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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.

Items 4501-4536 of 5132

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  1. Buy Roman gold earrings
    Pair of Roman gold earrings

    Wonderful gold jewellery with shield and pendant with spiral decor. Made during Roman Imperial times.

    Price: on request
  2. Roman potsherds from the Rhineland
    Roman potsherds from the Rhineland

    Fragments of Roman pottery. Finds from 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 request
  3. Buy Roman glass bottle with colour bands
    Roman glass bottle with beautiful colour bands

    A colourful ancient glass from the early 1st century. Made in the Eastern Mediterranean.

  4. Buy glass double unguentarium
    Glass double unguentarium

    Impressive cosmetic vessel with large handle and nice spiral trailing decoration. A Palestinian type from the Late Roman or Early Byzantine period.

  5. Buy Mochica Stirrup vessel with monkey
    Mochica stirrup vessel as a monkey

    Distinctive vessel in the shape of a monkey. Typical Peruvian flask made circa 100 to 500 AD. With documents form the 1980ies.

  6. Buy Near Eastern lance head
    Near Eastern lance head

    Double-edged blade of a lance from Bronze Age. With a nice green patina.

    Price: on request
  7. Buy Stone Age bow scraper from Thebes
    Stone Age bow scraper from Egypt

    The Paleolithic tool is shaped like a sickle. Thebes has been handed down as the place of origin. From a 100 year old museum collection.

    Price: on request
  8. Buy Paleolithic hand axe
    Paleolithic hand axe

    Prehistoric stone tool. It was the universal tool of the older Stone age and could be used as a borer or a cutter. From a Swiss museum collection. Found in Algeria, North Africa.

    Price: on request
  9. Roman clay ball
    Roman clay ball

    Massive clay sphere, ammunition or a pistill. A find from the Roman city of Novaesium, today's Neuss in Germany.

    Price: on request
  10. Buy Luristan bronze dagger
    Luristan bronze dagger with grip insert

    Bronze weapon originating from the Luristan region during Iron Age. Note the grip insert in this dagger otherwise comprised of a single piece of bronze.

    Price: on request
  11. Buy Scythian arrow heads
    Four Scythian arrow heads

    Group of four arrowheads made of bronze in excellent condition. Popular weapon of the cultures of the 1st Millennium BC.

    Price: on request
  12. Buy a Tumi knife of the Sican
    Ceremonial knife of the Sican culture

    The 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.

    Price: on request
  13. Buy Phoenician eye bead
    Phoenician eye bead

    Polychrome glass bead with stylized elements of a face as protection against the evil eye. Produced in Carthage or the Phoenician homeland, 4th to 3rd century BC.

    Price: on request
  14. Buy Phoenician eye bead
    Phoenician eye bead

    Polychrome glass bead with stylized elements of a face as protection against the evil eye. Produced in Carthage or the Phoenician homeland, 4th to 3rd century BC.

    Price: on request
  15. Buy Phoenician eye bead
    Phoenician eye bead

    Polychrome glass bead with stylized elements of a face as protection against the evil eye. Produced in Carthage or the Phoenician homeland, 4th to 3rd century BC.

    Price: on request
  16. Buy Roman gilt crossbow brooch
    Roman gilt crossbow brooch

    Interesting silver fibula from the later Roman Imperial period. From the famous Leo Mildenberg collection.

    Price: on request
  17. Buy ancient roman intaglio
    Roman intaglio with child Eros

    Roman glass paste with nice depiction of the Greek god of love as a child, probably a lyre in his hands.

    Price: on request
  18. Buy ancient roman intaglio
    Roman intaglio with Calydonian boar hunt

    Nice ring insert made of composite glass. Its imprint shows the moment of the mythological boar hunt in which Meleager slays the beast.

    Price: on request
  19. Buy ancient roman intaglio
    Roman intaglio with Ganymede and eagle

    The dark glass paste symbolizes a famous love affair from ancient mythology. The sky father Zeus falls in love with the beautiful Ganymede, a Trojan king's son.

