Ancient Artifacts

Photographs of ancient sculptures and fragments from various cultures, highlighting their historical significance and artistic craftsmanship.

Limestone bust. Barcelona, Spain 2013

Stela. Sandstone. 6th century BC. Necropolis of Villaricos, Grave 521. Almanzora, Almeria, Spain. Decorated with figure with an Egytian headdress. Phoenician. National Archaeological Museum, Madrid. Spain.

CABEZA DE GUERRERO-PROC DE PORCUNA-S V AL II AC IBERICO. Location: MUSEO ARQUEOLOGICO-COLECCION. SPAIN.

Fragment of a Figure. Culture: Coptic. Dimensions: Overall: 5 5/16 x 3 1/2 x 1 9/16 in. (13.5 x 8.9 x 4 cm). Date: 4th-7th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Greek Art. Colossal head of a woman in limestone. Archaeological Museum of Olympia. Greece.

goddess of rams, 5th century BC, Cerrillo Blanco, Porcuna, Iberian Museum of Jaén, Andalusia, Spain.

Archaic Roman stone lion. Artist: Unknown

Limestone bust. Barcelona, Spain 2013

Grave Stele of Phainippos. Unknown, Greek, Attic, 4th century B.C.. Sculpture. Marble with traces of pigment

Roman art. Funerary portrait.1st c. AD. Excavations of the Roman walls of Barcino (now Barcelona). City History Museum. Barcelona. Spain.

MANUEL MARTINEZ HUGUE. MANOLO. ESCULTOR ESPAÑOL. BARCELONA 1872 - 1945. " EL TORERO " , PIEDRA , AÑO 1914.

Ancient art. Central Asia. Head of a queen "King Vazamar's wife". High relief. Clay; colouring. 3rd-4th century. Toprak-Kala. Palace, Uzbekistan. The State Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg. Russia..

Head. Egypt, Ptolemaic Period - Byzantine Period (332 BCE - 641 CE). Sculpture. Terracotta

Female head. 4th-3rd centuries BC. Sandstone. Iberian culture. From the Shrine of Cerro de los Santos (Montealegre del Castillo, Albacete province, Castile-La Mancha, Spain). National Archaeological Museum. Madrid. Spain.

ESCULTURA. Location: MUSEO DE LA ACROPOLIS. ATHENS. GREECE.

Male figurine. Terracotta. From Sanctuary of Agia Irini, Cyprus. Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities. Stockholm. Sweden.

Mesopotamian Art. Sumerian ruler. 3rd Millenium B.C. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen. Denmark.

'Seated Lion'. Cyprus, First half of the 6th century BC. Dimensions: h. 12,4 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

DIOSA MADRE. FENICIO. (DEPOSITO: MUSEO ARQUEOLOGICO NACIONAL).

Roman Double portrait head of the Poet Sappho; 2nd century AD. Sappho (c. 630 - c. 570 BC) was an Archaic Greek poet from the island of Lesbos. Sappho is known for her lyric poetry,

Ivory Figure of a King 2691 B.C. From the early Osiris-temple at Abydos. Egypt

Photograph of the Venus of Brassempouy (la Dame de Brassempouy), a fragmentary ivory figurine from the Upper Palaeolithic. It was discovered in a cave at Brassempouy, France in 1892. About 25,000 years old, it is one of the earliest known representations of a human face. Dated 27,000 BC.

ESCULTURA-MASCARILLA. Author: CRISTINO MALLO-CRISTINO GOMEZ GONZALEZ. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Grotesque face Cerne Giant , Gothic period carving, Corbel. Herefordshire. England.

Statue of a prince, granite, 19th dynasty, 1279-1203 BC, Egypt, collection of the British Museum, Africa

Marble female figure. Cycladic, Early Cycladic II, late Spedos type, ca. 2600-2400 B.C. Namepiece of the Bastis Master.

