Artifacts
Title Sort descending | Image | Description | Period | Region | Sub Period | Sub Region | Sub Subject | Subject | Status | Edit |
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"MacGregor man" | ![]() |
Basalt statuette, bought from private collector, authenticity has recently been questioned. 39 cm high |
Near Eastern | Asia Minor | Near Eastern-Neo Assyrian | Asia Minor | architecture-fortification-gates | Architecture | Active | |
"Peace" side of the Standard of Ur | ![]() |
Probably the sounding box of a musical instrument. The inlay of shell against a background of lapis lazuli set in bitumen shows a banquet with animals and men carrying goods. |
Roman | Italy-Latium | Roman-Imperial | Italy-Latium-Rome | architecture-public | Architecture | Active | |
"Pseudo-Athlete" | ![]() |
"Pseudo-Athlete" from Delos, early first century B.C. |
Prehistoric | Asia Minor | Prehistoric-Bronze Age-Minoan | Asia Minor | sculpture-stone | Sculpture | Active | |
"Standard Wares' and a 'Husking Tray' | ![]() |
Painted and/or incised 'standard wares' and a 'husking tray': all characteristic of levels III-VI at Hassuna. A few sherds of this pottery were collected from the deepest level in Mallowan's sounding in the K�y�njik mound at Nineveh (over 30 m beneath the |
Near Eastern | Asia Minor | Near Eastern-Assyrian | Asia Minor-Anatolia | religious | Miscellaneous | Active | |
"War" side of Standard of Ur | ![]() |
Shows the victorious troops of the ruler of Ur, who appears larger than the other figures in the top register. The soldiers were either on foot or rode in battle wagons pulled by 4 onagers. |
Roman | Italy-Latium | Roman-Imperial | Italy-Latium-Rome | mosaic | Miscellaneous | Active | |
"War" side of Standard of Ur | ![]() |
Roman | Italy | Roman-Republic | Italy | sculpture-stone-relief | Sculpture | Active | ||
"Weary Hercules" | ![]() |
"Weary Hercules" lower half. |
Near Eastern | Asia Minor | Near Eastern-Neo Assyrian | Asia Minor-Assyria | Architecture-reconstruction | Architecture | Active | |
163 | ![]() |
Near Eastern | Asia Minor | Near Eastern-Neo Assyrian | Asia-Near East | architecture-architecture | Architecture | Active | ||
1687 Cannonball Damage Parthenon | ![]() |
1687 Venetian cannonball strikes on the Parthenon |
Greek | Greece Mainland Peloponnese | Greek-Geometric | Greece-Mainland-Peloponnese-Olympia | sculpture-stone-relief | Sculpture | Active | |
1687 Venetian Cannonball Strikes Parthenon | ![]() |
1687 Venteian cannonball strikes on the Parthenon |
Greek | Greece Mainland | Greek-Geometric | Greece-Mainland | sculpture-stone-relief | Sculpture | Active | |
1st Century Colosseum Reconstruction of Arena | ![]() |
Colosseum Reconstruction of Arena from around the 1st C ad. |
Roman | Italy | Roman-Republic | Italy | architecture-architecture | Architecture | Active | |
1st-century scriptura monumentalis | ![]() |
1st-century scriptura monumentalis. Inscription recording the restoration of the temple of Isis at Pompeii by Numerius Popidius Celsinus. Height of lettering c. 14-4cm. AD 62-79. Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale. |
Roman | Italy-Campania | Roman-Imperial | Italy-Campania-Pompeii | script-alphabetic-Latin | Script | Active | |
2nd BC Pompeii House Reconstruction | ![]() |
Late Second Century BC House Based On Examples From Pompeii |
Greek | Unknown | Greek-Classical-High | Unknown | tools-tools | Weapons and Tools | Active | |
4th-century monumentalis | ![]() |
4th-century monumentalis. Inscription dedicated to Valens, from a pedestal of an arch at the approach to the Valentinian Bridge across the Tiber. Height of lettering c. 7-3.5 cm. AD 365-75. Rome, Museo Nazionale. |
Roman | Italy | Roman-Imperial | Italy | script-alphabetic-Latin | Script | Active | |
4th-century monumentalis and actuaria | ![]() |
4th-century monumentalis and actuaria. Dedication of an altar to the Great Mother and Attis by Lucius Ragonius Venustus. Height of lettering c. 3-2.5 cm. AD 390. Rome, Capitoline Museum. |
Roman | Italy-Latium | Roman-Imperial | Italy-Latium-Rome | script-alphabetic-Latin | Script | Active | |
6 Leafed Rosette from Melos | ![]() |
Six-leafed rosette from Melos in granulation and filigree technique, in the second half of the 7th century B.C. Its centre occupies an eagle, whereas on the petals bees and gryphons alternate. It is probably part of the decoration of a diadem. |
