Modern Age - Photo gallery
Image database with photographs of ancient art and antiquities
Our image database provides photographs of ancient art and antiquities for press releases as well as for private use. All artefacts sold in our gallery are documented through professional photographs. The resulting image library contains numerous ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman antiquities as well as ancient coins. The time span from Stone Age, over Bronze Age and Classical Antiquity until Late Antiquity is covered.The photo gallery aims at providing a vast visual archive equipped with filters and search tools. You are most welcome to search the constantly growing number of artefacts in the image library. We are also happy to authorize hyperlinks from your webpage / forum to the objects depicted in our gallery. For this purpose, please send us a short notification prior to placing a hyperlink. For almost every object high definition photographs are available and can be provided e.g. to document your collection or for scientific papers or popular science articles. If you are interested in using pictures for publications, print media or other purposes, please contact us and we will be happy to assist you.
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Cylinder seal from the Jemdet Nasr period
The Mesopotamian seal shows a geometrical arrangement of schematic turtles or tadpoles. Around 3000 BC.
Egyptian faience figurine of the goddess MutRare syncretic merging of the goddesses Mut and Sekhmet. The lion headed statuette is shown enthroned with the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt.
Price: on requestCleopatra VII. hemiobol with nicely preserved portraitBronze worth 40 Drachmai, Alexandria mint, 51 - 30 BC: Great portrait of the famous last Ptolemaic queen. After her death Egypt became a province of the Roman Empire.
Published Beit Natif type oil lamp from Adler collectionFrom the famous Judge Dr. Steve Adler collection. Exported from Israel with IAA permit Nr. 44527.
Price: on requestEarly Etruscan Bucchero cupInteresting bucchero cup imitating bronze a vessel. Nicely preserved. From an old German collection, acquired in the 1960s.
Price: on requestEgyptian bronze figurine of Horus the ChildAmulet of the child god in half-seated position. In Egyptian mythology his mother protected him by powerful spells. This protection should be extended to the wearer.
Price: on requestSumerian foundation cone from UrukSmall conoid clay nail with cuneiform inscription. From the main temple of Uruk, that is also mentioned in the Epos of Gilgamesh. Circa 3rd Millenium BC.
Price: on requestMesopotamian cuneiform tabletSmall clay tablet with well preserved Sumerian cuneiform writing. From Mesopotamia, probably from Uruk.
Price: on requestSmall Terra Sigillata bowl from the RhinelandFound 1970 near the Roman city of Novaesium, today's Neuss in Germany. Novaesium was an early Roman foundation and with this is one of the oldest cities in Germany.
Price: on requestExtremely fine Koson stater - M. Iunius Brutus accompanied by two lictorsAttempts to explain this unusual coin date back over 500 years, since king Koson left no traced besides his name on this coin type. Uncirculated, well centered.
Price: on requestRichly decorated Gnathia ware oinochoeVery well preserved incl. original painting. From an old German collection, acquired in the 1960s.
Price: on requestRoman Terra Sigillata cup from the RhinelandFound near the Roman city of Novaesium, today's Neuss in Germany, an early Roman foundation and with this one of the oldest cities in Germany.
Price: on requestHuge ceremonial knife of the Sican cultureThe so-called Tumi was a weapon to cut the throats of humans and animals in ritual sacrifices. The knife certainly fulfilled an additional representative function in the afterlife. From the period of the Sican's cultural florescence during the 10th to 12th centuries AD.
Clay ushabtiTall Egyptian funerary statuette from the New Kingdom. From the collection of the archaeologist and artist Erich Charlier.
Price: on requestLuristan ibex pendantMassive bronze pendant in the shape of a standing ibex with curved horns. From Iron Age Luristan.
Price: on requestCanaanite bronze blade from General Moshe Dayan collectionHoly Land, 3rd - 2nd millennium BC. Exhibited in the Jewish Museum in New York City in 1975. Moshe Dayan was a famous Israeli politician and military leader who served as Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces, personally commanded the Israeli forces during the 1956 Suez Crisis and served as Defense Minister.
Price: on requestItaliote Oinochoe imitating corinthian potteryImpressive condition for a vessel of this size. From an old German collection, acquired in the 1960s.
Price: on requestRoman Terra Sigillata cup from the RhinelandFound near the Roman city of Novaesium, today's Neuss in Germany, an early Roman foundation and with this one of the oldest cities in Germany.
Price: on requestEgyptian bronze figurine of OsirisSmall bronze statuette of the god of the afterlife from the Late Period of Ancient Egypt. A find from Thebes.
Price: on requestRoman Terra Sigillata bowl with potters' mark OF PRIM from the RhinelandFound near the Roman city of Novaesium, today's Neuss in Germany, an early Roman foundation and with this one of the oldest cities in Germany.
Price: on requestLarge Terra Sigillata bowl from the Rhineland with running hare and houndsFound near the Roman city of Novaesium, today's Neuss in Germany, an early Roman foundation and with this one of the oldest cities in Germany.
Price: on requestCylinder seal with goddess and humansThe lovely seal made of black hematite is from Middle Bronze Age Anatolia or Syria. It is from the famous Erlenmeyer collection, built in the 1940ies to 1960ies.
Price: on requestOld Assyrian cylinder sealThe seal shows several gods in front of the god of the heaven. The piece comes from Anatolia or northern Syria, quite possibly from Cappadocia.
Daunian jug with high handleItalic pottery in the subgeometric style. Made around 500 BC in Apulia. Handled vessels of this type are an guiding form in Apulian archaeology.
Price: on requestRoman Terra Sigillata bowl - workshop of Memor - found in the RhinelandFound near the Roman city of Novaesium, today's Neuss in Germany, an early Roman foundation and with this one of the oldest cities in Germany.
Price: on requestTheatre mask of a slaveExpressive life-size clay mask from Hellenistic Greece. It depicts the character of the slave from the New Comedy, i.e. a theatre style that developed with the Hellenistic period.
Sasanian stamp seal with plant depictionWonderful piece made of dark orange Carnelian. From the period of Sasanian rule in the Near East.
Price: on requestGnostic intaglio with AbraxasIt shows the god Abraxas with human torso, cock's head and serpants for legs, holding whip and shield. Magical formulas on both sides of the gem. 2nd or 3rd century.
Price: on requestMosaic glass inlays and spindle whorlsNice group of polychrome inlays and spindle weights from Roman Egypt. Including two fragments with a wonderful floral decor.
Roman-Egyptian spindle whorl from mosaic glassCone-shaped spindle whorl from the time of Roman rule over Egypt. The beautifully made mosaic glass weight is certainly a showpiece of every collection.
Price: on requestLuristan horse pendantThe spectacular creature with conjoined horse bodies is characteristic for the bronze works of Lurstian. From the early 1st Millenium BC.
Price: on requestVillanovan fibula from the Hattatt collectionBronze brooch of the Italic Iron Age. The piece is published in the standard work "Brooches of Antiquity".
Price: on requestPair of Roman earrings from SyriaExtremely skillfully crafted jewellery with wonderful granulation. The design points to Syria during the Late Roman Imperial period.
Roman earrings with shieldMatching pair of jewellery made of gold with shield and granulation. From the Roman Imperial period.
Price: on requestRoman Terra Sigillata bowl from the RhinelandFound near the Roman city of Novaesium, today's Neuss in Germany, an early Roman foundation and with this one of the oldest cities in Germany.
Price: on requestPublished Beit Natif type oil lamp from Adler collectionFrom the famous Judge Dr. Steve Adler collection. Nozzle decorated with juglet or lamp in high relief. Exported from Israel with IAA permit Nr. 44527.
Price: on request