Antiquities Exhibits

Last Supper in Pompeii: From the Table to the Grave, April 18 through August 30, 2020 at the Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco, California. A trove of 300 Roman objects spanning ancient sculptures, mosaics, furnishings and frescoes as well as tableware will be on display at the Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco, California when it hosts the exhibit, “Last Supper in Pompeii: From the Table to the Grave.” It will also showcase large-scale statues of Olympian gods including Venus, Apollo, Hercules, Mercury and Zeus whom the Pompeii citizens revered and worshipped at the time. Food samples from tiny remnants left on dishes, vessels, and even kitchen drains, as well as carbonized foods that were found in excavated homes and businesses shed light on the reveal the variety of food and drink consumed in Pompeii. Another gallery walks visitors through a typical Pompeii home in which food and drink played a major role, commencing with the atrium, which Pompeiians us...

Ancient Art of the Mediterranean Basin. Ongoing. At the Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco, California.  Late Ptolemaic period gilded cartonnage mummy mask and pectoral. 150-50 BCE. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons user Fastily. Ancient art objects on view at the Legion feature a wide gamut of sculptures, figurines, vessels, jewelry, and carved reliefs made of diverse materials, such as marble and other stones, bronze, gold, ivory, terracotta, wood, and glass from Egypt, the Near East, Greece, and Rome. Notable works include an Assyrian stone re lief and carved ivories from the ancient site of Nimrud, an Achaemenid Persian wall relief from the palace of Darius in Persepolis, Egyptian mummies, coffins, and a 4,000-year-old carved wood figure of Seneb, the Egyptian royal scribe, as well as classical marble sculptures and painted vases.