Ancient Near East - Portraiture and sculpture - Iron 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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Sumerian miniature ram amuletNice small stone amulet in the stylized shape of a ram. From the 3rd Millenium BC.
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Sumerian ram amuletNice small stone amulet in the stylized shape of a ram. From the 3rd Millenium BC.
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Sumerian miniature ram amuletNice small stone amulet in the stylized shape of a ram. From the 3rd Millenium BC.
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Syrian amulet in animal shapeSmall amulet of nice red stone in the stylized shape of a pig. From the 3rd Millenium BC.
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Massive bronze figurine of a bullPerfectly preserved, undamaged, with brown-green patina. Acquired 1978 at Davies Antiques Gallery, London.
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Iron Age pottery vessel in the shape of a tigerFantastic animal shaped vessel with the mouth serving as a spout. From Iron Age Azerbaijan. The piece comes with a TL analysis from 1981.
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Sumerian votive headRare fragment of a small Sumerian votive figurine dating to the 3rd Millenium BC. From the Erlenmeyer collection.
Luristan ibex pendantMassive bronze pendant in the shape of a standing ibex with curved horns. From Iron Age Luristan.
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Luristan ibex pendantMassive bronze pendant in the shape of a standing ibex with curved horns. From Iron Age Luristan.
Price: on request
Luristan horse pendantThe spectacular creature with conjoined horse bodies is characteristic for the bronze works of Lurstian. From the early 1st Millenium BC.
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Horse 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.
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Luristan ibex pendantMassive bronze pendant in the shape of a standing ibex with long horns. From Iron Age Luristan.
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Babylonian clay plaque with erotic scenePanel with a religious function in the Old Babylonian Empire. The relief shows a man and a woman during the sexual act, with the woman drinking beer through a straw.
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Large terra cotta female idol from SyriaCharacteristic figure for the Bronze Age in the region that is today northern Syria. Dating to the 3rd or early 2nd Millennium BC.
Imposing eye idol from MesopotamiaThe highly abstract figure was made in northern Mesopotamia, probably in northern Iraq. A wonderful piece from the late 4th Millennium BC.
Large Luristan horse pendantThe spectacular creature with conjoined horse bodies is characteristic for the bronze works of Luristan. From the early 1st Millenium BC.
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Luristan bronze standard with ibexesBronze 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.
Luristan ibex pendantMassive animal pendant in the shape of a standing ibex with long horns, made of bronze. From Iron Age Luristan.
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Elamite horse rhytonFascinating clay vessel in the shape of a horse from the Neo-Elamite period, around 700 BC. A TL analysis report is included with the piece.