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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.

29 Items

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  1. Roman Republic - 60 gold asses - one of the best known specimen
    Roman Republic - 60 gold asses - one of the best known specimen

    Bearded head of Mars, wearing crested Corinthian helmet. The reverse shows an eagle standing right on thunderbolt. Perfectly centered. Exported from Italy with permit of the Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali.

    Price: on request
  2. Media Label
    Published funerary relief of Hermes from Palmyra

    Grabrelief eines bärtigen Mannes aus Palmyra mit Inschrift, diese besagt „Bildnis des Hermes. Wehe!“. Museales Stück.

    Price: on request
  3. Großer rotfiguriger Henkelkrater
    Großer rotfiguriger Henkelkrater

    Hellroter Ton mit schwarzem Überzug, Details in weißer Bemalung ausgearbeitet. Museal erhalten. Glänzender Überzug, perfekt erhaltene Bemalung. Imposantes Stück.

    Price: on request
  4. Museal erhaltener apulischer Glockenkrater
    Published Krater attributed to the Nicholson painter

    Impressive, very large and perfectly preserved vase with thermoluminescence expertise.

    Price: on request
  5. Museal erhaltener apulischer Glockenkrater
    Large Roman mosaic of a capricorn hunt

    Very large, perfectly preserved polychrome mosaic from a Jerusalem collection.

    Price: on request
  6. Roman marble head
    Roman marble portrait of a goddess

    Roman Imperial copy of a classical Greek original. Coming with an Art Loss certificate.

    Price: on request
  7. Serapis marble bust from Joachim Menant collection
    Serapis marble bust from Joachim Menant collection

    Famous egyptologist who excavated in Alexandria in the 19th century. Acquired in Egypt during this time, since then and until 2016 in the Menant family collection. With Art Loss certificate.

  8. Bowl from Hoard
    Hoard from the Late Bronze Age

    Complete surviving hoard consisting of one bronze bowl, two belts and twelve bracelets. Urnfield culture HaB1. The amazingly well preserved group is excessively rare on the art market as well as in museum collections.

  9. Extremely rare Augustus aureus
    Extremely rare Augustus aureus

    Not in RIC, BMC or Cohen. This coin is published in Calico, Bahrfeldt, Banti/Simonetti. Published as part of the Manuel Vidal Quadras y Ramón collection (Nr. 2942) in 1892. Sold in Etienne Bourgey December 1913 auction in Paris.

    Price: on request
  10. Buy Ensemble of Hellenistic gold jewellery
    Ensemble of Hellenistic gold jewellery

    Group of a necklace with amphora shaped pendants, a lunula amulet and a pair of earrings with discoid rosettes and amphoras. Belonging to a burial around 300 BC. With well documented 19th century provenance.

    Price: on request
  11. Buy ushabti of Psamtik-mery-Ptah
    Imposing ushabti of Psamtik-mery-Ptah

    From an early 19th century excavation in Saqqara. Psamtik-mery-Ptah was superintendent or admiral of the royal fleet during the reign of Amasis II and waged war at sea against king Nebuchadnezzar II after his troops famously invaded the Holy Land and conquered Jerusalem.

    Price: on request
  12. Etruscan Vetulonia type helmet
    Etruscan Vetulonia type helmet

    From the possession of New York City antiquities dealer Sumner Healey, who was made famous by Berenice Abbott's scenic photograph from 1936.

  13. Buy Roman bronze furniture
    Side frame of a Roman stool

    Piece of a seating furniture with elaborate openwork designs. The fantastic state of preservation is known from other bronze stools found in Pompeii and the area around Mount Vesuvius.

  14. Roman marble Isis statue - ex Christie's New York
    Roman marble Isis statue - ex Christie's New York

    The surface is excellently preserved. The knot above the breast clearly identifies the statue as Isis. Acquired in 1975 at Galerie Carrefour, Pierre Vérité, Paris. Coming with an Art Loss certificate.

