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Enigmatic inscription from a bust of Isis. In the late 18th century the inscription became the cause of controversy among British scholars. Several academics believed that it was an Egyptian bust with Chinese ideograms, produced in the context of Chinese-Egyptian commercial relations, while others considered the item a forgery.

Tags: Alphabets, Ancient gods / deities, Art and antiquities, Egypt, Ideograms, Isis, Sculptures

Strife of Poseidon and Athena, from the western pediment of the Parthenon. Dionysus from the eastern pediment of the Parthenon. Dionysus from the Choregic monument of Lysicrates. The strife of Poseidon and Athena, with other gods present: Ancient vase, which was discovered during the excavations of the walls of the Acropolis and ended up in Cambridge as part of Edward Clarke's collection.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Ancient gods / deities, Ancient pottery / Vase painting, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Choregic monument of Lysicrates, Choregic monuments, Dionysus, Eastern pediment of the Parthenon, Edward Daniel Clarke, Greece, Greek mythology, Parthenon, Reliefs, Western pediment of the Parthenon

Reconstruction of the interior of the Parthenon with the statue of Athena.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Ancient gods / deities, Art and antiquities, Athena, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Human types, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Parthenon, Religious practices, Sculptures

Coin of ancient Athens.

Tags: Ancient gods / deities, Art and antiquities, Athena, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Coins, Greece

Relief from the mouth of a well (puteale), from Ancient Corinth, depicting Athena and Heracles.

Tags: Ancient Corinth, Ancient gods / deities, Art and antiquities, Athens, Corinth, Corinthia, Greece, Heracles, Peloponnese, Reliefs

Relief from the mouth of a well (puteale), from Ancient Corinth, depicting Artemis and Apollo.

Tags: Ancient Corinth, Ancient gods / deities, Apollo, Art and antiquities, Artemis, Corinth, Corinthia, Greece, Peloponnese, Reliefs

Relief from the mouth of a well (puteale), from Ancient Corinth.

Tags: Ancient Corinth, Ancient gods / deities, Art and antiquities, Corinth, Corinthia, Greece, Peloponnese, Reliefs

Title page. Ancient relief, most possibly from the mouth of a well (puteale), depicting Heracles, Athena, Apollo and Artemis.

Tags: Ancient gods / deities, Apollo, Art and antiquities, Artemis, Athens, Greece, Heracles, Reliefs, Title page

View of the Temple of Aphaia in Aegina.

Tags: Aegina, Ancient gods / deities, Ancient temples, Argo-Saronic gulf, Art and antiquities, Boats and ships, Central Greece, Columns / Pillars, Doric order, Ethnic groups, Greece, Greeks, Human types, Islands of the Argo-saronic gulf, Ruins, Temple of Aphaia (Aegina), Views

Ancient reliefs from the island of Kos. On the first (left top), Zeus, Hera and Hercules. On the second (right top), Apollo with the Muses. On the third (bottom left), Hercules with the Lion of Nemea. On the fourth (bottom right), the contest of Apollo with the Satyr Marsyas.

Tags: Aegean islands, Ancient gods / deities, Art and antiquities, Dodecanese, Greece, Greek mythology, Islands, Kos, Reliefs

Relief from Gytheio, most probably from the Temple of Nike.

Tags: Ancient gods / deities, Ancient temples, Art and antiquities, Greece, Gytheio, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Laconia, Peloponnese, Reliefs, Temple of Nike (Gytheion)

View of Aplunari, hill close to the Temple of Aphrodite and the port of Avlemonas (or Kastri) on Cythera.

Tags: Ancient gods / deities, Ancient temples, Aphrodite, Art and antiquities, Avlemonas / Kastri / Agios Nikolaos (Cythera), Boats and ships, Cythera, Ethnic groups, Europeans, Greece, Greeks, Human types, Ionian islands, Natural environment, Ruins, Temple of Aphrodite (Cythera), Views

Reconstruction of panel from Athens, with scene from the myth of the meeting of Athena and Hephaestus, right before the birth of Erichthonius (Erechtheus).

Tags: Ancient gods / deities, Art and antiquities, Athena, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Erichthonius / Erechtheus, Greece, Greek mythology, Hephaestus

Fragments from Athens.

Tags: Ancient gods / deities, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Dionysus, Greece, Greek mythology

Ancient coins from Arcadia. Obv. Athena.

Tags: Ancient gods / deities, Arcadia, Argolis, Art and antiquities, Athens, Coins, Greece, Mount Lykaion, Peloponnese, Tegea

Signet from the Peloponnes. The author suggests that it depicts Hermes Psychopompos.

Tags: Ancient gods / deities, Art and antiquities, Greece, Hermes psychopompus, Peloponnese, Stamps and signets

Fragment of panel with Athena, from Athens.

Tags: Ancient gods / deities, Ancient pottery / Vase painting, Art and antiquities, Athena, Athens, Attica, Greece

Ancient coin of Athens. Obv. Athena. Rev. The Acropolis of Athens from the north.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Ancient gods / deities, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Coins, Greece, Parthenon

Bronze statue of a deer from the Temple of Apollo in Priene, ancient city in Asia Minor.

