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GREECE PELOPONNESE KORINTHIA CORINTH MUSEUM

2025-01-01

sphinx

Above and below left: Different views of a marble sphinx which was part of a funerary monument in the Northern Cemetery of Corinth. It comes from a Corinthian workshop and is dated to the middle of the 6th century BC. - Below right: Terracotta acroterion in the form of a sphinx, perhaps from the roof of a temple. Found NE of "Temple E" it is dated to 550-525 BC.

sphinx sphinx
head of a statue

Above: Head of a statue. - Below: Terracotta male genitalia from the Asklepieion, 4th century BC. When the American School of Classical Studies excavated the sanctuary of Asklepios almost 900 such ex-votos, clay models depicting human body parts and organs, were retrieved.

terracotta male genitalia
sarcophagus relief inscribed stone

Above left: Roman sarcophagus with relief decoration representing the departure of the "Seven against Thebes" and the myth of Opheltes; 2nd century AD. - Above right: Stone with inscription. According to online information it is an inscribed stele from the sacred spring in Corinth. But much stuff like this is exhibited without any explanation. - Below: Reliefs of the Amazonomachie from the theatre, second century AD.

relief Amazonomachie relief Amazonomachie
relief Amazonomachie relief Amazonomachie
relief Amazonomachie relief Amazonomachie