Ancient Near East - Jewellery - Iron Age - 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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Pair of earrings from Luristan
The earrings date to the early Iron Age of Luristan. The type of jewellery is rare for this region.
Price: on requestPin from Luristan with ibex headThe simple pin boosts a highly stylized ibex head. It is a nice example of this popular decoration for Luristan pins.
Ram-headed pendantFinely polished stone shaped like a stylized ram head with spiral horns. Bronze Age amulet from the Middle East.
Price: on requestLuristan pin with floral decorationWell preserved piece that impressively demonstrates the high quality of Luristan metal works.
Price: on requestBronze pin from Iron Age LuristanThree decorative spheres form an elegant pin head. Colourful bronze patina.
Price: on requestBronze pin from LuristanLovely bronze pin from the early Iron Age. The head is decorated by engraved lines and a geometric knob.
Price: on requestPublished bracelet with Luristan ram headsNicely worked zoomorphic terminals with close parallels to achaemenide art. Dating to the early 1st Millenium BC.
Price: on requestPin from LuristanIron Age silver pin with attractive engravings. Nice dark patina.
Price: on requestBronze pin from LuristanLovely bronze pin from the early Iron Age. The head is decorated by engraved lines and a geometric knob.
Price: on requestLarge decorative pin from LuristanThe pin head is shaped like an open basket with a decorative knob. Bronze with attractive patina.
Price: on requestPin from LuristanIron Age silver pin with attractive engravings. Nice dark patina.
Price: on requestPair of Achaemenid gold braceletsFantastic example of the gold jewellery of the first Persian Empire. Late 6th to 5th cent. BC.
Price: on requestHorse bit from LuristanDelightful artefact attesting the dawn of horse breeding in Western Iran during the 8th century BC. Highly stylized horses form the cheek pieces.
Sumerian miniature ram amuletNice small stone amulet in the stylized shape of a ram. From the 3rd Millenium BC.
Price: on requestSumerian ram amuletNice small stone amulet in the stylized shape of a ram. From the 3rd Millenium BC.
Price: on requestDisc-headed pin from LuristanImportant and unique pin type from Iron Age Luristan. Nice specimen with concentrical decoration.
Price: on requestSumerian miniature ram amuletNice small stone amulet in the stylized shape of a ram. From the 3rd Millenium BC.
Price: on requestSyrian amulet in animal shapeSmall amulet of nice red stone in the stylized shape of a pig. From the 3rd Millenium BC.
Price: on requestLuristan ibex pendantMassive 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 curved horns. From Iron Age Luristan.
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 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 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.
Luristan 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 requestPhoenician eye beadPolychrome 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 requestPhoenician eye beadPolychrome 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 requestLarge Phoenician eye beadDark and unusually large 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 requestPhoenician eye beadPolychrome 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 requestPhoenician eye beadPolychrome 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 requestPair of ancient gold earringsInteresting specimen with coil-like biconical cylinder and blue beads. From the first centuries AD, made in the eastern Mediterranean.
Phoenician eye beadPolychrome 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 requestPhoenician eye beadPolychrome 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 requestPhoenician eye beadPolychrome 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