User:Chasuble/List of objects in the British Museum's Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities

List of objects in the British Museum's Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities.

General
Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities Rooms 11, 12a-12b, 13-23, 69-73, 77-78, 82-85
 * Athenian Akropolis
 * The Parthenon Gallery (Elgin Marbles)
 * The Parthenon Marbles are one of the finest manifestations of human creation. The Magnificent Relief Frieze showing the Panathenaic procession, from Ancient Greece, often praised as the finest achievement of Greek Architecture, its decorative sculptures are considered one of the high points of Greek art.




 * Erechtheion
 * One of six remaining Caryatids
 * Surviving Column


 * Athena Nike
 * Surviving Frieze Slabs


 * Bassae Sculptures
 * Twenty three surviving blocks of the frieze from the interior of the temple are exhibited on an upper level.


 * Mausoleum of Halikarnassos
 * One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
 * Two colossal free-standing figures identified as Maussollos and his wife Artemisia.
 * Part of an impressive horse from the chariot group adorning the summit of the Mausoleum
 * The Amazonomachy frieze - A long section of relief frieze showing the battle between Greeks and Amazons


 * Temple of Artemis at Ephesos
 * One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World


 * Asia Minor
 * Nereid Monument
 * Partial reconstruction of the Monument, a large and elaborate Lykian tomb from the site of Xanthos in south-west Turkey
 * Payava Tomb from Xanthos in south west Turkey


 * Wider Museum Collection
 * Material from the Palace of Knossos
 * Portland Vase
 * The Warren Cup
 * Discus-thrower (Discobolos)
 * Towneley Sculptures

Department of the Middle East Rooms 6-9, 10a, 10b, 10c, 34, 52-59, 88-89

Nimrud: Alabaster bas-reliefs from: Sculptures:
 * The North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal II
 * Central- Palace of Tiglath-Pileser III
 * South-West Palace of Esarhaddon
 * Palace of Adad-Nirari III
 * South-East Palace ('Burnt Palace')
 * The Nabu Temple (Ezida)
 * The Sharrat-Niphi Temple
 * Temple of Ninurta
 * Pair of Human Headed 'Lamassu' Lions (883-859 BC)
 * Human Headed 'Lamassu' Bull (883-859 BC), sister piece in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
 * Human Headed 'Lamassu' Lion (883-859 BC), sister piece in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
 * Colossal Statue of a Lion (883-859 BC)
 * Rare Head of Human Headed 'Lamassu', recovered from the South-West Palace of Esarhaddon
 * The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III (858-824 BC)

Alabaster bas-reliefs from:
 * Nineveh:
 * North-Palace of Ashurbanipal
 * Royal Lion Hunt Scenes
 * The 'Dying Lion', long been acclaimed as a masterpiece
 * The 'Garden Party' Relief
 * South-West Palace of Sennacherib

Royal Library of Ashurbanipal:
 * A large collection of cuneiform tablets of enormous importance approximately 22,000 inscribed clay tablets
 * The Flood Tablet, relating part of the famous Epic of Gilgamesh


 * Khorsabad:
 * Alabaster bas-reliefs from the Palace of Sargon II
 * Pair of Human Headed Winged 'Lamassu' Bulls


 * Wider Collection:
 * Cyrus Cylinder, from Babylon
 * The Balawat Gates of Shalmaneser III
 * A fine collection of Urartian bronzes, which now form the core of the Anatolian collection
 * The Oxus Treasure
 * The Standard of Ur
 * The 'Ram in a Thicket'
 * The Royal Game of Ur
 * Queen's Lyre

Department of Prints and Drawings

Department of Asia Rooms 33, 33a, 33b, 67, 92-5

Department of Africa, Oceania and the Americas Rooms 25-27,

Department of Coins and Medals

Department of Prehistory and Europe Rooms 40-41, 45-51

Room 51: Europe and Middle East 10,000-800 BC


 * Red Deer antler head dress, Star Carr. Room 51.  Ref. No.  P&EE 1953 2-8 1.