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8. Aphrodite and Eros

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(1st century BC or later) This statue of Aphrodite, goddess of love, was dedicated to the goddess near her temple at Cyrene (Libya). This statue, on loan from the British…Read More >

10. Cast of a relief depicting Egyptian soldiers sailing to Ethiopia

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(Before 1913) Another one of the Palmer casts [see also 9]  from a relief in the Hatshepsut mortuary chamber shows an Egyptian ship travelling on the Nile to perform a…Read More >

12. Tombstone of Domita Rogata

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(2nd century AD) The inscription on this tombstone from Leptis Magna (in modern Libya) remembers ‘‘Domitia Rogata. She lived twenty-three years. M. Iulius Cethegus Phyllissam made this for his dearest…Read More >

EXTRA: Kleroteria

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22nd November 201925th November 2019

John Cochrane (2006) These two stelai (upright slabs) are working reconstructions of kleroteria made out of marble dust. Each of the ten phylai (tribes) of Classical Athens used a pair…Read More >

13. Bust of Percy Ure

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Jannis Athene (1943) This bust shows the mature Percy Ure, University College Reading’s first Professor of Classics (from 1911), as he appeared in the 1940s. Percy Ure founded the Museum…Read More >

11. Cast of a head of a Lapith

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22nd November 201925th November 2019

(1920s) This head is a cast that represents a Lapith— man from Thessaly, Greece—engaged in a mythical battle with Centaurs at the marriage-feast of Peirithoos, king of the Lapiths. The…Read More >

6. Memnon

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Eric Stanford (1990) Memnon was the son of a goddess and a prince, and king of Ethiopia, in Africa. Like Protesilaus [5] he fought in the Trojan War, where he…Read More >

1. Cast of a fragment from the Erechtheion frieze

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22nd November 201925th November 2019

Brucciani & Co. (1889) The Erechtheion was one of several Greek temples on the Akropolis (literally ‘high city’) of ancient Athens, just North of the Parthenon. It was built between…Read More >

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