann and Sir Alfred Biliotti

1860 Kamiros, Rhodes, Greece Greece

1899,0217.1 Head of a young man wearing a Corinthian helmet

Marble 100–199 CE Purchased through Dr Paul Hartwig

1889 Rome, Italy Italy

1886,0326.1 Fragment of Clazomenian sarcophagus

Terracotta 525–515 BCE Purchased from George Dennis

1886 Clazomenae, Izimir, Turkey

Turkey

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1910,0413.1.a Hinged cover of mirror-case

Bronze 330–300 BCE Classical Greek-Hellenistic

Purchased from HJ Woodley

1910 Aitolikon, Aetolia, Greece Greece

1868,0110.159 Statuette of a warrior wearing a helmet

Bronze 350–300 BCE Western Greek

Bequeathed by James Woodhouse

1868 Corfu, Greece Greece

1885,1213.12 Black-figured kylix in ‘Siana’ shape (warrior advancing with a spear)

Pottery 575–550 BCE Archaic Greek

Purchased through Sothebys Purchased from Sir Alfred Biliotti (sale)

1885 Attributed to the C painter

Siana, Rhodes, Greece Greece

1898,1121.1 Bronze mirror and case

Bronze 330–300 BCE Classical Greek-Hellenistic

Previously in the collection of Tyszkiewicz

Purchased from A Mouratis

1898 Elis, Greece Greece

1873,0820.240 Bronze muzzle for a horse, with 3 ivory studs

Bronze and ivory (African elephant, Loxodonta africana)

4th century BCE Western Greek


1873 Apulia, Puglia, Italy Italy

1824,0407.31 Bronze helmet Bronze about 550–500 BCE


1824 No provenance

1873,0820.223 Bronze cuirass Bronze 350–300 BCE Western Greek


1873 Ruvo, Puglia, Italy Italy

1836,0224.481.a-b Pair of bronze greaves

Bronze about 500 BCE Purchased through Chevalier Bröndsted Purchased from Edmé Antoine Durand (sale)

1836 No provenance

1895,1026.5 Model shield decorated with a white slip

Terracotta about 500 BCE Boeotian

Purchased from Dr Paul Hartwig

1895 Boeotia, Greece Greece

1865,0720.53 Spearhead Bronze about 800–700 BCE


1865 Olympia, Elis, Greece Greece

1969,1231.91 Miniature dagger Bronze about 800–600 BCE

Previously in the collection of Reverend William Greenwell

Tripolitza, Greece Greece

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1906,0212.8 Arrowhead; high midrib, dividing in two; base of blade moulded

Iron about 490 BCE Purchased from Miss Saumarag Brock

1906 Marathon, Greece Greece

1906,0212.9 Arrowhead Iron about 490 BCE Purchased from Miss Saumarag Brock






1959,0721.3

Slingshot Lead about 500–490 BCE

Donated by Royal United Services Institute 1959

Marathon, Greece Greece

1865,0712.86 Carved gemstone Chalcedony 4th century BCE Classical Greek


1865 Carved by Onata No provenance

1780,0913.1 Votive relief Marble 1st century BCE Hellenistic

Previously in the Topham Collection

Donated by Sir Joseph Banks and Hon Archibald Campbell Fraser


1824,0499.17 Votive relief Marble 500 BCE Archaic Greek


1824 Olympia, Elis, Greece Greece

RPK,p235B.1.Him Coin Silver 483–472 BCE Greek

Previously in the Collection of Sir William Gell


1824 Himera, Sicily, Italy Italy

1946,0101.1011

Coin Silver 483–472 BCE Greek

Accessioned as part of the Lloyd Bequest

1946 Himera, Sicily, Italy Italy

1911,0409.266

Coin Silver 294–292 BCE Greek

Purchased from Rollin and Feuardent

1911 Amphipolis, Macedon, Greece

Greece

1896,0601.22 Coin showing Poseidon standing on the reverse


Previously in the Collection of Hyman and Montagu

Purchased from Rollin and Feuardent

1896 Pella, Macedon, Greece Greece

1915,0413.1 Lamp in the form of a boat, with a figure of the infant Hercules strangling snakes soldered to the top

