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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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Egyptian bronze figurine of Osiris
Small bronze statuette of the god of the afterlife from the Late Period of Ancient Egypt. A find from Thebes.
Price: on requestRoman Terra Sigillata bowl with potters' mark OF PRIM 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.
Price: on requestLarge Terra Sigillata bowl from the Rhineland with running hare and houndsFound 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.
Price: on requestLuristan horse pendantThe spectacular creature with conjoined horse bodies is characteristic for the bronze works of Lurstian. From the early 1st Millenium BC.
Price: on requestVillanovan fibula from the Hattatt collectionBronze brooch of the Italic Iron Age. The piece is published in the standard work "Brooches of Antiquity".
Price: on requestRoman Terra Sigillata bowl 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.
Price: on requestPublished 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 requestScarce Caracalla Denarius, found 1985 in Stonea Grange, CambridgeshireCoined 198 AD as Caesar under Septimius Severus. Found in January 1985 in Stonea Grange area, Cambridgeshire, UK.
Price: on requestBronze ornaments with goddess of victoryMatching pair of appliques that were once soldered to a Roman vessel. They show the goddess of victory, Victoria.
Price: on requestVillanovan fibula from the Hattatt collectionSerpentine bronze brooch of the Italic Iron Age. The piece is published in the standard work "Brooches of Antiquity".
Price: on requestItalic fibula with nice incised decorationLarge bronze brooch of a typical boat-shape from Iron Age Italy. A special feature and rarity are the three links of a chain still hanging on the pin.
Price: on requestCanopic jar of ImsetyEgyptian Late Period canopic jar with a lid in the shape of a human head, representing the Horus son Imsety. The piece stands out by the expressive face and by the original painting.
Price: on requestBowl of the Chancay cultureFlat pottery bowl with abstract painting on the inside. The pre-Columbian art of the Chancay seems simple at first, but radiates an elegance that still seems modern today.
Price: on requestGriechisches GoldohrringpaarWunderschöne antike Ohrringe aus Gold. Griechische Zeit.
Price: on requestGriechisch-römische GoldohrringeDie griechisch-römischen Ohrringe besitzen kunstvolle Granularien. Das Paar ist mehrfach publiziert.
Price: on requestExceptionally well preserved, very rare Demetrios III. tetradrachmExtremely fine, uncirculated piece. Very rare, especially in this condition.
Price: on requestEgyptian faience figurine of the goddess MutRare syncretic merging of the goddesses Mut and Sekhmet. The lion headed statuette is shown standing with the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt.
Price: on requestEgyptian bronze figurine of Khonsu the ChildRare depiction of the god of the moon Khonsu in the manner of the Egyptian child gods. From the Late Period of Ancient Egypt. A find from Karnak.
Price: on requestRoman gold earring with emeraldBeautiful jewellery from the 2nd century made of gold with a green stone bead.
Price: on requestNeolithischer Axtkopf mit MuseumsschäftungDas Steinwerkzeug stammt aus der Jungsteinzeit Nord- oder Mitteleuropas. Besonders hervorzuheben ist die moderne Schäftung in Museumsqualität, die einen großartigen Eindruck von der einstigen Verwendung des Werkzeuges gibt.
Price: on requestLuristan ibex pendantMassive bronze pendant in the shape of a standing ibex with long horns. From Iron Age Luristan.
Price: on requestDriking 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 requestJudaea - Prutah from year 3 of first Jewish WarVery fine condition, beautiful patina. Amphora and vine leaf, Paleo-Hebrew inscriptions "year 3" and "The freedom of Zion".
Price: on requestTiberius denarius - tribute pennyVery fine example of a coin with a very special Biblical context. The reverse shows Livia as Pax. Ex Peus, acquired November 1968.
Price: on requestRoman Terra Sigillata plate with barbotine decoration 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.
Price: on requestCypriot 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 requestRoman Terra Sigillata cup from the Rhineland with mark PASSENIFrom the workshop of Passenus. 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.
Price: on requestMycenaean seal with griffinA wonderful and rare example of the Bronze Age Greek art of engraving stones. It shows a fantasy creature with lion body and bird of prey head. Mid-2nd Millennium BC.
Price: on requestLarge Villanovan fibula from the Hattatt collectionImposing bronze brooch of the Italic Iron Age. The piece is published in the standard work "Brooches of Antiquity".
Price: on requestEarly Italic brooch decorated with beadsThere rare brooch type from northern Italy is based on predecessors from Greece. The piece is from the famous Richard Hattatt collection and is published in two of his works.
Price: on requestRoman intaglio with person on a chairMade of bright orange glass paste. From the Professor Brosch collection of engraved gems.
Price: on requestRoman intaglio with young ErosIt shows the god with his upper body leaning forward, the left leg raised and bent. Magnificent orange glass paste with iridescent patina.
Price: on requestRoman intaglio with child Eros and bowThe glass paste shows the god as a boy, standing with his bow in one hand. From the Professor Brosch collection of engraved gems.
Price: on requestRoman intaglio with goddess of victoryThe glass paste features a famous depiction of Victoria writing the names of victors in battle on a large shield. The motif reiterates a 1st century bronze statue.
Price: on requestHead of Isis - found 1963 at Ras-el-Tin Necropolis, AlexandriaPtolemaic till Roman Egypt, worked with high level of details and very nicely preserved. From an old German collection.
Price: on request