Classical art thumb|Boeotian kantharos, Late Geometric period The extensive Mycenaean pottery found at Ugarit included two fragmentary Mycenaean terracotta figures which have been tentatively identified as centaurs. This finding suggests a Bronze Age origin for these creatures of myth.Ione Mylonas Shear, "Mycenaean Centaurs at Ugarit" The Journal of Hellenic Studies (2002:147–153); but see the interpretation relating them to "abbreviated group" figures at the Bronze-Age sanctuary of Aphaia and elsewhere, presented by Korinna Pilafidis-Williams, "No Mycenaean Centaurs Yet", The Journal of Hellenic Studies 124 (2004), p. 165, which concludes "we had perhaps do best not to raise hopes of a continuity of images across the divide between the Bronze Age and the historical period." A painted terracotta centaur was found in the "Hero's tomb" at Lefkandi, and by the Geometric period, centaurs figure among the first representational figures painted on Greek pottery. An often-published Geometric period bronze of a warrior face-to-face with a centaur is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
classical art thumb|boeotian kantharos late geometric period the extensive mycenaean pottery found at ugarit included two fragmentary mycenaean terracotta figures which have been tentatively identified as centaurs this finding suggests a bronze age origin for these creatures of mythione mylonas shear "mycenaean centaurs at ugarit" the journal of hellenic studies (2002147–153); but see the interpretation relating them to "abbreviated group" figures at the bronze-age sanctuary of aphaia and elsewhere presented by korinna pilafidis-williams "no mycenaean centaurs yet" the journal of hellenic studies 124 (2004) p 165 which concludes "we had perhaps do best not to raise hopes of a continuity of images across the divide between the bronze age and the historical period" a painted terracotta centaur was found in the "hero's tomb" at lefkandi and by the geometric period centaurs figure among the first representational figures painted on greek pottery an often-published geometric period bronze of a warrior face-to-face with a centaur is at the metropolitan museum of art