fragment ca. 11.5 cm, thirteenth century BC. Athens, National Archaeological Museum.Chapter
Figure 17 Protogeometric amphora from the Kerameikos cemetery in Athens; height 39.9 cm, ca.
975 BC. Athens, Kerameikos, Inv. 1073.
Figure 18 Late Geometric amphora from the Dipylon cemetery in Athens; height 1.55 m, ca.
BC. Athens, National Archaeological Museum, Inv. 804.
Figure 19 The development of the Greek alphabet from Phoenician script.
Figure 20 Modern reconstruction of bronze tripod “with ears” of the eighth century BC; height
1.54 m. Olympia, Archaeological Museum.Chapter
Figure 21 Interior of black-figure Laconian cup by the Arkesilas Painter, showing Atlas (left) and
the punishment of Prometheus; diameter of cup 20.2 cm, ca. 565–550 BC. Vatican Museums,
Museo Gregoriano Etrusco, Inv. 16592.
Figure 22 Axonometric drawing of the “Heroon” at Lefkandi as reconstructed, 1000–950 BC.Chapter
Figure 23 Stone statue of Egyptian King Menkaure (Mycerinus) and his queen; height 1.422 m,
2490–2472 BC. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts 11.1738.
Figure 24 Attic marble statue of a young man (“kouros”); height 1.946 m, ca. 590–580 BC. New
York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fletcher Fund, 1932 (32.11.1).
Figure 25 Marble statue of a young woman (“kore”); height 0.55 m, ca. 520 BC. Athens,
Acropolis Museum, no. 675.
Figure 26 Fragment of papyrus from Egypt with a poem by Sappho copied on it, later used as
wrapping for a mummy, Papyrussammlung Inv. 21351 + 21376 recto; text first published in 2004;
early third century BC.
Figure 27 Detail of Protocorinthian pitcher (the “Chigi Vase”); height of figured band 5 cm, ca.
640 BC. Rome, Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia, no. 22679.Chapter
Figure 28 Exterior of red-figure cup, attributed to the Brygos Painter, showing wreathed
symposiasts accompanied by female entertainers, one playing the aulos and one holding a wine
cup similar in shape to the one on which the scene is painted; diameter of cup 32 cm, ca. 490–
BC. London, British Museum, GR 1848.6–19.7 (Vases E 68).
Figure 29 Minoan green jasper seal stone from Crete and plaster impression of the same (top),
showing two dolphins swimming; diameter 15 mm, early second millennium BC. Oxford,
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, AN1941.91.
Figure 30 Obverse of silver coin, perhaps from the island of Thera, showing two dolphins
swimming; diameter 21 mm, ca. 550–525 BC.
Figure 31 Engraved chalcedony scarab, showing a satyr with vessels for wine; length 16 mm, ca.
500 BC. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 67.624, Frederick Brown Fund.