... only modest representation, that includes a recently acquired draped female torso, perhaps of Persephone, from the School of Aphrodisias (c. 150 B.C.), a torso of Dionysos of about 50 A.D., a collection of Greek, Egyptian, and Roman glass, and a group of Samian redware vessels from the eastern flank of the empire. The Center's most cohesive collection of Mediterranean antiquities are the result of the purchase in 1894 ... 1906 earthquake, sales, and exchanges with sister institutions. The 2,000 examples that remain at the Center document the history of ceramic art on Cyprus for more tha...

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