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Central Asian
Comb with Battle Scene
c. 530-490 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

   

German
Composite Armor for Man and Horse
c. 1515-1530, private collection

 

European Bronze Age
Conus Head-Dress
10th-8th c BCE, Staatliche Museum für Vor und Fruhgeschichte, Berlin

 

European Bronze Age
Conus Head-Dress from Schifferstadt
14th-13th c BCE, Historisches Museum der Pfalz, Speyer

 

Native American
Copper
c. 1870, Royal British Columbia Museum, Victoria

 

European Bronze Age
Copper Hafted Axe from Kersoufflet
c. 2000 BCE, Musée des Antiquités Nationales, Saint-Germain-en-Laye

 

Greek
Corinthian Helmet with Lotus and Palmettes Flanked by Heraldic Serpents
c. 600-575 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Italian
Corslet All'Antica
c. 1540, Musée de l'Armee, Paris

 

Italian
Corslet All'Antica
c. 1540, Armeria Reale, Turin

 

Aegean
Cover for a Sword Pommel with an Acrobat
c. 2000-1550 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Iraklion

 

Greek
Cover Plate for a Gorytos with Scenes from the Life of Achilles
c. 350-325 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

   

German
Covered Beaker
c. 1450, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

German
Covered Beaker in the Form of a Town
c. 1475-1500, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

Islamic
Covered Brass Jug
1494-1495

 

German
Covered Goblet
c. 1500, Art Institute of Chicago

 

Flemish
Covered Goblet
1611-1612, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

Pre-Columbian
Crescent Nose Ornament
c. 1-700, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

European Bronze Age
Crested Helmet
12th-9th c BCE, Musée des Antiquités Nationales, Saint-Germain-en-Laye

 

Villanovan
Crested Helmet
c. 800-750 BCE, Musée Barbier-Muller, Geneva

 

German
Cresting from a Gate
c. 1700, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

German
Crocodile Sand Container
c. 1575-1600, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge

 

Lombard
Cross
c. 600-700, Museo nazionale archeologico, Cividale del Friuli

 

Viking
Cross of Cong
c. 1123, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin

 

German
Cross of Saint Nikomedes of Borghorst
c. 1050, Pfarrgemeinde St. Nikomedes, Steinfurt

 

Spanish
Cross of the Angels of Alfonso II
c. 808, Oviedo Cathedral, Oviedo

 

German
Cross on a Pyx
c. 1160, Dom-Museum Hildesheim

 

Byzantine
Crossbow Fibula
c. 480, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Colombian
Crown of the Andes
c. 1600-1770, private collection

 

German
Crown of the Golden Virgin
c. 983, Essen Cathedral Treasury, Essen

 

French
Crozier Head with Saint Michael and the Dragon
c. 1225-1250, Detroit Institute of Arts

 

French
Crozier Head with Saint Michael and the Dragon
c. 1225-1250, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

French
Crozier Head with Saint Michael and the Dragon
c. 1225-1250, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

 

French
Crozier Head with the Annunciation
c. 1200-1250, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

Flemish
Crucifixion Triptych
c. 1425-1430, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

     

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

 

Celtic
Cup in Openwork and Embossed Gold Leaf
c. 450-400 BCE, Staatliche Museen Preussicher Kulturbesitz, Berlin

 

Central Asian
Cup with Agricultural and Ceremonial Scenes
c. 2000 BCE, Miho Museum, Shigaraki

 

Central Asian
Cup with Crenellated Decoration
c. 2000 BCE, Miho Museum, Shigaraki

 

Aegean
Cup with Spout
16th c BCE, Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum, Hanover

 

French
Cup with the Coat of Arms of John the Fearless
c. 1404-1419, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

 

Iranian
Cup with Walking Gazelles
c. 1000 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Nordic Bronze Age
Cups from Borgbjerg
11th-9th c BCE, Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen

 

Aegean
Cylinder seal with Two Men and a Dog
after 1550 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Iraklion

 

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

 

Native American
Dagger
c. 1750, private collection

 

Central Asian
Dagger
c. 400-200 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Islamic
Dagger and Scabbard
c. 1658-1707, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

Levantine
Dagger and Sheath
c. 2000 BCE, Direction Generale des Antiquites, Beirut

 

