The collection of marble Roman sculptures reflects the connoisseurship and generosity of one of the Museum's major donors, Wright S. Ludington. Surrounding a large-scale loutrophoros from 4th-century B.C. Greece, in the entrance court of the Museum, are the monumental Hermes formerly in the Lansdowne Collection, and other important Graeco-Roman figural works. Also on view is a small but superb collection of ancient bronzes, Near-Eastern and Greek ceramics, and ancient glass. Individual works of particularl importance include a diorite head of Gudea (Sumerian, 2nd-century B.C.), Cycladic figures, and a 19th-dynasty Egyptian limestone relief. This exceptionally fine collection--rich in works of outstanding importance--is rivaled in the western United States only by the J. Paul Getty Museum.
Selected works from our Antiquities collection:
