Epirus Collection

Cover, Greece, 19th century. Creator: Unknown
Cover, Greece, 19th century

Four Borders from a Bedspread, 1700s. Creator: Unknown
Four Borders from a Bedspread, 1700s

Portion of a Bedspread, 1700s. Creator: Unknown
Portion of a Bedspread, 1700s

Front and Back of a Bolster Case, 1700s. Creator: Unknown
Front and Back of a Bolster Case, 1700s

Pyrrhus II, (fl 242-237 BC), 1830. Creator: Unknown
Pyrrhus II, (fl 242-237 BC), 1830

Mountain Scene in Epirus, 1890. Creator: Unknown
Mountain Scene in Epirus, 1890. From " Cassells Illustrated Universal History Vol. II - Rome", by Edmund Ollier. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1890]

The Site of Dodona, 1890. Creator: Unknown
The Site of Dodona, 1890. Dodona in Epirus, northwestern Greece, remote Hellenic oracle and religious sanctuary, the earliest inscriptions date to c550-500 BC

Repulse of Pyrrhus from Sparta, 1890. Creator: Unknown
Repulse of Pyrrhus from Sparta, 1890. Pyrrhus, in retreat at the Siege of Sparta, 272 BC from Spartans defending their city under command of Areus I

Pyrrhus, King of Epirus, c1930. Creator: Unknown
Pyrrhus, King of Epirus, c1930. Colossal marble statue of the god Mars, often misidentified as King Pyrrhus, from the Forum Transitorium in Rome

Map of Epirus and Western Greece, 1890. Creator: Unknown
Map of Epirus and Western Greece, 1890. For a brief period (280-275 BC), the Epirote king Pyrrhus made Epirus the most powerful state in the Greek world

Marble bust of Greek general and statesman Pyrrhus of Epirus, c319BC-272 BC. King of Epirns. At National Archaeological Museum, Naples

Lead tablet from the Sanctuary of Zeus at Dodona, 6th century BC
Lead tablet from the Sanctuary of Zeus at Dodona. In Corinthian Boustrophodon script. Hermon asks to which god he should pray to have useful children by his wife Kretaia

The armour of Pyrrhus was richer and more beautiful than that of his soldiers, c1912 (1912)

Gold Stater of King Alexander I of Epirus, 4th century BC
Gold Stater of King Alexander I of Epirus (370-331 BC), brother of Olympias who was mother to Alexander the Great, 4th century BC. This image is of the obverse, depicting Zeus of Dodona

Local boats at an island on Lake Ioanina in Epirus, Greece

Vikos Gorge in Epirus, Greece

Lead plaque from Sanctuary at Altar of Zeus, Dobona, Epirus, Greece, c214 BC. Some of the Kirkyrians (Corfu) ask the oracle to which god or hero they should sacrifice to govern their province well

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