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Virtual Tour Third Floor: Brittingham Gallery I: Ancient
Gallery I contains most of the Chazen's ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Roman objects. Except for several examples of Roman sculpture, most of them are in the category of applied and decorative arts.
These include several small votive objects from Egypt, a broad and representative selection of Greek vases dating from the 14th through the 3rd centuries BC, and an excellent incised Etruscan bronze mirror. Four floor mosaics from the province of Syria, which are mounted in the gallery's south wall, represent this art form as practiced in late antiquity. A case on the west wall holds a selection of Roman free-blown and mold-blown glass from the Middle Ages. A case in the center of the gallery contains a small sampling from the over three thousand Greco-Roman coins in the museum's collection.