Stewart Sections 9-Appendix Flashcards
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A lion hunt, pebble mosaic from an andron from Pella in Macedonia, ca. 325 BC. Two naked men battle a lion. Conservative four-color technique.
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Gnosis Mosaic from andron at Pella in Macedonia, ca. 325 BC. Lozenge-decorated ‘doormat’; pebble mosaic of stag hunt surrounded by a floral frieze and waves.
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Gnosis Mosaic; central panel and part of the floral surround of stag hunt pebble mosaic from Pella in Macedonia, ca. 325 BC. Wave and floral motifs as borders.
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Erotes hunting a stag, partly tessellated mosaic from the andron of a house in Shatby (near Alexandria), c. 275 BC. Borders of vine leaves and animals.
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Dionysus or a devotee carrying a cymbal and ritual staff and riding a leopard, tessellated opus vermiculatum mosaic from an andron on Delos, ca. 130 BC.
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Tessellated mosaic from the courtyard of the House of the Dolphins on Delos, ca. 130 BC. Square crenellated border surrounding concentric circular panels and central rosette. Eros rides a pair of dolphins in each corner.
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Plan of the palace at Pella, Macedonia, ca. 300 BC. Courtyard house on a grand scale. Rotunda dedicated to Heracles, 15 banquet rooms, large courtyard.
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Façade of the Great Tomb at Lefkadia, near Vergina in Macedonia, ca. 300 BC. Doric below, Ionic above. Sequence of the dead warrior; centauromachy; battle with Persians.
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Palace area of the citadel at Pergamon. Barracks, palaces. Mosaic below right.
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House of the Hermes at Delos, 2nd century. Archaizing herm inside.
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Reconstruction of a frescoed wall from the House of the Comedians at Delos, ca. 150 BC. Appearance of marble veneers.
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Reconstruction of Ptolemy II Philadelphos’ festival pavilion of 279 BC, after literary description.
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Silver-gilt stag drinking horn (rhyton), first century, possibly Syria.
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Detail of the Nile Mosaic from Praeneste, Italy, ca. 100 BC. Pleasure gardens of the Canopus. Men and women dining and drinking; musicians; fishermen.
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Gold-glass drinking bowl, from a 3rd-century tomb at Canosa (southern Italy).
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Comic mask and garlands; fragment of an opus vermiculatum mosaic from the Phoenician port of Dor (Israel), ca. 150 BC. Partier; luxuriant fruits and plants.
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Silver-gilt lid (inner face) of a cosmetic box (pyxis) from the Tomba dei Ori at Canosa in southern Italy, ca. 250 BC. Nymph riding a sea-dragon.
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Gold ring with red garnet intaglio from the Tomb of the Erotes at Eretria, ca. 250 BC. Aphrodite with her shield, spear, and cloak – simultaneously evokes eros and battle.
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Detail of a gold and garnet hair net, probably from Egypt, ca. 200 BC. Medallion with little bust of Aphrodite and Eros; intricate gold decorations.
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Gold and red garnet necklace, bracelet, and pendant from 2nd century grave in Sicily.
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Nile Mosaic, from Praeneste, Italy, ca. 120 BC. Opus vermiculatum version of a Ptolemaic painting of ca. 280, showing the Nile in flood.
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Detail of the Nile from Ethiopia to Egypt, Nile Mosaic, ca. 120 BC. Hunters; exotic animals.
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Detail of a Greek temple and environs, Nile Mosaic, ca. 120 BC. Egyptian peasant on a papyrus canoe; mud-brick tower house; Greek sanctuary.
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Fisherman, marble statuette from Italy after a 2nd century original. Selling or dedicating his wares. Rough, aged appearance.
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Old Market Woman, marble copy from Rome after a 2nd century original. Probably a temple dedication. Aging hetaera making a dedication?
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Ethiopian beggar, bronze statuette possibly made in Alexandria, ca. 100 BC. Phrygian cap. Malnutrition and scoliosis; elaborately rendered figure.
