250 results

Collection Objects
Ancient Art
Herakles and the Nemean Lion
Date: 
ca. A.D. 160–256
Medium: 
Limestone
Accession Number: 
1938.5302
Culture: 
Syrian, Dura-Europos
Period: 
Roman
Classification: 
Sculpture
Status: 
On view

Collection Objects
Ancient Art
Shrine to the God Mithras (Mithraeum)
Date: 
ca. A.D. 240
Medium: 
Painted plaster
Accession Number: 
1935.100
Culture: 
Syrian, Dura-Europos
Period: 
Roman (3rd century A.D.)
Classification: 
Paintings
Status: 
On view*

Collection Objects
Ancient Art
Arsu Riding a Camel
Date: 
ca. 2nd century A.D.
Medium: 
Limestone
Accession Number: 
1935.44
Culture: 
Syrian, Dura-Europos
Period: 
Parthian or Roman, 2nd century A.D.
Classification: 
Sculpture
Status: 
On view

Collection Objects
Ancient Art
Portrait of the Emperor Commodus as a Boy
Subject: Commodus, Emperor of Rome, A.D. 161–192, ruled 180–92
Date: 
A.D. 172–73
Medium: 
Marble
Accession Number: 
2007.84.1
Culture: 
Roman
Period: 
Imperial, Antonine
Classification: 
Sculpture
Status: 
On view

Collection Objects
Ancient Art
Mosaic Floor with Views of Alexandria and Memphis
Date: 
ca. A.D. 540
Medium: 
Mosaic: limestone tesserae
Accession Number: 
1932.1735
Culture: 
Gerasa (Jordan)
Period: 
Early Byzantine
Classification: 
Mosaic
Status: 
On view*

Collection Objects
Ancient Art
Globular Bowl
Artist: Ennion, Syro-Palestinian, 1st century A.D.
Date: 
mid-1st century A.D.
Medium: 
Mold-blown glass
Accession Number: 
1955.6.66
Culture: 
Roman, Eastern Mediterranean, Syrian(?)
Period: 
Roman
Classification: 
Containers - Glass
Status: 
On view

Collection Objects
Ancient Art
Portrait of a Bearded Man
Date: 
2nd century A.D.
Medium: 
Encaustic on wood
Accession Number: 
1939.264
Culture: 
Egyptian
Period: 
Roman
Classification: 
Paintings
Status: 
On view

Collection Objects
Ancient Art
Lion Relief from the Processional Way
Date: 
ca. 605–562 B.C.
Medium: 
Glazed brick
Accession Number: 
1930.372
Culture: 
Babylonian
Period: 
Neo-Babylonian
Classification: 
Sculpture
Status: 
On view

Collection Objects
Ancient Art
Inlay in the Shape of a Royal Head
Date: 
332–30 B.C.
Medium: 
Molded glass, opaque red
Accession Number: 
1955.6.347
Culture: 
Egyptian, Ptolemaic
Period: 
Ptolemaic
Classification: 
Jewelry
Status: 
On view

Collection Objects
Ancient Art
Athena, copy of Velletri type
Date: 
5th century B.C. (original)
Medium: 
Marble, large crystal, possibly Thasos marble
Accession Number: 
1928.385.2
Culture: 
Greek
Period: 
Roman (copy)
Classification: 
Sculpture
Status: 
On view

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