(Left) Statuette of a youthful musician, bronze, Hellenistic, from Chalon-Sur-Saône

(Left) Statuette of a youthful musician, bronze, Hellenistic, from Chalon-Sur-Saône

c. 200 B.C.

Now lost, from the treasury of Châlons…

Chalon-sur-Saône is a city in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France…

(Right) Head of a youth, Hellenistic Alexandria, c. 200 B.C.

Hellenistic Alexandria refers to the city of Alexandria in Egypt during the Hellenistic period, which began after the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and lasted until the establishment of Roman rule in 30 BC…