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Classical Cypriot limestone head of a bearded man circa 480-400 BC, Museum of Cycladic Art, Greece. Outside Cyprus, there are large collections in several museums, notably the British Museum and Louvre. One of the most extensive collections of ancient Cypriot art is The Cesnola Collection which is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Hall 1: Prehistoric finds from approx. 7000 to 475 BC Chr. Hall 2: Finds from Archaic to Roman times, approx. 750 BC BC to AD 395 Hall 3: Cartography from the Venetian period to the end of the British occupation, approx. 1489 to 1960 AD. Hall 4: Hellenistic and Roman glass, approx. 325 BC BC to AD 395
c. 750 BC—Man and Centaur, perhaps from Olympia, is made. It is now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. c. 750 BC—Greeks establish colonies in Italy and Sicily. c. 750 BC – 700 BC—Funerary Vase , from the Dipylon Cemetery, Athens, is made. Attributed to the Hirschfield workshop.
The Roman catacombs are a series of underground cemeteries that were built in several major cities of the Roman Empire, beginning in the first and second centuries BC. The tradition was later copied in several other cities around the world, though underground burial had been already common in many cultures before Christianity. [ 50 ]
The 8th century BC is conventionally taken as the beginning of Classical Antiquity, with the first Olympiad set at 776 BC, and the epics of Homer dated to between 750 and 650 BC. Iron Age India enters the later Vedic period .
Roman mosaic was a minor art, though often on a very large scale, until the very end of the period, when late-4th-century Christians began to use it for large religious images on walls in their new large churches; in earlier Roman art mosaic was mainly used for floors, curved ceilings, and inside and outside walls that were going to get wet.
Gjerstad divided the Iron Age into three periods, the Cypro-Geometric (1050-750 BC), the Cypro-Archaic (750-480 BC) and the Cypro-Classical (480-310 BC), which are in turn subdivided, the CG I-III, the CA I-II and the CC I-II, each period corresponds to one pottery Type, with a total of seven, Types I-VII.
Map showing Etruria and Etruscan colonies as of 750 BC and as expanded until 500 BC. Etruria (/ ɪ ˈ t r ʊər i ə / ih-TROOR-ee-ə) was a region of Central Italy delimited by the rivers Arno and Tiber, [1] an area that covered what is now most of Tuscany, northern Lazio, and north-western Umbria.