Greco-Roman
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of approximately 650 Ancient Greek and Roman objects. These date broadly from 2200 BC to AD 400. This collection is principally composed of 139 ceramics, terracotta model acting masks and figurines purchased in 1879 by James Stevenson from excavations carried out on the Aeolian island of Lipari, Italy. The Stevenson collection, mainly of red-figured vases and terracottas relating to Greek theatre, is of particular international importance and is the only significant group of such material outside the island of Lipari. Other notable objects are from the provinces of the Roman Empire and include major fragments of a 3rd-century wooden pumping wheel from the Spanish copper mines at Tharsis, a large marble grave stone of Mercurios and Sabina from Greece, and two 2nd–3rd century Egyptian panel portraits. The collection also holds, in the Burrell Collection, some 300 fine examples of Greek and Roman works of art. These include a stone palette from Minoan Crete, Mycenaean figurines and ceramics, Greek ceramics and earthenware figurines, Etruscan ceramics and bronzes, four Illyrian, Greek and Etruscan bronze helmets, 34 electrum, silver and bronze coins, a Roman marble oscillum, 62 Roman glass vessels, and the Warwick Vase. The civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome date from the earliest Greek city states of about 2000 BC to the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West, in around AD 500. They have an enduring legacy of language, art, law, philosophy, architecture and religion.
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Greco-Roman Classical and Hellenistic