Classical antiquity - Northern Europe - 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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Egyptian scarab amulet
Nice amulet from the Late Dynastic Period of Ancient Egypt. The scarab was exhibited in an early 20th century private museum.
Price: on requestRare Nero AureusRome, 64 - 65 AD. The reverse shows the emperor with his second wife, Poppaea Sabina. Rare (R2).
Price: on requestExtraordinary rare Julia Domna bronze from PaphlagoniaThe only specimen currently offered on the international numismatic market known to us. The coin praises the city of Gangra-Germanikopolis as the "altar of gods" and the oldest city of all Paphlagonia.
Price: on requestGreek Boeotian riderThe painted clay sculpture shows a stylized horse and rider. The rider figurine from Greece dates to the archaic period.
Price: on requestRoman Intaglio with bust of SerapisThe glass paste shows the god Serapis. Nice blue slightly opaque glass paste.
Price: on requestAncient intaglio with head of Zeus AmmonBeautiful intaglio made of dark orange brown glass. Excellent quality. The ring stone boosts a rare portrait of Zeus Ammon.
Price: on requestRoman gem with portrait of a Roman girlBeautifully engraved gemstone made of purple glass. It shows the rare motive of a woman wearing a theater mask.
Price: on requestRoman intaglio with Jupiter depictionAn ancient intaglio from Roman times with the god Jupiter in a typical enthroned style. Beautiful dark red jasper.
Price: on requestIntaglio with a Greek hero and Pegasos emblemMagnificent miniature work of art from the height of italic glass intaglio production. It shows a Greek young man. His shield has a winged horse as an emblem.
Price: on requestRoman intaglio with bust of a young manThe ancient intaglio from Roman times shows a young man from the side. He wears his hair in short curls. The piece is rich in details and the work of a skilled craftsman.
Price: on requestAncient intaglio with bust and wreathAn ancient intaglio from Roman times with interesting scene. Bust with wreath. Wonderful turquoise glass.
Price: on requestRoman intaglio with two facing headsThis special motive for Roman engraved gems often featured two Roman citizens or man and wife. It is an interesting example of its kind made from beautiful orange glass.
Price: on requestEgyptian steatite plaqueThe protective amulet shows the god Bes between two seated monkeys. Late Period of ancient Egypt. This piece is described in the catalogue of Irène Gautier-Vodoz.
Price: on requestRoman fibulaAncient roman fibula of the kraeftig profilierte fibula type. The piece is a beautiful example of this common type of fibulae during roman imperial times.
Price: on requestRoman horse fibulaSkillfull bronze fibula in horse shape. The type was used in Central Europe during the later Principate.
Price: on requestElaborate Roman plate broochTen pointed star form with leaf pattern and decorative buttons. A product of Gaul or Britain dating to the 1st century.
Price: on requestRoman plate brooch with colourful enamelRare fibula type from Roman Britain. The fully intact multicoloured enamel makes this piece worthy of being a museum exhibit. 2nd cent. AD.
Price: on requestBird shaped Roman broochProduct of Northern Europe dating to the second century AD. Brooch worked as a flat relief, once with multi-coloured inlays.
Price: on requestRoman brooch of a swimming birdStylized bird shaped brooch made of bronze. Northern European brooch type from the Roman Pricipate.
Price: on requestAncient brooch of a fabulous creatureRare Hippocampus brooch with elaborate inlays of multi-coloured glass paste and metal. Great example of the brooch manufacturing of Roman Gaul during the mid 1st cent. AD.
Price: on requestEgyptian amulet of AnubisThe amulet from the Late Period of Ancient Egypt was supposed to protect the dead on their way to the afterlife. From a British private museum.
Price: on requestEgyptian amulet of TaweretIt shows the goddess of childbirth in the form of a pregnant hippopotamus. The amulet from the Late Period of Ancient Egypt should exert a protective function. From a British private museum.
Price: on requestEgyptian pataikosGod or god-like dwarf. The figurine was supposed to have a magical protective function. 26th to 30th dynasty of Ancient Egypt. From a British private museum.
Price: on requestEgyptian bronze figurine of NefertemA major cult in Memphis saw the god related to fragrances. He is depicted here as youthful god in human form. Nice piece from the Late Period of ancient Egypt.
Price: on requestRoman oil lamp - found in Lopodunum, GermanyPerfectly preserved piece from the earliest Roman settlement phase
Price: on requestMassive Roman oil lamp - found in Lopodunum, GermanyNicely preserved piece from the earliest Roman settlement phase
Price: on requestSmall Roman oil lamp - found in Lopodunum, GermanyNicely preserved piece from the earliest Roman settlement phase
Price: on requestRoman jar with flat handle from LopodunumPerfectly preserved piece. Found in Ladenburg, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany.
Price: on requestRoman jar with flat handle from LopodunumNicely preserved piece. Found in Ladenburg, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany.
Price: on requestSmall Roman jar from LopodunumNicely preserved piece. Found in Ladenburg, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany.
Price: on requestLarge Roman jar from LopodunumPerfectly preserved piece from the second half of the 2nd century AD. Found in Ladenburg, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany.
Price: on requestRoman jar from LopodunumPerfectly preserved piece from the 1st - early 2nd century AD. Found in Ladenburg, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany.
Price: on requestRoman oil lamp with dolphins and tridentImpressive oil lamp with interesting maritime scene from very old German collection
Price: on requestSmall Roman amphora from El-Djem, TunisPossibly produced in Hispania Baetica. From a very old German collection
Price: on requestRoman bronze portrait head, possibly one of the soldier emperorsPerfectly preserved, delicate piece of ancient art with beautiful green patina, 3. century AD
Price: on requestRoman brass pendant with Amor bustMassive, perfectly preserved masterpiece of ancient art with beautiful black patina.
Price: on request