Tags: Ancient gods / deities, Animals, Apollo, Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Deer, Greek alphabet, Inscriptions, Ionia, Priene, Sculptures, Votive offerings / Ex-voto

1. Ancient Greek coin. Obv. Hermes. 2. Ancient coin of Kea.

Tags: Aegean sea, Ancient gods / deities, Art and antiquities, Coins, Cyclades, Greece, Hermes, Kea

1. Ancient coin of Korissia, Kea. Obv. Apollo. 2. Ancient coin of Korissia, Kea. Obv. Aristeus.

Tags: Aegean sea, Ancient gods / deities, Apollo, Aristaeus, Art and antiquities, Coins, Cyclades, Greece, Greek mythology, Kea, Korissia (Kea)

Statue, probably of Artemis or Leto, from Carthaea, ancient city on Kea island.

Tags: Aegean sea, Ancient gods / deities, Art and antiquities, Artemis, Carthaea, Cyclades, Greece, Kea, Leto, Sculptures

1. Coin of Ioulis, Kea island. Obv. Apollo. 2. Coin of Carthaea, ancient city on Kea island.

Tags: Aegean sea, Ancient gods / deities, Apollo, Art and antiquities, Carthaea, Coins, Cyclades, Greece, Ioulis (Kea), Kea

Ancient coin of Delphi.

Tags: Ancient gods / deities, Apollo, Art and antiquities, Central Greece, Coins, Delphi, Greece, Oracles, Phocis

Silver stater (ca. 346 - 338 B.C.E.) from Delphi. Obv. Head of Demeter left, wearing grain-ear wreath and veil. Rev. Apollo seated left on omphalos, tripod to left, AMΦIKTIONΩN around.

Tags: Ancient gods / deities, Anthele, Apollo, Art and antiquities, Central Greece, Coins, Delphi, Demeter, Greece, Oracles, Phocis, Thermopylae

1. Relief from entrance to a Roman Tomb, showing Apollo and Demeter, at the necropolis of Furkia. 2. Relief from entrance to a Roman Tomb, showing Hermes and Pheme, at the necropolis of Furkia. 3. Relief from entrance to a Roman Tomb, showing Ceres and Athena, at the necropolis of Furkia.4. Relief from entrance to a Roman Tomb, showing a priest, at the necropolis of Furkia. 5. Reconstructive drawing of building at Al Bara, near Aleppo. 6. Relief found at the entrance of the library of the Levant Company (or East Company) at Aleppo, Syria.

Tags: Al Bara, Aleppo, Ancient gods / deities, Arches, Art and antiquities, Demeter, Funerary monuments, Furkia, Hermes, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Levant Company, Libraries, Necropoleis, Necropolis of Furcia, Pheme, Reliefs, Roman monuments, Syria

Coins from Ilion (Troy) and Alexandria Troas (today Eski Stambul).

Tags: Ancient gods / deities, Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Athena, Coins, Eski Stambul / anc. Alexandria Troas, Greece, Ilion, Troad, Troy, Turkey

Relief of Apollo Agyieus, bearing the inscription: ΑΓΑΘΗΙ ΤΥΧΗΙ. ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΟΣ ΑΓΥΙΕΩΣ ΠΡΟΣΤΑΤΕΡΙ ΠΑΤΡΩΟΝ ΠΥΘΙΟΥ ΚΛΑΡΙΟΥ ΠΑΝΙΟΝΙΟΥ.

Tags: Ancient gods / deities, Apollo, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos / Tower of the Winds (Athens), Sculptures

Copy of the sculpture of Apollo Sauroctonos from Louvre Museum.

Tags: Ancient gods / deities, Apollo, Art and antiquities, France, Louvre Museum, Mythology, Paris, Portraits, Praxiteles

The head of the statue of Apollo Belvedere, Vatican Museum, Rome.

Tags: Ancient gods / deities, Apollo, Art and antiquities, Italy, Leochares, Mythology, Portraits, Rome, Vatican Museum

Bust of Dionysus from the Capitoline Museums, Rome.

Tags: Ancient gods / deities, Art and antiquities, Capitoline Museums, Dionysus, Italy, Mythology, Portraits, Rome

Bust of Zeus from the Vatican museum.

Tags: Ancient gods / deities, Art and antiquities, Italy, Mythology, Rome, Sculptures, Vatican Museum, Zeus

Signets showing Artemis, an apoxyomenos athlete (Tydeus), Eros and Athena.

Tags: Ancient gods / deities, Art and antiquities, Artemis, Athena, Athletes, Eros, Mythology, Sculptures, Stamps and signets

Scarabean Gem, in the Author's Possession. Hermes and Charon leading a woman to Hades.

Tags: Ancient gods / deities, Art and antiquities, Charon, Greece, Hades, Hermes, Mythology, Stamps and signets, Women

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