Antiquity


Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Imperial Roman Period, Ancient Middle East.



6 subcategories
Ancient Egypt

ANCIENT EGYPT

Ancient Greece

ANCIENT GREECE

Ancient Israel

ANCIENT ISRAEL

Ancient Jordan

ANCIENT JORDAN

Ancient Middle East

ANCIENT MIDDLE EAST

Imperial Roman Period

IMPERIAL ROMAN PERIOD

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Table de jeu figurant un hippopotame - Game board in the form of a hippopotamus. Late period. Each player had 29
pawns, to be stuck into the holes, some holes allow the player to move forward, others are traps - the goal was to be the dirst to reach the end,
Blue faience, H: 7,4cm, L:18 cm
Inv. E 3043
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Table de jeu figurant un hippopotame - Game board in the form of a hippopotamus....

Vessels for kohl (eyeliner) in the form of the god Bes.
H: 8,5  cm, 9cm, 10 cm.                                
Wooden stick for application.                          
New Kingdom                                            
Inv. E 4469, N 1339, E 5373, E 1493
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Vessels for kohl (eyeliner) in the form of the god Bes. H: 8,5 cm, 9cm, 10 cm....

Spoon for holding face cream; young woman carrying     
three bouquets of lotus and three ducks. 18th dynasty. 
Wood, H: 22 cm                                         
Inv. N 1737
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Spoon for holding face cream; young woman carrying three bouquets of lotus...

Three Canephores carrying ducks as offerings. Middle Kingdom .    
Wood, H: 63,2 cm, 63,2 cm, 49,7 cm                     
Inv. E 11991, E 11990, E 12001
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Three Canephores carrying ducks as offerings. Middle Kingdom . Wood, H: 63,...

Vase with toad-ornament, Roman period                  
Faience, H: 7,5 cm                                     
Inv. E 11669
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Vase with toad-ornament, Roman period Faience, H: 7,5 cm...

"Eel-coffin", sheath for a mummified eel, the animal   
sacred to the god Aton. Uraeus and double-crown        
of Upper and Lower Egypt. Bronze, Late period, 6th BCE.
Crocodile, sacred to the god Sobek. Serpentine-stone,  
Late period, 4th BCE
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"Eel-coffin", sheath for a mummified eel, the animal sacred to the god Aton....

Shrew (mouse), copper alloy.                           
Late period, 30th dynasty.                             
L: 14 cm                                               
Inv. N 5146
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Shrew (mouse), copper alloy. Late period, 30th dynast...

Frog, wood, H:13 cm, Late Period                       
Inv. E 17364                                           
Wild sow nursing her young, faience, L:14,3 cm         
Late Period, Inv. E 14357
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Frog, wood, H:13 cm, Late Period Inv. E 17364...

Crocodile, god Sobek with sun-disk, Late Period.       
Copper alloy, L: 29 cm, Inv. F 22888 (foreground),     
Serket, the scorpion-goddess, Late Period.             
Bronze, H: 7,3 cm, L: 10,2 cm, Inv. N 5017             
(background)
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Crocodile, god Sobek with sun-disk, Late Period. Copper alloy, L: 29 cm,...

Vulture, wood, H: 13 cm, Late Period                   
Inv. N 3642 (foreground)                               
Sokar, the hawk-god of the Memphis necropolis,         
wood, H: 8,3 cm, Inv. N 3941 B
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Vulture, wood, H: 13 cm, Late Period Inv. N 3642 (foreground)...

Funerary mask of a woman, plaster, painted.            
H: 34 cm, L: 62 cm, Roman period.                      
Inv. E 21360
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Funerary mask of a woman, plaster, painted. H: 34 cm, L: 62 cm, Roma...

Imhotep, historical high courtier under Pharaoh Djoser
(3rd dynasty) who after deification becomes the symbol
of scribal and architectural wisdom. Ptolemaic period.
Copper alloy, H: 13 cm
Inv. E 4216
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Imhotep, historical high courtier under Pharaoh Djoser (3rd dynasty) who after d...