Trident and Tales

Greek bead depicting a man playing the lyra

5th century BCE

Egyptian toy in the shape of a rider and two horses on wheels

4th century CE

Etruscan statue of the goddess Lasa (associated with divination and fate) with a sea monster

4th century BCE

Egyptian "New Year's" flask, used in a ceremony to mark the beginning of the new agricultural year (late summer)

Late Period, 7th - 6th century BCE

Roman sarcophagus panel depicting Athena attempting to stop Persephone's abduction

150 - 170 CE

Roman beaker with a scale pattern

1st century CE

Egyptian stele fragment showing Nefertiti and Akhenaten

New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1345 BCE

Egyptian cameo with the bust of the goddess Isis

Ptolemaic period, ca. 200 - 30 BCE

Greek three-part mirror

4th century BCE

Roman fragment of a bronze statue, head of a young man

1st century CE

Egyptian amulet

Late period, Dynasty 26, 664 - 525 BCE

Mycenaean sieve jug

1250 - 1225 BCE