Central Asian
Dagger decorated with Griffin's Heads
c. 400-300 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Ufa

   

Egyptian
Dagger from the Tomb of Ahhotep
c. 1560-1530 BCE, Luxor Museum, Luxor

   

Egyptian
Dagger from the Tomb of Tutankhamun
c. 1336-1327 BCE, Egyptian Museum, Cairo

 

Islamic
Dagger Sheath
c. 1550-1600, private collection

 

Aegean
Daggers from Mycenae
c. 1550-1500 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

                 

Mesopotamian
Daric
4th c BCE, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

 

Viking
Decorated Axehead
c. 1050-1150, Nationalmuseum, Helsinki

 

Central Asian
Deer-Shaped Plaque
c. 650-600 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Roman
Denarius with Portrait of Julius Caesar
44 BCE, American Numismatic Society, New York

     

Roman
Denarius with the Parthian Arch of Augustus
16 BCE, American Numismatic Society, New York

 

Celtic
The Desborough Mirror
c. 100 BCE - 100 CE, British Museum, London

 

Islamic
Desk Set: Pen Knife, Paper Scissors
c. 1850, private collection

 

Celtic
Diadem
c. 1200-800 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Egyptian
Diadem with Deer and Gazelle Heads
c. 1640-1550 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Frankish
Digitated Fibula
c. 500-600, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

Ostrogothic
Disc-Shaped Fibula
c. 500-600, Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona

 

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

 

Persian
Dish with an Eagle carrying a Woman
c. 600-800, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Islamic
Dish with Repousse Figures
c. 700-800, British Museum, London

 

Islamic
Dish with Senmurv and Plant Motifs
c. 900, Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin

 

Byzantine
Dish with the Flight of Alexander the Great on Griffins
c. 1100-1200, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Persian
Dish with Two Warriors Riding a Chariot and Two Zebu (Khusraw's Dial)
c. 600-800, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Etruscan
Disk Fibula
c. 650 BCE, Musei Vaticani, Rome

 

Frankish
Disk Fibula
c. 600-700, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

German
Domed Reliquary
c. 1175-1180, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin

 

German
Domed Reliquary
c. 1170-1180, Dom-Museum Hildesheim

 

Italian
Doors of the Church of San Salvatore de Birecto
1087, Church of San Salvatore de Birecto, Atrani

   

Flemish
Drinking Cup in the Form of an Owl
c. 1600-1650, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Islamic
Eagle Aquamanile
c. 800-850, Monastery of Saint Catherine, Sinai

 

Visigothic
Eagle Brooch
c. 500-600, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

Ostrogothic
Eagle Brooch
c. 450-550, private collection

 

Pre-Columbian
Eagle Head Labret
before 1521, Museo Civico d'Arte Antica, Turin

 

Ostrogothic
Eagle Plaque
c. 450-500, Muzeul Naţional de Artă al României, Bucharest

 

Pre-Columbian
Ear-Plug with Image of the God of Wind
c. 800-1521, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Central Asian
Earring
c. 500-450 BCE, National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Astana

 

Greek
Earrings
c. 330-300 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

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

 

German
Elephant Candlestick
c. 1200-1400, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

German
Enameled Candlestick
c. 1180-1200, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

 

German
The Enger Reliquary Cross
c. 1050-1100, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin

   

Islamic
Engraved Helmet
c. 1400-1500, Kuwait National Museum, Kuwait City

 

Swiss
The Eptingen Chalice
c. 1200-1225, Historisches Museum, Basel

 

German
Equestrian Armor
c. 1480, Wallace Collection, London

   

German
Equestrian Armor of Waldemar VI of Anhalt-Zerbst
c. 1475-1500, Royal Armouries, London

 

French
Eucharistic Dove
c. 1210, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

   

Islamic
Ewer
c. 650-750

 

Italian
Ewer
c. 1630-1650, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Islamic
Ewer
c. 650-700, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Islamic
Ewer
c. 750-850, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Islamic
Ewer
c. 700-1000, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

Islamic
Ewer
c. 1220-1240, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

Islamic
Ewer
c. 750-900, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Islamic
Ewer
c. 688-883, Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi

 

Islamic
Ewer
1602-1603, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

Islamic
Ewer for the Wife of the Sultan Qa'itbay
1496, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