Mermaid of wood from one of the gates of the small or o.l.vr. church in Edam, c. 1300 - c. 1550 A wooden mermaid. Coming from one of the gates on the Kleine (O.L. Vrouwe) Church in Edam. Execution wood (plant material) A wooden mermaid. Coming from one of the gates on the Kleine (O.L. Vrouwe) Church in Edam. Execution wood (plant material)

Fragment of a male statue offered to Endovelicus. 2nd century AD. From Sao Miguel da Mota. Terena. Alandroal, Evora, Portugal. National Archaeology Museum. Lisbon, Portugal.

South Metope XBI. Most of the 32 metopes along the south side of the Parthenon, show scenes of battle between Centaurs and human Lapiths. Numbers 13 to 21 however are carved with scenes that are not related to this mythical contest.

Limestone Head, (Roman-British), Found in Towcester First Century AD

FRAGMENTO DE ESCULTURA ROMANA. Location: ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM. Lerida. SPAIN.

Stone sculpture Park the mask of Pharaoh Stone sculpture Park the mask of Pharaoh. Spain Copyright: xZoonar.com/MaximilianxBuzunx 12987055

ESCULTURA DE BUDA PREDICANDO-ARTE GUPTA-. Location: ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM. SARNATH. India.

Osirid Figure of Henettawy (B). Dimensions: H. of figure: 47 cm (18 1/2 in.); L. of base: 29 cm (11 7/16 in.). Dynasty: Dynasty 21. Date: ca. 990-970 B.C.. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

CABEZA FEMENINA MITRADA - CERRO DE LOS SANTOS - MONTEALEGRE DEL CASTILLO (ALBACETE). Location: MUSEO ARQUEOLOGICO NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Part of the Trophy Column, built to commemorate the Battle of Marathon after the defeat of the Persians by the Athenians. 5th century BC. Archaeological Museum of Marathon. Greece.

Figure. Deity, a cult figure or an orant. Clay. 4th-3rd century BC. Necropolis of Puig des Molins, Ibiza, Spain. National Archaeological Museum, Madrid. Spain.

Celtic civilization, 2nd century. Bronze masque of male deity. From the sanctuary of Montserie.

Dama Flavia, busto romano de bronce, siglo I. Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid.

Funerary practices. Eastern provinces of Roman Empire. Near Eastern. Terracotta mask. Levantine tombs. Imperial period. Recall the Phoenician tradition of placing a mask. Tyre, Lebanon. 1st-4th century AD. Louvre Museum. Paris. France.

Ptolemaic Prince. Egypt, Ptolemaic Period or later (305 - 31 BCE). Sculpture. Limestone

prehistoric statue. Particular of a Giant of Monti Prama" - statues dated around 1000 B.C. Cabras, Sardinia, Italy.

Kneeling Female Figure 15th-early 16th century Aztec. Kneeling Female Figure 307661

Upper part of a colossal statue of Amenhotep III. Eighteenth Dynasty, about 1370 BC from Thebes. This fine sculpture stood in the kings mortuary temple to the west of the Nile at Thebes. It was part of an extensive array of architectural sculpture which adorned this temple.

Head with Phrygian Helmet. Egypt, Ptolemaic Period - Roman Period (332 BCE - 337 CE). Sculpture. Terracotta

Head that decorated a Mayan building in the Puuc style. Late Classic Period (600-900 AD). Stone. Mayan Culture. Uxmal, Yucatan, Mexico. Museum of the Americas. Madrid, Spain.

painted limestone head of Queen Hatshepsut (15071458 BC), the fifth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt.

Roman antefix. High-imperial era. Head. Spain. National Archaeological Museum. Tarragona. Spain.

Stone statue of wife of god Abu, from Tell Asmar, ancient Eshnunna, Iraq

painted limestone figure, Sixth Dynasty of ancient Egypt; the Old Kingdom of Dynastic Egypt.

Bust representing the figure of Baccus, Roman period, Son Mas, Manacor History Museum, Manacor, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain.

Brewer: Ancient Egyptian model. Louvre, Paris

Head of Akhenaten wearing the Blue Crown. 1334 BC; Amarna; Egypt.

