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Roman
4th Century Rome (Model)
c. 300-350, Museo della Civiltà Romana, Rome

     

Greek
Abduction of Helen Mosaic from Pella
c. 325-300 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Pella

 

Roman
Aboukir Medallion with Alexander the Great
c. 200-300, Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon

 

Aegean
Acrobat from Knossos (Bull leaper)
c. 2000-1550 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Iraklion

 

Greek
Acropolis
c. 447-406 BCE, Athens

         

Roman
Adventus of Vespasian
c. 93-95, Musei Vaticani, Rome

   

Aegean
The Aegean World

   

Roman
Aerial View of Timgad
100, Timgad

 

Greek
Aged Herakles
c. 100 BCE - 100 CE, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

Aegean
Aghios Onouphrios Ware Beak-Spouted Jug
c. 3000-2500 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Iraklion

 

Roman
Agora Gate from Miletus
c. 165, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin

 

Roman
Agrippina the Younger
c. 48-51, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Parma

 

Celtic
Agris Helmet
4th c BCE, Musée de la Société Archeologique et Historique de la Charente, Angoulême

 

Egyptian
Akhenaten and His Family
c. 1353-1336 BCE, Ägyptisches Museum and Papyrussammlung, Berlin

   

Egyptian
Akhenaten and his Family Making Offerings
c. 1353 BCE, Egyptian Museum, Cairo

 

Egyptian
Akhenaten and Nefertiti Making Offerings
c. 1350 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Cairo

 

Egyptian
Akhenaten Presenting a Duck to Aten
c. 1353-1336 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Greek
Akroterion with Double Palmette, from a Grave Stele
c. 350-325 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Greek
Alabastron in the Form of a Woman Holding a Bird
c. 560-550 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

 

Greek
Alabastron with Typhon
c. 560-545 BCE, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven

 

Greek
Alabastron with Winged Figure
c. 625-600 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Roman
Alexander Mosaic (The Battle of Issos)
c. 79 BCE, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples

               

Greek
Alexander Sarcophagus
c. 320 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Istanbul

             

Pre-Columbian
Altar 5
c. 900-400 BCE, Parque-Museo de La Venta, Villahermosa

 

Roman
Altar of Domitius Ahenobarbus
c. 125-75 BCE

     

Mesopotamian
Altar of Tukulti-Ninurta I (Cult Pedestal of the God Nusku)
c. 1244-1208 BCE, Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin

   

Greek
Altar with Eos and Kephalos
c. 500-475 BCE, Museo Archaeologico Regionale di Gela, Gela

 

Greek
Altar with Medusa, Pegasus and Chrysaor
c. 500-475 BCE, Museo Archaeologico Regionale di Gela, Gela

   

Greek
Altar with Three Female Figures
c. 500-475 BCE, Museo Archaeologico Regionale di Gela, Gela

 

Aegean
Amber Necklace from Mycenae
16th c BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

 

Aegean
Amber Necklace from Mycenae
16th-15th c BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

 

Egyptian
Amenemhab with Lotus, Offered by His Father, Djehuti
c. 1550-1479 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Egyptian
Amenhotep III and Queen Tiy
1391-1353 BCE, Egyptian Museum, Cairo

 

Egyptian
Amenirdas I, God's Wife (Priestess) of Amen
c. 744-656 BCE, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha

 

Roman
Amiens Patera
c. 200-250, Musée de Picardie, Amiens

 

Roman
Amphitheater at Pompeii
c. 80-70 BCE, Pompeii

   

Greek
Amphora from Melos
c. 625-600 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

   

Greek
Amphora with a Musical Competition
c. 500-480 BCE, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

Byzantine
Amphora with Amazonomachy
c. 300-400, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Greek
Amphora with Dionysus and Attendants
c. 525-500 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Greek
Amphora with Funerary Scenes
c. 720-710 BCE, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

Greek
Amphora with Herakles and Nessos
c. 530-520 BCE, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

 

Greek
Amphora with Herakles and Pholos
c. 520-510 BCE, private collection

 

Greek
Amphora with Herakles Battling Centaurs
c. 560-550 BCE, private collection

 

Roman
Amphora with Putti
c. 25-50, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples

   

