Vessels - 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.
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Two large Roman clay bowlsImpressively large vessels from the Roman Imperial period. Both are finds from the Roman city of Novaesium, today's Neuss in Germany.
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Red figure Oinochoe with rare Satyr sceneOverall great impression with excellently preserved decoration.
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Islamic glass flaskBulbous flask from the Golden Age of Islam. Made of beautiful reddish brown glass. Ex-Sotheby's.
Stirrup vessel in squash shapeGreat example of the intricately designed vessels of the Peruvian Chimú culture, decorated with a monkey and birds. The squash was an important fruit in the pre-Columbian Kingdom of Chimor.
Corinthian aryballos in the form of a hareBeautiful small vessel for perfumed oil from the heyday of Corinthian pottery production, made around 600 BC.
Roman potsherds from the Rhineland, including large relief decorated fragment with she-wolf or bear and birdsFragments 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.
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Roman potsherds and mosaic fragment 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.
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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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Roman Terra Sigillata bowl with potters' mark from the RhinelandFound 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.
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Roman 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.
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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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Roman 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.
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Roman 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.
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Roman terracotta bottle from the Rhineland with painted inscriptionThe insciption TIBI A ME in intense white color is perfectly preserved. 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.
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Roman 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 request
Roman potsherds and mosaic fragment 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.
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Roman 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.
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Roman 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.
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Roman 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.
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Roman lids and other fragments 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.
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Roman 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 request
Roman 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.
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Roman glass bottle with beautiful colour bandsA colourful ancient glass from the early 1st century. Made in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Glass double unguentariumImpressive cosmetic vessel with large handle and nice spiral trailing decoration. A Palestinian type from the Late Roman or Early Byzantine period.
Mochica stirrup vessel as a monkeyDistinctive vessel in the shape of a monkey. Typical Peruvian flask made circa 100 to 500 AD. With documents form the 1980ies.
Stirrup vessel in the shape of cacao fruitsPlastically shaped vessel from the Peruvian Chimú culture. It embodies an important agricultural product of the pre-Columbian civilization of Chimor. With TL report from 1979. Part of a special exhibition from 2024 to 2025.
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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Roman lentoid glass flaskThe flat bottle has a lentoid or discoid body with a long neck. Probably from the Roman province Judaea.
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Large Roman Terra Sigillata cup from workshop of Vitalis - found in the RhinelandWith potters' mark OF VITA. Found 1966 - 1981 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.
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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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Sasanian gilt silver bowlVery nice piece of art from Late Antiquity. Decorated by a relief and a partial gilt. Ex Sotheby's.
Anatolian clay jug with incised decorationThe Bronze Age vessel has wonderful linear decorative bands, the white filling of which contrasts with the dark slip. Circa 2500 to 2000 BC.
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