The Eastern Mediterranean in the Hellenistic period

The death in 323 BC of Alexander the Great saw the dawn of a new epoch in the Greek world, a world which, because of Alexanders conquests, now stretched all the way to the Indus River. The following three centuries are known as the Hellenistic Period, which was characterised by the spread of Classical Greek 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 were part of the Seleucid Kingdom, and a small number of bronzes, together with stone sculpture from Ptolemaic Egypt.