1. Sparta: Archaeological Sources

2. Figurine of a girl ‘runner’
Bronze BC
Found at Sanctuary of Zeus
Athens Museum

3. Captured Spartan shield now displayed in the Agora Museum Athens.

4. Bronze of a Spartan Warrior
Collection of the Wadsworth Athenaeum,
Connecticut, USA

5. The Vix Krater
Mid 6th Century BC

6. Arkesilaos Cup
c.580BC
The king is depicted watching cargo (the valuable herb sylphion) being loaded into a boat
- Not much written evidence, can classify description of Spartan arts from Sparta (Fitzhardings)

7. Ivory carving
660BC
Found at Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia
Uses are unclear
Unsuited to being seals but the presence as a whole they were used as pendants
Weren’t particularly Spartan, Webb

8. Shrine dedicated to Menelaos and Helen 5 kms north east of Sparta
Shrine dedicated to Menelaos and Helen 5 kms north east of Sparta. A small but still monumental building with a pedimental roof and terracotta tiles.
Pausanius – Menelaos buried at the actual site.
Cult objects also found on the site