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Islamic
'Abbasi Coin
c. 1624-1625, British Museum, London

 

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

 

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

 

Islamic
'Alam (Processional Standard)
c. 1500-1600, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto

 

Islamic
'Alam (Standard)
c. 1600-1650, Riza 'Abbasi Museum, Tehran

 

German
Altar Cross
c. 985, Essen Cathedral Treasury, Essen

 

German
Altar Cross
c. 1150-1175, Dom-Museum Hildesheim

 

German
Altar Cross of Abbess Mathilde and Duke Otto
973-982, Essen Cathedral Treasury, Essen

 

French
Alton Towers Triptych
c. 1150, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

   

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

 

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

 

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

 

Byzantine
The Antioch Chalice
c. 500-550, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

English
Aquamanile in the Form of a Horseman
c. 1250, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

 

Italian
Aquamanile in the form of a Mounted Knight
c. 1000-1100, Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence

 

French
Aquamanile in the form of Aristotle and Phyllis
c. 1400, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Hiberno-Saxon
Ardagh Chalice
c. 725, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin

 

Islamic
The Arenberg Basin
c. 1239-1249, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

 

German
Arm Reliquary
c. 1130-1140, Dom-Museum Hildesheim

 

Swiss
Arm Reliquary of Saint Valentine
c. 1380-1400, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

German
Arm Reliquary of the Apostles
c. 1190, Cleveland Museum of Art

 

Italian
Armor belonging to a Member of the Von Match Family
c. 1450, Schloss Churburg

 

Austrian
Armor for a Hussar
c. 1590-1600, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz

 

Austrian
Armor for an Infantry or Light Cavalry Officer
c. 1555-1560, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz

 

German
Armor for the Field
c. 1500-1510, private collection

 

Italian
Armor for the Field
c. 1600-1610, private collection

 

English
Armor for the Field and Tournament, made for Duke Friedrich Ulrich of Brunswick
c. 1610-1613, private collection

 

German
Armor for the Joust of Peace
c. 1490-1520, Wallace Collection, London

   

Austrian
Armor for the Joust over the Tilt
c. 1570-1580, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz

   

German
Armor of Albrecht of Brandenburg
c. 1526, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

 

English
Armor of Charles I as a Boy
c. 1616, Royal Armories Museum, Leeds

 

German
Armor of Charles V (The KD Armor)
c. 1525, Real Armería, Madrid

   

English
Armor of Henry VIII
c. 1539, Royal Collection, Windsor

 

Flemish
Armor of Philip I
c. 1500, Real Armería, Madrid

 

Islamic
Arms of a Processional Cross
c. 653-672, Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid

 

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

 

Bohemian
Articulated Crown
c. 1400-1500, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

 

Byzantine
Artophorion (Reliquary of Saint Anastasios the Persian)
c. 969-970, Aachen Cathedral

 

Spanish
Astorga Casket
c. 900, Museo de la Catedral, Astorga

   

Islamic
Astrolabe
927-928, Kuwait National Museum, Kuwait City

 

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

 

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

 

Viking
Axehead with Animal Decoration
c. 970-971, Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen

   

German
Backplate and Pauldrons
c. 1475-1500, Cleveland Museum of Art

 

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

 

Viking
Bamberg Casket
c. 975, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich

 

Islamic
Baptistere de Saint Louis
c. 1300, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Italian
Barbute
c. 1350-1420, Cleveland Museum of Art

 

Italian
Barbute
c. 1455-1460, Art Institute of Chicago

 

Islamic
Basin Made for Sultan Qa'itbay
c. 1468-1496, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

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

 

Celtic
The Battersea Shield
c. 100 BCE - 100 CE, British Museum, London

   

Mesopotamian
Beaded Necklace with Pendants
c. 2000 BCE, Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin

 

Iranian
Beaker with Male Figures
c. 1400-1200 BCE, Miho Museum, Shigaraki

       