    Price: on request
  20. Buy Roman gold earrings with faience beads
    Roman gold earrings with faience beads

    Belonging pair of jewellery made of gold, each decorated with shield and bead. From the Roman provinces of the eastern Mediterranean, made during the Imperial period.

    Price: on request
  21. Buy Neolithic axe head
    Neolithic axe head

    Finely crafted tool from the New Stone Age of Europe. A specimen of the thick butted type.

    Price: on request
  22. Buy Chimor Stirrup vessel of cacao beans
    Stirrup vessel in the shape of cacao fruits

    Plastically shaped vessel from the Peruvian Chimú culture. It embodies an important agricultural product of the pre-Columbian civilization of Chimor. With TL report from 1979. Part of a special exhibition from 2024 to 2025.

  23. Buy Stone Age spearhead from North America
    Stone Age spearhead from North America

    Finely crafted flint projectile from the Stone Age of North America. From a swiss museum collection.

    Price: on request
  24. Buy Stone Age spearhead from North America
    Stone Age spearhead from North America

    Finely crafted flint projectile from the younger Stone Age of North America. From a swiss museum collection.

    Price: on request
  25. Buy Cycladic marble vase (Kandila)
    Cycladic marble vase

    The so-called Kandila perfectly illustrates why the abstract Bronze Age art of the Cyclades still fascinates us today. The parallels to modern art are unmistakable. The masterpiece comes from Elie Borowski's inventory.

  26. Coptic bronze figurine of a standing woman
    Coptic bronze figurine of a standing woman

    From the famous Prof. Maurice Bouvier collection, acquired in Egypt between 1929 and 1959.

    Price: on request
  27. Large black-figure athenian skyphos with parallel in a museum
    Large black-figure athenian skyphos with parallel in a museum

    Very impressive, cicely preserved large vase. Painted with women dancing between sphinxes. An almost identical piece is on exhibition at the Musee National Rodin in Paris.

    Price: on request
  28. Buy neolithic arrowheads from Egypt
    Three neolithic arrowheads from Egypt

    The Stone Age points are beautifully crafted. From a 100 year old museum collection.

    Price: on request
  29. Buy neolithic arrowheads from Egypt
    Three neolithic arrowheads from Egypt

    The Stone Age points are finely crafted. From a 100 year old museum collection.

    Price: on request
  30. Buy neolithic arrowheads from Egypt
    Three neolithic arrowheads from Egypt

    The Stone Age points are finely crafted. From a 100 year old museum collection.

    Price: on request
  31. Buy Egyptian ushabti of the Royal Scribe Hor-maa-kheru
    Egyptian ushabti of the Royal Scribe Hor-maa-kheru

    The Egyptian funerary figurine dates to the reign of Pharaoh Amasis II, towards the end of the 26th Dynasty. Excavated in Saqqara in the mid-19th century. Shown in a 1979 Sotheby's catalogue.

  32. Buy Roman lentoid glass flask
    Roman lentoid glass flask

    The flat bottle has a lentoid or discoid body with a long neck. Probably from the Roman province Judaea.

    Price: on request
  33. Buy eye idol from Mesopotamia
    Imposing eye idol from Mesopotamia

    The highly abstract figure was made in northern Mesopotamia, probably in northern Iraq. A wonderful piece from the late 4th Millennium BC.

  34. Very fine Galba denarius
    Very fine Galba denarius

    Ex old German private collection. Rare coin with beautiful "classical" Roman portrait.

    Price: on request
  35. Roman Hod Hill brooch from Hattatt's collection
    Roman Hod Hill brooch from the Hattatt collection

    Nice and rare enameled variant of the Hod Hill type. Found in Norfolk, UK. The piece is published in two books by Richard Hattatt.

    Price: on request
  36. Celtic penannular brooch
    Celtic penannular brooch

    Possibly made by the Celtic Durotriges tribe under Roman rule in Britain. The piece is published in two books by Richard Hattatt.

    Price: on request
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