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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.
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Early Italic brooch decorated with beads
There rare brooch type from northern Italy is based on predecessors from Greece. The piece is from the famous Richard Hattatt collection and is published in two of his works.
Price: on requestRoman intaglio with person on a chairMade of bright orange glass paste. From the Professor Brosch collection of engraved gems.
Price: on requestRoman intaglio with young ErosIt shows the god with his upper body leaning forward, the left leg raised and bent. Magnificent orange glass paste with iridescent patina.
Price: on requestRoman intaglio with ErosAn ancient intaglio from Roman times made of nice orange glass paste. From the Professor Brosch collection of engraved gems.
Price: on requestRoman intaglio with child Eros and bowThe glass paste shows the god as a boy, standing with his bow in one hand. From the Professor Brosch collection of engraved gems.
Price: on requestEgyptian frog lamp from an old German collectionPerfectly preserved, nicely decorated. Found in Tunisia in 1975.
Price: on requestLarge impressive Terra Sigillata bowl found 1971 in the Rhineland with hunt scenes and Roman eagleFound 1971 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. The decoration shows bears, hares, hounds, a wild boar, eros with hare and a Roman Imperial Eagle.
Price: on requestRoman intaglio with goddess of victoryThe glass paste features a famous depiction of Victoria writing the names of victors in battle on a large shield. The motif reiterates a 1st century bronze statue.
Price: on requestConoid stamp sealMade from beautiful mottled stone during Iron Age II. The seal is from southern Anatolia or northern Syria and is engraved with a religious scene.
Price: on requestEgyptian statuette of HarpocratesThe bronze figurine of excellent quality depicts the child god with cornucopia and double crown. From the Ptolemaic Period of ancient Egypt.
Stamp seal with handleInteresting Iron Age II seal with schematically engraved animals and humans. The seal is from southern Anatolia or northern Syria.
Head of Isis - found 1963 at Ras-el-Tin Necropolis, AlexandriaPtolemaic till Roman Egypt, worked with high level of details and very nicely preserved. From an old German collection.
Price: on requestRoman intaglio with goddess of victoryThe glass paste features Victoria writing the names of victors in battle on a large shield.
Price: on requestEgyptian faience statuette of a baboonThe small work of art dates to the Late Period of ancient Egypt. It is worthy to be displayed at a major museum. Published in two works on the famous Epstein collection.
Almost extremely fine Augustus denarius with nice patinaNice portrait, on reverse Capricorn with cornucopiae and rudder on globe. Colonia Patricia mint, 18 - 16 BC
Price: on requestRoman bronze Apollo Kitharoidos - ex Christie'sImpressive, very aesthetic figure. Excellently preserved with beautiful patina. Mounted on modern green marble base.
Cypriot black-on-red jugVery well preserved incl. original painting. From the collection of the German actress Lotti Huber, found during excavations in Cyprus in the 1950s.
Price: on requestTitus aureus - she-wolf suckling Romulus and RemusThe reverse, showing Roma on shield with she-wolf suckling the twins and two woodpeckers, is copying a 200 years older Republican denarius.
Price: on requestRoman Terra Sigillata bowl with potters' mark OF AVILLI 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 requestFragment of a large clay figure - probably ZeusThe face itself is fully preserved with nicely worked details. Mounted on a modern black wooden base.
Price: on requestPhrygian fibula from the Hattatt collectionBronze fibula from Anatolia around the time of King Midas. The piece is published in two standard works and was on loan to the Ashmolean Museum.
Price: on requestRoman glass juglet with trailingThe elegant vessel is a magnificent example of the mature art of glass making in the Roman Empire during Late Antiquity. From the collection of the well-known archaeologist Professor Fritz Fremersdorf.
Roman intaglio with person on a chairMade of bright orange glass paste. From the Professor Brosch collection of engraved gems.
Price: on requestCylinder seal with seated godInteresting seal from Mesopotamia during the Akkad III period. It shows worshippers with cups standing before the sky god.
Price: on requestOld Babylonian cylinder seal with godsSeal of reddish brown stone from the Middle Bronze Age of Mesopotamia. It shows three standing deities, one with the shepherd's staff of Amurru.
Italic bronze belt of a warriorStunning samnite bronze work from South Italy. Made in the 5th or 4th century BC, before Romes expansion into Italy. From the famous Guttmann collection.
Italic bronze belt of a warriorNice samnite bronze work from South Italy. Made in the 4th century BC, before Romes expansion into Italy. From the famous Guttmann collection.
Roman earrings with garnetMatching pair of jewellery made of gold with red gemstones. From the Roman Imperial period.
Price: on requestStone relief from GandharaWunderful 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.
Price: on requestMycenaean stirrup jar with decorative bandNicely decorated specimen of this characteristic type of vessel from the Mycenaeans. From the peak of Mycenaean pottery production in the 14th century BC.
Price: on requestCore-formed polychrome glass alabastronNice and small vessel with a strong patina. It is not a classical type of alabastron and retains a few mysteries.
Roman intaglio with AphroditeThe orange glass paste shows the goddess next to a high column. Her mantled glides down below her hips at her back.
Price: on requestRoman intaglio with armored warriorBlue opaque glass paste with depiction of a soldier. From the Professor Brosch collection of engraved gems.
Price: on requestRoman intaglio with AthenaRoman intaglio made of nice yellow-orange glass paste. It has a great motif, showing the goddess Athena with shield and spear, holding a small Nike on her hand.
Price: on requestRoman gold ring with intaglioThe beautiful finger ring from the Roman Imperial period is set with a carnelian stone. It shows a male portrait head in the linear style.
Price: on requestEgyptian cowroid with knot designAmulet seal with interesting top side markings. Second Intermediate Period of ancient Egypt.
Price: on request