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Ostracon depicting an animal fable or myth in the upper register and a princess (?) in the lower
ca. 1295–1070 B.C.
Marble sarcophagus with garlands and the myth of Theseus and Ariadne
Roman
ca. 130–150 CE
Marble sarcophagus with the myth of Selene and Endymion
Roman
early 3rd century CE
Marble sarcophagus with the myth of Endymion
Roman
mid-2nd century CE
Right corner of a marble sarcophagus with the myth of Apollo and the satyr Marsyas
Roman
ca. 210–230 CE
Right corner of a sarcophagus with the myth of the musical contest between the satyr Marsyas and the god Apollo
Roman
ca. 210–230 CE
Myth of the Spiral
Leo Lionni
1981
Pipe Bowl Illustrating Pawnee Myth
Skiri Pawnee
ca. 1820
Sofa
American
ca. 1820
Lintel Depicting the Lingodbhavamurti Myth and a King's Consecration
Central Cambodia
mid- 7th century
Greek Myth
Theodoros Stamos
1946
Cuneiform tablet: Atra-hasis, Babylonian flood myth
Babylonian or Achaemenid
ca. 7th–6th century BCE
Man Carrying a Child on His Shoulder
Barthélemy Prieur
late 16th–early 17th century
Mask
Alutiiq/ Sugpiaq, Native American
ca. 1870
Mask
Alutiiq/ Sugpiaq, Native American
ca. 1870
The Woman in the Waves
Gustave Courbet
1868
On the Silent Myth (Af den stumme myte), Opus 4b from "Spiralens Art Portfolio" (Spiralens Kunstmappe)
Asger Jorn
1952
The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality
Cheikh Anta Diop
1974
Greek Myth #1
Federico Castellon
1947
Wall painting: Perseus and Andromeda in landscape, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase
Roman
last decade of the 1st century BCE
Terracotta statuette of Hyakinthos on a swan
Greek
5th century BCE
Tapestry Room from Croome Court
Robert Adam
1763–71
Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun
Nicolas Poussin
1658
Terracotta fragment from the rim of a vase
Roman
2nd half of the 3rd century CE
Bronze as of Antoninus Pius
Roman
143–144 CE
Cinquedea
Italian, possibly Emilia
ca. 1500
Chimneypiece from the Tapestry Room from Croome Court
Joseph Wilton
1760
Statuette representing Harpokrates
332 BC–200 AD
Philomela
John Gregory
1919–21, cast 1922
Terracotta neck-amphora (jar)
Greek, Attic
ca. 525–500 BCE
Lotiform Chalice
ca. 945–664 B.C.
Terracotta neck-amphora (jar)
Greek, Attic
ca. 510 BCE
Terracotta calyx-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)
Greek, Boeotian
early 4th century BCE
Crocodile amulet
304–247 B.C.
Shu Amulet
664–332 B.C.
Gilt silver kylix
Greek
late 5th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a votive relief
Greek, South Italian, Locrian
ca. 470–460 BCE
Venus Giving Arms to Aeneas
Jean Cornu
1704
Mongoose Figure
664–30 B.C.
Cincinnatus at the Plough
Filarete (Antonio di Pietro Averlino)
mid-15th century