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Prepalatial Minoan
Early Helladic Greece
Early Cycladic Greece
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Early Bronze Age Cyprus
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Mycenaean Greece
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Lydia
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 Prepalatial Minoan

Start: 3500 BC
End: 1900 BC
Type: Culture
Note: Bronze Age
Script: Linear A
Notes: The Bronze Age began on Crete around 3200 BC

 Early Helladic Greece

Start: 3000 BC
End: 2100 BC
Type: Culture

 Early Cycladic Greece

Start: 3000 BC
End: 2500 BC
Type: Culture

 Late Cycladic Greece

Start: 2500 BC
End: 2000 BC
Type: Culture

 Early Bronze Age Cyprus

Start: 2300 BC
End: 1900 BC
Type: Archaeology
Note: Philia culture

 Middle Helladic

Start: 2100 BC
End: 1550 BC
Type: Culture
Industry: Bronze Age
Reference: historian: Heinrich Schliemann 1822-1890

 Protopalatial Minoan

Start: 1900 BC
End: 1750 BC
Type: Culture
Note: Palace period, Middle Bronze Age
Script: Linear A
Religion: Matriarchal
Industry: Bronze
Reference: Arthur Evans 1851-1941

 Middle Bronze Age Cyprus

Start: 1900 BC
End: 1600 BC
Type: Archaeology
Note: Kingdom of Alashiya
Industry: Bronze

 Neo-Palatial Minoan

Start: 1750 BC
End: 1500 BC
Type: Culture
Script: Linear A

 Mycenaean Greece

Start: 1556 BC
End: 1060 BC
Type: Culture
Note: Late Helladic
Language: Mycenaean (Indo-European)
Script: Linear B
Religion: Early Olympian
Industry: Bronze Age
Notes: Archaeological discovery by Heinrich Schliemann 1822-1890. Achaens

 Post-Palatial Minoan

Start: 1500 BC
End: 1170 BC
Type: Culture
Script: Linear A
Religion: Matriarchal
Industry: Bronze Age
Notes: historian: Arthur Evans 1851-1941

 Lydia

Start: 1300 BC
End: 546 BC
Type: Dynasty
Note: Mermnads
Language: Lydian (Indo-European)

 Greek Dark Ages

Start: 1150 BC
End: 700 BC
Type: Period
Note: Geometric Greek
Language: Doric (Indo-European)
Notes: Dorian Invasion

 Ancient Cyprus

Start: 1050 BC
End: 323 BC
Type: Archaeology

 Doric Greece

Start: 808 BC
End: 359 BC
Type: Language group
Language: Doric (Indo-European)
Script: Greek Alphabet
Religion: Olympian

 Ionic Greece

Start: 800 BC
End: 495 BC
Type: Culture
Language: Ionic (Indo European)

 Attic Greece I

Start: 800 BC
End: 570 BC
Type: Culture

 Aeolian Greece

Start: 800 BC
End: 500 BC
Type: Language group

 Spartan Greece

Start: 668 BC
End: 458 BC
Type: Culture

 Attic Greece II

Start: 570 BC
End: 323 BC
Type: Culture
Language: Ancient Greek
Script: Greek Alphabet
Religion: Olympian

 Alexandrian Empire

Start: 359 BC
End: 323 BC
Type: Dynasty
Note: Argead Dynasty
Religion: Olympian

 Antigonid Dynasty

Start: 306 BC
End: 168 BC
Type: Dynasty
Note: Diadochi (Alexandrian)
Religion: Hellenistic,Olympian

 Attalid Dynasty

Start: 282 BC
End: 133 BC
Type: Dynasty
Note: Diadochi (Alexandrian)
Notes: Kingdom of Pergamon

 Roman Empire

Start: 27 BC
End: 395 AD
Type: Empire
Language: Latin
Script: Latin
Religion: Olympian, Christianity

 

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End: 0 AD
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End: 0 AD
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End: 0 AD
Type: Delete

 Eastern (Byzantine) Roman Empire

Start: 306 AD
End: 518 AD
Type: Empire
Note: Byzantine
Religion: Christianity
 
Bird Vase ⌕
   
NoteFour legged bird vase Collection: Archäologischen Museum Iraklio, Kreta
Year2600 BC
Category: Pottery
Location: 
Material: 
Collection: 
Licence:  [🡭]
Attribution:  Olaf Tausch
Image Note: 
Reference:  Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported
[1 of 0]
Clay goat figurine ⌕
   
