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Sharing public domain works from the Greek and Roman Art department of Cleveland Museum of Art. Automated #artbot thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social

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CMA: Greek and Roman Art @cmagreekroman.bsky.social · 4h

Eye Cup clevelandart.org/art/1976.89

Psiax was one of the first black-figure artists to paint in red-figure. On some of his vases he painted in both red- and black-figure. Vases with this unique combination are called bilingual. Slightly more than a dozen of his red-figure works are known, and yet he is considered one of the great masters of that technique as well. His figures are elegant and graceful, and his compositions dramatic. The eyes on this type of cup were originally meant to fend off the power of the "evil eye." However, they had another, more humorous result. As the drinker raised the cup to his lips, it transformed itself into a monstrous face - on either side of the wild, glaring eyes, the two handles became ears, and the foot of the cup became a snout. Side A: Warriors Side B: Kithara concert Tondo: Four palmettes Foot: (owner's name incised)

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CMA: Greek and Roman Art @cmagreekroman.bsky.social · 8h

Half Drachm clevelandart.org/art/1917.981

Half Drachm

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CMA: Greek and Roman Art @cmagreekroman.bsky.social · 10h

Corinthian Vase clevelandart.org/art/1924.875

Corinthian Vase

CMA: Greek and Roman Art @cmagreekroman.bsky.social · 13h

Fragment of a Vase clevelandart.org/art/1924.536

Fragment of a Vase

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CMA: Greek and Roman Art @cmagreekroman.bsky.social · 14h

Geometric Pyxis clevelandart.org/art/1923.643

Geometric Pyxis

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CMA: Greek and Roman Art @cmagreekroman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Griffin Atop Entablature clevelandart.org/art/1981.20

Griffin Atop Entablature

CMA: Greek and Roman Art @cmagreekroman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Hemidrachma: Bull (reverse) clevelandart.org/art/1917.991.b

Hemidrachma: Bull (reverse)

CMA: Greek and Roman Art @cmagreekroman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Stater: Boeotian Shield in High Relief (obverse) clevelandart.org/art/1941.295.a

Stater: Boeotian Shield in High Relief (obverse)

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CMA: Greek and Roman Art @cmagreekroman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Torso of a Woman clevelandart.org/art/1927.383

Torso of a Woman

CMA: Greek and Roman Art @cmagreekroman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Tetradrachm: Club in Oak Wreath (reverse) clevelandart.org/art/1916.978.b

Tetradrachm: Club in Oak Wreath (reverse)

CMA: Greek and Roman Art @cmagreekroman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Tetradrachm: Head of Youthful Herakles in Lion's Skin (obverse) clevelandart.org/art/1941.294.a

Tetradrachm: Head of Youthful Herakles in Lion's Skin (obverse)

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CMA: Greek and Roman Art @cmagreekroman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Fragment of a Goat's Head clevelandart.org/art/1926.538

Fragment of a Goat's Head

CMA: Greek and Roman Art @cmagreekroman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Piping and Dancing Satyr clevelandart.org/art/1945.366

Piping and Dancing Satyr

CMA: Greek and Roman Art @cmagreekroman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Beaker with Scale Pattern clevelandart.org/art/1992.183

The work of Roman potters is very different from that of their Greek predecessors. Greek clay had allowed potters to throw thin-walled ceramics. Slips (paint) made from this clay had permitted painters to draw complicated scenes and figures with infinite care. As the Roman empire grew to include Germany and Britain, local clays found there were better for producing heavier pottery with three-dimensional decoration like the vases shown here. These jars--decorated with a human face (1992.125), animals (1992.126), a feather pattern (1992.183), a wheat pattern (1992.124), and vertical ribs (1992.127,a) were probably filled with foods or liquids and given either as gifts to an elaborate burial or as offerings to a god's shrine.

