Object Notes

This impressive ritual vessel, used for the purification of sacred objects or as an offering, is from the region of Bengal in India. The area was a center of sea trade between India and the Mediterranean. During the Shunga dynasty (c.

The earliest developed civilization on the Indian subcontinent, marked by agriculture, cities, crafts, writing, and a multi-class social system, was centered on the five branches of the Indus River in what is now Pakistan and northwest India.

This black-figure kylix consists of a black foot and a bowl with a black offset lip, an ornamental frieze on the handle zone, and a black lower zone, with an ornamented red area where the bowl attaches to the foot.

This Attic Greek krater painted in a red-figure style features the classical image of an Amazon on the obverse, and a youth striding with a torch on the reverse. Amazons were thought to be Asian women warriors who participated in the Trojan War on the Trojan side.