Anatolian Bronze Age
Beaker, Flask and Sauceboat from Priam's Treasures in Troy (Gold Vessels from Troy)
c. 2000-1700 BCE, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

 

Islamic
Bell
c. 1600-1800, Kuwait National Museum, Kuwait City

 

Persian
Bell-Shaped Rhyton
c. 500-300 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Ufa

 

Pre-Columbian
Bells from a Necklace
c. 1469, Museo del Templo Mayor, Mexico City

 

Visigothic
Belt Buckle
6th c, Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid

 

Byzantine
Belt Buckle
c. 600-700, British Museum, London

 

Frankish
Belt Buckle with a Griffin Drinking from a Fountain
c. 600-700, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

Central Asian
Belt Buckle with a Tiger and a Monster
c. 400-200 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Belt Buckle with Figures under a Tree
c. 400-200 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Belt Buckle with Griffin Heads
c. 520-480 BCE, Musée Barbier-Muller, Geneva

 

Frankish
Belt Buckle with Interlace Motif
c. 600-700, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

Central Asian
Belt Plaque with a Monster Attacking a Horse
c. 400-200 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Belt Plaque with a Vulture Mauling a Yak and a Tiger
c. 400-100 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Belt Plaque with Boar Hunting Scene
c. 300-100 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Belt Plaque with Dragons and Tree of Life
c. 200-100 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Frankish
Belt Tip with Gilding and Niello
c. 500-600, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

German
The Bernward Cross
c. 1007-1022, Dom-Museum Hildesheim

 

German
Bernward's Candlesticks
before 1022, Dom-Museum Hildesheim

 

Native American
Bilobed-Arrow Headdress
c. 1200-1400, National Museum of the American Indian, Washington D.C.

 

Viking
Bird-Shaped (Pelican?) Brooch
c. 1000-1100, Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen

 

German
Black and White Three Quarter Armor for an Officer of Bodyguards
c. 1575, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz

 

German
Blue and Gold Parade Armor of Maximilian II
16th, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

 

German
Book Cover from Sion Cathedral
c. 922-37, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

German
Book Cover of Archbishop Aribert
1018-1045, Milan Cathedral Treasury, Milan

 

Frankish
Book Cover of the Codex Aureus of Charles the Bald
870, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich

   

German
Book Cover of the Echternach Codex Aureus with the Crucifixion
983-1056, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg

 

French
Book Cover Plaque with the Crucifixion
c. 1200-1300, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

German
Book Cover with the Crucifixion
c. 1000-1050, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich

 

Frankish
Book Cover with the Crucifixion
c. 840-850, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

 

Byzantine
Bookcover with Christ and the Virgin Orans
c. 950-1050, Treasury of San Marco, Venice

   

Byzantine
Bookcover with Crucifixion and Anastasis
c. 1300-1400, Treasury of San Marco, Venice

   

Frankish
Bow Fibula
c. 500-550, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

Frankish
Bow Fibula
c. 550-650, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

Frankish
Bow Fibula
c. 550-600, private collection

 

Central Asian
Bow-Case Ornament in the Form of a Stag with Superimposed Animals
c. 500-300 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Mesopotamian
Bowl
c. 2600-2400 BCE, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia

   

Aegean
Bowl
c. 2800-2200 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Islamic
Bowl
c. 1100-1200, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Islamic
Bowl
1643-1644, British Museum, London

 

Islamic
Bowl
1622-1623, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Levantine
Bowl from Ugarit with Hunting Scenes
c. 1400-1300 BCE

     

Persian
Bowl with a Lion Attacking a Deer
c. 600-800, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Roman
Bowl with a Portrait of Constantius II
c. 350, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Persian
Bowl with Appliques of Composite Animals and Foliage
c. 600-500 BCE, Miho Museum, Shigaraki

 

Roman
Bowl with Busts of Barbarians
c. 150-200, Regionální Muzeum v Mikulov, Mikulov