Silver, bronze and gold

1st century CE Roman Imperial

Purchased through W C Bacon & Co and A Decaristo; purchased from Whitcombe-Green

1915 Switzerland Switzerland

1843,1103.73 Black-figured hydria (Heracles strangling the Nemean lion)



1843 Attributed to the Alkmene Painter


1873,0820.78 Figure of Herakles Bronze 400–350 CE Purchased from Alessandro Castellani

1873 Southern Italy Italy

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1814,0704.1292 Finger-ring with Herakles

Gold and garnet 4th century BCE (intaglio) – 2nd century CE (ring) Classical Greek-Roman Imperial

The Townley Collection. Charles Townley purchased the ring from James Byres in 1775

Purchased from Peregrine Edward Towneley

1814 Agrigentum, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy

Italy

1836,0224.95 Black-figured amphora (Heracles and the Erymanthian boar)

Pottery

520–500 BCE Archaic Greek-Attic


1836 Attributed to the Antimenes Painter


1836,0224.102 Black-figured neck-amphora (Heracles and Geryon)

Pottery 500 BCE Archaic Greek-Attic


1836 Attributed to the Group of London B250


1843,1103.85 Pottery: black-figured hydria (Herakles and Triton; shoulder Judgement of Paris)

Pottery 530–520 BCE Attic-Archaic-Greek

Purchased from Alexandrine Bonaparte, Princess of Canino; purchased through James Millingen

1843 Vulci, Lazio, Italy Italy

1919,0620.3 Relief decorated with scenes from the life of Achilles

Bronze 30 BCE – 100 CE Roman

Previously in the Collections of Sir Dr Hermann Weber and Alessandro Castellani

Donated by Dr Frederick Parkes Weber

1919 No provenance

1864,1021.3 Statue of a hero or athlete

Marble 100–160 CE Roman

Previously in the Collections of Ferdinand II, King of Naples and Sicily and the Farnese Collection in Rome

Purchased through William Wetmore Story

1864 No provenance

1928,0719.3 Red-figured situla (bucket) with Paris coming to abduct Helen, as Aphrodite and Eros watch.

Pottery 350–320 BCE Campanian

Previously in the Collections of Misses Parrish and Dilwyn Parrish

Purchased from Spink & Son Ltd

1928 Attributed to the Parrish Painter

Campania, Italy Italy

1898,0519.1 Statue group of the goddess Aphrodite and Eros

Marble 1st century CE Roman

Previously in the Collection of John Cam Hobhouse, 1st Baron of Broughton; previously owned by Lord Byron

Purchased from Lady Charlotte Dorchester


1837,0609.60 Black-figured hydria (Troilos and Polyxena)


Purchased from Lucien Bonaparte

1837 Attributed to the Leagros Group


1843,1103.27 Red-figured hydria (Achilles, Ajax and Athene)



1843 Attributed to the Nikoxenos Painter


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1843,1103.61 Red-figured cup with Achilles and Odysseus



1843 Attributed to the Douris Painter


1895,1224.1 Fragment of tabula Iliaca; relief representing a scene from Homer’s Iliad

Alabaster – marble (giallo antico)

50–100 CE Roman Period

Purchased through Sir Dr Hermann Weber

1895 Taranto, Puglia, Italy Italy

1836,0224.131 Red-figured cup Pottery 490–480 BCE Attic


1836 Attributed to the Castelgiorgio Painter


1848,0619.2 Black-figured amphora (the shade of Patroclos or Achilles passing over the ships)

Pottery 500 BCE Attic-Archaic Greek


1843,1103.22 Black-figured neck-amphora (Death of Priam at the altar of Zeus Herkeios)

Pottery 510–500 BCE Archaic Greek-Attic

Purchased from Signor Basseggio (sometimes spelled Bassaggio)

