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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.

Items 37-72 of 307

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  1. Egyptian Kohl vessel
    Small Egyptian Kohl vessel

    The stone pot was used for Kohl, the eye cosmetic of the ancient Egyptians. Vessel with well preserved body and missing rim. From the 2nd Millenium BC.

  2. Buy Egyptian Kohl vessel
    Egyptian Kohl vessel

    The massive stone cosmetic pot was used for Kohl, the eye cosmetic of the ancient Egyptians. From the time between Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom.

  3. Kohl vessel from the New Kingdom
    Kohl vessel from the New Kingdom

    A fantastic goblet shaped vessel from the 18th dynasty of ancient Egypt. Made of finely polished Egyptian alabaster.

  4. Egyptian stone Kohl vessel
    Egyptian Kohl vessel

    The small stone container was used for Kohl, the eye cosmetic of the ancient Egyptians. Black remains of the substance are still preserved on the inside. From the time between Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom.

  5. Buy Old Kingdom stone vessel
    Conical Old Kingdom stone vessel

    The elegant stone vase is made of wonderful banded alabaster. 5th to 6th dynasty, Old Kingdom.

  6. Etruscan Vetulonia type helmet
    Etruscan Vetulonia type helmet

    From the possession of New York City antiquities dealer Sumner Healey, who was made famous by Berenice Abbott's scenic photograph from 1936.

  7. Buy Roman bronze furniture
    Side frame of a Roman stool

    Piece 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.

  8. Mosaic glass inlay with half mask
    Mosaic glass inlay with half mask

    Skillfully 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.

  9. Roman marble relief with hunting scene: Eros carrying hind
    Roman marble relief with hunting scene: Eros carrying hind

    Supposedly from the collection of the Swiss painter Arnold Böcklin (1827-1901). Very good condition, surface very well preserved.

  10. Large phoenician terra cotta figurine
    Large phoenician terra cotta figurine

    Excellent condition, with partially preserved painting and attractive sea patina. Found in the sea near the city of Akko in Israel in the 1980s, exported with permit from Israel Antiquities Authority.

  11. Etruscan bronze figurine of a dancing Kore
    Etruscan bronze figurine of a dancing Kore

    Votive figurine from Umbria region, 5th century B.C. Very well preserved with nice patina. Es W. Rosenbaum collection.

  12. 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.

  13. Large greek alabaster Alabastron
    Large greek alabaster Alabastron

    Probably Cypriot. Very large, impressive vessel in excellent condition. From the Swiss collection W. Rosenbaum (1894 - 1984).

  14. Extremely fine Marc Antony Denarius - LEG XI
    Extremely fine Marc Antony Denarius - LEG XI

    Beautiful dark patina. Commemorating the Legio XI formed by M. Anton, while a Legio XI Actiaca fought in the Actium campaign serving Octavian.

  15. Persian jug from Sultanabad
    Persian jug from Sultanabad

    Impressive pottery with turquoise glaze and black paint. From 13th century Iran. With a letter from the Royal Victoria and Albert Museum.

  16. Buy Roman gold fingerring
    Roman gold fingerring

    Nice piece of jewellery from the later Roman Imperial period. With beaded wires and intaglio. Found in England.

  17. Buy Moche erotic pottery
    Moche erotic pottery

    Exceptional depiction of figures on a raft having intercourse. From the golden age of the Moche civilization.

  18. Buy a female stone portrait head
    Female stone portrait head

    Hellenistic 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.

  19. Buy an Etruscan bronze ladle - ex Sotheby's
    Etruscan bronze ladle - ex Sotheby's

    Very good condition, undamaged, with thick patina. Late Etruscan, 4th - 3rd century BC. From an old English collection.

  20. 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.

  21. Large white-ground athenian Lekythos - Painter of Athens 1826
    Large white-ground athenian Lekythos - Painter of Athens 1826

    With TL analysis. Impressive vessel, perfectly preserved delicate painting. Ancient graffito XE on foot.

  22. Large Roman roof tile from the Rhineland
    Large Roman roof tile from the Rhineland

    With loop-shaped mark. Found near the Roman city of Novaesium, today's Neuss in Germany, an early Roman foundation and with this one of the oldest cities in Germany.

  23. Buy a very rare large Samian Ware hunt cup at Alte Roemer Gallery
    Very rare large Samian Ware hunt cup

    The barbotine decoration is masterly made and excellently preserved. Absolutely worth the exhibition in a museum. A similar piece is on exhibition in the British Museum in London. Ex Vienna Schönbrunn Gallery, acquired 1986. With TL analysis.

  24. Statuette of Ptah-Sokar-Osiris
    Ptah-Sokar-Osiris statuette for Ta-scherit-Mehjt

    Large wooden statue representing the ancient Egyptian funerary deity Ptah-Sokar-Osiris. Nicely painted figurine including base from the Ptolemaic period of ancient Egypt.

  25. Byzantine bronze processional cross holder
    Byzantine bronze processional cross holder

    Excellent condition, beautiful patina, worth the exhibition in a museum. Middle Byzantine Period, Constantinople or Asia Minor workshop.

  26. 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.

  27. Greek fish plate from Newark Museum
    Greek fish plate from Newark Museum

    Athenian or Greek colony in Southern Italy. Almost perfectly preserved, intense patina. Since 1954 in the collection of the Newark Museum of Art, USA.

  28. Buy intaglio with eleventh labour of Hercules
    Classicist intaglio with eleventh labour of Hercules

    A masterpiece of classicist stone cutting. The large intalgio made of white chalcedony shows the 11th labour of Hercules. An early 19th century work, when classicism dominated the arts in Europe.

  29. Rare byzantine lamp holder - ex Bonhams London, identical piece on exhibition at MET Museum
    Rare byzantine lamp holder - ex Bonhams London, identical piece on exhibition at MET Museum

    Very impressive, excellently preserved massive lamp. Nice patina. Decorated with crosses.

  30. Buy Jemdet Nasr cylinder seal
    Cylinder seal from the Jemdet Nasr period

    The Mesopotamian seal shows a geometrical arrangement of schematic turtles or tadpoles. Around 3000 BC.

  31. Cleopatra VII. hemiobol with nicely preserved portrait
    Cleopatra VII. hemiobol with nicely preserved portrait

    Bronze worth 40 Drachmai, Alexandria mint, 51 - 30 BC: Great portrait of the famous last Ptolemaic queen. After her death Egypt became a province of the Roman Empire.

  32. Buy a Tumi knife of the Sican
    Huge ceremonial knife of the Sican culture

    The so-called Tumi was a weapon to cut the throats of humans and animals in ritual sacrifices. The knife certainly fulfilled an additional representative function in the afterlife. From the period of the Sican's cultural florescence during the 10th to 12th centuries AD.

  33. Buy Old Assyrian cylinder seal
    Old Assyrian cylinder seal

    The seal shows several gods in front of the god of the heaven. The piece comes from Anatolia or northern Syria, quite possibly from Cappadocia.

  34. Buy Theatre mask of a slave
    Theatre mask of a slave

    Expressive life-size clay mask from Hellenistic Greece. It depicts the character of the slave from the New Comedy, i.e. a theatre style that developed with the Hellenistic period.

  35. Roman-Egyptian mosaic glass inlays
    Mosaic glass inlays and spindle whorls

    Nice group of polychrome inlays and spindle weights from Roman Egypt. Including two fragments with a wonderful floral decor.

  36. Buy Roman earrings from Syria
    Pair of Roman earrings from Syria

    Extremely skillfully crafted jewellery with wonderful granulation. The design points to Syria during the Late Roman Imperial period.

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