Gallery/late Antiquity

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Mosaic (made of polychrome marble tesserae) depicting an amphora with doves perched on the rim, flan

Ivory panel from a Byzantine diptych, depicting the Archangel Michael holding an orb.  It is thought

Gilded silver plate from the Sasanian Empire, depicting youths with winged horses.  The iconography

Qing Dynasty roundrel rank badge, silk satin with embroidery in silk and gold thread, late 19th cent

Golden pendant with repoussédecoration, bearing a portrait of Alexander the Great.  Artist unknown;

romebyzantium:Fragment of Wall Hanging with confronted cocks and running dogs. Date A.D. 4th–6th cen

Wooden cupboard (?) door, carved by a Coptic artist in Byzantine Egypt (5th cent. CE).  Now in the W

Marble portrait head of the Roman emperor Constantine I (r. 306-312 CE [as Western Caesar]; 312-324

Ancient Roman sardonyx cameo showing Emperor Constantine I being crowned by the Tyche (Fortune) of C

The Gundestrup cauldron Late La Tène period (c.1st century BC), silver, Gaulish or Thracian origin,

Panel with a Griffin 1250–1300 Byzantine. Photo by The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Learn more / Daha

7 Days of the week bracelet Seven Olympian gods depicted as the gods of the planets in correct order

honorthegods:The Symmachi-Nicomachi diptych. Ivory, circa 400 CEThe diptych was originally made up o

The Vergilius Augusteus is a manuscript from late antiquity, containing the works of the Roman autho

The playwright Menander.  Ancient Roman marble medallion (4th cent. CE) after a Greek original of th

Blue chalcedony cameo depicting a Roman emperor, thought to be Julian “the Apostate” (r. 361-363 CE)

The Venus Kallipygos in the National Archaeological Museum in Naples, a late 1st century BC Roman ma

diedamederschatten:Guys, is it just me, or does the Western Roman Emperor Joannes (r. 423-425 AD/CE)

Atlas holds up the zodiac.  Detail from the Parabiago Patera, dating to the reign of Julian (361-363

ramplings:How many women do you obey? How many do you admire and listen to? Only one.

gatakka:Textile fragment with pomegranate tree (6th-7th c.), Cyprus.

Statuette of King Necho II (bronze). Late Period, 26th Dynasty, ca. 610-595 BC. Now in the Brooklyn

Necklace from Iran or Central Asia, late 14th- 16th century.

A leopard pursues a gazelle.  Mosaic from a late Roman villa at Homs (ancient Emesa), Syria, artist

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