Greek, Cypriot, Etruscan and Roman Art From the AMAM's Collection October 16, 2009

The AMAM collection includes important works from the societies of the ancient Mediterranean. A selection of these works, from ancient Greece, Cyprus, Etruria and Rome, including recent gifts from Oberlin College alumnus David Gordon Mitten (OC 1957), is on view on the east side of the Ambulatory. On display are glass vessels, coins, jewelry, items of daily use such as a mirror, a strainer and a strigil (a scraper used to clean one's skin), and bronze and marble sculptures, including a marble fragment of a lion attacking a bull, a dramatic Hellenistic reworking of a theme popular in the Archaic period.