Greek
Amphora with Revelers
c. 550-540 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Greek
Amphora with Satyr Masks
c. 530 BCE, Art Institute of Chicago

 

Greek
Amphora with the Departure of Memnon
c. 510-500 BCE, private collection

 

European Bronze Age
Amphora with Wagon Scene
c. 1300 BCE, Zemplinske Museum, Michalovce

 

Roman
Amphoriskos
c. 1-100, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples

 

Roman
Amphoriskos
c. 200-400, Princeton University Art Museum

 

Roman
Amphoriskos
c. 200-400, Princeton University Art Museum

 

Aegean
Amphoroid Krater with Bulls and Floral Decoration
14th c BCE, Cyprus Museum, Nicosia

 

Aegean
Amphoroid Krater with Chariot Scene
13th c BCE, Archaeological Museum, Nauplion

 

Egyptian
Amulet in the Form of Sow
c. 672-525 BCE, private collection

 

Mesopotamian
Amulet with a Figure of Lamashtu
c. 800 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Greek
Amulet with a Running Medusa
c. 500-400 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Egyptian
Amun
c. 800-770 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

     

Roman
Anaglypha Hadriani
c. 117-120, Curia, Forum Romanum, Rome

 

Greek
Analatos Amphora
c. 700-675 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

   

Greek
Anavysos Kouros
c. 530 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

   

Egyptian
Ancestral Bust of a Woman
c. 1336-1279 BCE, Brooklyn Museum

 


Ancient Anatolia

 

Egyptian
Ancient Egypt

 

Egyptian
Ancient Egypt

   

Etruscan
Ancient Etruria
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Greek
Ancient Greece

   

Greek
Ancient Greek Sites

 

Greek
Ancient Greek Sites in Italy

 

Greek
The Ancient Greek World, up to 400 BCE
before 400 BCE

 


Ancient Iran

 


The Ancient Mediterranean

 

Mesopotamian
Ancient Mesopotamia

 


The Ancient Near East

   


The Ancient World

 

Greek
Angelitos's Athena
c. 480 BCE, Acropolis Museum, Athens

 

Egyptian
Ankh Seated with Clasped Hands
c. 2780-2680 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Etruscan
Antefix in the form of a woman's head
c. 510-500 BCE, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

 

Etruscan
Antefix with Head of a Woman Wearing a Diadem
c. 550-500 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Etruscan
Antefix with Maenad and Silenos Dancing
c. 500-450 BCE, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

 

Aegean
Antelopes Fresco
c. 1550-1100 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

 

Etruscan
Anthropomorphic Cinerary Urn
c. 535 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Pre-Columbian
Anthropomorphic Figure
c. 1000-400 BCE, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Anthropomorphic Head (Monument M)
500-300 BCE, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Anthropomorphic Jaguar Figure
c. 600-300 BCE, Museo Regional de Chiapas, Tuxtla Gutiérrez

 

Greek
Antikythera Bronze
c. 350 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

 

Roman
Antinous as Apollo
c. 130-138, Archaeological Museum, Delphi

 

Roman
Antinous as Aristaios
after 130, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Roman
Antinous as Osiris
after 130, Musei Vaticani, Rome

       

Egyptian
Anubis
c. 1403-1365 BCE, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen

 

Egyptian
Anubis Leaning over the Mummy of Sennedjem
c. 1294-1213 BCE, Necropolis, Deir el-Medina

 

Roman
Aphrodite
before 79, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples

 

Greek
Aphrodite of Melos (Venus de Milo)
c. 125-75 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

   

Greek
Aphrodite with Eros Statuette
c. 450 BCE, Museo Archaeologico di Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria

 

Greek
Aphrodite, Pan, and Eros
c. 100 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

 

Roman
Apollo and Herakles Fighting Over the Tripod
c. 100-200, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

Greek
Apollo Belvedere
330 BCE, Vatican Museum, Rome

   

Greek
Apollo Citharoedus
c. 200-100 BCE, Museo Archaeologico Nazionale, Naples

 

Greek
Apollo from Piraeus (Zeus Soter)
c. 525 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

   

Etruscan
Apollo from Veii
c. 510-500 BCE, Museo Nazionale di Villa Giulia, Rome

       

