Description

The death in 323 B.C. of Alexander the Great saw the dawn of a new epoch in the Greek world, a world quests, now stretched all the way to the Indus River. The following three centuries are known as the Hellenistic Period, which was characterized by the spread of Classical Greeck culture in a blend with new impulses, both from the Persian Empire and Egypt.

The catalogue comprises marble sculpture and terracottas from Greece, terracottas from Asia Minor, which was part of the Seleucid Kingdom, and a small number of bronzes, together with stone sculpture from Ptolemaic Egypt.