NotePorti, Platanos, Koumasa, 2300 - 1900 BCE. Collection: Heraklion Archaeological Museum.
Year2300 BC
Category: Pottery
Location:  Crete
Material:  Clay
Collection: 
Licence:  [🡭]
Attribution:  Jebulon
Image Note: 
Reference:  Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication
[2 of 0]
Bowl sherd ⌕
   
NoteKamares pot
Year
Category: Pottery
Location:  Cnossus
Material: 
Collection:  The British Museum
Licence:  CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 [🡭]
Attribution:  British Museum
Image Note: 
Reference:  1936,0901.12
[3 of 0]
 
 
Seated harp player ⌕
   
NoteEarly Cycladic I–II Cycladic; Grotta-Pelos culture
Year2800 BC
Category: Sculpture
Location:  Cyclades
Material:  Marble
Collection:  New York Metropolitan Museum of Art
Licence:  CC0 1.0 [🡭]
Attribution:  New York Met
Image Note: 
Reference: 
[1 of 0]
Marble female figure ⌕
   
NoteEarly Cycladic II Keros-Syros culture
Year2600 BC
Category: Sculpture
Location:  Cyclades
Material: 
Collection:  New York Metropolitan Museum of Art
Licence:  CC0 1.0 [🡭]
Attribution:  New York Met
Image Note: 
Reference: 
[2 of 0]
Marble head ⌕
   
NoteHead from the figure of a woman, Spedos type, Early Cycladic II (2700 BC–2300 BC), Keros culture.
Year2700 BC
Category: Sculpture
Location:  Cyclades
Material: 
Collection:  The Louvre
Licence:  [🡭]
Attribution: 
Image Note: 
Reference: 
[3 of 0]
Marble female figure ⌕
   
NoteHarvard Art Museums, Cambridge,MA, USA
Year
Category: Sculpture
Location:  Cyclades
Material: 
Collection: 
Licence:  [🡭]
Attribution: 
Image Note: 
Reference: 
[4 of 0]
 
Female figure ⌕
   
Note
Year4000 BC
Category: Sculpture
Location:  Cyclades
Material: 
Collection:  New York Metropolitan Museum of Art
Licence:  CC0 1.0 [🡭]
Attribution:  New York Met
Image Note: 
Reference: 
[1 of 0]
Marble harp player ⌕
   
NoteCycladic figurine, from the early Cycladic II period, early spedos type, found in early 19. century in a grave on the Greek island of Santorini. Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe, Germany
Year1900 BC
Category: Sculpture
Location: 
Material: 
Collection: 
Licence:  [🡭]
Attribution: 
Image Note: 
Reference: 
[2 of 0]
 
Cypriot idol, Red Polished Ware ⌕
   
Note(2100–2000 BC). Museum zu Allerheiligen. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12649748
Year
Category: Sculpture
Location: 
Material: 
Collection: 
Licence:  CC0 1.0 [🡭]
Attribution:  By User:Helvetiker - Own work, Public Do
Image Note: 
Reference: 
[1 of 0]
Bronze Age idol ⌕
   
NoteCyprus Museum, 2400–2000 BC https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22776348
Year
Category: Sculpture
Location:  Cyprus
Material: 
Collection: 
Licence:  CC BY 3.0 [🡭]
Attribution:  By Klaus D. Peter, Wiehl, Germany
Image Note: 
Reference: 
[2 of 0]
 
 
Male Votive figure ⌕
   
Note
Year
Category: Sculpture
Location:  Crete
Material:  Terracotta
Collection:  The British Museum
Licence:  CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 [🡭]
Attribution:  British Museum
Image Note: 
Reference:  1907,0119.3
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Cretan spouted jug ⌕
   
NoteArchaeological Museum of Herakleion. Kamares-style pottery. Old palatial period 2100-1700 B.C.
Year2000 BC
Category: Pottery
Location:  Crete
Material: 
Collection: 
Licence:  [🡭]
Attribution:  Wolfgang Sauber - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0
Image Note: 
Reference:  https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6509132
[2 of 0]
Kamares Fruit Dish ⌕
   
NotePainted Pottery dish from Phaistos. Collection: Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete, Greece.
Year
Category: Pottery
Location:  Crete
Material: 
Collection: 
Licence:  [🡭]
Attribution:  Olaf Tausch
Image Note: 
Reference:  Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported
[3 of 0]
Bridge-spouted Jar ⌕
   