Greek
Apollo of Piombino
c. 480 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

   

Roman
Apotheosis of Caesar (Belvedere Altar)
c. 12-2 BCE, Musei Vaticani, Rome

 

Roman
Apotheosis of Sabrina, from the Arco di Portogallo
136 - 138, Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome

 

Central Asian
Appliqué of a Tiger with Antlers
c. 600-500 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Appliqué of Two Roosters
c. 500-400 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Roman
Aqueduct
c. 50, Segovia

   

Roman
Ara Pacis Augustae
13-9 BCE, Rome

                   

Roman
Ara Pietatis Augustae (Altar of Augustan Piety)
c. 43, Villa Medici, Rome

 

Roman
Arch of Augustus
27 BCE, Rimini

 

Roman
Arch of Augustus
9 BCE, Susa

     

Roman
Arch of Constantine
312-315, Rome

               

Roman
Arch of Galerius
c. 298-303, Thessaloniki

   

Roman
Arch of Septimius Severus
203, Forum Romanum, Rome

       

Roman
Arch of Septimius Severus
203, Lepcis Magna, Tripoli

 

Roman
Arch of the Argentarii
204, Forum Boarium, Rome

     

Roman
Arch of the Sergii
c. 10-20, Pola

 

Roman
Arch of Tiberius
c. 25, Orange

   

Roman
Arch of Titus
c. 81, Rome

             

Roman
Arch of Trajan
c. 114-118, Benevento

       

Roman
Arch of Trajan, Timgad
c. 150-200, Timgad

 

Egyptian
Archaistic Statue of a Priest of Amun (The Dattari Statue)
c. 381-362 BCE, Brooklyn Museum

 

Egyptian
Archaizing Relief from the Tomb of Montuemhat
c. 670-650 BCE, Brooklyn Museum

 

Mesopotamian
Architectural Decoration from the Temple of Inanna
c. 1500-1400 BCE, Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin

     

Egyptian
Architectural Relief of Nectanebo I
c. 380-362 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Greek
Architectural Revetment from Duver
c. 550-500 BCE

 

Greek
Architectural Sculpture from the Temple at Prinias
c. 625-600 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Iraklion

 

Greek
Architectural Tile with Vegetal Motifs
c. 600-500 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Greek
Aristodikos Kouros
c. 500 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

 

Central Asian
Arrowhead with a Bird and an Antelope Head
c. 700-600 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Greek
Artemis
c. 100 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

 

Greek
Artemis from Piraeus
c. 350 BCE, Piraeus Museum, Piraeus

 

Greek
Artemision Zeus, or Poseidon
c. 460-450 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

     

Greek
Aryballos with a Lion
c. 625 BCE, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

Greek
Aryballos with Bellerophon and Pegasus
c. 625-600 BCE, Princeton University Art Museum

 

Greek
Asclepius of Munychia
c. 350 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

 

Mesopotamian
Ashur

 

Mesopotamian
Ashurbanipal Rebuilding Babylon
c. 650 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Roman
Athena
c. 100-200, Archaeological Museum, Argos

 

Greek
Athena
c. 510 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

   

Greek
Athena
c. 490-480 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

   

Greek
Athena
c. 470-460 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

   

Greek
Athena
c. 480-470 BCE, Antikensammlung, Berlin

 

Greek
Athena from Piraeus
c. 350 BCE, Piraeus Museum, Piraeus

     

Greek
Athena Promachos
c. 580-560 BCE, private collection

 

Roman
Athena with a Owl (The Lanckoronski Relief)
c. 1-100, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond

 

Greek
Athena with an Owl
c. 450 BCE, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

Greek
Athena, from the Pediment of the Temple of the Peisistratidai
c. 525 BCE, Acropolis Museum, Athens

 

Greek
Athena, from the West Pediment of the Temple of Apollo Daphnephoros
c. 510 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Chalkis

 

Greek
Athenian Agora
c. 500-150 BCE, Athens

           

Greek
Athens in the 5th Century BCE
c. 450-400 BCE, Athens

 

Roman
Athletes Mosaic from the Baths of Caracalla
dedicated 216, Musei Vaticani, Rome

 

Egyptian
Atjema Standing
c. 2465-2323 BCE, Egyptian Museum, Cairo

 