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CMA: Greek and Roman Art @cmagreekroman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Head of Artemis clevelandart.org/art/1929.976

Artemis was the goddess of hunting. Her long straight nose, almond-shaped eyes, and "archaic smile" are very similar to those of Atalanta on the contemporary white-ground lekythos (1966.114)

CMA: Greek and Roman Art @cmagreekroman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Fragment of a Painted Vase: Maiden Carrying a Coffer clevelandart.org/art/1915.533.d

Fragment of a Painted Vase: Maiden Carrying a Coffer

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CMA: Greek and Roman Art @cmagreekroman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Tetradrachm: Owl Standing (reverse) clevelandart.org/art/1916.977.b

Tetradrachm: Owl Standing (reverse)

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CMA: Greek and Roman Art @cmagreekroman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Tetradrachm: Apollo (obverse) clevelandart.org/art/1917.988.a

Tetradrachm: Apollo (obverse)

CMA: Greek and Roman Art @cmagreekroman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ring clevelandart.org/art/1916.103

Ring

CMA: Greek and Roman Art @cmagreekroman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Jug clevelandart.org/art/1916.2005

Jug

CMA: Greek and Roman Art @cmagreekroman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Mule-Head Attachment for a Couch clevelandart.org/art/1943.68

Excavated at Kerch, Russia

CMA: Greek and Roman Art @cmagreekroman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Fragment sent with "Dancing Lady": Serpent in Relief clevelandart.org/art/1965.24.c

Fragment sent with "Dancing Lady": Serpent in Relief

CMA: Greek and Roman Art @cmagreekroman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Hecte clevelandart.org/art/1916.973

Hecte

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CMA: Greek and Roman Art @cmagreekroman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Litrae: Female Head (obverse) clevelandart.org/art/1917.986.a

Litrae: Female Head (obverse)

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CMA: Greek and Roman Art @cmagreekroman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Relief of Apollo with Nike clevelandart.org/art/1930.522

This is a typical example of Neo-Attic work, a school that revived the Archaic style of the late sixth century BC. The elongated figures and mannered gestures are typical of this school.

CMA: Greek and Roman Art @cmagreekroman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Bracelet clevelandart.org/art/1930.701

Bracelet

CMA: Greek and Roman Art @cmagreekroman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Barrel-Shaped Jug clevelandart.org/art/1916.2004

Barrel-Shaped Jug

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CMA: Greek and Roman Art @cmagreekroman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Female Worshiper clevelandart.org/art/2002.89

This extremely rare Minoan bronze statuette represents a girl worshiping a deity. It was probably left as a dedication to a divinity. She wears a flounced skirt over a sleeved robe open at the front. The figure shows a remarkable degree of detail, including looped earrings, bracelets, and a necklace. Her shaved hairstyle, not found on any other Minoan bronze statuette, matches that of painted figures in roughly contemporary frescoes uncovered on the island of Thera, north of Crete. Its excellent condition, rarity, fine detail, and balanced proportions set it apart from other statuettes of its type to have survived.

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CMA: Greek and Roman Art @cmagreekroman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Skyphos clevelandart.org/art/1989.149

Lead glaze was first used near the Mediterranean basin around 1000 bc, appearing in Mesopotamia and Egypt almost simultaneously. The technique flourished during the Roman Empire, and examples can be found in all reaches of the realm from England and Germany to North Africa, Syria, and Turkey, and perhaps even further east. This is a very fine example of this technique.

CMA: Greek and Roman Art @cmagreekroman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Patera Cup clevelandart.org/art/1959.251

Patera Cup

CMA: Greek and Roman Art @cmagreekroman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Vessel in the Shape of a Wild Boar clevelandart.org/art/1977.42

Vessel in the Shape of a Wild Boar

CMA: Greek and Roman Art @cmagreekroman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hippopotamus clevelandart.org/art/1958.100

Hippopotamus

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CMA: Greek and Roman Art @cmagreekroman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Jug clevelandart.org/art/1916.1994

Jug

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CMA: Greek and Roman Art @cmagreekroman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Lion's Head clevelandart.org/art/1927.27

Lion's Head

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CMA: Greek and Roman Art @cmagreekroman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Fragment of a Painted Vase: Apollo and Zeus clevelandart.org/art/1915.533.a

Fragment of a Painted Vase: Apollo and Zeus

CMA: Greek and Roman Art @cmagreekroman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Vessel Ornament of Reclining Lyre-player clevelandart.org/art/1986.185

