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Human Attendant Carrying a Bow, Arrows, and a Mace

Artist: Unknown

Nolan Amphora showing Athena and Hermes

Artist, attributed to: Berlin Painter (Greek, Attic, ca. 500–ca. 460 B.C.)

Kylix with a Symposion Scene

Artist, attributed to: Gales Painter (Greek, Attic, active ca. 530–ca. 500. B.C.)

Lion Relief from the Processional Way

Artist: Unknown

Mosaic Floor with Views of Alexandria and Memphis

Artist: Unknown

Ceiling Tile with Heliodoros, an Actuarius

Artist: Unknown

Scutum (Shield)

Maker: Unknown

Arsu Riding a Camel

Artist: Unknown

Shrine to the God Mithras (Mithraeum)

Artist: Unknown

Herakles and the Nemean Lion

Artist: Unknown

Portrait of a Bearded Man

Artist: Unknown

Globular Bowl

Artist: Ennion (Syro-Palestinian, 1st century A.D.)

Sphinx

Artist: Unknown

Black-Figure Amphora; A: Birth of Athena; B: Frontal Chariot

Artist, attributed to: Group E (Greek, Attic, active 560-540 B.C.)

Red-figure Calyx Krater; A: Nike and Poseidon; B: Woman and Old Man

Artist: Aegisthus Painter (Greek, Attic, ca. 480–460)

Tyche of Antioch

Artist: (Roman copy of an original by) Eutychides (Greek, active ca. 295 B.C.)

Alabastron with Typhon

Artist: (Close to) Erlenmeyer Painter (Greek, Corinthian, active ca. 600–575 B.C.)

Running Gorgon

Maker: Unknown, Greek

Portrait of the Emperor Commodus as a Boy

Artist: Unknown

Portrait of Marcus Aurelius (A.D. 121-180)

Artist: Unknown

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