Italian
Ewer from Venice
1500-1600, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

Islamic
Ewer or Tankard
c. 1300-1350, British Museum, London

 

Roman
Ewer with Biblical Scenes
c. 350-400, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

     

Persian
Ewer with Dancing Female Figures within Arcades
c. 500-700, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Islamic
Ewer with Engraved Decoration
c. 800-900, Kuwait National Museum, Kuwait City

 

Islamic
Ewer with Fluted Body
c. 700-800, Kuwait National Museum, Kuwait City

 

Islamic
Ewer with the Arms of the Molino Family
c. 1450-1500, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

Roman
Ewer with the Healing of the Blind Man and the Traditio Clavium
c. 350-400, British Museum, London

   

Italian
Falchion of Cosimo I de' Medici
c. 1550, Wallace Collection, London

 

Native American
Falcon Cut-Out
c. 200 BCE - 100 CE, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

 

Egyptian
Fan from the Tomb of Tutankhamun
c. 1336-1327 BCE, Egyptian Museum, Cairo

 

Levantine
Fenestrated Axe
c. 2000 BCE, Direction Generale des Antiquites, Beirut

 

Celtic
Fibula with Twisted Bow
c. 600 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Etruscan
The Ficorini Cista
c. 335 BCE, Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia, Rome

   

English
Field and Tilt Armor of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
c. 1575, Royal Armouries, Leeds

 

Italian
Field Armor for King Henry VIII
c. 1544, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Italian
Field Armor for Man and Horse
c. 1575, Cleveland Museum of Art

 

German
Field Armor in the Maximilian Style
c. 1520, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz

 

English
Field Armor of Lord North
c. 1565, Royal Armories Museum, Leeds

 

English
Field Armor of Sir Henry Lee
1587-1588, Armourer's Hall, London

 

English
Field Armor, probably for King Henry VIII
1527, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Islamic
Finial with a Name of God
c. 1700-1750, private collection

 

English
Fireplace Andirons
c. 1670, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich

 

Anatolian
Fist-Shaped Vessel
c. 1400-1200 BCE, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

 

English
Flask
c. 1650-1660, private collection

 

Byzantine
Flask with Nereids
641-651, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Italian
Foot Combat Armor of Claude de Vaudrey
c. 1485, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

 

French
Foot of a Crucifix from the Abbey of Saint-Bertin
c. 1150-1160, Musée Sandelin, Saint-Omer

 

Islamic
Fountain Head in the Form of a Hind
c. 950, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha

 

Roman
Fountain Spout in the Form of a Peacock
before 79, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples

 

Roman
Fountain Spout in the Form of a Rabbit
before 79, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples

 

Ostrogothic
Frontlet of the Helmet of Agilulf
c. 600-650, Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence

 

Anglo-Saxon
The Fuller Brooch
c. 875-900, British Museum, London

 

Greek
Funerary Laurel Wreath
c. 330-27 BCE, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

 

Aegean
Funerary Mask from Mycenae
1500 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Aegean
Funerary Mask from Mycenae (Mask of Agamemnon)
c. 1550-1500 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

   

Egyptian
Funerary Mask of Psusennes I
c. 1039-991 BCE, Egyptian Museum, Cairo

 

Aegean
Funerary Masks from Mycenae
1500 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

     

Greek
Geometric Necklace and Earrings from the Agora, Athens
c. 850 BCE, Agora Museum, Athens

 

Egyptian
The Girdle of Hepy
c. 1929-1841 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Roman
Gladiator's Helmet
c. 79, British Museum, London

 

English
The Gloucester Candlestick
1107-1113, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

Iranian
Goblet with Bulls
c. 1200-1000 BCE, Miho Museum, Shigaraki

 

Iranian
Goblet with Winged Monsters
c. 1300-1100 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

American
Goddess of Liberty Weather Vane
c. 1880-1900, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven

 

German
The Godehard Shrine
c. 1130-1140, Hildesheim Cathedral

 

Aegean
Gold Roundels from Mycenae
c 1500 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

 

Frankish
Golden Altar of Sant'Ambrogio
c. 850, Sant'Ambrogio, Milan

 

French
Gorget
c. 1600-1610, Art Institute of Chicago

 