Greek
Attic Calyx Krater
c. 420-410 BCE, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

 

Greek
Attic Funerary Lekythos
c. 330 BCE, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen

   

Greek
Attic Jug with Birds
c. 750-735 BCE, Martin von Wagner Museum, Würzburg

 

Greek
Attic Krater with Dionysos at a Banquet
410 BCE, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples

 

Greek
Attic Lekythos with Funerary Scene
410 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

 

Greek
Attic White-Ground Krater with Hermes and the Infant Dionysos
c. 440-430 BCE, Vatican Museum, Rome

 

Greek
Attic White-Ground Lekythos with a Woman before a Tomb
c. 410-400 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Greek
Attica
5th Century BCE

 

Roman
Attis and a Nymph, House of Pinarius Cerealis
c. 62-79, House of Pinarius Cerealis, Pompeii

 

Roman
Augustus as Pontifex Maximus
12 BCE, Museo Nazionale Romano - Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome

 

Roman
Augustus of Primaporta
c. 14-37, Musei Vaticani, Rome

         

Etruscan
Aula Metele
c. 100-50 BCE, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Florence

 

Roman
Aula Palatina (Audience Hall of Constantine Chlorus)
c. 310, Trier

       

Roman
Aulus Metellus (Orator)
c. 80 BCE, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Florence

       

Roman
Aurelianic Walls of Rome
271-275, Rome

 

Roman
Aureus of Marcus Aurelius
161, British Museum, London

 

Roman
Aureus with Julia Doma, Caracalla and Geta
202, American Numismatic Society, New York

 

Roman
Aureus with Portrait of Maxentius
308

 

Roman
Aureus with Portraits of Nero and Agrippina the Younger
54, British Museum, London

 

Roman
Aureus with Septimius Severus
202, American Numismatic Society, New York

 

Central Asian
Axe
c. 800-600 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Axe Head decorated with the Head of a Horse
c. 2000 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Pre-Columbian
Axe with Footprint
c. 1200-900 BCE, Centro INAH Veracruz

 

Iranian
Axe with Male Figure and Two Dogs
c. 2000-1700 BCE, Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem

 

Egyptian
Baboon Appliqué
305-30 BCE, Brooklyn Museum

 

Egyptian
Baboon Statuette
c. 3100 BCE, Ägyptisches Museum and Papyrussammlung, Berlin

 

Pre-Columbian
Baby Holding a Ball
c. 1200-800 BCE, de Young Museum, San Francisco

 

Mesopotamian
Babylon
7th-6th Century BCE

   

Mesopotamian
Babylonian Map of the World
6th c. BCE, British Museum, London

   

Roman
Bacchus and Silenus
c. 100-200, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Roman
Balbinus in the Guise of Jupiter
238, Archaeological Museum, Piraeus

 

Greek
Ballot Disks
c. 600-400 BCE, Agora Museum, Athens

 

Pre-Columbian
Ballplayer Relief
c. 1000-400 BCE, Museo Regional de Chiapas, Tuxtla Gutiérrez

 

Roman
Banquet Couch
c. 100-27 BCE, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

Egyptian
Banquet Scene from the Tomb of Nebamun
c. 1427-1400 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Syrian
Baptistery of a Christian House-Church at Dura-Europos
c. 240, Destroyed 256

   

Roman
Barbarian Warrior
after 106, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Aegean
Barbotine Jugs
c. 2000-1800 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Iraklion

 

Roman
Barrel Flask
c. 200, Römisch-Germanisches Museum, Cologne

 

Etruscan
Barrel-Shaped Oinochoe with Goats Flanking a Tree
c. 725-700 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Greek
Base of a Kouros from the Themistoklean Wall
c. 500 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

   

Greek
Base of a Statue, from the Themistoklean Wall
c. 490 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

 

Roman
Basilica at Pompeii
c. 130-120 BCE, Pompeii

   

Roman
Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine (Basilica Nova)
306-13, Rome

         

Egyptian
Basin with Handle
c. 2323-2150 BCE, Ägyptisches Museum, Leipzig

 

Egyptian
Bastet as a Cat
c. 664-610 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Roman
Baths at Herculaneum
before 79, Herculaneum

 

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