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Painted terracotta metope from Thermos, 7th C BCE

Painted terracotta metope from the Temple of Apollo at Thermos with depiction of three female figures sitting in a row, ca. 630-625 BCE.

Highly decorated textiles, griffins as a decoration of a throne.

In the NAM Athens

bibliography: Andrew F. Stewart, Greek Sculpture: An Exploration, Yale 1990, fig 76

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Reconstruction of the entablature of the Temple of Apollo at Thermos source >>

The marble couch from the Macedonian tomb at Potidaia Chalcedice, around 300 BCE, repeats the same pattern of griffins. The Thessaloniki Museum catalog 2004, pp. 130-133.

Marble funerary couch from the Macedonian tomb of Potidaia https://www.amth.gr/en/exhibitions/highlights