Ancient Near East - Special - 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.
-
Sasanian stamp seal with emblemPerfectly preserved seal made of noble green jasper. The piece is from the period of Sasanian rule in the Near East.
Price: on request
Cylinder seal from the Jemdet Nasr periodThe Mesopotamian seal shows a geometrical arrangement of schematic turtles or tadpoles. Around 3000 BC.
Published Beit Natif type oil lamp from Adler collectionFrom the famous Judge Dr. Steve Adler collection. Exported from Israel with IAA permit Nr. 44527.
Price: on request
Sumerian foundation cone from UrukSmall conoid clay nail with cuneiform inscription. From the main temple of Uruk, that is also mentioned in the Epos of Gilgamesh. Circa 3rd Millenium BC.
Price: on request
Mesopotamian cuneiform tabletSmall clay tablet with well preserved Sumerian cuneiform writing. From Mesopotamia, probably from Uruk.
Price: on request
Luristan ibex pendantMassive bronze pendant in the shape of a standing ibex with curved horns. From Iron Age Luristan.
Price: on request
Canaanite bronze blade from General Moshe Dayan collectionHoly Land, 3rd - 2nd millennium BC. Exhibited in the Jewish Museum in New York City in 1975. Moshe Dayan was a famous Israeli politician and military leader who served as Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces, personally commanded the Israeli forces during the 1956 Suez Crisis and served as Defense Minister.
Price: on request
Cylinder seal with goddess and humansThe lovely seal made of black hematite is from Middle Bronze Age Anatolia or Syria. It is from the famous Erlenmeyer collection, built in the 1940ies to 1960ies.
Price: on request
Old Assyrian cylinder sealThe seal shows several gods in front of the god of the heaven. The piece comes from Anatolia or northern Syria, quite possibly from Cappadocia.
Sasanian stamp seal with plant depictionWonderful piece made of dark orange Carnelian. From the period of Sasanian rule in the Near East.
Price: on request
Gnostic intaglio with AbraxasIt shows the god Abraxas with human torso, cock's head and serpants for legs, holding whip and shield. Magical formulas on both sides of the gem. 2nd or 3rd century.
Price: on request
Luristan horse pendantThe spectacular creature with conjoined horse bodies is characteristic for the bronze works of Lurstian. From the early 1st Millenium BC.
Price: on request
Published Beit Natif type oil lamp from Adler collectionFrom the famous Judge Dr. Steve Adler collection. Nozzle decorated with juglet or lamp in high relief. Exported from Israel with IAA permit Nr. 44527.
Price: on request
Gold earrings in the shape of a reed boatMatching pair of Late Bronze Age jewellery made of massive gold in the Eastern Mediterranean. The shape is reminiscent of boats made of budles of reed.
Price: on request
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.
Luristan bronze pendant of an ibexMassive bronze pendant in the shape of a standing ibex with curved horns. From Iron Age Luristan.
Price: on request
Luristan ibex pendantMassive bronze pendant in the shape of a standing ibex with long horns. From Iron Age Luristan.
Price: on request
Driking cup of the Troy typeSo-called Depas Amphikypellon from around 2500 BC. The famous type of drinking vessel from Troy as described in Homer's Iliad.
Price: on request
Cypriot Lekythos with black slipVery well preserved incl. original slip. From the collection of the German actress Lotti Huber, found during excavations in Cyprus in the 1950s.
Price: on request
Conoid stamp sealMade from beautiful mottled stone during Iron Age II. The seal is from southern Anatolia or northern Syria and is engraved with a religious scene.
Price: on request
Stamp seal with handleInteresting Iron Age II seal with schematically engraved animals and humans. The seal is from southern Anatolia or northern Syria.
Cypriot black-on-red jugVery well preserved incl. original painting. From the collection of the German actress Lotti Huber, found during excavations in Cyprus in the 1950s.
Price: on request
Cylinder seal with seated godInteresting seal from Mesopotamia during the Akkad III period. It shows worshippers with cups standing before the sky god.
Price: on request
Old Babylonian cylinder seal with godsSeal of reddish brown stone from the Middle Bronze Age of Mesopotamia. It shows three standing deities, one with the shepherd's staff of Amurru.
Core-formed polychrome glass alabastronNice and small vessel with a strong patina. It is not a classical type of alabastron and retains a few mysteries.
Mesopotamian stamp seal in bull shapeThe magnificent seal is from the Jemdet Nasr period. The stamp shows quadrupeds and a scorpion. Published in a book about the Epstein collection.
Price: on request
Babylonian clay plaque with erotic scenePanel with a religious function in the Old Babylonian Empire. The relief shows a man and a woman during the sexual act, with the woman drinking beer through a straw.
Price: on request
Mesopotamian libation bowlAlabaster vessel with ram's head as a spout for the offering. A perfectly preserved piece from the 3rd Millennium BC.
Phoenician eye beadPolychrome glass bead with stylized elements of a face as protection against the evil eye. Produced in Carthage or the Phoenician homeland, 4th to 3rd century BC.
Price: on request
Phoenician eye beadPolychrome glass bead with stylized elements of a face as protection against the evil eye. Produced in Carthage or the Phoenician homeland, 4th to 3rd century BC.
Price: on request
Large Phoenician eye beadDark and unusually large glass bead with stylized elements of a face as protection against the evil eye. Produced in Carthage or the Phoenician homeland, 4th to 3rd century BC.
Price: on request
Phoenician eye beadPolychrome glass bead with stylized elements of a face as protection against the evil eye. Produced in Carthage or the Phoenician homeland, 4th to 3rd century BC.
Price: on request
Phoenician eye beadPolychrome glass bead with stylized elements of a face as protection against the evil eye. Produced in Carthage or the Phoenician homeland, 4th to 3rd century BC.
Price: on request
Pair of ancient gold earringsInteresting specimen with coil-like biconical cylinder and blue beads. From the first centuries AD, made in the eastern Mediterranean.
Price: on request
Near Eastern bronze swordDouble-edged blade of a Bronze Age sword, the hilt missing. From the middle of the 2nd Millennium BCE.
Price: on request
