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| Figure of a Charioteer ca. 320-300 BC Greek marble sculpture British Museum |
Found in the ruins of the Temple of Athena Polias at Priene in Ionia – "... the headless charioteer, a less-than-life-size male standing figure draped in the long high-belted tunic associated with charioteers, such as the more famous bronze in the museum at Delphi." – Ian Jenkins, Greek Architecture and its Sculpture (Harvard University Press, 2006)
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| Funerary figure of a lion ca. 400-390 BC Greek marble sculpture Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Funerary figure of a lion ca. 500 BC Greek marble sculpture Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Funerary figure of a lion mid-4th century BC Greek marble sculpture Metropolitan Museum of Art |
"The sphinxes and other animals that guarded tombs in the archaic period tend to convey immobility and permanence. In classical lions, however, movement is implicit - they appear to be watching, lying in wait, preparing to spring." – curatorial notes, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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| Pediment figures of a Lion killing a Bull ca. 525-500 BC Greek marble sculpture Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Figure of a Nereid from the Nereid Monument 390-380 BC Greek marble sculpture British Museum |
The Nereid Monument, an Ionian tomb in the shape of a temple, featured statues of Nereids or sea-nymphs (as above) – daughters of Nereus, god of the sea – depicted in wet, wind-blown draperies. "We find in them strong echoes of the style of the Parthenon" – which had been completed only about half a century earlier.
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| Fragment of grave stele with young girl & birds ca. 450-440 BC Greek marble relief Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Fragment of grave stele with mourning family group ca. 360 BC Greek marble relief Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Kouros ca. 520-510 BC Greek marble sculpture British Museum |
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| Fragment from the later temple of Artemis at Ephesus ca. 340-320 BC Marble column-drum carved with relief figures British Museum |
"According to the story, Alcestis (above) offered to die in place of her husband, but was rescued by Herakles. She is perhaps here shown on the point of departure. The winged youth looking over his shoulder and naked, but for a sword on a strap across his chest, may be identified as Thanatos (Death) leading Alcestis, who follows arranging the elaborate folds of her mantle. To her proper left is Hermes, the only figure to be identified for certain. In his right hand he holds his herald's wand or caduceus. Hermes here seems to serve in his capacity of psychopompos, or leader of souls to the underworld." – Ian Jenkins, Greek Architecture and its Sculpture (Harvard University Press, 2006)
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| Kore ca. 100-30 BC Greek marble sculpture British Museum |
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| Colossal torso ca. 160-130 BC Greek marble sculpture British Musesum |
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| Draped female figure ca. 350-300 BC Greek marble sculpture British Museum |
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| Horseman 1st century BC Greek marble relief Metropolitan Museum of Art |