Spring Fresco detail. Found in room Delta 2 at Akrotiri, Thera (Santorini) Greece. Circa 1550 – 1500 BCE. Four Horse Sculptures. Quadriga: Four chariot horses in deep relief. Marble, c. 575 – 650 BCE. Three Cycladic statuettes found in Corfu, Greece. 3200 – 2800 BCE. Ionic column capital from the second temple of Athena at Sounion. About 460-450 BCE. Statue of Laocoön at the Vatican Museum, Italy. 1st century CE Roman copy after a Greek original, The Discobolus (Δισκοβόλος = the disk thrower) statue. Roman copy of a Greek bronze original from around 460–450 BCE. Parthenon West pediment statue of a local Athenian river god (Ilissos Eridanos, or Kephisos). 447 – 432 BCE. British Museum, London. Lely’s Venus (Aphrodite) statue. Dated to 1st or 2nd c. CE. Copy of Greek original perhaps from the 2nd c. BCE. Marble head of young man. Greek, late 4th c. BCE. Relief sculpture detail from a slab with Nymphs. Gilt-silver emblema (medallion) representing Scylla. 3rd century BCE. Horse head of Selene’s chariot. From the east pediment of the Parthenon. 5th c. BCE. Parthenon frieze detail. 5th c. BCE. Statue of a boy tying to remove a thorn from the sole of his foot. 25-50 CE copy of a lost original from the 3d c. BCE. The Harp Player. This Cycladic Era statuette was found in Keros and is dated circa 2400 – 2200 BCE. Early Greek writing inscription on a cup. 7th c. BCE. Gold crown with flowers. Bronze head of a boxer. About 330-320 BC. Youth of Antikythera. Bronze statue found underwater at Antikythera. Circa 340 - 330 BCE. Marathon Boy. Bronze statue of a youth studying an object. Circa 340 - 330 BCE. Kouros “Aristodikos”. Circa 510-500 BCE. Statue of Aphrodite of the “Syracuse Aphrodite” type. Made in the 2nd c. AD of the type of the Syracuse Aphrodite, the original of which goes back to the 4th c. BCE. Cycladic figurine. Marble. 2800 – 2300 BCE. Ivory statuette known as “Palaikastro Kouros”. Three views. 15th c. BCE. Statue of a man binding his hair (Diadoumenos). Original made by Polykleitos in the third quarter of the 5th c. BCE. Anavyssos Kouros. Circa 530 BCE. The Piraeus (Peiraeus) Athena. Detail of the head with preserved inlaid eyes. Either an original of the 4th c. BCE, or a classicizing Hellenistic copy. Bronze ballots used by jurors to vote on a case. The Stoa of Attalos colonnade. The ancient stoa doubles as the Agora Archaeological Museum today. Athens, Attica, Greece. Corinthian type bronze helmet side view. 525-500 BCE. Ceramic Jar with Swallow. 17th c. BCE. Beaked eye-jug. Found in Phaistos Minoan palace. 1750-1700 BCE. View of the Derveni crater, tomb B. Late 4th c. BCE. Phaistos Minoan palace. The ancient Olympic Stadium in ancient Olympia, Greece. Delos ancient Theatre. 3d c. BCE. Epidaurus Theatre The theatre of Delphi with the temple of Apollo just below it. 4h c. BCE. The theater of Dodona. 3d c. BCE. Mycenaean corbelled tomb known as the Treasury of Atreus interior. 1350 – 1250 BCE. Mycenae Grave Circle A. 16th c. BCE. White kylix with a drawing of Apollo. 480-470 BCE. Head of a Kore. 510 BCE. Charioteer face side view Peplophoros (Peplos Kore) detail. 530 BCE. Aphrodite, Pan, and Eros. Circa 100 BCE. Venus de Milo (Αφροδίτη της Μήλου). 150-125 BCE. Hermes of Praxiteles. Front view. 4th c. BCE Ivory feet and hand from a female chryselephantine statuette. 6th c. BCE. Knossos palace North Entrance, North Pillar Hall. Ancient Olympia with the temple of Hera The Terrace of the Lions at Delos Island. Late 7th c. BCE. Parthenon west facade. The temple of Poseidon at Sounion. The Tholos of the Temple of Athena Pronaia complex at Delphi, Greece. Circa 360 BCE. The Tumulus of the Athenians at Marathon. Detail of grave lekythos with relief decorations. Marble. Early 4th c. BCE. Bull Rhyton from Knossos. Minoan bronze statuette of a bull with acrobat on its back. 1550 – 1450 BCE. Hand detail from the Parthenon frieze. 5th c. BCE. Hair detail of a Caryatid from the Erechtheion. 5th c. BCE. The original Caryatids (Caryatides) statues from the Erechtheion. 5th c. BCE. Blond Boy Statue Head. Marble, c. 480 BCE. Lily fresco from the Amnissos Minoan villa. 1600-1500 BCE. Harvester Vase (or Harvester Rhyton) detail, Steatite, 1500-1450 BCE. Cup-bearer fresco detail from Knossos palace. Final Palatial period, 1450-1400 BCE. White ground lekythos detail. 420-410 BCE Anthemion and Lotus design carved in marble. Spherical ceramic vessel from Dimini. Late Neolithic I phase, 5300-4800 BCE. Gold death mask (known as Agamemnon’s Mask). 1550 – 1500 BCE. Found in Mycenae, Grave V, Grave Circle A. 16th c. BCE. The Moschophoros (calf-bearer). 570 BCE. Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition hall with ancient Greek sculptures. New York, USA. Metropolitan Museum of Art panoramic view of exhibition hall with ancient Greek sculptures. New York, USA. Thera Prehistoric Museum – Interior view The House of the Ladies in ancient Akrotiri, Thera (Santorini) island, is a three-storey building from the Late Cycladic I period (17th c. BCE). Athens National Archaeological Museum interior panorama with Artemision Zeus statue Athens National Archaeological Museum interior panorama Athens National Archaeological Museum panorama of the Akrotiri frescoes, from the Thera collection. Athens National Archaeological Museum interior panorama.
A slideshow of some of the best examples of Ancient Greek sculpture, architecture, and significant cultural artifacts.