Vessel Ornament of Reclining Lyre-player

CMA: Greek and Roman Art @cmagreekroman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Octodrachm of Arsinoe II (obverse) clevelandart.org/art/1965.552.a

Octodrachm of Arsinoe II (obverse)

CMA: Greek and Roman Art @cmagreekroman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Portrait of Octavia, wife of Nero clevelandart.org/art/1925.943

Portrait of Octavia, wife of Nero

CMA: Greek and Roman Art @cmagreekroman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Squat Lekythos (Oil Jug) clevelandart.org/art/1926.553

Miniature vessels were probably made strictly as tomb offerings. At this later period of red-figure, artists applied quite a bit of additional pigment, here white, brown and blue.

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CMA: Greek and Roman Art @cmagreekroman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Fragment of a Reclining Male Figure, Perhaps a God clevelandart.org/art/1951.538

Fragment of a Reclining Male Figure, Perhaps a God

CMA: Greek and Roman Art @cmagreekroman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Daedalic Pendant with Potnia Theron (Mistress of the Animals) clevelandart.org/art/2001.157

The pendant received in 2001 (2001.157) was originally from the same necklace as the identical pendant acquired by the museum in 1999 (1999.88). Both are exceptionally well preserved and depict the winged goddess Artemis, frontally posed and flanked by two lions. Each lion stands obediently on its hind legs, one forepaw placed symmetrically near the goddess's waist, head turned back. In Homer's <em>Iliad</em>, Artemis is called <em>potnia theron</em>, which means "mistress of the animals," a reference that may be applied to this image of the goddess. On the pendants, her image was created in a sheet of gold by burnishing it over a wooden, ceramic, or stone form. Alternating cloisons of green and blue glass enamel within an undulating gold wire frame the goddess and represent the earliest use of this substance yet known in Greek gold jewelry. The small loops at the bottom of the pendants probably held chains attached to pomegranate-shaped beads.

CMA: Greek and Roman Art @cmagreekroman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Mirror Support: Siren clevelandart.org/art/1967.204

This is a bronze of exceptional quality. When complete, it had a cylindrical handle, probably of painted ivory. The reflecting disk was probably of silver, as are the inlays. The intact mirror was obviously an object of great luxury. Sirens (part bird and part woman) were sea-songstresses whose captivating voices drew sailors off course to their deaths. Sirens also accompanied the dead on their voyage to the underworld. The idea was probably imported from Egypt where human-headed ba birds embodied a deceased person's spirit.

CMA: Greek and Roman Art @cmagreekroman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Jug clevelandart.org/art/1916.1989

Jug

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CMA: Greek and Roman Art @cmagreekroman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Portrait of a Man clevelandart.org/art/1925.944

Portrait of a Man

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CMA: Greek and Roman Art @cmagreekroman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Jug clevelandart.org/art/1915.550

Jug

CMA: Greek and Roman Art @cmagreekroman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Seated Figure of a Woman clevelandart.org/art/1920.174

Although the original subject of this ancient Roman statue fragment is unknown, the cut stone at the back of its base indicates that the statue rested on a ledge, probably incorporated into a larger sculptural group. The nude upper body and relaxed pose suggest an alluring mythical woman, like Venus or a nymph, a beautiful female spirit that embodies elements of nature such as water, woods, or mountains.

CMA: Greek and Roman Art @cmagreekroman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Stater: Lion (reverse) clevelandart.org/art/1917.996.b

Stater: Lion (reverse)

CMA: Greek and Roman Art @cmagreekroman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Geometric Pyxis clevelandart.org/art/1923.643.a

Geometric Pyxis

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CMA: Greek and Roman Art @cmagreekroman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Aegineatan Drachm: Incuse Square (reverse) clevelandart.org/art/1917.989.b

Aegineatan Drachm: Incuse Square (reverse)

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CMA: Greek and Roman Art @cmagreekroman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Votive Arm and Hand of Zeus Sabazios clevelandart.org/art/1970.95

Votive Arm and Hand of Zeus Sabazios