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
Neolithic stone tool from Egypt
The Stone Age weapon's point or knife blade is well crafted, with finely serrated edge. From a 100 year old museum collection.
Egyptian alabaster vessel
Large container for this type of vessel. A thin-walled and very skilfully crafted specimen. Made between the 12th and 18th dynasty of Ancient Egypt.
Egyptian painted panel with goddess Imentet
The painting was once on the inside of a sarcophagus lid, as a welcome to the underworld. The piece is published in an exhibition catalogue from 1972. From the 25th or 26th dynasty of Ancient Egypt.
Stone relief from Gandhara
Wunderful example of the curious symbiosis of greek art and buddhist tradition in the second century. The relief shows a key moment in Buddhas life, when he abandons his life as prince Siddhartha to seek enlightenment.
Bronze Age ox cart from Anatolia
One of the few surviving models of the earliest four-wheeled vehicles in human history. A find from Southeastern Anatolia, around 2000 BC. Published in a standard work from 1973.
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
The imposing vessel is shaped like a zebu, a domestic cattle from the Ancient Near East. This category of object is famous since the Amlash excavations in the Iranian Gilan Province. With its stylization it is a rare artistic masterpiece of the mysterious Iron Age cultures of Iran.
ALTE ROEMER ANCIENT ART GALLERY AT A GLANCE
