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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Scarce Caracalla Denarius, found 1985 in Stonea Grange, Cambridgeshire
Coined 198 AD as Caesar under Septimius Severus. Found in January 1985 in Stonea Grange area, Cambridgeshire, UK.
Price: on requestBronze ornaments with goddess of victoryMatching pair of appliques that were once soldered to a Roman vessel. They show the goddess of victory, Victoria.
Price: on requestVillanovan fibula from the Hattatt collectionSerpentine bronze brooch of the Italic Iron Age. The piece is published in the standard work "Brooches of Antiquity".
Price: on requestItalic fibula with nice incised decorationLarge bronze brooch of a typical boat-shape from Iron Age Italy. A special feature and rarity are the three links of a chain still hanging on the pin.
Price: on requestGold earrings in the shape of a reed boatMatching pair of Late Bronze Age jewellery made of massive gold in the Eastern Mediterranean. The shape is reminiscent of boats made of budles of reed.
Price: on requestCanopic jar of ImsetyEgyptian Late Period canopic jar with a lid in the shape of a human head, representing the Horus son Imsety. The piece stands out by the expressive face and by the original painting.
Price: on requestBowl of the Chancay cultureFlat pottery bowl with abstract painting on the inside. The pre-Columbian art of the Chancay seems simple at first, but radiates an elegance that still seems modern today.
Price: on requestGriechisches GoldohrringpaarWunderschöne antike Ohrringe aus Gold. Griechische Zeit.
Price: on requestGriechisch-römische GoldohrringeDie griechisch-römischen Ohrringe besitzen kunstvolle Granularien. Das Paar ist mehrfach publiziert.
Price: on requestGraeco-Roman earrings with gemstoneMatching pair of jewellery made of gold with gemstones of red garnet. From an ancient workshop in Egypt or the Levant.
Price: on requestHorse bit from LuristanDelightful artefact attesting the dawn of horse breeding in Western Iran during the 8th century BC. Figural decorations form the cheek pieces.
Exceptionally well preserved, very rare Demetrios III. tetradrachmExtremely fine, uncirculated piece. Very rare, especially in this condition.
Price: on requestEgyptian scarab with crocodilesAmulet seal from Thebes with depiction of Sobek. From the 18th to 20th dynasty of ancient Egypt.
Price: on requestEgyptian faience figurine of the goddess MutRare syncretic merging of the goddesses Mut and Sekhmet. The lion headed statuette is shown standing with the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt.
Price: on requestBase plate of a Roman mirrorPerfectly preserved bronze plate of a Roman mirror. A handle and reflective metal coating were once part of the object. Typical for upper class Roman households during Imperial times.
Mycenaean stirrup jarNicely preserved specimen of this characteristic type of vessel from the Mycenaeans. From the peak of Mycenaean pottery production in the 14th century BC.
Price: on requestEgyptian bronze figurine of Khonsu the ChildRare depiction of the god of the moon Khonsu in the manner of the Egyptian child gods. From the Late Period of Ancient Egypt. A find from Karnak.
Price: on requestRoman gold earring with emeraldBeautiful jewellery from the 2nd century made of gold with a green stone bead.
Price: on requestNeolithischer Axtkopf mit MuseumsschäftungDas Steinwerkzeug stammt aus der Jungsteinzeit Nord- oder Mitteleuropas. Besonders hervorzuheben ist die moderne Schäftung in Museumsqualität, die einen großartigen Eindruck von der einstigen Verwendung des Werkzeuges gibt.
Price: on requestLuristan bronze pendant of an ibexMassive bronze pendant in the shape of a standing ibex with curved horns. From Iron Age Luristan.
Price: on requestLuristan ibex pendantMassive bronze pendant in the shape of a standing ibex with long horns. From Iron Age Luristan.
Price: on requestDriking cup of the Troy typeSo-called Depas Amphikypellon from around 2500 BC. The famous type of drinking vessel from Troy as described in Homer's Iliad.
Price: on requestJudaea - Prutah from year 3 of first Jewish WarVery fine condition, beautiful patina. Amphora and vine leaf, Paleo-Hebrew inscriptions "year 3" and "The freedom of Zion".
Price: on requestTiberius denarius - tribute pennyVery fine example of a coin with a very special Biblical context. The reverse shows Livia as Pax. Ex Peus, acquired November 1968.
Price: on requestRoman-Egyptian glass inlays and spindle whorlsNice group of polychrome inlays and spindle weights from Roman Egypt. From an old English collection, ex Bonhams London.
Large Roman funerary stela with high reliefThe elaborate high relief shows the deceased resting on a kline, pointing to a tabula ansata which originally carried a painted inscription. Roman Empire, 2nd century AD. Ex Galerie Cahn, Basel.
Price: on requestRoman Terra Sigillata plate with barbotine decoration 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 requestCicero - very rare German 1535 edition with 234 partially page-large woodcutsThe only 1535 edition currently available on the market known to us. Very good condition, appropriate for the age of the volume. Especially worth mentioning are the rich illustrations showing Death as Grim Reaper, feasts, a woman giving birth with midwife, and a scholar wearing glasses.
Cypriot Lekythos with black slipVery well preserved incl. original slip. From the collection of the German actress Lotti Huber, found during excavations in Cyprus in the 1950s.
Price: on requestImpressive Titus aureusAlmost extremely fine, perfectly centered. Slabbed by NGC. Rome mint, 75 A.D.
Price: on requestFunerary statuette for Princess HenuttawyThe Egyptian shabti is from the daughter of Pinudjem II who ruled Egypt during the Third Intermediate Period. It was excavated in the 1840ies at the Ramesseum.
Price: on requestRoman Terra Sigillata cup from the Rhineland with mark PASSENIFrom the workshop of Passenus. Found 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 requestMycenaean seal with griffinA wonderful and rare example of the Bronze Age Greek art of engraving stones. It shows a fantasy creature with lion body and bird of prey head. Mid-2nd Millennium BC.
Price: on requestHellenistic gold diademMagnificent head-dress in the shape of a pediment from the time of Alexander the Great. Embossed with a floral decoration, supplemented by birds and grasshoppers. This piece has been published in a 1965 standard work on hellenistic gold jewellery.
Large Villanovan fibula from the Hattatt collectionImposing bronze brooch of the Italic Iron Age. The piece is published in the standard work "Brooches of Antiquity".
Price: on request