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An altercation on a narrow vessel.

Lekythos (oil flask): Cheiron Watching Peleus Wrestle Thetis, c. 500 BCE - c. 475 BCE

The Diosphos Painter

A bowl with a large handle and a figure on it.

Kyathos (dipper): The Wine God Dionysos

Greek

Fragment of Arretine Ware with Stamp

Fragment of Arretine Ware with Stamp

Roman

Body Sherd Of Stirrup Jar With Painted Decoation

Body Sherd Of Stirrup Jar With Painted Decoation

Mycenaean

Double prutot of Herod I, the Great

Double prutot of Herod I, the Great, r. 37-4 BCE

Herod the Great

Double prutot of Herod I, the Great

Double prutot of Herod I, the Great, r. 37-4 BCE

Herod the Great

Two figures work over a cauldron with a ram in it.

Neck Amphora (storage jar): Medea Boiling a Ram, active 530-520 BCE

Attributed to The Leagros Group

Brownish cube-shaped vessel with four holes at the top and a neck-like handle, terminating in a water buffalo head.

Small Jade Container for Pigments (Tulu)

Chinese

A decorated bowl.

Fluted Bowl

Graeco-Persian

A mottled grey cast bronze cup with a thick, cube-shaped bottom and two decorated large, semi-circle handles. The handles have a protruding form on top and bottom of them. The outside of the cup is decorated with a swirling pattern of thick and fine lines.

'Gui' Ritual Food Vessel with Attached Stand, Bovine-Head Handles, and with Confronting-Dragon Decor

Chinese

A mottled black and green cast bronze vessel that stands on a wide foot, has a slightly round body, and a tall, flared out neck. The body is decorated with two horizontal bands of engraved patterns.

'Zun' Ritual Wine Vessel with Decorative Bands of Birds and Dragons

Chinese

Figures march single file and play musical instruments

Calyx Krater (mixing bowl for wine and water): Return of Hephaistos to Olympos

Attributed to The Kleophrades Painter

A green-grey cast bronze vessel that stands on three tall, pointed legs, has a side handle, and two protruding forms standing up on the front and back of the lip. The vessel is short and stout. It is decorated with a horizontal band of finely engraved lines.

'Jia' Ritual Wine Vessel with a Decorative Band of Dragons against a Leiwen Background

Chinese

Trefoil Oinochoe

Trefoil Oinochoe

Cypriot?

Gnathia Ware Skyphos

Gnathia Ware Skyphos

Greek

Cylinder Seal: Banquet Scene

Cylinder Seal: Banquet Scene

Mesopotamian

Coin of Aegiale

Coin of Aegiale

Greek

Globular Aryballos

Globular Aryballos

Greek

A vessel decorated with grasses and a worn-away figure

Lekythos (oil flask): Charon

Group of Athens 1834

A vessel with several handles and a thick fluted spout.

Hydria (water jar) with Siren Attachment

Greek

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