1843 Connected with the Daybreak Painter


1884,0409.7 Squat lekythos (Neoptolemos seizing Cassandra)

Pottery 330 BCE Western Greek


1884 Puglia, Italy Italy

1843,1103.86 Red-figured hydria (Menelaos pursuing Helen)



1843 Attributed to the Syriskos Painter


1895,1029.9 Dicast’s ticket in two pieces

Bronze 360 BCE Greek

Purchased from Jean B Lambros

1895 Greece Greece

1920,0805.316 Coin showing Athena on the obverse


Bequeathed by Harry Bertram Earle-Fox


1866,1201.2586 Coin showing an owl on the reverse


Bequeathed by James Woodhouse


1884,0609.7 Coin (Drachm) showing head of Athena on the reverse


Purchased from Alfred J Lawson


1920,0805.352 Coin (Obol) showing head of Athena on the reverse




1920,0805.357 Coin (Hemiobol) showing head of




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Athena on the reverse

1864,1007.136 Toy in the form of a woman

Terracotta and wood

450 BCE Rhodian

Donated to the Museum by Auguste Salzman and Sir Alfred Biliotti

1864 Excavated by Auguste Salzman and Sir Alfred Biliotti

Papatislures Cemetery (Grave 14), Rhodes, Greece

Greece

1875,0309.15 Figure of a man seated on three cheeses on a mule

Terracotta 390–370 BCE Corinthian


1875 Tanagra, Boeotia, Greece Greece

1966,0726.1 Group of a butcher's scene

Terracotta 400–350 BCE Classical Greek

Purchased from the Folio Society

1966 Greece Greece

1915,1229.1 Red-figured oinochoe in the form of an African’s head


Previously in the Collection of William Ransome

Donated by Frank Ransome

1915 Attributed to the Class of Louvre H62

Etruria, Italy Italy

1907,0519.4 Group of reading lesson, perhaps Silenos instructing the young Dionysos

Terracotta 1st century BCE Hellenistic

Purchased from Dr Chris Apostolides

1907 Myrina, Turkey Turkey

1836,0224.212 Red-figured cup (symposium)



1836 Attributed to the painter of the Paris Gigantomachy


1910,0414.6 Figure of a young man (‘soldier-ephebe’)

Terracotta 300 BCE Hellenistic

Purchased from CA Lembressis


1877,0515.1 Figure of a young man (‘soldier-ephebe’) seated on a rock

Terracotta 300–250 BCE Hellenistic

Purchased from Eugène Piot


1772,0301.13.+ Votive relief showing two mounted horsemen

Marble 399–300 BCE Western Greek-Hellenistic

Purchased from Sir William Hamilton

1772 Italy Italy

1911,0416.1 Figure of a stooped old nurse holding a naked baby

Terracotta 300 BCE Hellenistic

Purchased from CA Lembressis


1843,1103.66 Black-figured hydria (warrior and charioteer)



1843 Attributed to the Antimenes Painter


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1973,0304.7 Statue of an unknown Greek woman

Marble 2nd century BCE – 1st century BCE Hellenistic

Previously unregistered, but purchased before 1876. Catalogued in Smith, 1892, A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, no. 1989

before 1876 No provenance

1895,0511.5 Figure of woman standing

Terracotta late 3rd century BCE Hellenistic

Purchased from E Geladakis


1874,0305.64 Figure of a woman Terracotta 275 BCE Hellenistic



1897,0317.2 Fibula of geometrical type with broad oval bow and sail-shaped foot

Bronze 700–650 BCE Boeotian

Purchased from Jean P Lambros


1931,1016.2 Brooch Bronze 800–700 BCE Geometric Greek

Purchased from T Zoumpoulakis

1931 Potidaea, Macedonia, Greece

Greece

1994,0803.17 Armlet decorated with 2 parallel grooves with short striations crossing them; dots and crosses on terminals