French
Gossip's Penal Mask with Ass's Ears
c. 1630, private collection

 

French
Griffin Aquamanile
c. 1130, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

   

Greek
Griffin Cauldron on a Rod Tripod
c. 625-600 BCE, Cyprus Museum, Nicosia

 

Frankish
Griffin Fibula
c. 550-600, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

Central Asian
Griffin Head Bridle Decorations
c. 400-300 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Ufa

 

Persian
Griffin Rhyton
c. 500-330 BCE, British Museum, London

   

Persian
Griffin-Headed Armlet from the Oxus Treasure
c. 550-400 BCE, British Museum, London

   

Viking
The Gummersmark Brooch
c. 50-600, Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen

 

Celtic
Gundestrup Cauldron
c. 100-50 BCE, Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen

         

Japanese
Hair Pin with Circular Mistletoe Design
c. 1920-1940, private collection

 

Japanese
Hair Pin with Triangular Design
c. 1925-1935, private collection

 

Italian
Half Armor for the Field
c. 1575, Cleveland Museum of Art

 

Italian
Half Armor for the Foot Tourney at the Barriers
c. 1575-1580, Art Institute of Chicago

 

Italian
Half-Armor for Parade
c. 1570-1590, Wallace Collection, London

 

Italian
Half-Armor of Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau
c. 1590, Wallace Collection, London

 

Islamic
Hammered Bowl
c. 1000-1200, Kuwait National Museum, Kuwait City

   

Greek
Handle Attachment in the Form of a Mask of a Satyr or Silenos
c. 100 BCE - 100 CE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Celtic
Harness Mount
c. 100-200, Menil Collection, Houston

 

German
Haubergeon
c. 1350-1450, Wallace Collection, London

   

French
Head Reliquary of Saint Alexander
1145, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels

 

Mesopotamian
Headdress of Puabi
c. 2550-2400 BCE, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia

   

English
Helm for the Joust of Peace
c. 1410-1450, Wallace Collection, London

 

Netherlandish
Helm for the Joust of Peace
c. 1490-1500, Koninklijke Museum van het Leger en de Krijgsgeschiedenis, Brussels

 

Islamic
Helmet
c. 1600-1700, private collection

 

Islamic
Helmet
c. 1450-1500, private collection

 

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

 

Ostrogothic
Helmet from Torricella Peligna
c. 500-550, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Crecchio

 

Viking
Helmet from Uppland
c. 700-800

 

Roman
Helmet of Deurne (Helmet of a Roman Officer)
c. 320, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden

 

Mesopotamian
Helmet of King Meskalamdug
c. 2500 BCE, Iraq Museum, Baghdad

 

Greek
Helmet of Phrygian Type with Bearded Cheekpieces
c. 400-300, private collection

 

Frankish
Helmet of Saint Wenceslaus
c. 935, Prague Castle

 

Byzantine
The Helmet of Vézeronce
c. 520, Musée Dauphinois, Gernoble

 

Nordic Bronze Age
Herzsprung Type Shield
9th-8th c BCE

 

German
The Hezilo Chandelier
1061, St. Mary's Cathedral, Hildesheim

 

German
The Hezilo Cross
before 1079, Dom-Museum Hildesheim

 

French
The Holy Thorn Reliquary
1390-1397, British Museum, London

     

Nordic Bronze Age
Horned Helmets from Vikso
11th-10th c BCE, Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen

 

Islamic
Horse (Lamp Support?)
c. 900-1000, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Villanovan
Horse Bit with Horse and Bird Decorations
c. 750-700 BCE, Musée Barbier-Muller, Geneva

 

Persian
Horse Harness Ornament or Shield-Boss
c. 500-300 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Dutch
Hunting Sword
c. 1760-1770, Cleveland Museum of Art

 

Greek
Hydria
c. 625-575 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Greek
Hydria
c. 450 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Greek
Hydria from Poseidonia
c. 530-520 BCE, Museo Archaeologico di Paestum, Paestum

   

Greek
Hydria with Siren Handle
c. 440-430 BCE, private collection

 

Byzantine
Icon with Full-Length Figure of Saint Michael
c. 1050-1150, Treasury of San Marco, Venice

   

Byzantine
Icon with the Annunciation and Saints
c. 1150-1200, Benaki Museum, Athens

 

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