Helen, cigarette card from the 1920s, from a set of 25 Player's cigarette cards representing "Famous Beauties." Drawn by A K Macdonald. British Museum EPH-ME.329. © Trustees of the British Museum. Used by permission.
Venus and Mars in Vulcan's net (1830). Onyx cameo by Domenico Calabresi. Rome, Italy. British Museum, M&ME 1981, 0304.1. © Trustees of the British Museum. Used by permission.
Venus wounded by Diomedes (1851). Drawing, after John Gibson, published by Joseph Hogarth. British Museum 1916,0411.68. © Trustees of the British Museum. Used by permission.
Ajax seizing Cassandra (1st-2nd c. AD). Roman onyx cameo. British Museum 1890,0304.1. © Trustees of the British Museum. Used by permission.
Ariadne and Theseus (1st century AD). Wall painting from Herculaneum. British Museum 1867,0508.1358. © Trustees of the British Museum. Used by permission.
Atalanta hunting (4th century AD). Part of a mosaic pavement from Halicarnassus (Bodrum, Turkey). British Museum 1857,1220.439. © Trustees of the British Museum. Used by permission.
Ajax attacks sleeping sheep to right, urged on by Athene to left. John Flaxman (1755-1826), illustration to "Ajax," by Sophocles. Pen and grey ink and grey wash. British Museum 1888,0503.35. © Trustees of the British Museum. Used by permission.
Pink-red chalcedony intaglio: Apollo leaning on a tripod, approached by Artemis, with a short tunic, bow and quiver. British museum 1987, 0212.130. © Trustees of the British Museum. Used by permission.
Replica of the Sutton Hoo large lyre. Maplewood, with electrotyped fittings, bone bridge and gut strings. With tuning peg and wooden carrying case. This lyre is functional, and can be played. Replica of 1939,10-10.203.
The remains of a six-stringed maple wood lyre were found in the excavations of the royal burial mounds at Sutton Hoo, now in the British Museum. The Museum also has a playable modern replica. More information, with a video of a reconstructed harp being played, can be found here.
Findspot: Sutton Hoo, Ship-burial Mound: 1. Excavated 1939. British Museum Registration number 1939,1010.203.65.
British Museum registration number SHR.10