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Walker GallerySelected Works
Rhyton in the form of a Ram's Head, Greek, 500 BCE - 468 BCE, molded clay. ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Museum, Brunswick, Maine. Gift of Edward Perry Warren, Esq., Honorary Degree, 1926, 1923.23
Frog Lamp, Egyptian (Ptolemaic), 3rd century B.C.E., faïence. Gift of George Warren Hammond, Honorary Degree, 1900, and Mrs. Hammond, 1898.20
Figurine of Cerberus, Greek, 4th-3rd century B.C.E., bronze. Gift of Edward Perry Warren, Esq., Honorary Degree, 1926, 1923.45.1
Red-Figure Fish Plate, attributed to the “Perrone-Phrixos group," Apulian, ca. 360–320 B.C.E., clay. Museum Purchase, Adela Wood Smith Trust, 2018.1
Stater or Nomos of Metapontion (Metapontum), Greek (Magna Grecia, South Italy), minted in Metapontion, ca. 540-510 B.C.E., silver. Gift of Professor Henry Johnson, 1874, 1919.58.29
Vase in the Form of a Pomegranate, Greek (Attica), 8th century B.C.E., clay. Gift of Edward Perry Warren, Esq., Honorary Degree, 1926, 1915.15
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Featuring works from the collection of the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Museum of Art spanning nearly two thousand years —from approximately 1300 BCE to 400 CE—Flora et Fauna examines how ancient Mediterranean societies understood and depicted the natural world. Illustrations of nature and local environments came to define the identities of many cultures, serving as symbols, decorative designs, and stand-ins for gods. Nature also inspired the imagination to create exotic animals and plants that became part of ancient mythologies. This exhibition explores how flora and fauna sustained societies and were passed both literally, through cultivated plants, pets, and livestock, and figuratively, through the development of pictorial imagery, from one culture to another.
This exhibition is curated by Professor James Higginbotham, Associate Professor of Classics on the Henry Johnson Professorship Fund and Associate Curator for the Ancient Collection.