NoteRestored and given to the New York Metropolitan Museum by the Ashmolean, Oxford, UK
Year
Category: Pottery
Location:  Cnossus
Material:  Terracotta
Collection:  New York Metropolitan Museum of Art
Licence:  CC0 1.0 [🡭]
Attribution:  New York Met
Image Note: 
Reference:  11.186.10
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Votive figure ⌕
   
Note
Year
Category: Sculpture
Location:  Crete
Material:  Terracotta
Collection:  The British Museum
Licence:  CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 [🡭]
Attribution:  British Museum
Image Note: 
Reference:  1907,0119.4
[5 of 0]
 
Terracotta zoomorphic askos with antlers ⌕
   
NoteTerracotta zoomorphic askos (vessel) with antlers ca. 1725–1600 B.C.
Year1700 BC
Category: Pottery
Location:  Cyprus
Material: 
Collection:  New York Metropolitan Museum of Art
Licence:  CC0 1.0 [🡭]
Attribution:  New York Met
Image Note: 
Reference:  MET 74.51.795
[1 of 0]
 
Female Figure ⌕
   
NoteImage Cropped, Collection: Archaeological Museum of Heraklion.
Year
Category: Sculpture
Location:  Crete
Material: 
Collection: 
Licence:  [🡭]
Attribution:  Zde - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0
Image Note: 
Reference:  https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=52848058
[1 of 0]
Bronze Female figure ⌕
   
NotePossibly votive figure with typical one arm raised to the head in worship or veneration
Year
Category: Sculpture
Location:  Crete
Material:  Bronze
Collection:  New York Metropolitan Museum of Art
Licence:  CC0 1.0 [🡭]
Attribution:  New York Met
Image Note: 
Reference:  24.150.9
[2 of 0]
Kamares Pithos (Jug) ⌕
   
NoteArchäologischen Museum Iraklio, Kreta
Year
Category: Pottery
Location:  Crete
Material: 
Collection: 
Licence:  [🡭]
Attribution:  Olaf Tausch
Image Note: 
Reference:  Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported
[3 of 0]
Jug with spirals ⌕
   
Note
Year
Category: Pottery
Location:  Cnossus
Material:  Terracotta
Collection:  New York Metropolitan Museum of Art
Licence:  CC0 1.0 [🡭]
Attribution:  New York Met
Image Note: 
Reference:  11.186.12
[4 of 0]
Bulls Head Vase ⌕
   
NoteThis vase is a type of rhyton, or libation vase. The offering was poured through the hole in the animals muzzle. The vase was filled either by immersion in a large container or through the hole on the head. Using the principle of the siphon, liquid would not flow out as long as the opening at the top was closed with the thumb.
Year
Category: Sculpture
Location:  Crete
Material:  Terracotta
Collection:  New York Metropolitan Museum of Art
Licence:  CC0 1.0 [🡭]
Attribution:  New York Met
Image Note: 
Reference:  1973.35
[5 of 0]
Bull and acrobat figure ⌕
   
Note
Year
Category: Sculpture
Location:  Crete
Material:  Bronze
Collection:  The British Museum
Licence:  CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 [🡭]
Attribution:  British Museum
Image Note:  background cropped
Reference:  1966,0328.1
[6 of 0]
Bridge-spouted Jar ⌕
   
Note
Year
Category: Pottery
Location:  Crete
Material:  Terracotta
Collection:  New York Metropolitan Museum of Art
Licence:  CC0 1.0 [🡭]
Attribution:  New York Met
Image Note: 
Reference:  07.232.25
[7 of 0]
 
Mask of Agamemnon ⌕
   
NoteFound at Mycenae, by Heinrich Schliemann Present location National Archaeological Museum of Athens
Year
Category: Sculpture
Location:  Mycenae
Material:  Gold
Collection: 
Licence:  [🡭]
Attribution: 
Image Note: 
Reference: 
[1 of 0]
The Lady of Phylakopi ⌕
   
NoteThe Lady of Phylakopi. Wheel-made female figurine of a goddess or priestess from West Shrine in Phylakopi. Late Helladic III A period, Phylakopi III, probably 14th century BC. Archaeological Museum of Milos, Cat. no. B 655. Discovered by Colin Renfrew, Excavations 1974-77. Image cropped.
Year
Category: Sculpture
Location: 
Material: 
Collection: 
Licence:  [🡭]
Attribution:  Zde
Image Note: 
Reference:  Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
[2 of 0]
Stirrup vase with octopus design ⌕
   