Bronze 8th century BCE – 7th century BCE Greek

Purchased from Harold H Smith

1931 Greece Greece

1908,0415.2 Necklace Silver, terracotta and gold

3rd century BCE – 1st century BCE Graeco-Roman

Purchased from a vendor known only as Harris

1908 Valencia, Spain Spain

1906,0415.1.a Gilded ornaments from an imitation necklace

Terracotta, gold and bronze

4th century BCE – 2nd century BCE

Greek

Donated by Cecil Harcourt Smith

1906 No provenance

1919,0621.2 Necklace with myrtle buds

Gold 450–400 BCE Greek

Previously owned by CA Lambressis

Purchased from Godfrey Durlacher

1919 Acarnania, Greece Greece

1919,0621.1 Lion-head pendant Gold 450–400 BCE Greek

Previously owned by CA Lambressis

Purchased from Godfrey Durlacher

1919 Acarnania, Greece Greece

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1906,0425.8 Disc, probably a horse-phalera

Silver 5th century BCE – 2nd century BCE Greek

Previously owned by G Nikolaos

Purchased through Rollin and Feuardent

1906 Elis, Greece Greece

1899,0218.2 Ear-pendant Gold 400–250 BCE Western Greek

Donated by Miss LNF Preston

1899 Sicily, Italy Italy

1899,0218.3 Ear-pendant Gold 400–250 BCE Western Greek

Donated by Miss LNF Preston

1899 Sicily, Italy Italy

1917,0501.771

Finger-ring Gold 3rd century BCE

Previously owned by Reverend Greville John Chester

Bequeathed by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks

1897 Alexandria, Egypt Egypt

1872,0604.532 Pair of gold earrings Gold and garnet about 200–30 BCE Hellenistic


1872 No provenance

1884,0614.12 Medallion Gold 200–100 BCE Hellenistic

Purchased at a sale of Castellani’s antiquities in Paris, 1884, catalogue no. 99

1884 Egypt Egypt

1915,0415.1 Tombstone Marble 4th century BCE Attic

Purchased through W C Bacon & Co. Purchased from CA Lambressis

1915 Athens, Greece Athens, Greece

1947,0714.2 Stele of Phila Marble 2nd century BCE Hellenistic

Previously in the collection of the Grimani Palace, Venice

Purchased from the Cook sale of Greek, South Italian and Roman material to the Museum in 1947


1835,0411.1 Sepulchral relief dedicated to Hermodoros, son of Aristomenes

Marble 2nd century BCE – 1st century BCE

Donated by Captain Rainier; purchased from Sothebys


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1873,0820.302 White-ground lekythos (offerings at a tomb)



1873 Attica, Greece Attika, Greece

1865,0723.1 The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus: The Amazon Frieze


Previously in the Palace of the Marchese Serra, Genoa

Purchased through Montagu Brown

1865 Halicarnassus, Bodrum, Turkey

Turkey

1857,1220.265 The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus: statue of a Greek warrior


Acquired from Sir Charles Newton’s excavations at Halikarnassos on behalf of the British Museum


Halicarnassus, Bodrum, Turkey

Turkey

1857,1220.263 The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus: male head wearing the headdress called Kyrbasia




Excavated in Hadji Nalban’s field in on the south side of the Mausoleum’s quadrangle, in the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus site Halicarnassus, Bodrum, Turkey

Turkey

1857,1220.272 a Fragment of Chariot marble frieze showing the body of a chariot




Halicarnassus, Bodrum, Turkey

Turkey

1857,1220.253 Lion’s head, architectural sculpture




Found built into wall north of the north Peribolous wall Halicarnassus, Bodrum, Turkey

Turkey

1836,0224.127 Black-figured pottery amphora (Achilles slaying Penthesilea)



1836 Painted by Ezekias Attica

Excavated in Vulci, Lazio, Italy

Italy

1819,0812.1 Marble relief: The Apotheosis of Homer with Zeus, Apollo and the Muses

Marble 221–205 BCE Ptolemaic

Purchased from Messrs May

1819 Made by Archelaos of Priene

Excavated in Bovillae, Italy Italy

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