Greek - Middle East - 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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Corinthian aryballos in the form of a ramBeautiful small vessel for perfumed oil from the heyday of Corinthian pottery production, at the beginning of the 6th century BC.
Graeco-Roman earrings with gemstonesMatching pair of jewellery made of gold with gemstone of red garnet and white glass bead. From an ancient workshop in Egypt or the Levant.
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Hellenistic gold earring with antelope headEar pendant with plastically modeled head of an antelope. The elaborately made head is typical for hellenistic gold jewellery.
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Pair of ancient gold earringsNice example for ancient gold jewellery with elaborate decoration. From the Dr. Neumeister collection.
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Greek bull askos from SicilyA find from the Greek settlement of Gela in Sicily. Great example of local pottery production in the 5th century BC. The askos offered here was extensively researched and described by Prof. Dr. Isler from the University of Zurich.
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Hellenistic earring with animal headGold jewellery with plastically modeled head of a bird of prey or dolphin. The elaborate gold sheet head is typical for hellenistic earrings.
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Wonderful Apulian kantharos with very rare sceneThe vase shows the fight of Herakles against a centaur, and on the other side a sitting woman with a satyr. Very delicate object, painting of exquisite workmanship for an apulian vase.
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Very fine tetrobol from Histiaia in EuboiaObverse: Wreathed head of nymph Histiaia right, reverse: Nymph Histiaia seated on galley right.
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Published Greek figurine of a pantheressThree-dimensional figurine with high level of detail, very nicely preserved. Around 300 BC, Magna Graecia. Published, from the Leo Mildenberg collection.
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Impressive Apulian bell krater with TL certificateImpressive vase showing a young man and a sitting woman, possibly from the workshop of the Truro Painter.
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Nicely decorated Megarian bowlPerfectly preserved incl. the decoration with leaf bands and blossom medallion in high relief.
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Red figure Oinochoe with rare Satyr sceneOverall great impression with excellently preserved decoration.
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Hellenistic gold earrings with lion headsGold jewellery with plastically modeled heads of a lion. The elaborate gold sheet head is typical for hellenistic earrings.
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Corinthian aryballos in the form of a hareBeautiful small vessel for perfumed oil from the heyday of Corinthian pottery production, made around 600 BC.
Posthumous Alexander the Great tetradrachm from Lampsakos, MysaiaAlmost extremely fine, the head of Herakles in beautifully high relief. From an old German private collection, acquired in the 1980s.
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Very fine Seleukos I. Nikator tetradrachmSeleukos was one of the hetairoi of Alexander the Great. The biga on this coin type is much rarer than the quadriga.
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Perfectly preserve neck amphora with TL certificatePaestan or Campanian. The scientifically confirmed age is 2460 years. Rare in this condition.
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Gnathia pelike worth the exhibition in a museumImpressive vase, decorated with an elaborate female head. Body perfectly preserved incl. original white, red and yellow paint.
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Perfectly preserved large lekythos with TL certificateBody perfectly preserved, including the elaborate original painting. 25 cm high, very impressive vase.
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Four Scythian arrow headsGroup of four arrowheads made of bronze in excellent condition. Popular weapon of the cultures of the 1st Millennium BC.
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Cycladic marble vaseThe so-called Kandila perfectly illustrates why the abstract Bronze Age art of the Cyclades still fascinates us today. The parallels to modern art are unmistakable. The masterpiece comes from Elie Borowski's inventory.
Large black-figure athenian skyphos with parallel in a museumVery impressive, cicely preserved large vase. Painted with women dancing between sphinxes. An almost identical piece is on exhibition at the Musee National Rodin in Paris.
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Campanian bail amphora with warriorThe original white painting of shield and leg protection is perfectly preserved. From an old German collection.
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Etrusco-Corinthian AlabastronNicely preserved, 6th century BC. From an old German collection, acquired in the 1960s.
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Dyrrhachium Illyria drachm - cow suckling calfMagistrates Alkaios and Parmeniskos. Very fine.
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Hellenistic or Roman marble head of ErosFrom the Austrian collection of Prof. Ritschel, carrier of the Large Cross of Honor of the Austrian Republic and many other prizes and honors.
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Thracian silver tondo with female bustBeautiful repoussé from the Hellenistic period showing a female bust in high relief. From the well-known Cullman collection.
Hellenistic or Roman marble torsoFrom an old German private collection, acquired 1962. Impressive piece.
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Hellenistic-Roman clay figurine of a standing womanVery nice condition. From German private collection, acquired 1985 from Aloys Faust, Cologne.
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Clay head of a woman, possibly KybeleHellenistic. Very good condition, nice surface details. From a German private collection, acquired between 1980 and 1985.
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Large Hellenistic clay figurine of a standing womanExcellently preserved example of fine Hellenistic artistry. Ex Bonhams, ex renowned Joseph Klein collection, New York, USA.
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Hellenistic or Roman female marble head - possibly AthenaFrom the Austrian collection of Prof. Ritschel, carrier of the Large Cross of Honor of the Austrian Republic and many other prizes and honors.
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Athenian kantharos from old German private collectionOverall very well preserved. From the German private collection Dr. Dietrich, acquired 1966.
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Large Boeotian kantharos from old German private collectionSecond half 5th century BC. From the German private collection Dr. Dietrich, acquired 1969.
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