Iconography

GODS AND MYTHS

Jupiter / Worship / Sacrifice
Saturn / Single figure / Head not veiled, without wings, without scythe or sickle

MAGIC AND SCIENCE

Geography / The earth / Personifications / Oikoumene

PORTRAITS

Rulers / Ancient / Greek and Hellenistic rulers / Arsinoe III (died 204 BC)
Rulers / Ancient / Greek and Hellenistic rulers / Ptolemaios IV Philopator (reg. 222-204 BC)

Further details

the figures labelled 'Chronos' and 'Oikoumene' are portraits of Ptolemy IV Philopator and Arsinoe II

Artist or creator

Archelaos of Priene (active 2nd century BC)

Date

225 BC - 205 BC

Location

London, British Museum (Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities) (inv. 1819,0812.1)

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Roger P. Hinks, Myth and Allegory in Ancient Art, London 1939, pp. 41, 100

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Web resources

British Museum

Rights and Permissions

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Dean’s Development Fund, School of Advanced Study’

Contact

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