Snake Goddess from Knossos
c. 1600 – 1550 BCE (New Palace Period)
Crete/Minoan Culture
Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete
The Snake Goddess is a Minoan goddess associated with the snake cult. The snake is both connected with welfare of the household and is a symbol of the underworld deity. She is wearing a Minoan court costume consisting of a flowing skirt and open bodice.
Faience is a term for earthenware covered with a solid glaze containing crushed quartz, which is the cause for the bluish tint and glassy surface. It was probably imported from Egypt in the Pre-Palace period.
Torso of Belvedere (Apollonius of Athens)
Anonymous (Hellenistic-Greek)
1st cent. B.C.
marble
62 1/2 inches
Coins were invented in Lydia in the 7th century BC, but they were first extensively used by the Greeks, and the Greeks set the canon of coin design which has been followed ever since. Coin design today still recognisably follows patterns descended from Ancient Greece.
Athenian tetradrachm with head of Athena and owl
after 449 BC.
source
Peplos Kore
Marble
ca. 530 BCE
Athens
Currently in the Acropolis Museum, Athens.
El Greco
The Holy Family
1594-1604
Oil on Canvas
Currently at El Hospital de San Juan Bautista, Toledo.
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