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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.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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Horse 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.
Roman bronze lock bar shaped as hermMassive piece with great patina. From a German private collection, acquired in the early 1980s.
Mosaic glass inlay with floral motifSkillfully arranged motif of lilies and palmettes. Made in Egypt during the early Roman Imperial period.
Side frame of a Roman stoolPiece of a seating furniture with elaborate openwork designs. The fantastic state of preservation is known from other bronze stools found in Pompeii and the area around Mount Vesuvius.
Mosaic glass inlay with half maskSkillfully arranged motif that could be combined with a plate of the same motif to show a full face. Made in Egypt during the early Roman Imperial period.
Egyptian plaque of BesRare type of depiction of the dwarf god. From the collection of the Newark Museum of Art. Late Period of Ancient Egypt. Including thermoluminescence analysis.
Roman marble relief with hunting scene: Eros carrying hindSupposedly from the collection of the Swiss painter Arnold Böcklin (1827-1901). Very good condition, surface very well preserved.
Female stone portrait headHellenistic Greece or Egypt under Roman rule. From the Austrian collection of Prof. Ritschel, carrier of the Large Cross of Honor of the Austrian Republic and many other prizes and honors.
Byzantine bronze processional cross holderExcellent condition, beautiful patina, worth the exhibition in a museum. Middle Byzantine Period, Constantinople or Asia Minor workshop.
Mosaic glass inlays and spindle whorlsNice group of polychrome inlays and spindle weights from Roman Egypt. Including two fragments with a wonderful floral decor.
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.
Roman-Egyptian glass inlays and spindle whorlsNice group of polychrome inlays and spindle weights from Roman Egypt. From an old English collection, ex Bonhams London.
Hellenistic 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.
Roman bronze Apollo Kitharoidos - ex Christie'sImpressive, very aesthetic figure. Excellently preserved with beautiful patina. Mounted on modern green marble base.
Stone relief from GandharaWunderful example of the curious symbiosis of greek art and buddhist tradition in the second century. The relief shows a key moment in Buddhas life, when he abandons his life as prince Siddhartha to seek enlightenment.
Mosaic glass inlays and spindle whorlNice group of polychrome inlays and a spindle weight from Roman Egypt. Including one fragment with a wonderful floral decor.
Mosaic glass inlays and spindle whorlsNice group of polychrome inlays and spindle weights from Roman Egypt. Including one fragment with a wonderful floral decor.
Roman facade decoration shaped as theatre maskImpressive and striking marble mask. It once adorned the upper facade of a villa or a public building during Roman Imperial times.
Roman appliqués of Sol Invictus and LunaEnsemble of two nice terra cotta examples of the cult around the Roman sun god and moon goddess in Roman Imperial times.
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.
Thracian silver tondo with female bustBeautiful repoussé from the Hellenistic period showing a female bust in high relief. From the well-known Cullman collection.
Roman marble head of a woman - ex Duke University of Art MuseumBeautiful, life-size portrait. The provenance can be reconstructed until 1920, when the portrait was acquired from Jannis Demetrios Mikas by Ernest Brummer, both famous collectors.