Note
Year
Category: Pottery
Location:  Rhodes
Material: 
Collection:  The Louvre
Licence:  [🡭]
Attribution: 
Image Note: 
Reference: 
[3 of 0]
Gold and Silver Bull Rhyton ⌕
   
NoteSilver mycaenean vase (rhtyon) shaped as a bull head with gold horns.
Year1500 BC
Category: Sculpture
Location:  Mycenae
Material:  Silver and Gold
Collection:  National Archaeological Museum Athens
Licence:  [🡭]
Attribution: 
Image Note: 
Reference: 
[4 of 0]
 
Stirrup jar ⌕
   
Note
Year
Category: Pottery
Location:  Cnossus
Material: 
Collection:  The British Museum
Licence:  CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 [🡭]
Attribution:  British Museum
Image Note:  background cropped
Reference:  1896,0201.26
[1 of 0]
Minoan Octopus Vase ⌕
   
NoteCretan clay Octopus vase. Archaeological Museum in Herakleion
Year1500 BC
Category: Pottery
Location:  Crete
Material:  Terracotta
Collection: 
Licence:  [🡭]
Attribution: 
Image Note: 
Reference: 
[2 of 0]
Bulls head rhyton ⌕
   
NoteFound in Zakros, Central Sanctuary Complex Collection: Heraklion Archaeological Museum
Year1500 BC
Category: Sculpture
Location:  Crete
Material: 
Collection: 
Licence:  [🡭]
Attribution: 
Image Note: 
Reference:  Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication
[3 of 0]
Restored Minoan Frieze ⌕
   
Note
Year
Category: Painting
Location:  Crete
Material: 
Collection:  University of Chicago Oriental Institute, USA
Licence:  [🡭]
Attribution: 
Image Note: 
Reference: 
[4 of 0]
Bull head rhyton ⌕
   
NoteCollection: Archaeological Museum of Heraklion, case 94.
Year1500 BC
Category: Pottery
Location:  Crete
Material: 
Collection: 
Licence:  [🡭]
Attribution:  Zde
Image Note: 
Reference:  Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. Image cropped
[5 of 0]
Large globular flask ⌕
   
Note
Year
Category: Pottery
Location:  Crete
Material: 
Collection:  The British Museum
Licence:  CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 [🡭]
Attribution:  British Museum
Image Note:  background cropped
Reference:  1898,1201.15
[6 of 0]
Bronze figure ⌕
   
Note
Year
Category: Sculpture
Location:  Crete
Material:  Bronze
Collection:  New York Metropolitan Museum of Art
Licence:  CC0 1.0 [🡭]
Attribution:  New York Met
Image Note: 
Reference:  26.31.490
[7 of 0]
Larnax (chest-shaped coffin) ⌕
   
Note
Year
Category: Ornament
Location: 
Material:  Terracotta
Collection:  New York Metropolitan Museum of Art
Licence:  CC0 1.0 [🡭]
Attribution:  New York Met
Image Note: 
Reference:  1996.521a, b
[8 of 0]
Painted Pottery Jar ⌕
   
NoteCemetery of Myrsini (Mirsini), near Sitia, Crete. Collection: Archaeological Museum of Agios Nikolaos.
Year
Category: Pottery
Location:  Crete
Material: 
Collection: 
Licence:  [🡭]
Attribution:  Zde - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0
Image Note: 
Reference:  Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license
[9 of 0]
 
 
Bronze Horse Figurine ⌕
   
NoteGEOMETRIC GREEK 800BC-700BC
Year800 BC
Category: Sculpture
Location: 
Material:  Bronze
Collection:  The British Museum
Licence:  CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 [🡭]
Attribution:  British Museum
Image Note:  background cropped
Reference:  BM 1966,0328.6
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Bronze Horse Figurine ⌕
   
NoteGEOMETRIC GREEK 750BC
Year
Category: Sculpture
Location: 
Material:  Bronze
Collection:  The British Museum
Licence:  CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 [🡭]
Attribution:  British Museum
Image Note:  Image cropped
Reference:  BM 1966,0328.3
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Bronze Bird ⌕
   
NoteGEOMETRIC GREEK 800BC-700BC
Year800 BC
Category: Sculpture
Location: 
Material:  Bronze
Collection:  The British Museum
Licence:  CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 [🡭]
Attribution:  British Museum
Image Note:  background cropped
Reference:  BM 1934,0310.2
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Bronze figure of a bull ⌕
   
