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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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Gnathia ware skyphos
Beautifully decorated piece with perfectly preserved handles, which is rare for such delicate pieces of ancient pottery.
Price: on requestNicely preserved Apulian skyphosGreat condition, worth the exhibition at a museum. Acquired 1976 at Herrmann Zirkel, Cologne, Germany. Said to have been found in Southern Italy, Naples area.
Price: on requestGnathia-ware Apulian oinochoeNicely preserved, delicate piece of ancient art. Decorated with vine branch.
Price: on requestRoman intaglio with warriorThe high quality glass paste shows a naked warrior with speer and shield with emblem. Roman Republican to Roman Imperial times.
Price: on requestRoman intaglio with interesting sceneThe scene is moulded in great detail into the orange brown glass paste. It shows a young man holding a so-called aplustre.
Price: on requestEgyptian falcon amuletNice small figurine of a falcon dating to the Late Period of Ancient Egypt. From the famous collection of Fouad S. Matouk.
Price: on requestEgyptian crocodile amuletNice small depiction of a crocodile dating to the Late Period of Ancient Egypt. From the famous collection of Fouad S. Matouk.
Price: on requestRichly decorated Gnathia-ware oinochoeGreat condition, vivid colors. Decorated with female head at the handle, vine branches and other friezes at body.
Price: on requestMegarian bowl with rich floral decorationPerfectly preserved and finely worked piece from a German collection in which it was acquired in the early 1970s.
Price: on requestMegarian bowl with floral decorationPerfectly preserved and finely worked piece from a German collection in which it was acquired in 1974 at Antikenhandlung Karl Heinz Zühlsdorf, Cologne, Germany. Said to have been found in Turkey.
Price: on requestPerfectly preserved richly decorated Megarian bowlFrom the collection of Prof. Ritschel, Salzburg, Austria, president of the local museum association, author of over 50 history books, decorated many times for his achievements.
Price: on requestMegarian bowl decorated with caduceusFrom the collection of Prof. Ritschel, Salzburg, Austria, president of the local museum association, author of over 50 history books, decorated many times for his achievements.
Price: on requestMassive bronze lance head from the Near EastFrom the collection of Prof. Ritschel, Salzburg, Austria, president of the local museum association, author of over 50 history books, decorated many times for his achievements.
Price: on requestBronze lance head from the Near EastFrom the collection of Prof. Ritschel, Salzburg, Austria, president of the local museum association, author of over 50 history books, decorated many times for his achievements.
Price: on requestLarge oinochoe decorated with female bust and lion headGreat condition, vivid colors. Decorated with female bust at neck and a lion's head at the handle. From the collection of a Manhattan professor. Coming with an Art Loss certificate.
Price: on requestLarge Gnathia ware pelike with dovesGreat condition, vivid colors. From an old German private collection, acquired in Cologne 1989.
Price: on requestRoman square shaped glass pasteThe turquoise glass paste has two standing warriors as a motive. Simple work dating to Roman Imperial times.
Price: on requestRoman intaglio with two warriorsThe scene shows two warriors in a conversation. The glass imitates natural stone with a white inclusion.
Price: on requestPerfectly preserved Greek guttos with sitting womanFrom an old German collection, acquired at Puhze Gallery, Freiburg, before 1979.
Price: on requestRoman statue of a sitting manImpressive piece, possibly the funerary statue of a poet or a philosopher. From the collection of Prof. Ritschel, Salzburg, Austria, president of the local museum association, author of over 50 history books, decorated many times for his achievements.
Price: on requestCorinthian alabastron with large birdsExcellently preserved piece with interesting scene. From an old German private collection, acquired in Cologne 1975.
Price: on requestPerfectly preserved hellenistic Chytra from Magna GraeciaFrom a German collection, acquired 1970 from Louis Meier, UK (presumably a gallery located in London)
Price: on requestBeautiful Apulian kantharosFrom an old German collection, acquired 1976 at Kunsthandlung Aloys Faust, Cologne.
Price: on requestRoman glass beakerSmall glass dating to late Roman Imperial times. From the professor Ritschel collection.
Price: on requestEgyptian Eye of Horus of turquoise fayenceSmall amulet in form of the Eye of Horus. Popular type of protective amulet from Ancient Egypt.
Price: on requestPalstave axehead with decorationExtremely well preserved piece from a Bronze Age hoard found in Manston, UK. 1400 to 1150 BC.
Price: on requestCanaanite scarab with pseudo hieroglyphsThe scarab amulet was made during the Second Intermediate Period of Egypt or slightly later in Canaan. It has pseudo hieroglyphs on the bottom side.
Price: on requestCanaanite scarab with pseudo hieroglyphsThe scarab amulet was made during the Second Intermediate Period of Egypt or slightly later in Canaan. It has pseudo hieroglyphs on the bottom side.
Price: on requestScarab mounted in a gold ringThe fantastic piece of jewellery is from the Third Intermediate Period of Ancient Egypt, probably dating to the Nubian Kushite rule of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty.
Price: on requestConoid glass vesselSmall flask from beautiful glass. From the professor Ritschel collection.
Price: on requestFunerary scarab with animal's headNaturalistic scarab in turquoise fayence. The head of another animal has been combined with a scarabs body. Late Period of Ancient Egypt.
Price: on requestFlat funerary scarabNice scarab from turquoise fayence. A special feature are the four drill holes to stitch the piece to a mummy bandage. From the famous Matouk collection.
Price: on requestEgyptian Eye of Horus with empty spacesSmall amulet in form of the Eye of Horus. Popular type of protective amulet from Ancient Egypt.
Price: on requestEgyptian Eye of HorusSmall amulet in form of the Eye of Horus. Popular type of protective amulet from Ancient Egypt.
Price: on requestEgyptian Eye of Horus made of lapis lazuliSmall amulet in form of the Eye of Horus. Popular type of protective amulet from Ancient Egypt.
Price: on requestRoman glass beakerGlass ware dating to Roman Imperial times. Great condition. A production of the Eastern provinces, possibly from Western Anatolia.
Price: on request