Prehistoric | Greece Islands Aegean Crete | Prehistoric-Bronze Age-Minoan | Greece-Islands-Aegean-Crete-Zakros | architecture-palace | Architecture | Active | |
6 Roman Barracks | ![]() |
6 plans from various Roman barracks. |
Roman | Italy-Latium | Roman-Imperial | Italy-Latium-Rome | mosaic | Miscellaneous | Active | |
6th C foundations between erechtheum and parthenon | ![]() |
This is the south porch of the Erechtheum, commonly called the Caryatid Porch. Who these Caryatids are meant to represent is as hotly debated today as it was in antiquity. |
Prehistoric | Greece Mainland Peloponnese | Prehistoric-Bronze Age | Greece-Mainland-Peloponnese-Argos | sculpture-stone | Sculpture | Active | |
6th-century lapidary script | ![]() |
6th-century lapidary script. Epitaph of Maxima, buried 23 June AD 525. Height of lettering c. 5-1.2 cm. Rome, Museo Nazionale. |
Other | Italy | Byzantine | Italy | script-script | Script | Active | |
7th c BC Vase depicting Blinding of Polyphemos | ![]() |
7th century BC vase depicting the Blinding of Polyphemos as displayed in the Eleusis Museum summer 1995 |
Greek | Greece Mainland Attica | Greek-Hellenistic | Greece-Mainland-Attica-Athens | sculpture-sculpture | Sculpture | Active | |
9-sided baked barrel cylinder | ![]() |
Records the words of Sargon, "Day and night I planned teh building of that city." |
Roman | Italy-Latium | Roman-Imperial | Italy-Latium-Rome | sculpture-stone-free standing | Sculpture | Active | |
A Banqueter. Tomb of the Lionesses | ![]() |
A Banqueter. Tomb of the Lionesses, Tarquinii. 6th Century B.C. |
Etruscan | Italy-Etruria | Etruscan | Italy-Etruria-Tarquinii | Painting | Miscellaneous | Active | |
A consul in a chariot and horsemen in racing colours | ![]() |
A consul in a chariot and horsemen in racing colours. Mural opus sectile of marble and opaque glass. From the Basilica of Junius Bassus, Rome. c.AD 330-50. Florence, Palazzo Vecchio. |
Other | Italy-Latium | Byzantine | Italy-Latium-Rome | Miscellaneous-miscellaneous | Miscellaneous | Active | |
A Contemporary Portrait-Bust of the Emperor Commodus | ![]() |
A contemporary portrait-bust of the Emperor Commodus (AD 180-93). He is grotesquely portrayed in the compensating role of Hercules. Found in Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome. |
Roman | Italy-Latium | Roman-Imperial | Italy-Latium-Rome | sculpture-stone | Sculpture | Active | |
A Fountain Beside Tricliniumon South Side of Domus Flavia | ![]() |
A Fountain Beside Tricliniumon South Side of Domus Flavia |
Prehistoric | Asia Minor | Prehistoric-Bronze Age-Helladic-Early | Asia Minor | architecture-architecture | Architecture | Inactive | |
A kneeling province submits to Trajan | ![]() |
A kneeling province submits to Trajan. North-eastern relief panel on the attic of the Arch of Trajan at Benevento. Marble. Height of panel c.230 cm. AD 114-17. Benevento. |
Roman | Italy-Campania | Roman-Imperial | Italy-Campania | sculpture-stone-architectural | Sculpture | Active | |
A pair of gold bracelets ornamented with beaded wire | ![]() |
A pair of gold bracelets (incomplete)ornamented with beaded wire. End plates filled with green and blue enamel. From Rhayader, Wales. Lengths respectively 9.8 cm. and 9 cm. Second half of 1st century AD. London, British Museum. |
Roman | Europe | Roman-Imperial | Britain | jewelry-gold | Jewelry | Active | |
A Private Lavatory in Ostia | ![]() |
A private lavatory in the House of Fortuna Annonaria, Ostia. More common were lavatories of the more sociable sort with long rows of stone seats. |
Roman | Italy-Latium | Roman-Imperial | Italy-Latium-Ostia | architecture-domestic | Architecture | Active | |
A Roman Copy of a Marble Herm of Pericles by the Greek Sculpter Cresilas | ![]() |
Roman copy of a marble herm of Pericles by the Greek sculpter Cresilas; mid-fifth century BC. The vital documentary art of the Romans is a far cry from such idealized portraiture. Found at Tivoli. Ht. 23 in.; 58.5 cm. |
Roman | Italy-Latium | Roman-Republic | Italy-Latium | sculpture-stone | Sculpture | Active | |
A Roman House of Vitruvius's 'Rhodian' Type | ![]() |
A Roman house of Vitruvius's 'Rhodian' type on the island of Delos retains on one of the high columns of the main range a bracket to support the roof of the lower flanking portico. |
Roman | Greece Islands Aegean Cyclades | Roman-Republic | Greece-Islands-Aegean-Cyclades-Delos | architecture-domestic-houses | Architecture | Active | |
A Roman House on the Island of Delos | ![]() |