 

Persian
Bowl with Garnet Inlays
c. 150-1 BCE, Miho Museum, Shigaraki

 

Central Asian
Bowl with Herakles
c. 500-700, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Levantine
Bowl with Hunting Scene
c. 900-700 BCE, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

Persian
Bowl with Male Figure and Grapevine Scrolls
c. 500-700, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Byzantine
Bowl with Portrait of a Saint
641-51, British Museum, London

 

Greek
Box Mirror with the Head of a Woman
c. 375-350 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Greek
Box Mirror with the Head of Pan
c. 325-300 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Roman
Bracelet in the Form of a Snake
before 79, British Museum, London

 

Greek
Bracelet with Lion Terminals
c. 450-350 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

   

Islamic
Bracelets
c. 1000-1100, Kuwait National Museum, Kuwait City

 

Egyptian
Bracelets of Queen Hetep-heres
c. 2575-2528 BCE, Egyptian Museum, Cairo

 

Islamic
Brass Ewer with Silver Inlay
c. 1200, British Museum, London

   

Islamic
Brass Tray with Inscriptions
c. 1330-1360, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

Islamic
Brazier
c. 1250-1295, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

German
Breastplate
c. 1475-1500, Cleveland Museum of Art

 

Oceanic
Breastplate
c. 1850-1950, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

German
Breastplate with Crucifixion and Kneeling Figure
c. 1550, Cleveland Museum of Art

 

German
Brigandine
c. 1500-1550, Art Institute of Chicago

 

Viking
Broad-Bladed Axehead with Openwork Section forming a Cross
c. 950-1000, Statens Historiska Museum, Stockholm

 

German
Bronze Armilla with the Crucifixion
c. 1165, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg

 

Aegean
Bronze Armor from Dendra (The Dendra Panoply)
15th c BCE

   

Aegean
Bronze Bowl from Mycenae
c. 1300 BCE

 

Levantine
Bronze Bowl with Egyptian Motifs
c. 800-700 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Mesopotamian
Bronze Bowl with Star Motif
c. 900-700 BCE, British Museum, London

 

European Bronze Age
Bronze Cuirass from Marmesse
9th-8th c BCE, Musée des Antiquités Nationales, Saint-Germain-en-Laye

 

Celtic
Bronze Fitting in the Shape of a Horse's Head (The Stanwick Horse Mask)
1st c BCE, British Museum, London

 

Celtic
Bronze Openwork Phalera
5th c BCE, British Museum, London

 

Celtic
Bronze Openwork Phalera
c. 400-350 BCE, Musée des Antiquités Nationales, Saint-Germain-en-Laye

 

Etruscan
Bronze Urn
c. 710 BCE

 

Celtic
Brooch with Hanging Pendants
c. 1200-800 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Celtic
Brooch with Spirals
c. 1400-1100 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Celtic
Brooch with Spirals
c. 1200-800 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Viking
Bucket from the Oseberg Ship
c. 815-820, Vikingskiphuset, Oslo

 

Frankish
Buckle
c. 600-650, private collection

 

Frankish
Buckle and Tongue of Queen Aregund
c. 550-600, Musée des Antiquités Nationales, Saint-Germain-en-Laye

 

Anglo-Saxon
Buckle from the Sutton Hoo Ship Burial
c. 600-650, British Museum, London

 

Celtic
Buckle with Arched Back
c. 300-200 BCE, private collection

 

Viking
Buckle with Figure in a Horned Helmet
c. 600-700, Institute of Archaeology, Oxford

 

Aegean
Bucranium Earring from Mavro Spelio
c. 1400-1200 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Iraklion

 

Aegean
Bull Head Rhyton from Mycenae
1500 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

 

Anatolian
Bull-Shaped Vessel
c. 1400-1200 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Etruscan
Bulla with Daedalus and Icarus
c. 500-400 BCE, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

Greek
Bull's-Head Earring
c. 300-250 BCE, Athens

 

