Greco-Roman Classical and Hellenistic
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of approximately 80 Ancient Greek artefacts from the Classical and Hellenistic periods, dating from 600–200 BC. This collection contains a large number of decorative ceramics of Attic Black-Figure, Attic Red-Figure and Attic White-Ground wares. These depict charioteers, warriors, musicians, Dionysiac scenes and the myths of Herakles and of Theseus and the Minotaur. There are also examples of South Italian Red Figure (Apulian, Lucanian and Campanian) and Canosan wares, such as oil flasks and drinking horns in the shape of animals, fish plates and a lamp filler. Terracotta figures include heads of the goddesses Demeter and Persephone from Centuripae in Sicily, a seated figure of Cybele, a sphinx and a winged Eros. Objects of precious metal include a circular gold cover for a mirror, gold earrings and a silver ladle. The collection also has several terracotta figurines of draped women of the type made at Tanagra in Boeotia during the 4th and 3rd centuries BC, and a small number of ceramic oil-lamps. The Classical period of Ancient Greece dates from about 5th–4th century BC to the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC. The Hellenistic period followed his death and lasted until 146 BC, when Greece lost its independence to Rome.
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