Upper part of a colossal statue of Amenhotep III. Eighteenth Dynasty, about 1370 BC from Thebes. This fine sculpture stood in the kings mortuary temple to the west of the Nile at Thebes. It was part of an extensive array of architectural sculpture which adorned this temple.

Upper part of Egyptian statue of Amenhotep III. Eighteenth Dynasty (approx. 1370 BC) from Thebes. Formerly adorned the king's mortuary temple.

Headless sculpture of a standing human figure. From Hagar Qim, Malta. Temple Period (3600 BC to 2500 BC). National Museum of Archaeology. Valletta. Malta.

Greek Art. Cyprus. Kouros. Statue of a young man dated to 550 BC. Limestone. It comes from Dali (Cyprus). Egyptian Museum (Altes Museum). Berlin. Germany.

Roman theatrical mask. Sculpture in local bath stone, most likely from a large tomb. The deceased may have had a connection with theatre. 1st - 3rd century AD.

'Female Head (fragment of a statuette)'. Cyprus, Middle-second half of the 5th century BC. Dimensions: h. 10,6 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

Clay votive statuette, by Unknown artist, 6th Century, stone, full relief. Italy: Campania: Naples: National Archaeological Museum. Whole artwork. Votive clay statuette divinity

SPAIN - Cuenca de Mula (district) - MURCIA. Mula; Museo del Cigarralejo; escultura íbera de "La Dama del Cigarralejo"

Granite statue of Ramesses III (Ramses or Rameses). second Pharaoh of the Twentieth Dynasty Reigned 1186ñ1155 BC

Ancient Art. Mediterranean. Priest or King. Votive. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Denmark.

Schematic figures. 3rd-2nd centuries BC. Limestone. Iberian culture. From the Shrine of Cerro de los Santos (Montealegre del Castillo, Albacete province, Castile-La Mancha, Spain). National Archaeological Museum. Madrid. Spain.

Hypatia, Egyptian Neo-Platonitst philosopher of Alexandria. 370-415 AD.

Granite sculpture of the torso of a Nile god

Madrid, M.A.N. 50235. Arte Edad Media. Cabeza funeraria. Alabastro s.XV. Convento Santo Domingo El Real, Madrid.

Marble statue of a boy, also known as the 'spinario', or thorn-puller. circa 25-50 AD, Roman copy of a lost Hellenistic work from 3rd century BC.

museo arqueologico y de historia de Elche Alejandro Ramos Folqués, Elche, Alicante, comunidad Valenciana, Spain, Europe.

Iberian sphinx with lion body. It comes from Haches Bogarra (Albacete). Albacete Museum. Castile-La Mancha. Spain.

Figure of monkey ca. 1981-1640 B.C. Middle Kingdom. Figure of monkey 546467

Queen Ahmose-Merytamun. Sister and wife of Pharaoh Amenhotep I. 18th dynasty. Egypt. British Museum. London. United Kingdom.

Phoenician civilization - 6th century b.C. - Figure of a female head

Aphrodite with a water jar. 2nd century AD. Marble. From the Roman nymphaeum at the SE of the Athenian Agora. Adapted from the Venus Genetrix type of the 2nd century BC. Museum of the Ancient Agora. Athens, Greece.

Ashlar. Osuna Group B. Relief depicting a male figure playing a horn. Early 1st century BC. Limestone. Iberian town of Osuna (Seville province, Andalusia, Spain). National Archaeological Museum. Madrid. Spain.

