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Architectural element with lion’s head (metope)
Parthia. 2nd century BC-1st century AD
Terracotta, 25.3 x 14.4 cm

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Heracles fighting the Nemaean lion
Rome, 2nd-3rd century AD fragments with possible Italian additions. 16th-17th century
Marble, h 65

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Head of Alexander (fragment of a figure)
Asia Minor, Bithynia (?), Roman copy, 1st century BC, after Greek original. 175-150 BC
Fine-grained marble, h 6 cm

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Earrings with pendants in the form of a dove
Greek, Alexandria(?) 2nd century BC
Gold, hessonite, glass, h 6.3/6.5 cm

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Black-figure hydria: Achilles with Hector’s body
Attica, Leagros group, Antiopa Painter. C. 510 BC
Earthenware, h 49 cm

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Stater (coin)
Macedonia, Alexander the Great. 336-323 BC. Gold, Ø 1.8 mm

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Iron helmet with silver decoration
Greece, Melos (?). 360-300 BC
Iron, silver, gold, wood, leather, h c. 22 cm, w (with flaps) max. 30 x 22 cm

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Alexander the Great and Roxanne, 1756
Pietro Antonio Rotari (1707-1762)
Oil on canvas, 243 x 202 cm

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Apelles painting Campaspe, c.1705
Sebastiano Ricci (1659-1734),
Oil on canvas, 300 x 261 cm

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Tapestry: Alexander the Great and Darius’ Family
from the History of Alexander the Great series, after cartoons by Charles Le Brun. Flanders, Brussels, Jan Frans van den Hecke workshop. 1661-95
Wool, silk, silver thread, 451 x 690 cm

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Iskandar and the Hermit
Illumination from a manuscript of Khamse by Nizami Ghanjavi
Manuscript copied by Mahmud in Herat for Sultan Shahruh, 10 Rabi’ II 835 Hijra (December 16, 1431 AD) Paper, gouache, gold, 23.7 x 13.7 cm, inscribed area 17 x 8.7 cm

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Cameo: Alexander hunting boar
Italy. 1st century AD
Sardonyx, 2 x 2.2 cm

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Gonzaga Cameo: Twin portrait of Ptolemy II Philadelphos and Arsinoe II
Alexandria. 3rd century BC
Three-layer sardonyx, 15.7 x 11.8 cm

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Cuirass breastplate
Italy. Late 16th century
Steel, bone, wrought and carved, h 42 cm

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