NoteBronze Bull Figure from the Geometric Period / style 900 - 700 BC.
Year900 BC
Category: Sculpture
Location: 
Material:  Bronze
Collection:  The British Museum
Licence:  CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 [🡭]
Attribution:  British Museum
Image Note:  background cropped
Reference:  BM 1966,0328.11
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Bronze sexfoil rosette buckle ⌕
   
NoteGEOMETRIC GREEK 800BC-700BC
Year800 BC
Category: Ornament
Location: 
Material:  Bronze
Collection:  The British Museum
Licence:  CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 [🡭]
Attribution:  British Museum
Image Note:  background cropped
Reference:  BM 1931,1016.19
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Terracotta figure of helmeted horse and rider ⌕
   
NoteCYPRUS 750BC-600BC
Year750 BC
Category: Pottery
Location:  Cyprus
Material:  Terracotta
Collection:  The British Museum
Licence:  CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 [🡭]
Attribution:  British Museum
Image Note:  background cropped
Reference:  BM 1876,0909.95
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Terracotta figure of horse and rider ⌕
   
Note
Year
Category: Pottery
Location:  Cyprus
Material:  Terracotta
Collection:  The British Museum
Licence:  CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 [🡭]
Attribution:  British Museum
Image Note:  background cropped
Reference:  BM 1870,0315.17
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Pottery Figure of Shield Bearer ⌕
   
NoteCypro-Archaic I
Year
Category: Pottery
Location:  Cyprus
Material: 
Collection:  New York Metropolitan Museum of Art
Licence:  CC0 1.0 [🡭]
Attribution:  New York Met
Image Note: 
Reference:  MET 74.51.1655
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Warrior statuette ⌕
   
NotePottery figure / figurine of a male figure, probably a warrior. Cypro-Archaic I
Year
Category: Pottery
Location:  Cyprus
Material:  Terracotta
Collection:  New York Metropolitan Museum of Art
Licence:  CC0 1.0 [🡭]
Attribution:  New York Met
Image Note: 
Reference:  MET 74.51.1614
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Terracotta statuette of a male flute-player ⌕
   
NoteCypro-Archaic I
Year
Category: Pottery
Location:  Cyprus
Material:  Terracotta
Collection:  New York Metropolitan Museum of Art
Licence:  CC0 1.0 [🡭]
Attribution:  New York Met
Image Note: 
Reference:  MET 74.51.1691
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Gorgoneion Gold pendant ⌕
   
NoteGorgoneion (Gorgon face), Classical Period
Year
Category: Sculpture
Location:  Cyprus
Material:  Gold
Collection:  New York Metropolitan Museum of Art
Licence:  CC0 1.0 [🡭]
Attribution:  New York Met
Image Note: 
Reference:  MET 74.51.3397b
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Kouros statues ⌕
   
NoteKleobis and Biton. Identified by inscriptions on the base. Dedicated to Delphi by the city of Argos, signed by [Poly?]medes of Argos. H. 1.97 m (6 ft. 5 ½ in.)(wiki) Archaeological Museum of Delphi.
Year
Category: Sculpture
Location: 
Material:  Marble
Collection: 
Licence:  [🡭]
Attribution: 
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Reference:  467, 1524
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Terracotta pyxis ⌕
   
NoteGeometric design pyxis (box with lid), often used in burials (Geometric period)
Year
Category: Pottery
Location: 
Material:  Terracotta
Collection:  New York Metropolitan Museum of Art
Licence:  CC0 1.0 [🡭]
Attribution:  New York Met
Image Note: 
Reference:  MET 48.11.5a, b
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Sounion Kouros ⌕
   
NoteKouros statue, National Archaeological Museum, Athens (NAMA)
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Category: Sculpture
Location:  Athens
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Licence:  [🡭]
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Head of a Kouros ⌕
   
NoteNational Archaeological Museum of Athens
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Category: Sculpture
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Kroisos Kouros ⌕
   
Notemarble kouros statue from Anavyssos in Attica. National Archaeological Museum of Athens
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Category: Sculpture
Location: 
Material:  Marble
Collection: 
Licence:  [🡭]
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Temple of Poseidon ⌕
   
NoteCape Sounion, the southernmost point of Attica
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Category: Architecture
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Temple of Trajan ⌕
   
Noteat Pergamon,Asia Minor. Built by Hadrian
Year
Category: Architecture
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