Greek terracotta of a haruspex inspecting pig's entrails. Artist: Unknown

Engel, excavated in Utrecht at the old minor brother monastery (fragment), anonymous, c. 1400 - c. 1950 Fragment of an angelic figure, used to the right. Traces of polychromy. Dug up in Utrecht at the old Minderbroederklooster. Utrecht sandstone Minderbroedersklooster Fragment of an angelic figure, used to the right. Traces of polychromy. Dug up in Utrecht at the old Minderbroederklooster. Utrecht sandstone Minderbroedersklooster

Male statue with rosette diadem. The loincloth and arm position. Exhibit of Egyptian influences. Circa 600 BC, Idalion, Nicosia New Museum, Berlin

Basalt male torso

Granite statue of the head of Queen Nefertiti, from the workshop of the sculptor Thutmose. Neferneferuaten Nefertiti (c. 1370 c. 1330 BC) was an Egyptian queen and the Great Royal Wife (chief consort) of Akhenaten

Probably Hellenistic 2nd Century BC 1st Century AD, Head of a Youth (Dionysos or a Follower), c 220 100 BC Head of a Youth (Dionysos or a Follower)

Head from a male statue. Limestone. Ptolemaic Period. 3rd century BC. Origin unknown. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen. Denmark.

Carthaginian male figure, 450-425 BC, Archaeological Museum of Ibiza and Formentera, Spain.

Mother goddess from Taxila. Bactrian city. 2nd cent. BC. PAKISTAN.

Pre-islamic cultures. Arabian Peninsula 4thBC-1stBC. Statue head. Graves stones. Representation of the burie. 1stBC1st AD. Alabaster. Yemen.

Limestone female figure, possibly late Neolithic 4500-3200 BC. From Karpathos. This figure has some features in common with Cycladic figurines.

STA ANA LILLO. Location: MUSEO ARQUEOLOGICO-COLECCION. Oviedo. ASTURIAS. SPAIN. SANTA ANA LILLO.

Bust of female, from Ibiza, necropolis of Puig des Molins, clay, 400-300 BCE, Ibiza, Museo arqueologico de Ibiza y formentera, The Coliseum , Rome, Lazio, Italy ,.

museo arqueologico y de historia de Elche Alejandro Ramos Folqués, Elche, Alicante, comunidad Valenciana, Spain, Europe.

Phallic figure, made of lead, of a standing man wearng a top hat, found in a garden on a hillside on the Lleyn Peninsula in N. W. Wales.

Terracotta statuette of a standing woman early 5th century B.C. Cypriot The solid figurine was made from a worn mold. The feet were added by hand. The back is flat. Her right arm is bent against the chest, probably holding a flower.. Terracotta statuette of a standing woman 241138

Statue of Kouros, 500 BC, Archaeological Museum in the former Order Hospital of the Knights of St John, 15th century, Old Town, Rhodes Town, Greece, Europe

Head Inlay. Unknown

la lleona, 12th century, detail in a column, Calderers street, Girona art museum, Girona, Catalonia, Spain.

Marble statue of Aphrodite crouching and arranging her hair 1st or 2nd century A.D. Roman Copy of a Greek statue of the late 2nd century B.C.In this small-scale statue, a complex crouching pose has been compressed into a two-dimensional composition. It is a decorative work based on a famous large, fully three-dimensional statue of Aphrodite shown crouching at her bath that was created in the third century b.c. In the late Hellenistic period, figures such as this were designed to be seen from only one or two vantage points. They fit perfectly between columns in peristyle court or garden settings.. Marble statue of Aphrodite crouching and arranging her hair 255430

Head of a male statue. Cyprus. 5th century BC. Limestone. Neues Museum. Berlin. Germany.

King-priest. ca. 2000 BC. Limestone. Bronze Age. Sculpture on rock. PAKISTAN. SINDH. Karachi. National Museum of Pakistan. Proc: PAKISTAN. SINDH. Mohenjo-Daro.

Individuals with facial mutilation, from Peru. Dated 600 AD

Human statue, Gilgal. From the Sultanian culture 10,000 years ago, made from limestone.

Achaemenid period. 5th century BC. Legendary creature with human head and bull body. Possibly it was part of a capital. From Persepolis. National Museum of Iran. Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran.

Head of Taoist stone divinity ". China, Tang dynasty (618-907). Paris, Cernuschi museum. 24593-13 Divin, Tang dynasty, philosophy, stone, taisme, head

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