ANCIENT ART AND ANTIQUITIES GALLERY
Welcome to the Alte Roemer Gallery, your specialist for antiquities and ancient art from the Mediterranean.
In our online shop you will find authentic artefacts covering the time span from Bronze Age until Late Antiquity. Our focus is on Ancient Roman, Greek, and Egyptian antiquities. Ancient numismatics is extensively covered with focus on Roman and Greek coins. We are looking forward to welcome you in our online gallery!
Yours,
Alexander Khalaidovski, Matthias Höh
FEATURED ANCIENT OBJECTS IN OUR ONLINE GALLERY
Roman juglet of honey-yellow glass
A magnificent specimen with a wonderful presence. This rare glass vessel, dating from the 3rd to 4th century, originates from the eastern Mediterranean, presumably from the Roman province of Syria.
Roman ribbed glass beaker
An ornate and elegant glass vessel from the Eastern Mediterranean. Made of nice pale turquoise glass.
Roman aubergine-coloured glass jar
Small glass vessel from the late Roman Imperial period. From one of the Roman glass factories in the eastern Mediterranean. Closely comparable pieces come from Syria-Palestine.
Necklace with ancient beads
A necklace of tastefully arranged ancient beads from the Eastern Mediterranean. From Phoenician and Roman periods, and one example from the Middle Ages.
Necklace with ancient glass pendants
Beautifully assembled necklace with Roman beads and Byzantine to Islamic glass pendants.
Large early Greek bronze oinochoe with beautiful patina
Elaborately decorated, finely crafted piece. A fascinating example of an early Greek bronze vessel. Formerly in the Galerie Athena in Munich, acquired there in 1991.
Published Hellenistic bronze handle with figurative decorations
Featuring a three-dimensional depiction of a grim satyr's head and Medusa's head. On both sides of the handle are three-dimensional volutes culminating in the depiction of a charging boar. The workmanship is of exceptionally fine quality.
Stamped Roman oil lamp with parallel in the Getty Museum
Almost perfectly preserved. With potters mark LMV.AD[I]EC. An almost identical lamp is on exhibition in the J.P. Getty Museum. From a very old German family collection, acquired between 1925 and 1935. The find region is known to be Tunisia.
Italic Quatrefoil Fibula
Extremely well preserved double spectacle brooch from a grave. Dating to the early Iron Age in Italy, 8th cent. BC. Acquired 1986 at Casa Serodine.
Large Villanovan fibula with incised decoration
Imposing bronze brooch of the Italic Iron Age. Beautiful incised decoration.
Etruscan bronze figurine of a man with pan pipes
Scarce, early depiction, stylistically still strongly influenced by the kouroi of the 6th century BC, but incorporating the pan flute as an element of daily life or a ritual context. Very good condition, with a fine dark green patina. Ex Cahn AG.
Tanagra figurine of a standing woman with remains of original painting
About 4th - 3rd century B.C., a very similar figurine is on exhibition in the Civico Museo Archeologico in Milan. From the old German private collection H. Deikner, acquired prior to 1980.
Silver obol with head of griffin
Phokaia, Ionia, 530 - 510 BC. In Greek mythology, an obol was the fee to pay Charon for a passage across the river Styx.
Apulian-Corinthian bronze helmet - ex Axel Guttmann collection
Worth the exhibition in a museum. With fine decoration including large boars. Published by H. Born (1993) and M. Junkelmann (2000). Ex Christie's London and Royal Athena Galleries New York.
Massive roman Hercules bronze figurine with silver torc
The figure is of very high workmanship, details like facial features and hair are finely worked and still perfectly preserved. Ex Cahn, ex Bonhams.
Roman bowl of colourful ribbon glass
The bowl was made in mosaic glass technique. It is truely a work of art and a showpiece for the glass production in the Roman core region during the Early Imperial period.
Etruscan Vetulonia type helmet
From the possession of New York City antiquities dealer Sumner Healey, who was made famous by Berenice Abbott's scenic photograph from 1936.
Hoard from the Late Bronze Age
Complete surviving hoard consisting of one bronze bowl, two belts and twelve bracelets. Urnfield culture HaB1. The amazingly well preserved group is excessively rare on the art market as well as in museum collections.
ANCIENT ART GALLERY SPECIALIZING IN
Perhaps the most famous hero of antiquity. The Hercules figurine is of the highest artistic quality. He wears a twisted silver torc of Celtic type around his neck, making the statuette a unique testament to the ancient fusion of cultures.
ALTE ROEMER ANCIENT ART GALLERY AT A GLANCE
