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Antiquity


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



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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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Scenographic wall decoration with fantastic architecture and drop-curtain, a Roman invention. Scene painting existed since the days of Sophocles and Aischylos (5th BCE).4th style (62-79 CE). From the Palaestra at Herculaneum. Inv.9731
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Scenographic wall decoration with fantastic architecture and drop-cu...

Dionysian scene and Erotes harvesting grapes; blue vase in double-layer glass, engraved in cameo-glass technique. 1st CE. From a tomb on the Via dei Sepolchri, Pompeii. Inv.13521
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Dionysian scene and Erotes harvesting grapes; blue vase in double-laye...

Ivory panel with a birth-scene in relief. From Cumae, 7 x 11 cm Inv.109905 A
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Ivory panel with a birth-scene in relief. From Cumae, 7 x 11 cm...

Emperor Tiberius, (42 BCE-37 CE), marble. From Pompeii.E Inv.CA 20 CE
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Emperor Tiberius, (42 BCE-37 CE), marble. From Po...

Resting Hermes. Bronze statue from the Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum
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Resting Hermes. Bronze statue from the Villa of the Papyri, Herculane...

Drunken Silenus on a lion skin, bronze. Roman copy from a Greek original 270-250 BCE From the Villa of the Pisoni, Herculaneum. Inv.5628
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Drunken Silenus on a lion skin, bronze. Roman copy from a Greek...

"The dancers", five bronze statues, 146-155 cm, from the Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum, where they lined the small canal traversing the garden. They may represent women carrying water rather than dancers. Inv. 5604-21
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"The dancers", five bronze statues, 146-155 cm, from the Villa of the Pa...

Head of the Doryphoros (spearman) by Poliklet (around 440 BCE). Signed by the copiist Apollonios of Athens,1st CE. H: 54 cm From the Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum. Inv.4885
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Head of the Doryphoros (spearman) by Poliklet (around 440 BCE). Signed...

Roman copy of the Amazone by Phidias (5th BCE). From the Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum. Inv. 4889
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Roman copy of the Amazone by Phidias (5th BCE). From the Villa of the Pa...

Head of the goddess Isis, marble. From the Ekklesiasterion, the Temple of the followers of the Isis-cult in Pompeii 3,3. Claudian Age, 1st CE
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Head of the goddess Isis, marble. From the Ekklesiasterion...

Water container, lead. Ornaments are themes from the Isis cult. From the Isis Temple, Pompeii.
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Water container, lead. Ornaments are themes from the Isis cult. From...

Brazier, bronze, iron; lion feet, theatrical masks. From the courtyard of the Isis temple in Pompeii 5,3
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Brazier, bronze, iron; lion feet, theatrical masks. From the courtyard of th...