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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.

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  1. Scheibenkopfnadel aus Luristan kaufen
    Disc-headed pin from Luristan

    Important and unique pin type of Luristan. This specimen is decorated by bumps forming a seven-pointed star.

  2. Luristanische Nadel mit Steinbockkopf kaufen
    Pin from Luristan with ibex head

    The simple pin boosts a highly stylized ibex head. It is a nice example of this popular decoration for Luristan pins.

  3. Buy Kusura type shield idol
    Big Kusura type idol

    Unusually big shield idol of the Kusura type dating to the Anatolian Bronze Age, 3rd millenium BC. Made of beautiful white marble.

  4. Buy Old Babylonian cuneiform tablet
    Old Babylonian cuneiform tablet

    Very nicely preserved clay tablet with cuneiform administrative text from Old Babylonian times.

  5. Buy Old Babylonian clay tablet
    Old Babylonian cuneiform tablet

    Interesting small clay tablet with cuneiform legal text from Old Babylonian times.

  6. Buy Ur III to Old Babylonian cuneiform tablet
    Old Babylonian cuneiform tablet

    Large clay tablet with cuneiform administrative text from Ur III to Old Babylonian times.

  7. Buy Ammi-Ditana reign cuneiform tablet
    Old Babylonian cuneiform tablet

    Clay tablet with cuneiform administrative or legal text. Dating to the reign of Ammi-Ditana, a king of the first dynasty of Babylon.

  8. Buy Luristan horse bit
    Horse bit from Luristan

    Delightful artefact attesting the dawn of horse breeding in Western Iran during the 8th century BC. Highly stylized horses form the cheek pieces.

  9. Buy Cypriot bowl
    Cypriot bowl

    The bowl or dish is decorated with painted circles and a spiral. Cypro-Archaic period.

  10. Disc head of a pin
    Fragment of a disc-headed pin variant

    Interesting pin head from Iron Age Luristan. Unusual variant.

  11. Buy Near Eastern macehead
    Western Asiatic macehead

    Heavy head of a mace with an ovoid shape. Wonderful veined rock. From Early Bronze Age of the Near East.

  12. Western Asiatic macehead
    Western Asiatic macehead

    Heavy head of a mace with a globular shape. Nicely polished stone. From the Early Bronze Age of Western Asia.

  13. Buy Sumerian votive head
    Sumerian votive head

    Rare fragment of a small Sumerian votive figurine dating to the 3rd Millenium BC. From the Erlenmeyer collection.

  14. Luristan horse bit
    Horse bit from Luristan

    Delightful artefact attesting the dawn of horse breeding in Western Iran during the 8th century BC. Figural decorations form the cheek pieces.

  15. Stamp seal from Anatolia or Syria
    Stamp seal with handle

    Interesting Iron Age II seal with schematically engraved animals and humans. The seal is from southern Anatolia or northern Syria.

  16. Buy Old Babylonian cylinder
    Old Babylonian cylinder seal with gods

    Seal of reddish brown stone from the Middle Bronze Age of Mesopotamia. It shows three standing deities, one with the shepherd's staff of Amurru.

  17. Buy Core-formed glass alabastron
    Core-formed polychrome glass alabastron

    Nice and small vessel with a strong patina. It is not a classical type of alabastron and retains a few mysteries.

  18. Buy mesopotamian libation bowl
    Mesopotamian libation bowl

    Alabaster vessel with ram's head as a spout for the offering. A perfectly preserved piece from the 3rd Millennium BC.

  19. Buy ancient gold earrings
    Pair of ancient gold earrings

    Interesting specimen with coil-like biconical cylinder and blue beads. From the first centuries AD, made in the eastern Mediterranean.

  20. Buy Near Eastern lance head
    Near Eastern lance head

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

  21. Buy Akkadian cylinder seal from the Akkadian period
    Akkadian cylinder seal with hero

    The cylindrical seal boosts a hero protecting two horned animals from attacking lions. A nice symmetrical composition by the seal engraver. Old Akkadian, around 2300 BC.

  22. Buy Near Eastern lance head
    Large Near Eastern lance head

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

  23. Buy Akkadian cylinder seal from the Akkadian period
    Akkadian cylinder seal with animal contest

    The cylindrical seal from Mesopotamia shows domesticated animals fighting with lions and a bull-man. An impressively large piece for a cylinder seal. Old Akkadian, around 2300 BC.

  24. Buy Near Eastern cylinder seal
    Near Eastern cylinder seal with fish

    The beige seal shows three groups of stylized fish. Am artefact from Bronze Age Mesopotamia or south-west Iran.

  25. Buy Mesopotamian cylinder seal
    Mesopotamian cylinder seal with gazelles

    The seal made of nice red stone shows three gazelles walking in line. A wonderful artefact from the Jemdet Nasr period.

  26. Buy Near Eastern cylinder seal
    Near Eastern cylinder seal with temple facade

    The seal shows a stunning stylized scene with a Bronze Age temple facade next to a wild animal and eyes. From Mesopotamia or south-west Iran.

  27. Buy Mesopotamian cylinder seal
    Mesopotamian cylinder seal with water creatures

    The seal of light red stone shows two panels with interposed and stylized aquatic animals. Made around the onset of Bronze Age in Mesopotamia.

  28. Buy Mitanni cylinder seal
    Cylinder seal from Mitanni

    Characteristic art of seal engraving from the Late Bronze Age state of Mittani in present-day Syria. With animals under band of waves.

  29. Buy Luristan spearhead
    Luristan bronze spearhead

    Double-edged blade of a large spear from the Luristan region in Ancient Iran. Impressive speciment with nice patina.

  30. Buy female idol from Syria
    Large terra cotta female idol from Syria

    Characteristic figure for the Bronze Age in the region that is today northern Syria. Dating to the 3rd or early 2nd Millennium BC.

  31. 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.

  32. Buy Sasanian gilt silver bowl
    Sasanian gilt silver bowl

    Very nice piece of art from Late Antiquity. Decorated by a relief and a partial gilt. Ex Sotheby's.

  33. Buy Anatolian clay pot
    Anatolian clay pot with lid

    The Bronze Age vessel rests on three legs and has a lid with a conical handle. Circa 2500 to 2000 BC.

  34. Buy Near Eastern lance head
    Near Eastern lance head

    Double-edged blade of a lance from Bronze Age. Probably from Luristan in North Iran.

  35. Luristan bronze standard with ibexes
    Luristan bronze standard with ibexes

    Bronze standard with stand from Iron Age Northern Iran. Decorated by a pair of ibexes. Possibly a teraphim, a house god, as referred to in the Old Testament.

  36. Buy necklace of ancient eye beads
    Necklace of large eye beads

    Modernly threaded necklace made of ancient glass beads from around the mid 1st millennium BC in the eastern Mediterranean. Ex Christie's.

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