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Hearst Museum object titled Amphoriskos, accession number 8-3445, described as Corinthian black-figure amphoriskos; intact; some cracks in body; glase fired purplish red; on mouth, 2 horizontal lines, narrow stripe down each handle, on neck zigzags, on shoulder tongues; on each face palmette complex, under eacch handle 2 concentric circlees round dot; filling of rosettes, saltires, blobls and dots. height 13.8; Diameter 8.0 cm

Hearst Museum object titled Coin: æ, accession number 8-4792, described as Coin; AE; Greek. 2.14 grams, 12 mm. Kea, Greece. Obverse: Head laureate. Reverse: uncertain. Remarks: "fair condition.:

Hearst Museum object titled Coin: æ, accession number 8-4932, described as Coin; AE; Greek. 9.24 grams, 28.2 mm. Trajan Decius, 249-251 AD. Samos, Greece. Obverse: AYT K TPAIANOC ΔEKIOC, bust of Trajan Decius r. laureate, wearing cuirass and paludamentum. Reverse: CAMIΩN, Tyche of Samos standing l. wearing modius, holding cultus-statue of Samian Hera and cornucopiae.

Hearst Museum object titled Coin: æ, accession number 8-4870, described as Coin; AE; Greek. 8.56 grams, 34 mm. Obverse: ΜΩΤΑΚΙΛΙΑ [ΕΟΥ [ ], bust of Otacilia, draped, r. Reverse: [ΑΜ ΙΩΝ, Cult-statue of Samian Hera standing, serpent coiled around her modius.

Hearst Museum object titled Coin: æ, accession number 8-4843, described as Coin; AE; Greek. 2.15 grams, 12 mm. 350-250 BC. Mytilene, Lesbos. Obverse: bust of Aphrodite r., hair in sphendone. Reverse: lyre; to left, M over T; to right, Y over I.

Hearst Museum object titled Coin: æ, accession number 8-4915, described as Coin; AE; Greek. 17.566 grams, 32.4 mm. Third century AD. Chios, Greece. ] AC CA [, Obverse: Sphinx seated facing l. raising paw; to front, prow.; in exergue, TRIA. Reverse: ΣΠΙ ΑΡΧ ΠΡΕΙ ΜΟΥΔΙ[, Apollo, holding patera, and Dionysus, holding kantharos and thyrsos, standing facing; between, flaming altar; in exergue, ΧΙΩΝ. Remarks: "Tria Assaria." "(age of Antonines)

Hearst Museum object titled Coin: ar didrachm, accession number 8-4320, described as Coin; AR; Didrachm; Greece. 6.17 grams, 21 mm. Rhodus, Rhodes. 400-333 BC. Obverse: Head of Helios. Reverse: ΡΟΔΙΟΝ, Rose.

Hearst Museum object titled Coin: ar drachm, accession number 8-4410, described as Coin; AR; Drachma; Greek. 4.11 grams, 18mm. Demetrius I, 151 BC. Heraklea, Turkey. Obverse: bust of king r., diademed. Reverse: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ, cornucopia; in exergue, monograms.

Hearst Museum object titled Pinax, accession number 8-104, described as Corinthian black-figure plate; pierced for suspension; light Corinthian clay; added purple paint; in field, floral cross, incised rosettes; underneath, concentric circles.

Hearst Museum object titled Statue (reproduction), accession number 21-255, described as Cast of Aphrodite of Melos (Latin: Venus). From a marble statue discovered on the island of Melos, Cyclades, in 1820. Two wooden slabs have now been removed from between lower and upper sections of the Aphrodite. A left hand and apple preserved in Paris probably belonged to her. The goddess’s left hand probably held her dress. But other restorations have been ventured: (A) With a round shield, supposed to be her husband’s and using its convex surface as a mirror; (B) As Wingless Victory, writing on a shield like the winged Victories of Trajan’s Column and of Brescia; (C) Coupled with Mars (Greek: Ares), as in certain extant, antique groups. The Marquis de Rivières, French ambassador to the Porte, secured it then for 40,000 francs, and presented it to Louis XVIII. The King placed the statue in the Louvre Museum, Paris, where it remains that gallery’s finest antique sculpture. Furtwaengler and Possenti give the statue the apple and a cippus under its left elbow and name it The Fortune of Melos. Compare Furtwaengler’s Masterpiece page... A lost inscription described the statue in characters of about 200 B.C., as a work of Antigonos (?) of Antioch on the Maeander.