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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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Massive bronze figurine of a bull
Perfectly preserved, undamaged, with brown-green patina. Acquired 1978 at Davies Antiques Gallery, London.
Price: on requestFour Greek or Scythian arrow headsGroup of four bronze socketed arrowheads, three with triangular cross-section and one leaf-shaped. Excellent condition, beautiful patina. From an old British collection, acquired before 1980.
Price: on requestVery fine Marcus Aurelius Sestertius - found in Rhineland, GermanyLovely dark green patina with nice sand deposits. Rome mint, 177 - 178 AD.
Price: on requestHellenistic clay figurine of a standing womanGood condition, white grounding partially preserved. Acquired 1978 at Davies Antiques Gallery, London.
Price: on requestVessel of the Nazca cultureMagnificent pottery of the Nazca with polychrome paint. It shows two condors. This piece comes with a copy of a TL report from 1984.
Price: on requestCone-shaped stamp seal with star of IshtarThe seal depicts a tree of life with a rhomb and eight-pointed star, symbol of Ishtar. 7th to 6th century BC.
Price: on requestPublished Etruscan mirror with Dionysian sceneSubject of extended scientific analysis, one of only about 34 known specimen. High quality work, excellent condition. Described by Prof. Jucker as "small piece of art". From an old Swiss private collection. Overall in exceptional condition with thoroughly worked details.
Price: on requestEgyptian spindle shaft made of woodExceptionally rare main piece of a hand spindle. A find from Thebes in Upper Egypt. From the reign of pharao Senusret II, around 1840 BC.
Price: on requestPublished Hellenistic oil lamp from Adler collectionFrom the famous Judge Dr. Steve Adler collection. Exported from Israel with IAA permit Nr. 542792.
Price: on requestNicely preserved hellenistic bottle from Magna GraeciaGreek colony in Southern Italy. From an old German private collection. Acquired at a London art gallery in 1976-78.
Price: on requestAthenian Lekythos with band of raysFrom an old German private collection. Acquired 1976 - 1978 at a London art gallery, presumably Davies Antiques.
Price: on requestGreek clay figurine of a standing womanAbout 6th - 5th century BC. Good condition. From a German private collection, acquired 1976 - 1978 in London.
Price: on requestEtruscan Genucilla plate found in TarquiniaA similar plate is on exhibition in the Metropolitan Museum in NYC. Excellently preserved, from an old German collection, acquired 1967 in Cologne.
Price: on requestEgyptian mummy beads necklaceModern assembled and threaded necklace made from original ancient Egyptian beads. The socalled mummy beads are made of faience and date to the Late Period of ancient Egypt.
Price: on requestEgyptian cowroidAmulet seal with pseudo hieroglyphs at the underside. Second Intermediate Period of ancient Egypt.
Price: on requestRoman sprinklerPerfume bottle with pattern-blown body. An aperture made it easy to dispense the precious content drop by drop. Made in the Roman province Syria in the 3rd cent. AD.
Price: on requestPannonian trumpet broochWell preserved Roman fibula made of silver. The type is from the Pannonian provinces of Rome and dates to the 2nd century.
Price: on requestPublished Neo-Hellenistic frog lamp from Adler collectionFrom the famous Judge Dr. Steve Adler collection. Exported from Israel with IAA permit Nr. 542792.
Price: on requestCypriot bichrome ware LekythosVery well preserved incl. original painting. From the collection of the German actress Lotti Huber, found during excavations in Cyprus in the 1950s.
Price: on requestRichly decorated Gnathia ware skyphos from Prof. Fremersdorf collectionExtraordinary condition, painting excellently preserved, vivid colors. From the collection of the archeologist Prof. Fremersdorf, director of the Romano-Germanic Museum in Cologne between 1923 and 1959.
Price: on requestDecorated italo-geometric bowlVery unusual shape, probably imitation of bronze vessels with their attached handles. From an old German private collection. Acquired 1976-78 at a London art gallery.
Price: on requestEtrusco-Corinthian AlabastronNicely preserved, 6th century BC. From an old German collection, acquired in the 1960s.
Price: on requestCypriot bichrome ware LekythosVery well preserved incl. original painting. From the collection of the German actress Lotti Huber, found during excavations in Cyprus in the 1950s.
Price: on requestRare Greek breast pump or joke vesselPerfectly preserved, worth the exhibition in a museum, decorated with Medusa head. From an old German collection, acquired in the 1960s.
Price: on requestEarly Marcus Aurelius DenariusRome mint, 161 A.D. The reverse shows Providentia standing, holding globe and cornucopia.
Price: on requestClay figure found at Dionysos Temple in AthensFrom the old British educational lending collection Wakefield Education Resource Service. Very nicely preserved.
Price: on requestGreek bronze phiale - ex BonhamsImpressive massive bowl, worth the exhibition at a museum. Perfectly preserved. The massive bronze is in an excellent condition and has a very attractive black-green patina.
Price: on requestExtremely fine Diocletian argenteusAbsolutely extremely fine, uncirculated. The RIC states the rarity with R2. In the Occident, Diocletian is (in)famous for the last and largest persecution of Christianity.
Price: on requestEgyptian scarabAmulet seal with schematic master of the crocodiles scene on the underside. Third Intermediate Period of ancient Egypt.
Price: on requestRoman potsherds from the RhinelandFragments of Roman pottery. Finds from the Roman city of Novaesium, today's Neuss in Germany, an early Roman foundation and with this one of the oldest cities in Germany.
Price: on requestRoman potsherds from the RhinelandFragments of Roman pottery. Finds from the Roman city of Novaesium, today's Neuss in Germany, an early Roman foundation and with this one of the oldest cities in Germany.
Price: on requestCeltic spear head - found in 1970s near Radstock, UKIron, about 2nd century BC - 1st century AD. With export permit by the Arts Council of England.
Price: on requestRoman double head flask with MedusaTypical head vessel from the Eastern Mediterranean. The glass flask has the shape of two Medusa heads back to back.
Price: on requestLarge polychrome figure of a woman from Canosa with TL analysisExceptionally well preserved polychrome painting and surface details. An almost identical figurine is on exhibition in the British Museum. From German private collection, acquired in the 1980s.
Price: on requestVillanova KyathosImpasto pottery. Ornate handle in the shape of a stylized slug. Ex South German private collection of an artist and art collector.
Price: on requestScarce Septimius Severus legionary denariusCelebrating the Legio XIII Gemina, on reverse aquila between two standards. Coined 193 AD, Rome mint.
Price: on request