French
The Burghley Nef (Salt Cellar)
1527-1528, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

German
Burgonet
c. 1650-1700, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Italian
Burgonet Alla Romana Antica
c. 1550-1555, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Italian
Burgonet, Buffe and Breastplate
c. 1550-1600, Cleveland Museum of Art

 

Islamic
Calligraphic Plaque
c. 1650-1700, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

English
Candle Snuffers with the Arms of Edward VI
c. 1547-1553, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

Islamic
Candlestick
c. 1575-1600, Kuwait National Museum, Kuwait City

 

Islamic
Candlestick
c. 1430-1450, private collection

 

Islamic
Candlestick
c. 1260-1309, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

Islamic
Candlestick
c. 1000-1100, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha

 

Islamic
Candlestick
c. 1250-1350, Seattle Art Museum

 

Islamic
Candlestick
c. 1300-1500, private collection

 

Islamic
Candlestick
c. 1560, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto

 

Swedish
Carousel Equipment à la Romaine for the Accession of Charles XI of Sweden
1672, Livrustkammaren, Stockholm

   

German
Carving Set
c. 1455-1500, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

Greek
Casket
c. 500-400 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

 

Islamic
Casket
c. 1150-1200, private collection

 

Islamic
Casket
c. 1150-1200, private collection

 

Islamic
Casket
c. 1150-1200, Furusiyya Art Foundation, Vaduz

 

Islamic
Casket
c. 1300-1350, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

Islamic
Casket of Hisham II
c. 976, Museo-Tesoro de la Catedral, Gerona

 

Frankish
Casket of Teuderic
c. 654-656

 

Greek
Cauldron
c. 400-300 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Greek
Cauldron (Lebes)
c. 50-1 BCE, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

 

Central Asian
Cauldron with Palmettes and Stylized Bucrania
c. 375-325 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

German
Centaur Aquamanile
c. 1200-1225, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Islamic
Chainmail Shirt
c. 1500-1550, private collection

 

Italian
Chalice
c. 1700, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

French
Chalice of Abbot Suger
1137-1140, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

 

Austrian
Chamber Candlestick
1819, private collection

 

Italian
Chamfron
c. 1550, private collection

 

Italian
Chamfron
c. 1575-1580, Art Institute of Chicago

 

German
Chamfron
c. 1550, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

Islamic
Chamfron
c. 1500-1600, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Belgian
Chamfron for an Armor of King Philip IV of Spain
1624-1626, private collection

 

German
Chamfron in the Maximilian Style
c. 1510, Cleveland Museum of Art

 

Mesopotamian
Chaplet of Gold Leaves
c. 2600-2500 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Etruscan
Chariot with Scenes from the Life of Achilles
c. 575-550 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

     

Netherlandish
Chest
1567, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

Italian
Child's Armor of Philip III
c. 1585, Real Armería, Madrid

 

Spanish
Christ in Majesty Bookbinding Plate
c. 1162, Musée de Cluny, Paris

 

Etruscan
Cista Depicting a Dionysian Revel and Perseus with Medusa's Head
c. 400-200 BCE, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

German
Clock with Turks in a Boat
c. 1580-1590, Schloss Ambras, Innsbruck

 

Dutch
Close Helmet and Gorget
c. 1590-1625, Cleveland Museum of Art

 

Italian
Close Helmet with Dragon Head Decoration
c. 1590, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Austrian
Coffee Machine in the Shape of a Steam Engine
1839, private collection

 

Viking
Coin with a Ship, from Hedeby
c. 825-850, Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen

 

Greek
Coin with Alexander the Great
306-281 BCE, British Museum, London

   

Greek
Coin with Discus Thrower and Tripod
c. 450-420 BCE, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

 

Roman
Coin with the Head of Magnentius
351, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

 

English
Collection of Georgian Silver
1767-1802, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

 

German
Comb Morion
c. 1575, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz

 

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