Above left: Heads from terracotta figurines, late 8th c. BCE (Inv. 4381, 4382).
Below left: Fragment of a pyxis with dancers, lyre, and scorpion, ca. 750-690 BCE (Inv. 234).
Right: Handmade vase, late 8th c. BCE (Inv. 129).

From the Amyklaion (the sanctuary of Apollo Amyklaios, modern Agia Kyriaki near Sparta).

National Archaeological Museum
Athens, Greece

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ca. 750-690 BCE (Inv. 233).
From the Amyklaion (the sanctuary of Apollo Amyklaios, modern Agia Kyriaki near Sparta).

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Athens, Greece

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Of unknown provenance, probably Attica.
Ca. 700-650 BCE.

National Archaeological Museum (Inv. 17583)
Athens, Greece

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7th c. BCE
Sanctuary of Zeus at Olympia

New Museum, Ancient Olympia, Greece

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Laconian lakaina with linear decoration
Late 7th-Early 6th c. BCE

Musei Capitolini
Palazzo de' Conservatori
inv. mob. 327

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