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Two terracotta dancers and an ivory dwarf, second-first centuries. Dancers show signs of dwarfism; central figure shows signs of Pott’s Disease – tuberculosis side effect.
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Gold stater of T. Quinctius Flamininus, ca. 196 BC; earliest known coin portrait of a famous Roman. Quasi-Hellenistic style. Minted in Greece.
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The Terme Ruler, over-life-size, 2nd-century bronze found with the Boxer on the Quirinal Hill in Rome. Brutal, muscular. Possibly a Roman cast in the guise of the conquering Alexander.
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Over-life-size nude portrait (“Pseudo-Athlete”) from the House of the Diadoumenos on Delos, ca. 100 BC. Unfinished marble; probably from a sculptor’s workshop.
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Derveni Krater, bronze krater from grave B at Derveni, Macedonia, ca. 375 BC. Used as a funerary urn. Highly decorative. Dionysiac decoration.
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Painted gravestone of Menelaos in Demetrios, Macedonia, ca. 250 BC. Menelaos dining with kantharos, attended by slave boy.
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Gravestone of Posideos and Herophanta from Smyrna (Anatolia), ca. 150. Posideos with scroll; Herophanta with torch – priestess of Demeter.
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The Lady in Blue; terracotta statuette from Tanagra in Boeotia, ca. 300 BC.
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Couple seated on a marriage bed, terracotta group from Myrina, Anatolia, ca. 150 BC.
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Polychrome nuptial vase from Centuripe, near Syracuse, 3rd century BC. Non-functional; symbolic of marriage.
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The Alexander Sarcophagus, from Sidon, attributed to King Abdalonymos of Sidon, ca. 300 BC. Shows Battle of Issos, with Alexander spearing a Persian. Lion hunt; other battles on other sides.
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Funerary hydria of Dorotheos, Alexandria, ca. 200 BC. Ash urn. Modernized version of the archaic black-figure technique. Swans and a sacrificial bull.
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Mustapha Pasha necropolis, Alexandria, ca. 250. Imitating an elite Hellenistic courtyard house with niches for the dead.
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Fresco from the Wardian Tomb, Alexandria, 2nd century. Rural scene with waterwheel on a terrace by the Nile.
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Hierothesion of Antiochos I of Commagene from Nemrud Dag (Turkey), ca. 50 BC.
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Relief from east terrace of the Hierothesion of Antiochos I, Nemrud Dag, ca. 50 BC. Antiochos shakes hands with Apollo-Mithras-Helios-Hermes.
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Kairos (Opportunity), Roman-period sarcophagus panel, Athens, after a bronze of ca. 330 BC by Lysippos.
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Medea, Roman fresco fragment from Pompeii, perhaps after a Hellenistic painting. Considering whether to kill her children for revenge on Jason for divorcing her.
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Reconstruction of the Hellenistic Asklepieion at Kos. Temple and stoas at top not added until the mid-second century BC.
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Boy strangling a goose, marble copy after a third-century Hellenistic original. Mock-heroic; reference to Herakles. Harpokrates, Egyptian god of silence?
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Satyr molesting a nymph, Roman fresco from the Casa dei Epigrammi, Pompeii. Derived from 3rd century Hellenistic original. Resistance or surrender?
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Polyphemus embraces the nymph Galatea, in an inversion of the usual story. Roman fresco from the Casa della Caccia Antica at Pompeii, 1st century BC.
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Athena Parthenos, marble version from the Royal Library at Pergamon after the original by Pheidias, ca. 180 BC. Transition from neoclassic work to straightforward copying; importance of Pheidias.
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Odysseus, from the Blinding of Polyphemos at Sperlonga, by Athanadoros, Hagesandros, and Polydoros of Rhodes, ca. 40 BC. Aggressive modeling and drilling – visual drama.
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A youth, plaster cast after a marble original, Rome, ca. 50 BC. Softened recreation of the early classical, “severe” style of the fifth century.
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Marble krater, Sosibios of Athens, ca. 50 BC. Imported for a Roman villa garden, reproducing a classical Greek krater type.