A Roman house on the island of Delos which originally stood five storeys high. |
Roman | Greece Islands Aegean Cyclades | Roman-Republic | Greece-Islands-Aegean-Cyclades-Delos | architecture-domestic-houses | Architecture | Active | |
Abila and Jordan Tomb Q | ![]() |
Photograph of the ceiling of the Abila Tomb Q in modern day Jordan. |
Roman | Unknown | Roman-Imperial | Unknown | sculpture-sculpture | Sculpture | Active | |
Absidal Building, Heroon | ![]() |
The Heroon at Leftkandi dates to 1000 B.C. It was at first a Dark Age Palace but after the death of the ruler it was turned into a tomb. There are two gravesites within, one of the queen with the ashes of her dead husband, and the other containing four h |
Greek | Egypt | Greek-Hellenistic | Egypt-Egypt | architecture-public-stadiums | Architecture | Inactive | |
Abu Ghurab | ![]() |
Prehistoric | Asia Minor | Prehistoric-Bronze Age-Near East | Asia-Near East | Architecture-reconstruction | Architecture | Active | ||
Abu Simbel Facade | ![]() |
The Facade of Abu Simbel. Picture originally in Egypt and Palestine vol. 1 by Francis Frith. |
Multiple Periods | Near East | Multiple Periods | Asia-Near East-Eridu | vases-pottery | Vases | Active | |
Abu Simbel Salvage Operation | ![]() |
Near Eastern | Near East | Near Eastern-Early Dynastic | Asia-Near East-Babylon | Painting | Miscellaneous | Active | ||
Abu Simbel Salvage Operation | ![]() |
An image of some of the "Abu Simbel Salvage Operation" efforts. The operation was an effort to rescue the monuments of Nubia threatened by the building of the new dam at Aswan. |
Near Eastern | Asia Minor | Near Eastern-Neo Babylonian | Asia-Near East | architecture-palace | Architecture | Active | |
Abu Simbel temple | ![]() |
Artist's reconstruction of one of the rock temples at Abu Simbel. Created by David Roberts, November 1838. |
Near Eastern | Italy-Etruria | Near Eastern-Neo Babylonian | Italy-Etruria-Vulci | Miscellaneous-miscellaneous | Miscellaneous | Active | |
Abusir pyramids | ![]() |
Aerial view of pre-excavation Abusir pyramids from the northeast. Pyramid of Sahure in the foreground, followed by those of Neuserre and Neferirkare with the remains of Raneferef's structure in the back. |
Near Eastern | Multiple | Near Eastern-Neo Babylonian | Multiple | architecture-architecture | Architecture | Active | |
Abydos | ![]() |
Prehistoric | Asia Minor | Prehistoric-Neolithic | Asia-Near East | architecture-palace | Architecture | Active | ||
Academy Restored Plan | ![]() |
The Academy. Restored plan by M. Barbie du Bocage. |
Greek | Greece Mainland Attica | Greek-Archaic | Greece-Mainland-Attica-Athens | vases-pottery | Vases | Active | |
Acanthus and Lotus, Capital of Odeion | ![]() |
Acanthus and Lotus capital from the inner colonnade of the Odeion of Agrippa, restored. |
Roman | Greece Mainland Attica | Roman-Imperial | Greece-Mainland-Attica-Athens | vases-pottery | Vases | Active | |
Aceramic Asikli Hoyuk artifacts | ![]() |
Aceramic Asikli Hoyuk artifacts. |
Near Eastern | Asia Minor | Near Eastern-Iron Age | Asia Minor-Anatolia | vases-pottery | Vases | Active | |
Achaea | Map of Achaea |
Roman | Italy-Latium | Roman-Imperial | Italy-Latium-Rome | architecture-architecture | Architecture | Active | ||
Achaea, Macedonia, Epirus in Hellas | Map of the Achaea, Macedonia, and Epirus regions in Hellas |
Roman | Italy-Latium | Roman-Republic | Italy-Latium-Rome | architecture-public-arches | Architecture | Active | ||
Achaea, Macedonia, Pontus, Bithynia and Asia | Map of the Achaea, Macedonia, Pontus, Bithynia and Asia provinces. |
Roman | Italy-Latium | Roman-Imperial | Italy-Latium-Rome | architecture-public-baths | Architecture | Active | ||
Achaemenid Kings 1 | ![]() |
Roman | Italy-Latium | Roman-Imperial | Italy-Latium | Painting | Miscellaneous | Active | ||
Achaemenid Kings 2 | ![]() |
Roman | Italy-Latium | Roman-Imperial | Italy-Latium-Rome | sculpture-stone-relief | Sculpture | Active | ||
Achilleio House Reconstruction | ![]() |
Reconstruction of an Achilleio house. |
Prehistoric | Greece Islands Aegean Crete | Prehistoric-Neolithic | Greece-Islands-Aegean-Crete-Achladia | vases-pottery | Vases | Active | |
Achilleio Stone Female Figurine | ![]() |
Early Neolithic stone female figurine from Achilleio. |
Prehistoric | Greece Islands Aegean Crete | Prehistoric-Neolithic | Greece-Islands-Aegean-Crete-Kommos | architecture-fortification-walls | Architecture | Active |