ANCIENT, ETHNOGRAPHIC & RELIGIOUS ART

Egypt, New Kingdom or later, ca. 1550 to 331 BCE. This is a thin bronze statue of Osiris, the god of the afterlife, depicted here with his large h...

Egypt, early Dynastic Period, ca. 4000 to 3500 BCE. Beautiful egg-shaped jar in translucent alabaster, two small lugs on the shoulder, once having...

Egypt, New Kingdom or later, ca. 1550 to 331 BCE This is a small bronze statue showing the "striding pharaoh" style; the pharaoh has a large head...

Egypt, under Roman rule, ca 1st century BCE to 1st century CE. Very attractive Limestone carving of a male's head. Oval face with short straight h...

Romano-Egyptian, ca. 2nd to 5th century CE. This is a trio of textile panels; two show human figures and the third shows small animals that look l...

Byzantine Egypt, Coptic, ca. 4th to 8th century CE. A beautiful and iconographically rich terracotta vessel with a depressed globular body, short...

Greece, most likely from Macedonia, Geometric Period, 8th century BCE. Gorgeous bronze pyxis with oblong body and decorative openwork flange at b...

Greece, Athens, Attic, ca. 510 to 490 BCE. A wondrous Attic pottery foot depicting an expressive actor's mask, created with the black figure techn...

Greece, ca. 500 BCE. This is an orange-red pottery protome showing a face with elaborately styled, flowing hair and clear features including a rea...

Ancient Greece, Athens, ca. 500 to 490 BCE. A brilliant red-figure section depicting a kneeling Hoplite from ancient Athens, with an inscription o...

Greek Empire, ca. 5th to 4th century BCE. Beautiful glass perfume vial or alabastron, so named because many vessels in this form were made of ala...

Greece, ca. 5th century BCE. This is the iron blade of a Greek dagger, known as a kopis. It has decorative inscribed lines along one curved edge o...

Magna Graecia, Western Italy, Paestan, ca. 400 to 350 BCE. Attractive red-figure skyphos (wine cup) most likely produced in Paestum (just south o...

Modern day Italy, Apulia, ca. 430 to 300 BCE. These are three pottery fragments from large vases, all painted in the traditional style of Apulian ...

Greece, South Italic colonies, ca. 4th century BCE. An elegant ceramic figure depicting Demeter, the Greek goddess of the harvest, corn, and grain...

Magna Graecia, modern day Apulia, Italy, ca. 4th century BCE. This is a lovely delicate black kylix with incised and painted details. Kylix is the...

Greece, Greek Islands, ca. 3rd to 2nd BCE. A stunning pottery transport amphora dating to the period just after Alexander the Great. Tannish cla...

Greece and Rome, ca. 500 BCE to 400 CE. This is a collection of coins, some silver and some bronze, from different eras and places. One of them is...

Europe, ca. 800 to 500 BCE. This is a hammered iron spear head with a tapered, leaf-shaped design, a slight ridge, and a slender conical socketed ...

Europe, Central Italy, Etruria, Etruscan, ca. 5th century BCE. A very rare Etruscan bronze statuette depicting a kouros, or statue of a nude youth...

Roman Empire, ca. 1st century. Lovely carnelian intaglio depicting the God Mercury. He stands holding his coin purse in one hand snake staff in o...

Roman Empire, Hellenistic, ca. 1st century BCE. A carved marble sculpture depicting the head and torso of a nude male figure with an expressive an...

Roman Empire, ca. 1st century BCE to 3rd century CE. An impressive terra sigillata pottery section depicting two figures, one seated, the other s...

Roman, ca. 0 to 450 CE. This is a hammered iron axe blade with a long, hooked blade, and an oval hole for a wood handle. Iron is very difficult to...

Rome, 200 BCE to 200 CE. This is a cast bronze applique in the form of a Silenus head. Silenus is an older man who was a friend of Dionysus in Gra...

Rome, ca. 200 BCE to 300 CE. This is a fanciful cast bronze foot from a piece of Roman furniture; it shows a Cupid figure with wings and a chubby ...

Rome, ca. 1st century BCE to 2nd century CE. Beautiful example of ancient glass beads fabricated with internal glass spheres shrouded with gold, ...

Rome, ca. 0 to 300 CE. This is a collection of bronze fibulae (brooches) of varied styles; one has the remains of having been silvered. These prob...

