Text, Boeotian ceramic box with lion, goddess, and swastikas

Neues Museum

A rectangular ceramic box from Boeotia (Thebes) dating to the late 7th century BCE, decorated with a painted scene of a goddess-like figure facing a lion. The design includes rosettes and swastika motifs in black pigment on a light ground, typical of early Greek geometric and orientalizing art.


Boeotian small box from Thebes with painted goddess, lion, swastikas and solar symbols late 7th century BC

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Boeotian ceramic box with lion, goddess, and swastikas


Boeotian Small Box (Böotisches Kästchen)Material: CeramicDate: Late 7th century BCOrigin: Thebes,...

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