Glass Oil Lamp
creator: 'Ali ibn Muhammad al-Barmaki
source: Stokstad & Cothren, p. 285
date: Islamic Period (c. 1329-1335 CE)
format: Blown glass, polychrome enamel, and gold; diameter 9 3/8" (23. 89 cm), height 14" (35.56 cm)
coverage: Cairo, Egypt
coverage: Current location: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Aphrodite of Melos (Venus de Milo)
creator: Alexandros from Antioch-on-the-Orontes
source: Stokstad & Cothren, pp. 156-157
date: Hellenistic Period (c. 150-100 BCE)
format: Marble, height 6'8" (2.04 m)
coverage: Milos, Greece
coverage: Current location: Musée du Louvre, Paris

Funerary Krater
description: from the Dipylon Cemetery in Athens
creator: Attributed to the Hirschfeld Workshop
source: Stokstad & Cothren, p. 106
date: Geometric Period (c. 750-735 BCE)
format: Ceramic, height 42 5/8" (108 cm.)
coverage: Athens, Greece
coverage: Current location: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Crucifix
description: From the Franciscan convent of Santa Chiara
creator: Coppo di Marcovaldo
source: Stokstad & Cothren, p. 539
date: Gothic Period (c. 1250-1270 CE)
format: Tempera and gold on wood panel, 9'7 3/8" x 8'1.25" (2.93 x 2.47 m)
coverage: San Gimignano, Italy

Frolicking Satyrs
description: Ceramic psykter
creator: Douris (painter)
source: Stokstad & Cothren, pp. 127-128
date: Early Classical Period (c. 480 BCE)
format: Red-figure decoration on ceramic, height 11 15/16" (28.7 cm)
coverage: Current location: British Museum, London

Dying Gallic Trumpeter
description: Roman copy after the original bronze found in Julius Caesar's garden in Rome
creator: Epigonos (?)
source: Stokstad & Cothren, pp. 152-153
date: Hellenistic Period (c. 220 BCE)
format: Marble, height 36.5" (93 cm)
type: Still Image
coverage: Pergamon, Turkey
coverage: Current location: Musei Capitolini, Rome

The Death of Sarpedon
creator: Euphronios (painter) and Euxitheos (potter)
source: Stokstad & Cothren, p. 122
date: Archaic Period (c. 515 BCE)
format: Ceramic, height (krater) 18" (45.7 cm.)
coverage: Current location: Museo Nazionale di Villa Giulia, Rome

Achilles and Ajax Amphora
creator: Exekias (potter and painter)
source: Stokstad & Cothren, pp. 102-103
date: Archaic Period (c. 540-530 BCE)
format: Black-figure painting on a ceramic amphora, height (of amphora) 24" (61 cm.)
type: Still Image
coverage: Vulci, Italy
coverage: Current location: Vatican Museums, Italy

Laocoön and His Sons
description: Possibly a Roman copy of a 1st century BCE statue
creator: Hagesandros, Polydoros, and Athenodoros of Rhodes
source: Stokstad & Cothren, pp. 154-155
date: Hellenistic Period (1st century BCE)
format: Marble, height 8' (2.44 m)
coverage: Pergamon, Turkey
coverage: Current location: Musei Vaticani, Rome

The Unswept Floor
description: Mosaic variant of a 2nd century CE painting by Sosos of Pergamon
creator: Herakleitos
source: Stokstad & Cothren, pp. 200-201
date: Hadrian Period (2nd century CE)
format: Mosaic
coverage: Current location: Vatican Museum, Rome