Ancient Roman Empire, ca. 1st century. Attractive green glass intaglio depicting a Satyr and goat. Set onto modern 18kt gold ring. Weight 9.2 gra...

Rome, ca. 1st to 2nd century CE. A solid cast bronze figure depicting Hercules (Herakles) standing in quintessential contrapposto pose, with left ...

Rome, ca. 60 BCE to 300 CE. This is a small bronze statue of Cupid, the god of desire and erotic love; he stands with his wings folded back and wi...

Roman, 100 to 200 CE. This strigil blade forms a curving 90 degree angle and has finely-wrought decorations on one side suggesting a spear or some...

Roman Empire, under the rule of Hadrian, year 18, 133/134 CE. Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Hadrian to right / Draped figure of Serapis,...

Rome, Roman Empire, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. Carved bone section showing Eros in high relief, wings spread behind him, holding basket of fruit, ...

Roman Empire, Levant, ca. 1st to 3rd centuries CE. Pair of Roman glass vessels. First is a classic candle-stick unguent on wide flat base. 6-1/2"...

Rome, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. Brilliant pair of high karat gold earrings from ancient Rome. Would have been worn for adornment to display wealt...

Roman Empire, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. A nude male figure standing in a relaxed or dare I say seductive pose with his right arm arched over his ...

Roman Empire, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. An impressive solid bronze cast attachment depicting the head and torso of Mercury, the youthful messenge...

Roman Empire, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. A solid cast bronze cauldron foot of an anamorphic form, with an equine head that holds a small orb in it...

Roman Empire, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. A solid bronze cast near-miniature figurine depicting Mercury, Roman mythology's youthful god of commerce...

Roman Empire, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. A miniature bronze cast figurine of Pan, the beloved half man half goat horned god known for his hunting ...

Rome, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. A near miniature bronze figurine depicting a Roman goddess or attendant holding an orb or offering cup. The figu...

Roman Empire, ca. 100 to 300 CE. This is a simple bronze herm of a man with his genitals, large pectoral muscles, and straight hair his only disti...

Rome, ca. 100 BCE to 300 CE. This is a bronze decorative terret, a metal loop on a horse harness that is used to guide the reins and prevent them ...

Roman Empire, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. A solid bronze cast figurine depicting the youthful god of commerce, Mercury in Roman mythology, Hermes i...

Rome, ca. 100 to 400 CE. This is a marble fragment carved in low relief showing the body of a standing youth. This fragment is probably part of a ...

Rome, ca. 2nd to 3rd century CE. A carved white marble head depicting a provincial man. Judging from his hairstyle, the piece probably dates to t...

Rome, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. A Roman marble head depicting a mustachioed and bearded male with wide open eyes and an open mouth, quite an expr...

Rome, Roman Britain, ca. 43 to 410 CE. This is a trio of small enamelled fibulas that reflect the unique artistic tradition of Celtic influence on...

Rome, ca. 100 to 300 CE. Adorable pair of ancient glass vessels jars made of blown glass. The larger of the two is green glass with a very obvious...

Roman Empire, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. A wondrous mold-made terracotta statuette depicting Eros holding an expressive actor's mask. According t...

Rome, 2nd half of the 4th century CE. Fragments like this one are scarce as hen's teeth! A very rare redware pottery fragment depicting the bibli...

Late Roman to early Byzantine, ca. 300 to 600 CE. This is a collection of 17 bronze coins from an era in transition. The quality of many of the co...

Roman to early Byzantine Empires, ca. 3rd to 6th century CE. Stunning pair of high karat gold earrings (testing over 22 karat), with twisted wire...

Britain, Holme-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, England, ca. 450 to 700 CE. This is a larger-than-average hammered iron spear point with a socket that seems...

Rome, ca. 100 to 400 CE. This is a collection of beautiful bronze objects, some of them brooches, others buckles and fittings. Each has unique des...

Nothern Europe, Viking, ca. 9th to 12th century CE. A breathtaking pair of 22+ karat gold hoop earrings adorned with inverted pyramidal terminals ...

Viking, Northern Europe, found in Britain, ca. 9th to 12th centuries CE. A pair of 24 karat gold hoop earrings, comprised of hammered gold in a gr...

Rome, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. A solid cast bronze lioness form cauldron foot, a fierce feline with a lithe body, pronounced paw at the lower en...

Rome, ca. 200 CE. Anceint glass bowl with applied handle with a line design. Glass blowing, invented in the Roman Middle East in the first century...