    Price: on request
  15. Large white-ground athenian Lekythos - Painter of Athens 1826
    Large white-ground athenian Lekythos - Painter of Athens 1826

    With TL analysis. Impressive vessel, perfectly preserved delicate painting. Ancient graffito XE on foot.

  16. Buy a very rare large Samian Ware hunt cup at Alte Roemer Gallery
    Very rare large Samian Ware hunt cup

    The barbotine decoration is masterly made and excellently preserved. Absolutely worth the exhibition in a museum. A similar piece is on exhibition in the British Museum in London. Ex Vienna Schönbrunn Gallery, acquired 1986. With TL analysis.

  17. Statuette of Ptah-Sokar-Osiris
    Ptah-Sokar-Osiris statuette for Ta-scherit-Mehjt

    Large wooden statue representing the ancient Egyptian funerary deity Ptah-Sokar-Osiris. Nicely painted figurine including base from the Ptolemaic period of ancient Egypt.

  18. Buy Egyptian Canopic jar of Imsety
    Canopic jar of Imsety

    Egyptian 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 request
  19. Large Roman funerary stela with high relief
    Large Roman funerary stela with high relief

    The elaborate high relief shows the deceased resting on a kline, pointing to a tabula ansata which originally carried a painted inscription. Roman Empire, 2nd century AD. Ex Galerie Cahn, Basel.

    Price: on request
  20. Buy funerary statuette for Henuttawy
    Funerary statuette for Princess Henuttawy

    The Egyptian shabti is from the daughter of Pinudjem II who ruled Egypt during the Third Intermediate Period. It was excavated in the 1840ies at the Ramesseum.

    Price: on request
  21. Buy Egyptian faience statuette of a baboon
    Egyptian faience statuette of a baboon

    The small work of art dates to the Late Period of ancient Egypt. It is worthy to be displayed at a major museum. Published in two works on the famous Epstein collection.

  22. Roman bronze Apollo Kitharoidos - ex Christie's
    Roman bronze Apollo Kitharoidos - ex Christie's

    Impressive, very aesthetic figure. Excellently preserved with beautiful patina. Mounted on modern green marble base.

  23. Buy Sword of the Urnfield culture
    Sword of the Urnfield culture from a museum collection

    Wonderfully preserved bronze weapon from the time around 1000 BC. It was made in Central Europe by the Urnfield culture and formed part of a museum collection for almost 70 years.

    Price: on request
  24. Large black-figure athenian skyphos with parallel in a museum
    Large black-figure athenian skyphos with parallel in a museum

    Very 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.

  25. Buy Egyptian ushabti of the Royal Scribe Hor-maa-kheru
    Egyptian ushabti of the Royal Scribe Hor-maa-kheru

    The Egyptian funerary figurine dates to the reign of Pharaoh Amasis II, towards the end of the 26th Dynasty. Excavated in Saqqara in the mid-19th century. Shown in a 1979 Sotheby's catalogue.

  26. Buy eye idol from Mesopotamia
    Imposing eye idol from Mesopotamia

    The highly abstract figure was made in northern Mesopotamia, probably in northern Iraq. A wonderful piece from the late 4th Millennium BC.

  27. Buy Sasanian gilt silver bowl
    Sasanian gilt silver bowl

    Very nice piece of art from Late Antiquity. Decorated by a relief and a partial gilt. Ex Sotheby's.

  28. Buy Egyptian coffin lid
    Egyptian coffin lid with painting

    Main part of a sarcophagus lid with a polychrome painted exterior. A wonderful insight into the Egyptian death rituals from the Ptolemaic-Roman period in Egypt.

  29. Buy Egyptian bronze statuette of Amun
    Egyptian bronze statuette of Amun

    It impresses by its size and artistic quality. An inscription identifies the piece as votive offering at one of Amun's temples. From the Late Period of Ancient Egypt.

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